EYLF Learning Outcomes

The Interest Forest is an online programming tool for Australian early childhood educators. We have collected hundreds of children's interests with relevant learning experiences. 

Explore the following EYLF learning outcomes to discover the children's interest topics that link to each outcome.

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