Active and Informed Citizens
Our holistic programs provide children with opportunities to develop personal values and attributes such as honesty, resilience, empathy and respect. We equip children with the capabilities and dispositions to act with moral and ethical integrity showing a commitment to humanitarian values and sustainable practices.
Robina First children develop a respect and concern for others and their rights. Our programs build a foundation of global citizenship through awareness, responsibility and participation. By providing children with authentic cultural experiences we are able to support developing skills, knowledge and understanding of respectful interactions with culture, that will enable them to engage effectively with and prosper in a globalised world.
Focusing on what's Important
Family Values
We recognise that family involvement is integral to any high quality program and are dedicated to genuine and meaningful conversations with our families. We seek to develop collaborative partnerships based on respect, trust, sincerity and authenticity with families, and encourage families to involve themselves in meaningful interactions in the program.
The cultures and values of our families and staff are of great importance to our centre and are viewed with the utmost level of respect at all times. As many of our educators and families hail from different cultural backgrounds we endeavour to honour difference. Our educators are culturally competent and respect multiple ways of knowing, seeing and living. We seek to celebrate the benefits of diversity and bestow children with a considerable number of social and cultural experiences
Wellbeing and Restorative Practices
Growing and learning at Robina First instils in children personal qualities such as a sense of self-worth, self awareness and personal identity that enables them to manage their emotional, mental, spiritual and physical wellbeing. Through affirmations, self love practices, mindfulness, discussions about feelings, gratitude, creativity and friendship, our aim is to enable children to become confident enthusiastic learners, who are flexible, resilient and open minded.
Our routines are strong and established because we recognise that children order their lives by events that happen rather than time. Routines happen in the same order each day so that children have a better understanding of their world and therefore feel more secure. This regular rhythm gives children a way to organise and order their lives. We understand that when young children know what to expect, they become more confident as they know they will not be confronted with unfamiliar tasks for which they are unprepared.
Confident and Creative Individuals
We value children as individuals and seek to empower them by embracing their interests and ideas when developing our programs.
Robina First children are enterprising, innovative and show initiative and resourcefulness. They use their creative abilities to solve problems in ways that drawn upon a range of skills. As capable learners, we believe in encouraging our children to reach their maximum potential and strive to promote each child’s confidence through experiences that facilitate challenge and develop children’s capacities to initiate and lead learning. We view learning as holistic, dynamic and complex and aspire to provide secure and trusting environments where children feel safe to take risks.
Our Rooms
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What do our room names mean?
We recognise that children are the future of Australia. The experiences we provide to children today will shape the people they become and the future of our great country.
We want to challenge them to be the best that they can possibly be.
We want them to have high expectations and positive role models.
We want them to shoot for the stars, full of confidence and self-belief and the knowledge that they can make a difference.
We thought long and hard about this concept and thought we need to show children just how incredibly innovative, compassionate and talented Australians are!
Well if we are going to talk the talk then we need to walk the walk!
We thought, how we can implement this concept from the ground up?
So, we decided to name each room after Australian's that have truly made a difference in Australia. We want the names of our rooms to be a constant reminder to the children, educators and families that with perseverance, strength and courage they can make a profound difference.