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SERRA International is proposing an innovative direction in early childhood education where children are respected as competent thinkers and communicators who are offered many opportunities to engage with a range of materials and resources to extend and challenge their thinking.

The SERRA experience ensures strong moral, social, emotional and physical development, transforming children from a fledgling toddler to confident, inquisitive, self-motivated learner and an enthusiastic citizen who faces the world with confidence.

A suite of Eight guiding principles have been established to both guide and serve as a benchmark for delivering world class early childhood education consistently across our pre-school settings. These guiding principles are known as the Eight Big Ideas of our Philosophy:

•  We are committed to the pedagogy of listening
•  Play is the central mode of learning for young children
•  We acknowledge children as sophisticated thinkers and communicators
•  We have accountability to children, parents, management and community
•  We create alliances with parents
•  Our program has intellectual and pedagogical integrity
•  We focus on seeing children within a socio-cultural context
•  Teachers as researchers

Our Image of the Child enables us to value the uniqueness of each child as both a gift and an opportunity. At SERRA we see a child who:

•  is unique
•  is rich in potential
•  is capable
•  is a person with rights and responsibilities
•  is active
•  is a collaborator
•  is a contributor to the community
•  is growing and learning
•  is creative
•  offers new perspectives