Here are the sub-outcomes, evidence of when children can achieve them, and how educators can help children achieve EYLF Learning outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of well-being.

Children who are confident and optimistic will maximize their learning potential. It promotes children’s natural curiosity, sense of agency, and desire to connect with others. A person’s wellbeing includes physical health, happiness, satisfaction, and successful social functioning. It affects the way that children interact with their environment.

Learning Outcome 3: Children Have A Strong Sense Of Wellbeing

3.1 The children become more confident in their social and emotional well-being.

It is obvious when children:

• Demonstrate trust and confidence.
• Be available to others whenever you are in distress, confusion, or frustration.
• Share humor, satisfaction, and happiness.
• Celebrate their achievements as well as those of others.
• Cooperation and collaboration with others are becoming more common.
• Enjoy moments of solitude.
• Recognize their achievements
• Make choices, accept challenges, and take calculated risks.
• Show an increasing ability to self-regulate, understand and manage emotions in a way that reflects the needs and feelings of others.
• Please share your successes and create new learning opportunities in Standard Australian English or their native language.
• Accept and acknowledge the affirmation
• Assert their independence and capabilities while increasing awareness of other people’s needs and rights.
• Recognize their contributions to projects and shared experiences.

Teachers can promote this learning through:

• Show genuine affection, respect, and understanding for all children.
• Document the achievements of children and share them with their families.
• Ensure that children feel proud of their efforts and achievements.
• Promote children’s sense of belonging, connection, and well-being.
• Encourage and challenge children to persevere in their tasks and play.
• Build on and expand children’s ideas.
• Maintain high expectations for each child.
• Value children’s decision-making.
• Welcome children and families to share aspects of their spiritual and cultural lives.
• Talk to children about their feelings and reactions to events to help them understand emotional regulation and self-control.
• Recognize and affirm the children’s efforts and growth.
• Mediate or assist children in negotiating their rights concerning others’ rights.

3.2 The children take greater responsibility for their health and well-being.

It is obvious when children:

• Recognize and communicate your bodily needs.
• You are connected, happy, healthy, and safe.
• Engage in sensory-motor skills that are increasingly complex and patterns of movement.
• Combine gross and fine motor movements and balance to achieve increasingly complicated patterns of activities, including dance, creative motion, and drama.
• Explore and respond to the world using their sensory abilities and dispositions, with an increasing level of integration and skill.
• Move confidently through and around their environment, demonstrating spatial awareness.
• Use equipment and tools of management with increasing skill and competence. Respond to music, dance, and stories in traditional and contemporary styles.
• Show an increased awareness of healthy living and good nutrition.
• Show increasing competence and independence regarding personal hygiene, care, and safety and security for others.
• Show enthusiasm when participating in physical activity and negotiate the play space to ensure their and others’ safety.

Teachers can promote this learning through:

• Plan and engage in physical activities with your children, including games, dance, drama, and movement.
• Include familiar games and activities you know and love in your play by drawing on family members’ and friends’ expertise and experience.
• Provide various materials and tools to help children develop their gross and fine motor skills.
• Encourage children to learn about good hygiene.
• Share routines and schedules among children, their families, and the community to promote continuity in children’s health and hygiene.
• Discuss health and safety with your children, and include them in developing guidelines to keep everyone safe.
• Engage children in conversations, activities, and experiences encouraging healthy eating and lifestyles.
• Consider the pace of the day in the context of your community.
• Children can learn from your example and reinforce the importance of health, nutrition, and personal hygiene.
• Provide a variety of relaxing and active experiences to children throughout the day. Please support them in making appropriate choices about their participation.