Tui Lounge

The Tui Lounge caters for toddlers from 20 months to 2 years.  A learning lounge that allows children to develop at their own pace and learn the value in exploring the environment and their peers.  Making sense of the world and all its qualities is so important at this age. Fun, laughter and love submerged with a teacher child ratio of 1:5.

Responsive & Interactive

Every opportunity in the day is recognised as an important time to learn, even care moments like nappy changes, meal times and sleep times.  We take these opportuntiies to communicate, reconnect, and encourage participation with the tamariki. Building these trusting moments passes the power over to the child as they learn to make choices alongside the teacher the feel supported by.

Open-ended resources

Creativity and imagination is developing as toddlers engage with real materials to make sense of their never ending purpose.  Open ended resources/materials allow the toddlers to manipulate and use them as they see fit in their learning - not a one stop shop.  

The Importance of Language

Bringing alive rich language daily in verbal and non verbal approaches as toddler's are at a prime stage in their life to absorb everything going on around and with them. Children are connecting words to what they are doing and what they are observing, so filling this child's bucket with real words - not baby words, so they foster a clear understanding of the world around them.

Sensitive obersvation 

All teachers (kaiako) take the time daily to know each child allowing them to see what the individual child is capable of, allowing the teacher to provide an environment that ensures the child will foster their ongoing exploration of their world and the opportunity to have their play extended.

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