This website has been designed to provide new and existing families with information about the services of Kids Clubs. Kids Clubs are owned by the Hale Family and have services at both Umina Beach and Kariong in NSW Australia.

It is our aim that through the information provided here we can give share with you our passion, commitment and dream for children and demonstrate the care and education we provide to allow our future generations to be empowered, caring citizens of their communities.

Our services are very committed to the NSW Curriculum Framework and ‘Belonging, Being & Becoming’ The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia. These two documents will be heavily referenced as they allow us to share with you the learning potential and direction which underpins our commitment to young children and their families.

“The frameworks vision is for all children to experience play based learning that is engaging and builds success for life” …that “All children have the best start in life to create a better future for themselves and for the nation”(‘Belonging, Being & Becoming’ The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia. P.5) At Kids Clubs we fully support, embrace and promote this thinking… everyone wants the best start in life for their children. We feel that for us, this is best reflected through our service philosophy and aims included here for you.

The Aims of the Centre

The Centre will aim to promote positive relationships with:-

• Children and other children
• Professionals and children
• Children and their families
• Professionals and parents and families
• Professionals
• Families and other families
• Management, parents and professionals
• Professionals and colleagues in other services and related disciplines
• The centre and relevant community agencies and organisations
• Children and the broader community

The relationships will support the children to:-

• Feel a sense of belonging
• See themselves as valued, unique and powerful human beings
• Engage in relationships of caring and respect
• Appreciate the effects of communication, collaboration and working together as a means of generating new ideas, making progress, being creative and innovative and solving problems.

These relationships will be life enhancing for every child.

The staff will:  

• Be committed to equity and believe in all children’s capabilities to succeed, regardless of diverse circumstances and abilities.
• Create a welcoming environment where all children and families are respected and actively encouraged to collaborate with educators about curriculum decisions in order to ensure that learning experiences are meaningful.

Educators will:

• Recognise that diversity contributes to the richness of our society and provides a valid evidence base about ways of knowing, including promoting a greater understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and being.
• Respect and work with each child’s unique qualities and abilities.
• Be responsive to all children’s strengths, abilities and interests by valuing and building on children’s strengths, skills and knowledge to ensure their motivation and engagement in learning.
• Promote children’s learning through worthwhile and challenging experiences and interactions that foster high level thinking skills.

Policy formatted in: June 2009.
Reference: QIAS Quality Practices Guide 2005.
N.S.W Curriculum Framework for Children’s Services
Children’s Services Regulation 2005
Belonging, Being and Becoming. The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia. DEEWR, 2009.

The Centre's Philosophy

The staff of our centre show a commitment to the N.S.W Curriculum Framework for children’s services and Belonging, Being and Becoming, The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia. The practices of the centre and the staff will reflect these frameworks.
Every child who attends the centre will be given the right to have their potential supported and this will be achieved by the staff of the centre displaying a profound respect for the child as a human being in the present, a thinking, communicating, acting, and creating, feeling person.

The staff will show belief in every child’s ability and competence. They will seek signs of competence in every child recognising and responding to each child’s strengths.

The staff will support the children’s learning by engaging them in experiences that reflect their interests and their lives. Children will be engaged deeply in an unhurried way, learning “ lessons for life”.

Respectful life enhancing relationships will be promoted by the centre and the centre’s staff. The relationships will support the children to:-

• Feel a sense of belonging
• Have recognition of being who they are right now and valuing this moment.
• Have an awareness of becoming and the development  life long citizens.
• See themselves as constructive contributors to the community
• See themselves as valued, unique and powerful human beings
• Engage in relationships of caring and respect
• Appreciate the effects of communication, collaboration and working together as a means of generating new ideas, making progress, being creative and innovative, and solving problems.

The staff will be aware of the 5 outcome areas of “Belonging, being and becoming (EYLF) as assist the children in working towards these outcomes while engaged in play based experiences that are meaningful and which enrich their lives because they are interesting and life relevant.

The Staff of the centre will strive to build a rich picture of every child, recognising their differences and respecting these differences showing an honour of diversity.

The staff of the centre will assist the children to be comfortable with differences and to appreciate the fundamental commonalities and similarities that lie behind many differences, and to truly understand the notion of unity through diversity.

The staff of the centre will sometimes lead the children, sometimes follow and sometimes be a participant in the child’s/children’s experience, showing wisdom to which role is appropriate.

The staff of the centre will be confident and open to change, ideas and new concepts. The staff are also learners working collaboratively with the children, colleagues and parents. The centre as an organisation will assist the professionals of the centre to identify what they enjoy and are good at and support them to use those strengths and interests to benefit the centre.

Parents will not only be welcomed and invited to become involved in the centre but will also be collaborators with the professionals and the child in provisions made for the children.

The children’s experience in their family and the family’s perspective on the child will be taken into account and the professionals will operate in partnership with parents on behalf of their child. The family is the most powerful influence on their child’s/children’s learning and development. Parents will be encouraged to enrich and expand the professional’s picture of their child through sharing their own perspective of their child.

This philosophy was formatted in: June 2009
Reference: QIAS Quality Practices Guide, 2005
N.S.W Curriculum Framework for Children’s Services.
Belonging, Being and Becoming. The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia. DEEWR, 2009.