New Futures Occasional Care - Braybrook

Our service is committed to providing an enriching and challenging developmental environment where each child is encouraged to grow to their fullest potential emotionally, socially and intellectually. Children will be encouraged to guide their own learning journey
We aim to provide an inclusive, safe, childcare service that promotes play based learning through connections to the Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standard
We believe children are individuals who learn and develop at their own rate. Building on their strengths, children gain a sense of achievement in themselves. We foster in children a strong sense of wellbeing through emergent programs, intentional teaching experiences and spontaneous learning opportunities. This is achieved in a flexible, inclusive, and safe environment, facilitated by a team of committed staff who focus on providing learning within a nurturing, supportive, secure and loving environment.
We cater for the individual children’s age and stage, and provide a positive environment to promote active learning and development through play.
Children’s potential is achieved through:

• Play
• Social interactions
• Practicing skills
• Problem solving
• Role modelling
• Exploration
• Routine
• Expressing thoughts & ideas

We believe in having a strong partnership with families, which respects and values their needs.
Positive guidance and clear guidelines promote self-discipline and help children to feel safe and secure. We promote an inclusive and an anti-bias approach and accept children and families regardless of:

• Ability
• Gender
• Socio-economic status
• Culture
• Race
• Religion

Staff work together to meet the needs of children and families and promote the goals of the Service.
Effective communication for one another fosters a professional team. We acknowledge the importance of ongoing learning.

We run an emergent program based on children’s interests and needs. Meaning that all the learning children do is based in the now and changes from day to day.
Our educators do their programing in real time using a ‘floor book’, this allows children to have input in the program planning and means learning opportunities are never missed.
The floor book may include anecdotes from the educators, snippets of conversations and quotes from the children , input from the parents/families , and may be accompanied by photos and children’s art work, We refer to this as ‘our story’.

Occasional the children’s emergent interests will develop into projects which may last days, weeks or the term. Ongoing projects will be displayed on the wall plan, before being placed in the visual learning journal.

We also offer a weekly in house Yoga program and children's cooking program.