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We welcome you into our purpose-built, bright and cheerful early childhood centre that stands out as a special place for everyone thanks to our fabulous teaching team and peaceful learning environment. We are lucky enough to be centrally located, yet feel quiet and secluded due to our beautiful St Johns location.
Pascals St Johns was founded on the vision of providing quality and affordable childcare to our community. We achieve this thanks to our ongoing commitment to professional development as well as having great reciprocal relationships with our parents and whānau.
Our environment is beautiful and peaceful yet stimulating with an excellent range of resources. We welcome visits from prospective new parents so feel free to drop in and meet our friendly and passionate team and see Pascals St Johns for yourself!
The Nest (Kiwi & Tui)
We believe that children are confident and competent learners from birth and that they are empowered to learn with and alongside others best when they get to engage in experiences which have meaning for them. We provide for such age appropriate learning in the Nest, which is Pascals St Johns' infant and toddler area. The Nest comprises the Kiwi Infant, Kiwi Toddler, and Tui rooms. Providing for the care and education of infants requires teachers to have specialised knowledge and sensitive practice, and curriculum for toddlers must be responsive to their rapidly growing capabilities. The strength of the Nest is its capacity to nurture the children’s desire to explore and know their world with the support of familiar, responsive adults who know and understand them.
The Children’s School (Pukeko & Fantail)
Young children learn to make sense of their world through exploration and communication, and by recreating their ideas about it through visual or symbolic representation. We believe that our providing of a rich array of these experiences in a primarily play-based way combined with the children’s increasing capacity for language and inquiry, as well as their growing interest in literacy, mathematics, and other school type domain knowledge justifies our use of the term ‘Children’s School’ rather than ‘preschool’ to describe their experiences in the Pukeko and Fantail rooms. Their learning is legitimate as is and is not ‘pre’ anything. The Children’s School teachers are committed to providing the children with opportunities to experience new challenges, including pursuing self-selected learning goals and participating in longer term group projects. Such opportunities encourage them to expand their capabilities by extending their learning repertoires, thereby supporting them in making a smooth transition to primary school.
ERO Report
The Education Review Office (ERO) is the New Zealand government department that evaluates and reports on the education and care of students in schools and early childhood services. ERO’s reports are used by parents, teachers, early childhood education managers, school principals and trustees, and by government policy makers.
Early childhood services are reviewed on average once every three years. Reviews will be more frequent where the performance of a school or centre is poor and there are risks to the education and safety of the students, or less frequent where a school has a stable reporting history and demonstrates good self-review processes and use of its assessment information.
You can read our centre’s ERO review here.Centre Information
Centre Hours:
Monday – Friday 7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday Closed
Ages Catered For:
3 Months – 5 Years
Healthy Hearts Silver Award
February 2018
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