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27 June 2025
Sharing your Culture
If you have a child in an early learning centre, you may have been invited to share your family’s culture within this centre. There are many ways that you can share your culture with your child’s early learning centre but what exactly does this mean and how can this practice benefit your child as well as others?
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13 May 2025
Music and Movement
Is there anything more fantastic than seeing an infant, toddler or young child fully rocking to a beat with their own artistic movements, not a care in the world as they create, move and groove to music that sometimes only they can hear?! There are, of course many learning benefits for children when they engage in music and movement, these are just a few of them as well as some ways that you can bring music and movement to life for your child.
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22 April 2025
Family and Dramatic Play
Young children are learning their place in the world every single day in multiple ways. The ideas that they form from observing the world around them will often show up when children are engaging in family and dramatic play, but what exactly is family and dramatic play and what are the benefits of your child engaging in it?
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31 March 2025
Tuākana-Tēina
If you have had children in early childhood education for a wee while you may have heard of the phrase tuākana-tēina when referring to children’s learning, but what exactly does this mean and how can this social learning benefit your child?
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18 February 2025
The Incredible Value of Visual Arts in Early Childhood
Visual arts can play a crucial role in your child’s development by offering a large range of opportunities to explore their world and extend on their learning and communication skills, but what exactly is visual arts?
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13 January 2025
Engaging with your Child's Early Learning Centre Philosophy
Did you know that at the beginning of each year, your child’s Early Learning Centre undergoes a philosophy review where all parents are encouraged to provide their ideas, suggestions and feedback on the Centre philosophy?
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06 December 2024
Water Play
There is no denying the calming effect that water can have on most children! Whether it be splashing in the bath, playing in puddles, going for a swim or engaging with water play, most children are delighted when offered opportunities in these experiences!
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06 November 2024
When Goodbyes are Tough
As a parent or caregiver there is possibly nothing that pulls at the heart strings more than tricky goodbyes when dropping your child off to early learning, especially when they are just settling in and the environment is new and unfamiliar to you both...
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10 October 2024
The Benefits of Risky Play
It is very natural when hearing the word risk to automatically think of hazards and danger. As parents we want to do all that we can to prevent our children getting hurt so hearing the words risky and play together can feel a bit hazardous in terminology alone...
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02 September 2024
Loose Part Play
You may have heard the term loose parts (or open ended resources) used within your child’s Early Learning Centre but what exactly is it and how are they beneficial in your child’s learning journey?
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12 August 2024
Supporting your Child's Early Literacy
There are many ways that whānau can positively impact their child’s early literacy development by creating opportunities during day to day interactions. Here are just three of the ways you can help support your child on their literacy learning journey.
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18 July 2024
Maths in Action
Everyday in lots of different ways, opportunities present themselves for our children to engage in mathematical concepts.
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