Community Hub

Early Childhood

Hello everyone, 

In term 1, the Hub shared Part - 1 Engagement Video. 

This term,  I would like to share our Part 2 - Early childhood, one of the Hub models.

The Hub follows play-based learning: a context for learning through which children organise and make sense of their social worlds, as they engage actively with people, objects and representations.

Belonging: Children belong first to a family, a cultural group, a neighbourhood and a wider community. Belonging acknowledges children's interdependence with others and the basis of relationships in defining identities. 

Being: It is about the present and them knowing themselves, building and maintaining relationships with others, engaging with life's joys and complexities, and meeting challenges in everyday life.

Becoming: Children's identities, knowledge, understandings, capacities, skills, and relationships change during childhood. Many different events and circumstances shape them. Becoming reflects this rapid and significant change that occurs in the early years as young children learn and grow. 

Holy Family Community Playgroup offers children with safe and friendly space to explore their early childhood experiences. Children's learning is dynamic, complex and holistic. Our Hub establishes respectful and caring relationships with children and families to work together to construct curriculum and learning experiences relevant to children in the local context. These experiences gradually expand children's knowledge and understanding of the world. 

Our Hub supports families to share their early childhood skills, helps them learn new techniques to manage some of the challenging behaviours they experience with their children and extends their knowledge in child development. 

Paint the Town REaD

Sharing the love and a message to the community to read books to your children every day. It isn't necessarily a book; it could be magazines/ pictures of your household things. Spending quality time with your children for at least 10-15 mins to read, play, sing, and talk makes a considerable difference in their life.

Rex the Possum loves reading books; it reminds the children to read books every day. Rex the Possum visited the Holy Family Primary School and the hub playgroup. We also visited Doveton Library and early childhood centres in Doveton and Hallam to share the importance of the 'Reading books everyday' message to the community.

Thanks, Simone and the teachers, for supporting me in sharing this message with the school children. Special thanks to Sophia, Andy's grandma, who came along with me to visit Doveton childcare centres to promote this message.

HAVE YOU READ A BOOK TO YOUR CHILD TODAY?

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Contact Hema on 0452 611 853. 

Hema

Community Hub Leader