Little Tinkers Family Day Care                                                    Shaping for Life

Vision:

To provide a caring, fun and Homely environment for children to develop lifelong skills and a positive attitude towards life and learning and become good humans.

Mission:

Our aim is to provide access to a quality home based care in a safe, nurturing, fun home based environment for children to grow, learn and play by empowering educators with quality support and training & forming collaborative partnerships with families and communities.

Philosophy:

Our service believes that by empowering educators with quality support and training, we  provide child care environment where every child in our care can achieve their full potential. We encourage this environment to be diverse, nature friendly, safe and tailored to the individual needs and interests of each child. We form collaborative partnerships with families and welcome input from families. A Homely, clean, safe and happy learning environment for all children in care where every opportunity is taken to nurture, encourage and enhance learning of children within the atmosphere of small groups. Helping children play more will be an important part of this environment and we will like to empower children to learn wherever they go and not just being limited to any particular environment or set up.  Our service  gives highest priority to the safety of children, we acknowledge that children need to be safe, to feel safe and to have consistent access to quality educators where attachments are made and trust is built.

All Children are supported to have an appreciation of nature, Diversity and sustainability. We believe in conservation, caring for our environment and having sustainable practices. We believe in collaborative effort from Families, Educators and Staff in promoting the importance of Sustainability among the children.

We are committed in providing ongoing support, training and professional development for all Educators and Staff. We are committed in providing continuous improvement within our service by hard work and team work.

We embrace and promote the National Quality Framework including The Early Years Learning Framework for underschool age children and My Time Our Place for school age children. This  allow children to develop a sense of belonging, whilst being a child in the here and now, and also acknowledge the rapid change and growth of who they are becoming.

We believe in:

• Equality and Diversity: Recognise the Human Race as One. We are committed to Promote and foster everybody’s right to be different, about being free from discrimination. We are also committed to include promoting greater understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and being. We respect and embrace all Children, Families, Educators and Staff from different religious and cultural diverse backgrounds.
• Promoting Child Safety: Comply with Child Safe Standards, to ensure that the safety of children is promoted, child abuse is prevented and allegations of child abuse are properly responded to. We are committed to Embed child safety in our organisations everyday thinking and practice, Environments for children, families and educators should be safe, healthy, caring, stimulating and inviting.
• We are committed to Promote collaborative relationships with families, communities and local services. We believe Learning outcomes are most likely to be achieved when early childhood educators work in partnership with families. We recognise that families are children’s first and most influential teachers.
• Trust and respect: Equitable relationships are fostered through trust and respect, which then become the foundation for positive child outcomes.
• Play based Learning and experiences: Play is a context for learning and it allows for the expression of personality and uniqueness
• Sharing and Caring: Sharing knowledge, experiences, wealth, other valuables and helping others in the community.
• Speak Righteousness: Speak Truth, Speak what is just and never tell lies.