Mission.

Welcoming and embracing all different languages, cultures, values, belief of all our fanau/tamariki/children and their ‘āiga/whānau/families in our learning environment as unity”

Focus.

To support and acknowledge our young children’s cultures, languages and identities.

Mafua’aga

Rationale

For our young children to be emotionally secure in our learning environment where their cultures, languages and identities are being recognised and supported.

Responding to their diverse needs, interests, strengths/capabilities and supporting them to achieve success.

“Individual and social action and behaviour are influenced by participation in child’s culture” (Vygotsky – Te Whariki 2017, (pg,61).

Fuafuaga Fa’afaiaoga

Teaching Strategies

Acknowledging
Encouraging
Role modelling
Inviting
Taking Interest
Engaging
Positive-Reinforcement
Offering/suggesting
Celebrating achievement

Taunu’uga o le a’oa’oina:

Learning Outcomes:

Respect and accept all cultures, managing to express their feelings and needs, keeping themselves and others safe from harm.
Making connections between people, places, things in their worlds, and showing respect for kaupapa, rules and the rights of others.
Treating others fairly and including them in their play
Recognising and appreciating their own ability to learn and using a range of strategies and skills to play and learn with others.
Using gestures and movement to express themselves. Understanding oral language and using it for a range of purposes.
Playing imaging, experimenting, and challenge themselves physically.
Using a range of strategies for reasoning and problem solving and making sense of their world by generating and refining working theories.