Our Vision & Philosophy

[Our People]

At Grace Village, we believe that the foundation of our culture and soul lies in our people.

Here we offer a mentoring culture, a village for all who encounter us, a place of research and connection with the emerging evidence base, and an education site where we grow our people internally with the focus of an outward mindset culture rather than inward one.

Our extraordinary pedagogical leaders lead, motivate and support our educators to deliver our educational program.

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[Our Little Villagers]

Grace Village seeks to offer a model of ‘best practice’ within a unique Australian learning environment that is: inspiring, challenging, interactive, reflective, evolving, and sustainable, by treating the environment as a third teacher and valuing its use as an educational resource.

Grace Village aims to treat each child as Competent, Capable, Creative, Responsible, Resourceful and Resilient

We are indebted to Reggio children and the educational project in Reggio Emilia, Italy, for their generous provocations to our work as educators. Our image of the child as Competent, Capable, Creative, Responsible, Resourceful and Resilient is inspired by their thinking, principles and provocations.

Grace Village aims to value diversity and difference by welcoming a mixture of ages, abilities and backgrounds (in children, educators and families) in each classroom, reflecting the wider community.

[Our Daily Commitments]

We are intentional about developing policies and implementing practices that support our little villagers to flourish through an evolving play-based Curriculum. Our village is always ‘under construction’, allowing us to be reflective of our practices and strive for excellence, time and time again.

Other influential reference points to our programming and practice include: “Watch and Wonder”, “Quest for Quality”, “Let The Old Be New Again”, “You See. I See – The Imagination of a Child” and “Clean Ready for Pedagogy”.

[Our Community]

Partnerships are about spending time where we spend time with each other to cultivate rich relationships.

Our partnership model connects to our mantra, “It takes a village to raise a child”. The model strongly focuses on a child’s transition when they start at the village. It is a tailored and individual approach designed to develop a strong sense of belonging right from your child’s first interaction and building relationships with their educators and other children.

This thinking also extends to our community to include partnerships with aligned health providers, Pedagogy mentoring partners, and locations such as Sydney Zoo.

Our aligned health partners integrate their offerings with the usual daily routines of the classrooms, enabling children receiving support to work towards their goals alongside their friends in a familiar, fun environment.

Grace Village is committed to the creation of educational opportunities where they would not otherwise exist. We are childcare reimagined.

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