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Rising Stars Preschool welcome children from 6 months to 6 years old. We have two buildings, Nursery with a maximum of 12 children and Preschool with 33 children. We have excellent teacher to child ratios 1:4 in the nursery and 1:8 in the preschool.
We place a high importance on the partnership we share with families/whānau and the wider community in providing a holistic learning programme that allows children to learn and develop to their full potential.
We encourage children to develop respect for themselves, each other and the environment, through modelling and fostering a sense of ownership and belonging within the centre. We provide a safe yet challenging and stimulating environment that supports equality with each child’s individual and diverse learning needs.
Our programme offers a variety of child initiated and structured activities that are based on the interests of the children. Children and teachers learn alongside each other. Children will develop self esteem and confidence through teachers supporting, scaffolding and extending their strengths and interests.
Children are encouraged to be independent and capable learners, responsible for themselves and their peers, while learning to work cooperatively with one another.
Our Nursery: A Pedagogy of Respect
At Rising Stars we believe the care of infants and toddlers is specialised. We respect that parents are the 'experts' on their own children and are receptive to information about children's lives at home and incorporate it into their lives at the centre and in our programme. We pride ourselves in providing a calm, unhurried, respectful, and caring environment.
Preschool: To Explore and Discover
Teachers focus on knowing the child so we can understand the child's current knowledge, emergent understanding, ideas and working theories. This is the basis for teachers to support the child in extending and acquiring new skills, knowledge and dispositions. Teachers focus on listening, extending children's thoughts and knowledge, and co constructing meanings together through processes of knowledge sharing and exchange.
