🧠 Woodlands Education, Development, and Curriculum 1 to 2 Years Old

🧠 Woodlands Education, Development, and Curriculum 1 to 2 Years Old

1 to 2 Years At Woodlands, we provide a safe and motivating environment for toddlers to play, learn, and explore. Woodlands values the importance of meaningful partnerships between Families and Teachers. We recognise that this requires continuous collaboration. Upon your toddler's first day, their Educator will spend time getting to know you and your toddler. We will complete a personal profile about your child’s daily routine, sleep, bottle and dietary requirements, interests, dislikes and events that are important to your family. This ensures that your toddler’s transition into care and education at Woodlands is positive and familiar. 

Woodlands 1 to 2-Year-Old Classrooms are thoughtfully designed spaces that motivate toddlers as they take on new challenges and develop their self-awareness, social skills, and communication. Our classrooms provide opportunities for toddlers to use new skills and be active in safe surroundings.

Woodlands Teachers and Educators use their extensive knowledge of child development, current teaching and learning theories, the Early Years Learning Framework and the Woodlands Method to plan and implement learning programs, as well as meaningful transitions/routines to support and engage your toddler in the program.

At Woodlands, each child is encouraged to learn at their own pace and learning programs are tailored to meet the needs of individual children, their interests, and abilities. From 1 to 2 years old, toddlers are curious and energetic individuals who begin to participate in parallel play and have new experiences. Woodlands Teachers and Educators organise learning spaces and in ways that;

• Encourage small group interactions and experiences
• Provide opportunities for independence  
• Promote physical activity
• Promote opportunities for communication and language development
• Support self-awareness and self-regulation 

🌏 Learning experiences in a Woodlands 1 to 2-Year-Old Classroom include: 

• Open-ended resources that promote, literacy, numeracy, and social skills
• Low shelves that  promote free choice and self-help
• Food experiences and opportunities to self-feed
• Outdoor play
• Group experiences with other children
• Opportunities for movement and physical activity
• Music and Movement
• Early Literacy through continuous communication, (verbal, facial expressions, body language, and actions)
• Early Numeracy through materials that allow toddlers to explore, patterns, size, volume, numbers, and counting
• Experiences that support the development of  hand-eye coordination, fine and gross motor skills
• Crafts and painting
• Gardening/sustainability experiences 

These experiences are opportunities for Toddlers at Woodlands to achieve significant milestones in their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development and reach the Outcomes within the Early Years Learning Framework.

📄 Woodlands Child Summative Assessment

• The Woodlands Summative Assessment builds a picture of your child’s progress over time, through
  the evidence collected. The Victorian Early Learning Framework and communication with parents provides key reference points in which your child's progress can be identified and documented and shows an overall picture of your child's learning journey.
• The Summative Assessment is completed, through planning to support further learning. This can be identified when there are gaps of information in relation to a particular learning outcome enabling teachers to look for further examples and which learning outcomes to highlight and focus on during planning in the future.
• Documentation collected such as photos, jottings, observations, learning stories, work samples, parent input and more, are used as evidence.
• We are providing an overview of all the documentation we have collected to show a cycle of planning, reflecting and evaluating and how your child progresses over time.

 

💬 Please Note:

The Woodlands Summative Assessments are completed every 6 Months and parents are invited to meet with the teachers or educators discuss the Summative Assessment. This process is organized internally and the Campus Leadership Teams including Room Leaders will initiate the process.