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Pipi Room - Infant and Babies
Pipi Room provides care for children from 5 months to around 2 years old. Our friendly and professional teachers care for your child and support their development. Routines for sleeping and feeding are arranged to match your home routine.
Our teachers creating a calm, nurturing environment for your little ones
At Little Nest the days are unhurried. Rather than rushing children from activity to activity our nursery teachers respect each child and their routines.
Our Infants and Babies room provides a calm, safe and inviting play space which empowers the children to be who they are. By offering the children space, time, and the support to be themselves they learn to explore and discover the world in their own unique way. We use effective communication to encourage positive interactions and talk to children throughout the day during activities and transition times to reassure and help them.
Paua Room - Toddlers
For the toddlers (2-3 years old) in Paua room, we encourage child-initiated learning through a combination of free play and structured experiences. We value the emergent curriculum and individual dispositions and interests. Our programme follows the National Early Childhood Curriculum document Te Whàriki.
Paua Room programme is varied and child-led
Each day different learning opportunities are available including, sensory centred play, art, music, dance and outdoor play. Our team of teachers observe each child's interest and disposition, and develop learning opportunities on these interests. We encourage independence and acknowledges individual learning styles of each child.
Morning tea is available from 9.30am and lunch is at 11.30am. Children are encouraged to be independent at the dining table, sit on chairs, and use cutlery and crockery. Your child's learning will be documented in their individual learning portfolio.
Paua Room - Preschoolers
"Grow up as confident, competent learners and communicators, healthy in mind, body and spirit, secure in their sense of belonging and in the knowledge that they make a valuable contribution".
Our teaching team seeks to provide a warm and nurturing environment, where our preschoolers (3-5 years old) develop a sense of belonging and create a healthy, happy, and secure approach to learning and living with peers. At Paua Room, we strive to meet the children’s individual needs with love, patience, and understanding.
A wide variety of activities on offer
We believe that children learn naturally through play and we aim to foster each child’s individual social, physical, intellectual and cultural wellbeing. Our programme follows Te Whàriki, the National Early Childhood Curriculum document, which aims to ensure that children:
At Paua room, children experience a safe and nurturing environment with routines that match those they follow at home to make them feel comfortable as well as new experiences to challenge them and help them develop new interests and skills. Children are also encouraged to develop social skills and understand the dynamics of group relationships growing in confidence and showing respect and responsibility.
All human beings are creative and in every child there is an artist
We are influenced by both the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy and RIE approach to childcare and in following this we work hard to observe children's interests and provide activities and experiences to extend their learning in those areas of interest.
Group activities happen at set times during the day and at other times children are free to choose which activities they would like to take part in. If your child has a younger sibling in Caterpillar room, then they will also be able to spend time together if they wish. Positive social interactions such as turn taking, sharing and role modelling are encouraged and fostered.
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