Our Pedagogy

At Wattle Planet, our unique and forefront curricula are designed following in-depth research internationally to support our Universal Pursuit.

We encourage teaching and learning not to be restricted to the room. Meaningful learning for young children occurs in daily interactions with peers, adults, social-culture experiences and real-life situations. We promote the interactive pedagogy which enables educators to discover and use broad methods and strategies suitable and useful for teaching in different contexts. Our programs are delivered in a well-balanced combination of children-directed, educator-led, and guided play and learning.

We strongly endorse the learn-through-play practice guided by the Early Years Learning Framework of Australia. We appreciate that skills are achieved for children themselves during free play based on their own interests. Educators also observe and seize the opportunity of teachable moments for merging children’s spontaneous everyday knowledge and formal scientific concepts into a meaningful context. Moreover, Wattle Planet emphasises the benefits of integrating multiple disciplines learning with pleasure in children’s play. The integrated learning approach draws from science, emergent literacy and numeracy, music, physical education, arts and others. We believe the interdisciplinary pedagogy approach is dynamic, innovative and has a significant positive impact on young children’s learning and development.

Music Program

Music embedded curriculum is one of the most compelling examples of the benefits of interdisciplinary learning at Wattle Planet.

Neurologists have revealed that music activities can generate critical neural connections of our brain. It can be the most effective method in building energetic neurological pathways to create a more powerful force for children’s learning and development. Inclusive of infants having the potential to inherently respond to music. The innate capability of recognising patterns and lyrics in music is significantly crucial for developing concepts of emergent literacy and numeracy. Moving correspondingly is better for physical coordination and gross motor skills development.

Moreover, intentionally music input from a very early age can promote better attention and build a stronger genuine relationship between educators and children. Child-led music programs where children are free to explore how and what types of music they are interested, can foster children’s initiatives and make them active learners. Various music play activities are a highly social and natural way to develop emotional regulation skills and make learning more meaningful and interesting. Music embedded curriculum also provides opportunities for children to elaborate ideas, stimulate creativity, communicate with imagination, express feelings based on their own sensory perception.

  • Singing within our day to day routines
  • Music pretend play, acting out the music scene
  • Group exercise with music, yoga, meditation, free dancing with different types of music
  • Drawing out or storytelling what you have heard in the music
  • Music appreciation with real instruments played by educators or guests
  • Orchestra—Children hands-on instruments fun activities

Multiculturalism Program

Our Multicultural program supports children’s right to make choices, have a voice, connect with others, and express their ideas and cultural identity while respecting these same rights for others. Inclusive and intercultural approach diverse worldviews, critical thinking, having an open mind of embracing diversity.

Wattle Planet values how children’s existing cultural knowledge influenced their thinking and the importance of providing coherent context and scientific meanings into play to construct new knowledge. We respect the knowledge and skills that children gained from their own cultural background, which is recognised as “funds of knowledge”. We emphasis the strengths that children obtain to build a better and reliable bridge between what they need and what they are capable of. It enables our educators to enrich our curriculum with a better connection of learning materials and classroom activities. We advocate to keep children’s continuity between the experiences in their real life and in education program settings.

  • First/Second language program.
  • International event celebration calendar.
  • Rights of the child projects.
  • A worldwide adventure program for children to widen their eyes and extend their discovery
  • Aboriginal story park

Wellbeing Program

It makes a life well-lived where one becomes kinder to themselves, other people, the environment, and the world. Through a variety of wellbeing programs in Wattle Planet, it promotes children’s sense of caring, responsibility, consistency, resilience and many other good characters. It also provides opportunities for children to be in touch, connect and learn from nature, strengthening children’s relationships with the natural environment. Therefore, it enhances children’s overall sense of wellbeing.

  • Caring for animals program, including chicken raising, rabbit adopting, egg hatching, worm breeding, etc
  • Herb and vegetable growing program using environmentally sustainable practices.
  • Regular community excursions for exercise and connectedness.
  • A healthy relationship with food program, including cooking class, food composting, nutrition chart, etc
  • A step closer with the nature program, including dancing in the rain, bushwalking to trace the seasonal changes, etc.
  • STEM embedded program, for example, the illustration of the water recycling system in our society, to reflect the thinking of water conservation and our consumption
  • Inform attitudes of recycling, expend to the home environment
  • Mindful practices

School Readiness Program

Our 3 and 4-year-old Kindergarten programs are delivered by a Bachelor or Master Qualified teacher and a Diploma Qualified or above educator. We believe that our teachers’ high-quality instructional support is a powerful invention for children to use the available resources and improve their learning ability.
An extensive amount of research has been devoted to equipping our educators, promoting their quality of teaching and better scaffolding of academic learning. For example, we provide literacy and numeracy-enriched environment as recognising the importance of learning settings impacting on children’s motivation to use with print and other material. It is proven to improve children’s exploration, engagement in learning. Our educators read books consistently with effective strategies to foster language acquisition and improv children’s early reading habits. Simultaneously, children’s reading aloud strategy is used as a powerful tool to improve their reading ability. Drama play promotes children’s story comprehension, structure understanding and literacy development with creativity and interests. A practice-based theory of mathematical knowledge for teaching is advocated in Wattle Planet. Educators do not only understand young children’s perspectives, but also can explain mathematics in ways useful for to making mathematical meaningfulness. Emergent numeracy learning is also embedded in many cross-discipline fun activities, such as music play, geometric puzzles, Lego and natural material construction, etc.

  • Regular Community and local primary school excursion program.
  • Thingle Toodle safe road crossing visit.
  • Lunch box preparation program.
  • ELLA Language program.
  • Transition to school program.

Timely and Constant Communication

At Wattle Planet, we value an authentic partnership between educators and families, which can collaboratively assist our young children’s learning and development. We understand the importance of keeping families informed with daily updates, instant messaging of daily routines and learning processes. We help you record every step of your angel’s developmental sequence and capture every precious moment.

Together with a term based unique portfolio of your child, XPLOR is a free, easily engaged, cloud-based platform for us to communicate with families of Wattle Planet. Regular observations, documentation of your child’s learning and development, and centre information will all be communicated on the app. At the same time, parents can easily access it via a mobile device for advising absences, booking extra days, checking statements, and providing much appreciated feedback and communications.

“The developmental seeds of underachievement may be sown before impoverished children enter school.”

– Ginsburg H.K., 1998