Happy Feet Family Day Care Lindfield

Happy Feet Family Day Care is a unique bilingual childcare facility. As the owner and educator, Hongping holds a Master of Early Childhood degree and has 12 years experiece. Relief educator Tiffany has a Bachelor degree of Early Childhood and several years of experience. We endeavor to create a secure, welcoming, interesting and nurturing learning environment for young children to explore and learn.

Diversity practice:

• Each family’s cultures, languages, values and beliefs should be respected and embedded within the program.
• Children will explore a variety of cultural learning experiences throughout the day to develop positive attitudes towards similarities and differences.

Purpose of a family day care

• Supporting children’s holistic development and helping them reach their fullest potential by providing an educational and interest-based program.

Learning environment

• The learning environment is the “Third Teacher” (Reggio Emilia, 1998).
• We value the natural environment, both within the service and in the wider community, by embedding sustainable practices in the program.

Roles of early childhood Educator

• Be an advocate for children.
• Be responsive to all children’s strengths, abilities and interests.
• Use teachable moments to scaffold children’s learning.
• Engage in intentional teaching to promote interest-based learning and to extend children’s learning.
• Be a co-learner, learning alongside children.

Families

• Families are children’s first and most important influential educators.
• Developing meaningful and trusting relationships between educator and families is essential.

Children

• Each child is unique, capable, and competent.
• Children learn through play.
• Children should explore their world through stimulating and challenging learning experiences.
• Each child should be encouraged to develop their fullest potential at their own pace.
• Childhood is a time for fun, friendship, happiness and adventure.