CESA’s SPICE Program

CESA’s SPICE Program

 

About CESA’s SPICE Program

Catholic Education South Australia’s (CESA’s) SPiCE Program offers a time and place for all supported playgroup participants; children, families, ’older friends’ and facilitators to love, grow and thrive together. 

 

We enable supported playgroup participants, families, ‘older friends’ and facilitators time to grow and learn with others, and a place to make connections, build relationships and experience wonder, joy and love.

 

Supported playgroups within CESA’s SPiCE Program are located in Catholic schools, preschools and ELC’s and are supported, meaning they are run by trained and employed facilitators who have access to and are part of CESA’s collaborative SPiCE Program professional network. CESA’s SPiCE Program currently has over 60 supported playgroups within Catholic schools that engage with and support over 2, 600 children and over 2,000 families across South Australia.

CESA’s supported playgroup programs welcome families from the local community, not only those involved with the school communities and focus on nurturing the development of children aged birth-5.

CESA’s SPiCE Program is based on three Foundational Pillars: Faith Formation, Learning and Community, that are central to the program’s aims and mission. The program’s pillars are influenced by national strategies, frameworks and statements relevant for South Australian children, families and ‘older friends’. The three pillars recognise the importance of learning through play, building community through meaningful relationships and a sense of belonging, and the development of faith formation through everyday experiences of joy and love.

Some of CESA’s supported playgroup programs have specific foci, including inter-generational, nature-play, and gross motor programs.

 

We partner with several external organisations such as Playgroup SA, Community Hubs, Nature Play SA, Raising Literacy Australia and Paint the Town REaD ensuring the program provides meaningful, evidence-based resources, professional learning, and opportunities to uniquely support each playgroup and the needs of each playgroup family.

All our supported playgroups are registered with Playgroup SA and details can be found on Playgroup SA’s Find-a-playgroup page.

We look forward to welcoming you and your family to one of our supported playgroups soon!

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Acknowledgement of country.

Playgroup SA acknowledges and respects the traditional custodians of the South Australian regions upon whose ancestral lands our Playgroups operate on. 

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Elders, past, present and future for they  old the memories, the traditions, the culture and the hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 

We also pay respect to the cultural authority of Aboriginal people from other areas of South Australia and Australia and acknowledge their deep feelings of attachment and Spiritual relationship to Country. 

Playgroup SA recognises the pain and suffering caused by past policies to Aboriginal Australians and the impact this has had on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

At Playgroup SA we are committed to a future of reconciliation, we believe that there is much knowledge and wisdom to be gained by Aboriginal Australians, by the learning of Country, land, cultures, truths and realities.