EYLF Learning Outcomes

1. Children have a strong sense of identity

  • 1.1 Children feel safe, secure and supported
  • 1.2 Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and agency
  • 1.3 Children develop knowledgeable, confident self-identities and a positive sense of self-worth
  • 1.4 Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect

2. Children are connected with and contribute to their world

  • 2.1 Children develop a sense of connectedness to groups and communities and an understanding of their reciprocal rights and responsibilities as active and informed citizens
  • 2.2 Children respond to diversity with respect

  • 2.3 Children become aware of fairness

  • 2.4 Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

3. Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

  • 3.1 Children become strong in their social, emotional and mental wellbeing
  • 3.2 Children become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing
  • 3.3 Children are aware of and develop strategies to support their own mental and physical health and personal safety

4. Children are confident and involved learners

  • 4.1 Children develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
  • 4.2 Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
  • 4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
  • 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, places, technologies and natural and processed materials

5. Children are effective communicators

  • 5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
  • 5.2 Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts
  • 5.3 Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
  • 5.4 Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
  • 5.5 Children use digital technologies and media to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking