Blue Gum Room

The Blue Gum Room children began the year with great anticipation, excitement, and curiosity. They ventured on a learning journey filled with many opportunities to explore, investigate, discover, and play. Our focus began with developing children’s independence and extending their understanding of what it means to be a community of learners who respect and care for each other. Paramount to this is the importance of establishing positive relationships with their educators and their peers. This provided a strong sense of belonging and connection to our Blue Gum Room community. Through their play, the children were encouraged to take risks, problem solve, make mistakes, face challenges, and learn to share their thoughts and ideas with each other. We began the year looking closely at families and the powerful influence that they play in our lives. The children also enjoyed taking home the ‘Me Bag,’ providing an avenue for the children to learn about each other and foster connections within the Blue Gum Room community. The children also showed interest in learning about growth and change through sharing their baby photos. Embedding sustainable practices in the ELC became a long-term commitment over the year in which all children were actively involved. They also took part in establishing an ELC community garden and exploring Indigenous perspectives within the Program. A variety of dramatic play areas were set up in the classroom throughout the year, such as a ‘Home,’ a ‘Hospital,’ and a ‘Market.’ These proved to be such a great source of enjoyment and learning for the children. These play spaces also encouraged children to learn how to share ideas, use their imagination, and take on many different roles. Our Blue Gum learners have experienced opportunities to inquire and explore through the ‘Hundred Languages’ including clay, drawing, painting, sewing, collage, construction, block building, music, literacy, and numeracy and much, much more. They are ready to embrace the next stage of their learning journey, and we wish them all the very best.

Blue Gum Room