Growing Empathy, Confidence, and Social Awareness

CEFA Change-makers supports your child through everyday experiences that build empathy, confidence, and strong relationships, teaching your child to make a difference. This pillar helps nurture social-emotional growth and a strong sense of belonging.

Understanding CEFA Change-Makers

Why Social Awareness and Empathy Matter

Learning in this pillar is shaped through social interaction and creative expression, where your child explores emotions, relationships, and a sense of belonging through play, communication, and collaborative experiences.

Through engaging, hands-on experiences, they develop emotional awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and confidence while learning to communicate and connect with others.

The CEFA Change-Makers Approach

Our Subjects

Children explore relationships, community, and responsibility through collaborative activities and discussions—developing empathy, respect, and confidence while learning how their actions can make a positive difference.

Three children in costume—a construction worker, a chef, and a firefighter—smile and hold hands. This joyful moment captures the spirit of early learning centres, with two adults blurred in the background.

Citizenship

Citizenship builds responsibility and belonging as children explore their role in family and community, developing teamwork and awareness of how actions matter.

A young child leans in and smiles while looking at a colorful felt board, as an adult from an early childhood care program sits nearby, in a classroom setting.

I Contribute and Socials

Contribution activities build confidence and social awareness as children share ideas, listen, and work together, developing empathy, respect, and collaboration.

A young child in an embroidered shirt holds a magnifying glass to his face, enlarging one eye. Another child plays in the background of an early learning centre classroom filled with engaging activities.

Culture Immersion

Cultural Immersion builds curiosity and empathy as children explore global traditions through storytelling and activities, developing respect for diversity and awareness.

Yoga

Yoga builds focus and self-regulation as children explore breathing, movement, and mindfulness, developing balance, flexibility, and emotional awareness.

Two children wearing gloves dig in soil with small shovels at a clear outdoor planting table. They are focused on their gardening activity, which is part of the hands-on experiences offered by early learning centres.

Outdoor and Nature Program

Outdoor play builds physical skills and well-being as children explore nature through active play, developing sensory awareness and collaboration.

Inside Our Classrooms

CEFA Change-Makers in Action

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Two young girls sit on the floor at an early learning centre, one in a police costume holding a dark-skinned puppet, the other with a blonde puppet. Both are smiling and looking at the camera, enjoying playful moments together.

A woman and three toddlers stand around a sensory play table outdoors at an early learning centre. The children are engaged with the toys, and one holds a blue plush toy. They are all wearing white shirts and light-colored pants.

A young girl in a yellow raincoat examines something with a magnifying glass while holding a clipboard, standing beside colorful wooden cutouts of people at an outdoor playground—an engaging scene at one of the early learning centres nearby.

Two young boys, one with light skin and one with dark skin, are playing together in a sandbox at one of the early learning centres, digging and scooping sand with a blue toy tool. They appear focused and are enjoying their time outdoors.

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Our Curriculum

Curious What Other CEFA Curriculum Pillars Offer?

Take a closer look at the other CEFA curriculum pillars and how they work together to support learning, creativity, independence, and school readiness.

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CEFA Masterminds

Literacy and Language

In this pillar, reading, writing, math, language, and a second language are introduced through structured experiences that support communication and understanding.

CEFA Innovators

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

In this pillar, science, technology, engineering, math, and coding are explored through hands-on experiences that spark curiosity and early problem-solving.

CEFA Creators

Creativity and Expression

In this pillar, dance, music, drama, creative play, and visual arts encourage children to explore ideas and express themselves through creativity.