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CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE

What a joy it is to nally be celebrating some sunny days after what felt like an everlasting winter. We are so grateful to our whānau, for the support they have shown our team as we worked hard to keep our doors open for our tamariki while pandemics and us were in full force.

We treasure the passion, experience and dedication of our Kaiako. Our team continue to learn and grow alongside tamariki, empowering them to be curious, explore, and engage as they start their own journeys as life long learners. We are very excited after a two year involuntary hiatus to host our ‘annual’ Bingo fundraiser in November. As a small not-for-pro t organisation fundraising is essential to enable us to continue to provide high quality, inclusive and communityfocused childcare. We appreciate our communities continued support.

Kate Lovegrove

As we re ect on the past year, we are thankful for all the wonderful moments of joy and learning with our precious tamariki, their whānau and our teaching team. We held our rst ever o cial Teacher Only day. An acknowledgment from our learning community of the importance of our professional growth and development and an investment in strengthening teachers pedagogy. Although challenging at times, teachers have embraced the online learning opportunities the past few years have provided and have participated in an online conference and various other zoom meetings and webinars over the year. This has enabled us to connect and network with other teaching teams from around Aotearoa.

Our learning priorities support our vision, that ‘Children are empowered to become lifelong learners and positively contribute to the community’.

Relationships

At Early Years we work hard at building trusting relationships with children & their families as we know that partnership and knowledge of family aspirations is so important for fostering learning. We nurture an environment where children respect & support other learners. Children are learning to nd their voice, to help and be helped by others, and to join group play in ways that support other learners.

Identity

We value our bicultural heritage and support children to nd strength in their identity, language and culture, and recognise their place within their family, the Early Years community and the wider world. We build children’s mana by accepting their individuality: valuing their home languages and cultures, celebrating di erence and welcoming diversity.

Environment

We create an engaging, welcoming and secure home away from home so children feel safe to thrive and learn. Our responsive, dynamic environment re ects our diverse learning community. We value our connections with the natural world, and support our tamariki to experience nature through our Explorers programme.

Life long Learners

We nurture children’s identities as resilient lifelong learners through an empowering curriculum that encourages and supports them to be curious and courageous, to embrace challenge and guide their own learning. We make learning visible through assessment practices that give children agency and enhance their mana and identity, support and encourage positive learning dispositions.

Our garden is a natural resource for tamariki. Never settle for anything less than pure joy! Our Explorer’s programme.

Children enjoying creating with clay. Team work at the water pump.

Our older learners supporting our younger learners.

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Warren & Mark Adam WAIRARAPA

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