Typically responds within
A couple of days
Vacancies
Limited availability
College Centre is mixed-age centre with children from birth to five years learning alongside each other providing a home-like atmosphere. The strength of the mixed age group is clearly visible in the positive way the children work together across the ages learning through observation, peer tutoring and role modelling.
The programme is based on the aspirations of the early childhood curriculum Te Whāriki and linked to its principles and strands. As teachers notice and recognise children’s learning they respond to, and share this knowledge amongst the children family / whānau andteachers and use this as the basis for the programme to increase the complexity of children’s learning. Children are active participants in deciding where their learning is going.
The Centre environment - the physical arrangement, the resources and equipment, time and space, and teacher’s encouragement and interactions encourage each child to become a confident and competent learner.
Our practices and routines include tikanga Māori - Māori protocols and Māori language - Te Reo Māori. We acknowledge and value the diversity of all the children in our centre and celebrate learning and knowledge that such richness brings.
OUCA College Centre socio-cultural perspective promotes and supports positive and caring relationships between adults and children. Learning experiences are based on the emergent curriculum of children, staff, parents and the community where interests are identified and learning experiences provided to further the children’s knowledge and understanding.
Children each have a profile that provides an opportunity to work in partnership with parents and extended family as teachers share in their lives and the community documenting the learning while acknowledging and working with the skills, interests and dispositions of each child to extend and challenge their understanding of the world they live in. The children’s profile books are easily accessible for children to revisit and respond to their own and their peers learning, which encourages and helps nurture children’s self assessment.
Family/whānau feedback and contribution to their children’s learning stories is encouraged and valued.
Each child has a designated teacher who provides the link between Centre and family while all the teaching team support each child’s learning.
Visits to the community are highly valued by teachers and children and include regular University College of Education gymnasium visits, Museum, Early Settlers, Logan Park, University College of Education campus, Library, Botanical Gardens, Otago Polytechnic Campus and theatre visits.
Visitors from the community are welcomed and have included musicians, ambulance and fire service, children and teachers from other early childhood centres.
