The Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework

Elles Belles Early Learning has implemented ‘The Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF)’ which adopts a comprehensive approach to children’s learning and development. The VEYLDF recognises health as a crucial enabler for learning and development from birth. The VEYLDF recognises children’s wellbeing from birth as both a prerequisite for and an outcome of learning. Supportive relationships and active skill building with adults in their family and community are central to children’s wellbeing. The VEYLDF upholds the image of the child as a rights holder and a competent learner with capacities to learn from birth. The VEYLDF sets out outcomes and practices to guide early childhood professionals in their work with all families and their young children from birth. Supporting children to progress toward these outcomes, in conjunction with their families, is the core of the ‘VEYLDF’

The VEYLDF creates a foundation in which you can further extend on as an educator, and is paramount for ensuring that children in all early childhood education and care settings experience high quality teaching and learning. The VEYLDF is not only designed for educators to guide children’s learning and development in the early years of life, but to assist families as well. Families are the role models for their child and provide the caring relationships, the opportunities and the experiences that shape children’s learning and development for their future

The five learning outcomes are designed to capture the integrated and complex learning and development of all children across the birth to five age range. These outcomes are: