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At President Avenue Child Care Centre we offer a service that aims to provide high quality child care by promoting the physical, social, emotional and cognitive development of young children and by responding to the needs of the family.

We believe that each child comes to the Centre with a different set of experiences, knowledge and interests. We seek to build on the child’s home experience and acknowledge the diverse range of backgrounds and families. The families are valued and their diverse backgrounds are accepted and reflected in our programmes.

We seek to provide a warm, safe, caring, stimulating environment that meets the developmental needs of each child. We seek to know each child, based on observation and interaction and provide experiences that match each child’s unique interests and development.

We believe that play is essential to young children’s learning. We endeavour to meet the needs of children’s natural curiosity by providing opportunities for children to value diversity, to accept and enjoy differences in other people, their customs and themselves.

We believe that language and learning go hand -in -hand - language increases children’s understanding. Mother-tongue language will be fostered alongside the development of skills in English.

We believe that each child has the right to develop a strong sense of trust and self-esteem, dignity as a human being and self-respect. Care and respect for others will be promoted. Each child should have the opportunities and guidance to develop self-discipline and the confidence to make choices, take responsibility and achieve independence.

Aims

To create and maintain a nurturing secure, stimulating, homelike environment for the children.
To create and maintain a caring, welcoming, secure and supportive environment for the parents.
To recognise and promote varying backgrounds of the families in care.
To provide a program that promotes development of individual needs and recognises differences and similarities between children.
To provide a range of experiences appropriate to the developmental levels of individual children in the Centre.
To provide ongoing evaluation of the program, children and Centre needs and to make changes as necessary.
To develop positive relationships with families based on mutual trust and open communication.

For parents to:

feel welcome and accepted by staff at the Centre
feel comfortable communicating children’s needs etc to the staff have ideas, beliefs, philosophies acknowledged and accepted to the best of our ability

For children to:

gain confidence and self-esteem through participation in a variety of activities and experiences have equal opportunity to participate in all activities
gain independence in different areas of development