At Little Treehouse Kindergarten we value our calm, flexible and inclusive learning environment with child initiated play based experiences and opportunities that encourage imagination, creativity, and critical thinking.
We view our tamariki as individuals with their own unique way of learning and empower them to become confident mindful learners with a positive learner identity. We foster their learning and development in a holistic way that honours their own nature and unique learning dispositions. We achieve this through active listening and by supporting and extending their natural curiosity and innate sense of wonder.
We acknowledge Te Tiriti o Waitangi as an important and valued document. Our daily rituals and our programme reflect this. Te Whāriki is a living document, and we use it in partnership with current research to extend tamariki’s skills and knowledge whilst affirming and celebrating individual cultural values and beliefs, achievements, and group interests.
We strongly value our relationships between parents, caregivers, whanau, teachers, and the wider community. Therefore, we aim to partner with our whānau to integrate parent aspirations and the learning environments and values of home and kindergarten to provide the best possible outcomes for our tamariki. We hope that together we can lay strong foundations for lifelong learning by encouraging thinking, resilience, independence, and self-belief, in turn allowing the mana of our tamariki to flourish.
We enact our philosophy through our kindergarten values of Kindness, Respect and Ako (learning with and alongside others).
Little Treehouse Kindergarten, Remuera