Welcome to Brown Owl Kindergarten
Starting kindergarten can be a new, and a challenging time, for your child or children. This website will help you find, all the information about our:
- contact details, including a online enquiry form, a map, and directions, on how to locate us
- staff, including our job titles
- requirements from parents
- history including our Education Review Office (ERO) report, from year 2003
- policies, including our Education Review Office (ERO) report for 2007
- terms of use, and privacy policy
About us
We are one of twenty kindergartens, who operate, under the umbrella of the Rimutaka Kindergarten Association (RKA) in the Early Childhood Sector.
We are located in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. Established in 1976 to allow children, age three and four to:
- learn
- communicate
- play
- interact with others appropriately
We provide various, manipulative materials, and activities, to motivate your child, to learn the language, and vocabulary of:
- reading
- drawing
- painting
- computers
- music
- art
- social behaviors
We are a great team of six, we offer a safe, comfortable, and secure environment, we are:
- warm
- friendly
- bubbly
Our Philosophy
The philosophy of our programme is developing a collabrative learning community.
Privotal to whakawhanaungatanga (the process of getting to know each other) by:
- commitment
- enthusiasm
- respect
- purposefulness
- perservance
- caring
- trust
- tolerance
- flexibility
We encourage, and invite, parents, and or guardians, to participate in our programme.
Play
Play is a very important, and a special part, of childhood. We allow children to:
- build skills
- solve problems
- overcome physical and mental challenges
Playing with products, made especially for preschool children, helps:
- build their self confidence
- encourage independence
- learn new concepts
For the growth of eye to hand coordination, we allow, natural things around them:
- sand
- grass
- clay
- water
Brown Owl Kindergarten, allows children, to explore new friendships, with those they communicate with.
Children must be provided with early literacy, awareness, and intervention, in order to perform better in the future.
Portfolios
When your child starts kindergarten, we provide a portfolio book and regularly assess your child or children, by using:
- photographs
- written comments
- samples, of their work
You can view your childs or childrens, portfolio at kindergarten, and add any comments.
Accessibility
Using the site without a mouse
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| 1 | - Home |
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| 2 | - Contact Us |
| 3 | - Our Staff |
| 4 | - Our History |
| 5 | - Information for Parents |
| 6 | - Our Policies |
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