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Our large natural and inviting centre environment, here at Busy Bees Southbrook, offers a secret garden which is a real favourite with our tamariki. A place of learning where we grow and cultivate fruit, herbs and vegetables, and where children can smell, touch, taste and, explore with their senses.
Our spacious outdoors also provides many opportunities for gross motor development as well as encouraging kaitiakiship, as tamariki learn and discover more about their natural environment and how to care for and look after it.
Exploring and strengthening connections with our local community is something our tamariki really enjoy. It provides so many learning opportunities as children practice following instructions, finding things to research, and exploring the world around them using their senses. Our regular and planned excursions also provide great learning about health and safety whilst out and about in the community, seeing new things and meeting new people and developing working theories about the world around us.
Cultivating whānau and cultural relationships
At Busy Bees Southbrook we love to invite parents and whānau to be a part of our programme in any way they feel most comfortable being involved. We hold lots of family events and parent evenings to provide opportunities to strengthen partnerships. We seek to understand, support and celebrate our families cultures and values, providing an inclusive environment where family aspirations can be realised.
We are proud to be a lunch box centre
We encourage families to make healthy food choices and ensure their child’s pouaka kai (lunch box) meets centre guidelines as well as Ministry of Health criteria for Early Learning Services.
Our dedicated centre team is currently striving towards the Tohu Manawa Ora | Healthy Heart Award from the Heart Foundation.
Teachers do regular baking with the children, which provides opportunities for them to engage and learn a range of food preparations skills and fine motor movements such as pouring, sifting, spooning. It is a great hands-on sensory experience for children to develop independence through self-help skills, practice simple maths as they measure and count quantities.
Fruit Trees and Vegetable Gardens
Our centre has vegetable gardens and fruit trees. These gardens help tamariki learn through hands-on activities, encourage them to work together to plant and harvest, and teach them where food comes from. They also help children develop a love for nature and care for the environment.
We are committed to follow the aspirations of the New Zealand National ECE Curiculum, Te Whāriki. Te Whāriki envisages kaiako in early learning settings working in partnership with parents, whānau and community to realise this vision. The expectation is that, in their early years, children will experience a curriculum that empowers them as lifelong learners, right from their early exploration of the world around them, through to preparation for school.
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