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Learning to Love Learning with Loose Parts!
You may have heard the term being thrown around here are there. Loose Parts open ended resources with infinite uses fuelled by imagination, conversation, and concentration, the sky is the limit.
Not convinced? Take a look of some snap shots we have taken of some amazingly complex learning through loose parts life skills, social skills and different curriculum areas are explored in meaningful and exciting ways.
Needless to say, the passion and enthusiasm from our kaiako comes straight from their hearts into their teaching and setting up the environment with loose parts, which is open ended, exciting and full of wonder. Or tamariki engage in play that is driven from their own interests and dispositions.
We talk about being school ready for us this is not being able to count to 10 or write your name but to be able to communicate, collaborate, problem solve, listen to ideas, persevere, be resilient and the list goes on.This is not only preparing our tamariki to be School Ready, it's teaching them to be READY for life.