About Us
Our Aim
At Jolly Frog, we hold the belief that a child’s early years are profoundly influential, shaping the foundation skills and abilities crucial for their lifelong journey. By being attuned to children’s thoughts and feelings, we foster a strong sense of wellbeing during this critical developmental stage.
Our goal at Jolly Frog is to establish a close partnership with families. Through this collaboration, our teachers develop learning programs that are responsive to children’s ideas, interests, strengths, and abilities. We acknowledge the significance of play as a key avenue for children’s learning.
Our aims:
✔ Partnering with parents and families to support the children.
✔ Offering information, contacts, and support for children, parents, and families.
✔ Creating a high-quality care and learning environment.
✔ Implementing a program based on the Early Years Learning Framework, ensuring engaging learning experiences that build success for life.
✔ Establishing a safe, secure, happy, and loving home-like environment that fosters a sense of belonging for children.
✔ Embracing childhood as a time for exploration, meaning-making, and discovery.
✔ Providing vibrant and flexible spaces responsive to each child’s interests and abilities.
✔ Offering a rich array of resources to stimulate learning and development.
✔ Employing experienced educators/staff dedicated to nurturing, caring, and valuing children.
✔ Recognising and responding to all children’s strengths, abilities, and interests, building upon them to ensure motivation and engagement in learning.
✔ Acknowledging and respecting children’s expertise, cultural traditions, languages, and strategies used by children with additional needs in navigating their everyday lives.
Our Mission
At Jolly Frog, we deeply recognise the significance of play in early childhood development. Serving as a crucial and non-threatening tool, play is central to a child’s learning and growth. Through spontaneous and meaningful play, young children explore, communicate, discover, imagine, and create, showcasing their understanding of the world. Play is a foundation of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), emphasising its role in children’s social interactions, idea testing, critical thinking, and the construction of new understandings.
Guided by the EYLF, our teachers carefully design learning activities and create stimulating indoor and outdoor environments to facilitate and enhance children’s play. We embrace each child’s uniqueness, acknowledging that they progress at their own pace. The EYLF, a key component of the National Quality Framework established by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), aims to provide all young children in Australia with opportunities to maximize their potential and establish a foundation for future success.
The EYLF envisions play-based learning that is engaging and fosters success for life, emphasising three key principles:
Belonging: Anchored in meaningful relationships with family, community, culture, and place.
Being: Emphasising the importance of childhood as a unique time for play, exploration, and enjoyment.
Becoming: Focusing on the learning and development that shapes a child’s sense of identity and future adulthood.
Our teachers collaborate with parents to understand each child well, creating a tailored learning program based on their interests and abilities. Through the EYLF’s five learning goals, we help children develop a strong sense of identity, connections with their world, a robust sense of well-being, confidence and involvement in learning, and effective communication skills using literacy and numeracy. We keep parents informed about their child’s progress throughout this transformative journey.
- ✔ A strong sense of their identity (have confidence in themselves and to form friendships)
- ✔ Connections with their world (learn to respect the environment and cultural diversity)
- ✔ A strong sense of wellbeing (socially, emotionally & physically)
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✔ Confidence and involvement in their learning (explore, create, learn, experiment)
✔ Effective communication skills (by using literacy and numeracy to communicate)
Why Jolly Frog compared to family daycares?
Childcare has become a necessity for many families, especially when both parents are working.
When it comes to choosing, there are two options: centre-based childcare and family daycare. While both may have their advantages, centre-based childcare has proven to be a better option for a variety of reasons.
Centre- based childcare is more regulated and accountable in terms of safety and health procedures. Centre-based care providers are required to adhere to stringent licensing requirements, background checks and certifications which ensures that children are cared for in a safe and controlled environment.
Family daycares, on the other hand may not be as strictly regulated or monitored and parents may have a harder time knowing if their child is safe or secure.
A child benefits from socialising with other children and learning how to play in a larger group, which prepares them for school and social life. Children in-centre based care learn how to interact with other kids around the same age and follow a structured routine that is appropriate for their age group.
Such exposure is not available with family childcare, as children are only exposed to a small group of kids with varying ages, and thus their interaction with their own peers may be limited, leading to a lack of adequate social development.
Children in centre-based care like Jolly Frog are generally provided with more extensive curriculum, developmental programs, and educational activities that are specifically designed by experienced early childhood educators. The programs are meant to encourage and stimulate the children’s learning abilities, creativity and curiosity, preparing them for the next step in their educational journey. The curriculum and its various activities are structured in such a way that children receive equal opportunities to learn and grow, regardless of their background.
Centre-based childcare offers reliable care, with their fixed schedules, open 5 days a week for an allotted amount of hours, giving parents the flexibility they need for work and other commitments.
On the other end, family daycare is dependent on personal circumstances, which can change at very short notice, leading to inconsistent care availability, which is not practical or convenient for working parents.
While family daycare may be a viable option for some families, centre based childcare like Jolly Frog Kindergarten proves to be a better option for most, offering a safe, structured, stimulating and reliable environment to support children’s growth and development, preparing them for a brigher future.
We strive to give our children the best start in life.
Our quality early learning programmes help children develop the social, emotional, language and cognitive skills they need to be successful at school and in life. We encourage children to discover, learn, experience and above all have fun. Consider giving your child the best start in life with us at Jolly Frog Kindergarten.
Our Goals
1. Children Have a Strong Sense of Identity
- Children to feel safe, secure, and supported.
- Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency.
- Children develop knowledgeable and confident self identities.
- Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect.
2. Children are Connected with and Contribute to their World
- Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation
- Children respond to diversity with respect
- Children become aware of fairness
- Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment
3. Children are Effective Communicators
- Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
- Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts
- Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
- Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
- Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking
4. Children are Confident and Involved Learners
- Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
- Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
5. Children Have a Strong Sense of Wellbeing
- Children become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing
- Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing
Our Philosophy
CHILD: At Jolly Frog, we recognise each child’s uniqueness and empower them to be active participants in their learning. We value, respect, and appreciate their perspectives, fostering a safe and secure environment that cherishes their innocence. Our educators actively promote learning through challenging experiences that enhance high-level thinking skills.
FAMILY: We understand the vital role of family in young children’s lives and aim to involve parents in all aspects of program development. Striving for positive, mutually respectful relationships, we work in partnership to achieve the best outcomes for each child’s learning, development, and future success.
CURRICULUM: In Early Childhood Education at Jolly Frog, the focus is on the children rather than the curriculum. We prioritise a meaningful, integrated, emergent curriculum that allows children to be active participants and collaborators, exploring, creating, discovering, and imagining at their own pace.
TEACHERS: Our teaching staff at Jolly Frog are responsive to each child’s strengths, abilities, and interests. We value and build on their strengths, skills, and knowledge, creating an environment of trust and respect to achieve shared goals. Recognising our teaching staff as precious resources, we provide a satisfying and safe working environment, appreciating their dedication.
ENVIRONMENT: Our learning environments at Jolly Frog are welcoming spaces that reflect and enrich the lives of children and families. Embracing diversity, we foster appreciation and wonder, ensuring children view differences positively. We cater to various capacities and learning styles, inviting contributions from children and families to enrich our program.
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