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Plunket and Lollipops Patten Street

18 August 2020

Plunket are coming into the centre every second Thursday as a support service for our centre families. The team are called kaitiaki and they are navigators where they can offer guidance and support to support families in accessing whatever their support needs are within the community. They can guide and support through everything from fundamental needs such as clothing & housing, to accessing health services, to accessing legal services, and pretty much anything else you could think of. To access the service, families just need to have a chat with myself or their classroom team leaders and we will arrange for appointments to be made. We don’t need to know the detail but we are the facilitators who connect our families with the Kaitaiki.

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?

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.

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?

Plunket and Lollipops Patten Street

Sharing your Culture

Music and Movement

Family and Dramatic Play