OUR AIM
Our teachers aim to provide…
- Provoking children’s learning and sustained interests through preparing a stimulating environment with open ended materials for play, grouping children for small group interactions and sustaining and extending discussions, inquiry learning and conversations with children.
- A balance between child initiated and self-directed play, and teacher initiated and directed play. Teachers aim to be responsive to children’s interests, ideas and needs and support the development of these.
- An opportunity where children are able to make informed, good, independent choices.
- Observing, photographing and filming children in play – careful observation and assessment of children enables teachers to collaboratively work with parents and whanau to make decisions about how best to support and extend a child’s learning.
- Engage with children in care-giving routines – children learn about themselves, about relationships, and about their bodies through unhurried care-giving routines in which they are actively involved.
- Opportunities for children to express themselves and be unique.