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Early childhood education and care plans

Early childhood education and care plan is a curriculum guiding the education of pre-primary school age children, which is based on the early childhood education act and degrees. An early childhood education plan will be compiled for each child attending day care or family day care, working together with the child's parents.

Introduction

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Early childhood education and care plan is a curriculum guiding the education of pre-primary school age children, which is based on the early childhood education act and degrees. An early childhood education plan will be compiled for each child attending day care or family day care, working together with the child's parents.

The Vantaa early childhood education and care plan supports and guides the organisation, implementation and development of early childhood education and care and promotes h…igh-quality and equal early childhood education and care while paying attention to Vantaa's local special characteristics. The objectives and measures supporting a child's development, learning and wellbeing are recorded into the child's early childhood education and care plan. The plan also describes the child's skills and strengths, interests and individual needs.

If this general support is not sufficient for a child, he or she is entitled to intensive support. The objective of intensive support plan is to allow for a child in need of regular support to fully participate in early childhood education and care.

A multilingualism plan is a part of the child's early childhood education and care plan or the curriculum of pre-primary education/preparatory teaching. The plan will be made together with the child's guardians, and it will include the measures for how the child's competence and development in their mother tongue(s) will be supported through their early childhood education and care.

Happy, learning and participating children growing into sustainable future’ is the vision of early childhood education and care, which also describes its mission. The vision inspires and gives meaning to the work carried out together. 

Values and related actions

Communality 

We commit to shared goals.  

  • Our encouraging and positive operational culture is built upon our shared basic duty and our common goals.  
  • We create the quality of early childhood education through dialogue.  

We promote the children’s sense of togetherness.  

  • Each child, family and educator is an important part of our community.  
  • Playing has intrinsic value and it promotes the formation of peer relationships.  
  • No one is left alone.  

We work together and value each other and the competence of others.  

  • We practise emotional and friendship skills together.  
  • My competence is part of our shared capital and I share it with everyone.  

Openness  

Our operations are participatory and inclusive.  

  • We ensure the participation of different parties when preparing matters and show this through respectful dialogue and openness in relation to our partners and different perspectives.  

Our operations and decision-making are transparent and well-founded.  

  • We communicate proactively already during the preparatory stage.  
  • We have good grounds for our decisions and we make these known.  
  • We make our work visible.  

We share information in a timely manner.  

  • We make our operations visible by utilising several communication channels.  
  • We share our knowledge and competence openly and make them available to all.  

Boldness  

We try out new operational methods in an open-minded manner.  

  • We encourage and foster an experimental culture and small everyday innovations. 

  • We boldly choose the best possible solution.  

  • We hold open, professional dialogue.  

  • We intervene in and identify the support needs of children and families.  

We encourage a child to experiment, explore and learn.  

  • We build fun, exciting and interesting learning environments together with the children.  

Sustainability  

We are responsible for our own and our shared actions and their impacts.  

  • We develop our professional competence.  
  • We commit to shared strategy, decisions and guidelines.  

We promote a sustainable way of life.  

  • Sustainability can be seen in our sustainable way of life, the carefully considered procurements and in the way we reinforce the children’s relationship with nature.  
  • We implement the actions in the resource-smart road map and act as an example.  
  • We get to know our local environment, take care of nature and our surroundings, recycle, make ecological choices and consider the cause-and-effect relationships of matters. 

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