Our Curicullum
Essential learning Areas
Children have the opportunities to explore in these various learning areas that align with the NZ Early Childhood Education Curriculum Te Whariki.
Language and Languages
Our Tiriti - based Curriculum allows us to recognize and appreciate the importance of Maori in Aotearoa and Bi-lingual education. Our multicultural services provide for meaningful learning experiences around languages and literacies.
Mathematics
There are opportunities for children to think logically. strategically, creatively, and critically - skills and knowledge which are particularly valuable in todays information and digital age. Our children learn about numbers, patterns, shapes, colours, sorting, organizing, and so forth.
Science
We believe that children are born scientists and explorers. Our teams continue to plan their learning experiences and environments to provide for their ongoing curiosities. Our environment becomes their third teacher, it is well resourced, equipped and ready for childrens investigation and learning.
Social Science
Children learn how to socialize with others, they have opportunities to become members of groups within our services. They learn how how to participate, share, take turns, problem solve and develop skills that will equip them for later learning.
Technology
Our programmes and environments are organized so that children can lead and initiate their own purposeful, problem solving activities and devise to their own satisfaction using a variety of material and equipments
The Arts
The arts is the collective term for four disciplines; music, dance, visual arts, and drama. The arts play a very important role in communication and the expression of ideas. In fact, it is often said that the arts are the first literacies for children. This is because each of these disciplines involves the use of symbols (expression, movement, gesture, image, and sound) to convey meaning
Health and Physical Education
Movement and healthy eating is promoted at our services and are supported by relevant policies. Movement plays an important role in many cultural customary practices. It is a powerful way that is used to actively and positively support children’s learning about identity, language, and culture – both their own and that of others.