Early Learning Centre Long Day Care

Our Early Learning Centre caters for 3 to 4-year-olds, offering comprehensive programs that support children’s development and prepare them for their educational journey, into Reception.

Our Approach

Our welcoming, nurturing and loving environment values all children and families and the contribution they make to teaching and learning. Carefully planned, quality play experiences provide opportunities for our children to practise and develop skills and make sense of their world. Diversity and uniqueness is celebrated, regardless of age, gender, race, cultural background or additional needs.

We are informed by the Early Years Learning Framework that is supportive of a range of different theories and approaches to Early Childhood and extends and enriches children’s learning from birth to four years.

The ELC’s curriculum and pedagogy is based on the belief that:

Play-based experiences are meaningful, and through active exploration, a child gains confidence, learns strategies for thinking and reasoning and develops working theories for making sense of the natural, social, physical and material worlds.

Our ELC provides a unique Orthodox and Hellenic experience with a particular focus on Greek language and culture where children and educators interact in both Greek and English in fun and purposeful ways.

Routines are established to provide opportunities to learn about order, sequencing, and concepts of time. Established routines make for smoother transitions and help children to prepare mentally for the day ahead while providing frameworks in which creative learning can occur. This provides opportunities for making decisions and acting responsibly, and having a daily schedule that helps ease a child’s transition to the structure of the school setting.

Our Philosophy

The ELC Philosophy is linked to the College Mission Statement “To inspire and empower our students to achieve their academic, personal and spiritual best”.

St George College is a Christian school, based on the Greek Orthodox faith. We serve a community that includes and welcomes those from a diverse range of faiths and cultural settings. Our aim is to provide a high quality, educational, language and play-based program that responds to the needs and interests of individual children within a happy, safe, nurturing and stimulating environment.

We also respect and acknowledge each child as an individual learner with their own strengths and needs. We value and celebrate diversity and uniqueness regardless of age, gender, race, cultural background or additional needs.

For more information about our programs, please contact:

Pauline Rugari
Registrar
E: registrar@sgc.sa.edu.au
P: 08 8159 8100

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