Our Affinity Story
Reading Eggs & Mathseeds are loved by 126 centres in your Affinity Education community (and counting…)
Here’s what they are saying!
“What I love about Reading Eggs and Mathseeds is that…”
Dr Lesley Jones, Head of Education and Pedagogy at Affinity Education gives Reading Eggs and Mathseeds the
BIG tick of approval for early childhood learning. We sat down with Lesley to find out why…
“Our Lifelong Learning Curriculum is Australia’s most progressive approach to early education for children aged 0-5, designed to develop emotional confidence, foundational learning, social connectivity and physical health and wellbeing. It is designed around three key stages of early learning. Our Healthy Beginnings program for babies aged 0-1, our Early Experiences programs for toddlers aged 1-3 and our School Readiness program for 3–5-year-old children which incorporates Kindergarten and Preschool. A big focus in our 3-5-year-old School Readiness program is skill-based learning which is where Reading Eggs and Mathseeds come into the picture.
Reading Eggs and Mathseeds are great platforms that fit nicely into our Lifelong Learning Curriculum. They are child-centred in the way they have been constructed, gamified so that they are engaging for children to work with, and another way for us to incorporate those early concepts of literacy and maths. Families are offered complimentary subscriptions and dedicated logins for their own child. Children have access to appropriate technology within our classrooms so they can use these programs while at their centre as well as at home.
Reading Eggs and Mathseeds tick many boxes for us including how they cover foundational learning concepts that children get introduced to as part of their school readiness program. They also allow for children to have different learning styles, engage with key concepts in literacy and maths in ways they find engaging and provides an opportunity for children to be building digital literacy skills we know they need. I consider Reading Eggs and Mathseeds superior products as they bring all these things together in an integrated and balanced way.
They are also really well thought through platforms, it’s easy to use for both teachers and children and this is certainly the feedback I’ve had back from teachers.
Another thing we really like about Reading Eggs and Mathseeds is the strong connection with primary school. For lots of primary schools, these products are very common platforms, which adds some veracity to the work we’re doing with these products, but it’s also nice that the children are using a platform that they can be familiar with when the start primary school. We’re supporting transitions between early childhood education and primary school, and to see that confidence emerging in children is really exciting.
What I love about Reading Eggs and Mathseeds is that they are very contextualised. We’re not trying to squash down a year 2 curriculum into a pre-school environment, we can access content that is very age appropriate. It’s aligned to school curriculums, but it is still being developed with the young learner in mind which is very important.”
Dr Lesley Jones
Head of Education and Pedagogy
Affinity Education Group
Loved by 126 centres and 4,000+ primary schools in Australia
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More love for Reading Eggs & Mathseeds…
We like that Reading Eggs and Mathseeds are engaging and interactive. The children really enjoy it because it is on the iPad’s at Kinder and that they can use their own log in, which promotes a sense of agency.
Emily Ellis, Centre Manager – Papilio Early Learning Blackburn
We find it very positive. The families even like to use it at home with their children and even when they are on holidays. It is a great program to fill time in for the children while traveling and it is also educational to support their learning.
Our centre has been using Reading Eggs for years and the parents absolutely love it. The children talk about it constantly. We love the way the reading eggs give children the early skills to recognise letters and their sounds.
Briony Edwards, Centre Manager – Aussie Kindys Niagara Park
The children’s use of Reading Eggs and Mathseeds allows them to be introduced to technology and learn both at home and at school.
The children are always talking about Reading Eggs and Mathseeds and always asking when it is time for them to use it. Highly recommend!
Reading Eggs and Mathseeds has created opportunities for our educators to have one on one time with the children as well as creating conversation opportunities with families. It allows for children to express themselves through the use of technology.
Sophie Cheatham, Assistant Centre Manager – Papilio Early Learning Ingleburn
We have incorporated a reading eggs station for a quiet space that allows for children to practise their zoning in times and self-regulation. Children look forward to their turn and can express what they have learnt.
Reading Eggs and Mathseeds have made a positive impact to our centre as the educators use it in their teaching programs, children are excited to come to care to see which activity they are doing that day and share their experiences with their families. It promotes that home and school learning connection, as families have access to their learning activities at home. It’s a fun, interactive and engaging way to learn about literacy and numeracy in the early years up to school age. For the early years, it’s a fantastic way to introduce children to those foundational literacy and numeracy concepts, simultaneously, teaching them about how technology can be used as a learning tool.
Sonia Battistel, Assistant Centre Manger – Papilio Early Learning Turner