Dear Mattingley families and friends,
This week in the Mattingley room we have been focusing on families
and have been very busy putting up our family tree. According to the Early
Years Learning Framework right from birth children are connected to their
family, community, culture and place. Their earliest development and learning
takes place through these relationships, particularly within families, who are
a child’s first and most influential educators. As children participate in
everyday life, they develop interests and construct their own identities and
understandings of the world.
As educators within the Mattingley classroom we view the context
of family as central to children’s sense of being and belonging and to success
in lifelong learning. We feel that it is vital for children to be able to see
themselves as well as their family within their learning environment. That is
why we have been working towards our family tree, focusing this week on
displaying our family photos. The children have been loving spending time
sharing their family photos with each other, explaining who is in the photo and
why they love them.
Please if you haven’t already done so could you bring in or email
through your family photo so you can join our Mattingley family tree. If you
need to email them through please send them to kmason@pac.edu.au and we will print them
out.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Kimberley & Coral
