Our Fully Qualified Staff Aims...
- To provide a warm, nurturing environment that encourages the development of the 'whole' child.
- To provide an environment that is based on successful experiences, which encourages all children to develop a healthy self-concept and positive self-esteem.
- To offer an environment that encourages children to develop their capabilities and interests at their own pace and according to their individual needs. To offer a program that recognises the uniqueness of each and every child and provides positive encouragement for the child's continued growth.
- To provide an environment that allows the child the opportunity to learn by doing - moving from concrete hands-on experiences to more abstract concept development. To provide opportunities for a lifetime of creative living and learning.
- To encourage social development by providing opportunities for sharing, taking turns, making friends, conflict resolution, solving problems, helping others, recognising and accepting others, cooperating on projects, and building self-esteem.
- To encourage emotional development through verbal expressions of thoughts and feelings, experiencing rules and limits, experiencing kindness, justice and empathy, and recognising and accepting emotions in others. To develop a respect for other individuals.
- To develop responsibility for one's own actions in self-help, health, safety and interpersonal areas, and to exercise appropriate independence.
- To encourage the physical development of large motor skills through outdoor and indoor games and activities, as well as fine motor development through the use of manipulative toys, blocks and puzzles, and other small tools and objects. To facilitate the development of visual motor skills.
- To encourage creativity by offering many kinds of material and frequent experiences in music, art, dramatics, literature and oral skills.
- To encourage interest in language through stories, puppetry, the home corner and its equipment, music games, science materials, dramas, problem solving and other conversations. These will all increase the children's knowledge, basic concepts and skills.