Brilliant Minds Early Childhood Centre

Our teaching is based on the New Zealand Early Childhood Curriculum, TeWhariki. We aim to create welcoming, nurturing, home-like surroundings that have the potential to inspire children, where parents and whanau are treated as valued members of our community. We offer a place where children can learn about the foundations of TeAoMaori and TeTiriti O Waitangi, as well as acknowledge Maoris as Tangata Whenua. We provide a rich bicultural environment that encourages children to appreciate New Zealand culture and way of life. We apprize the diversity of cultures at our centre and aim to build respectful relationships between Whanau, Tamariki and our educators. We respect the cultural identity, heritage, and language of all ethnic groups. We ensure that all children have equal learning opportunities, irrespective of their age, ability, race, or ethnicity. Children learn through respectful, nurturing and calm environments.We derive inspiration from Te-Whariki (2017) where children are active participants in their own learning and develop reciprocal relationships with their teachers. We believe that children have multiple ways to express themselves. They are encouraged to foster critical thinking by exploration and observation. We encourage our educators to respect a child's choices and value child initiated experiences. Open-ended questions are used to challenge and stimulate ideas. Children can make mistakes and learn by them. The child's learning and developmental progress is observed, documented, displayed, and shared with the parents. We aspire to build a place of encounter and connection, interaction and Dialogue.