[Upbeat music plays.]
[A woman in a pink and green dress sits on a chair in a kindergarten room filled with wooden tables, chairs, shelves and toys. In the top right corner of the screen we see the text: Dill-be-din Kindergarten. In the bottom left corner of the screen we can see the Best Start, Best Life logo]
Woman: So our kinder received a Building Blocks grant
[The video cuts to a scene of a woman and child walking along a covered path in front of apartment blocks]
Woman: to allow for the refurbishments to take place at our kinder.
[We see the parent and child enter the kinder room, the child on a scooter, and the parent walking behind]
[The scene cuts back to the woman in the classroom, text on-screen providing her name, Olivia.]
[On-screen text: Olivia Moloney-Brown, Educational Leader Fitzroy Early Years Precinct]
Olivia: We’ve had a whole redesign of the space to include 2 rooms that we can facilitate kindergarten programs in.
[We see panning shots of the kindergarten rooms, with lots of small wooden tables and chairs, bookshelves, toys, and couches.]
Olivia: They’re self-sufficient, so they both have bathrooms, they both have kitchens, access to the outdoor yard.
[We see panning shots of the kitchen and outdoor space which includes a garden bed in the foreground, and swings in a bark-covered playground in the background. This cuts to a child running through a sand-pit with trucks, and making sand castles.]
Olivia: The outdoor space has had some new improvements. It’s included a mud pit, sandpit, a basketball court, bike track, a yarning circle
[We see shots of the basketball ring and logs arranged in a yarning cirle.]
Olivia: as well as an outdoor space for children that provides lots of space, natural light, and natural resources for them to interact with.
[More shots of the child playing on swings, and a close-up of the garden bed with purple flowers and plants.]
[We then cut to the classroom with the child putting together a toy train track, and then back to Olivia]
Olivia: So it’s important for a kindergarten to offer varied learning experiences to really support each child’s diverse learning need. Where we offer opportunities for all kinds of learning, whether it be outside, inside, gross motor, art experiences, exposure to the natural world.
[We see shots of the child playing with Lego, waving at the camera, bookshelves, art supplies and shots of the outside park area with fencing. More close-up shots of inside the classroom, with books and pot plants, and then cuts back again to Olivia.]
Olivia: Really gives children the opportunity to express themselves and to learn in their own special way, and having a facility like this gives us the opportunity to provide every resource possible to them. Letting children decide where they want to learn and how they want to learn.
[We see more shots inside the classroom with small wooden tea sets, plastic cutlery, books and finally back to Olivia.]
Olivia: The rooms being so fresh and neutral really provide a sanctuary for our children to come and learn in, and it just provides that safe, secure space for children and the community to come and feel at home in.
A white background appears with the VSBA and Victoria State Government logos.
[On-screen text: www.schoolbuildings.vic.gov.au]
A black background appears and white text appears.
[On-screen text: Authorised by The Victorian School Building Authority, 33 St Andrews Place, East Melbourne]
[Transcript ends]
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