Typically responds within
A couple of days
Vacancies
Limited availability
Our day
We place a high value on learning and believe that the deepest learning occurs within a flexible and responsive environment. For this reason our days are adjusted to accommodate the interests and needs of the community and of individuals.
Infant Toddler room
Teachers are responsive to the interests, strengths and needs of the children and provide a mix of planned and spontaneous experiences indoors and outdoors.
Information from home and the daily needs of individual children guide routines such as breastfeeding/bottles, meal times, sleeps and nappy changing.
Young children
Most of our day is flexible so that children and teachers are free to explore planned and spontaneous experiences indoors and outdoors. Children are expected to help with tidying when they leave an area and before mat time (about 11.30am). Mat time emerges from the interests of all children. Younger children usually join mat time for a short period while older children are encouraged to stay for longer periods to engage in topics and projects of particular interest to them. Children sit together to eat lunch but may leave as soon as they have finished. Sleep, toileting and nappy changing routines are based on the needs of children and information from families. Morning and afternoon tea is provided for extended periods and children sit to eat when they are ready.
Our philosophy
Tamariki have the right to:
- a peaceful, safe, secure, healthy, socially just, environmentally sustainable present and future
- respect, unconditional love/aroha and an early childhood education which recognises them as active citizens and as active participants with rights and responsibilities
- understand their own heritage and culture within the bicultural heritage of Aotearoa/Nu Tireni/New Zealand.
Tamariki and their whānau and families have the right to:
- full participation and to achievement irrespective of ethnicity, gender, ability or background
- express who they are and be affirmed as an individual and as part of a community free from discrimination, assumptions or stereotypes.
