Growing With Nature
Our children are the centre of our quality nature-based curriculum, with teachers being the heart of this quality & as such chosen for their individual virtues that enhance our goals for your children.
With our inquiry-based, emergent curriculum, we incorporate nature exploration and environmental practices into our daily learning as guided by our very own Elements of Life Programme. We provide a natural environment to enable discovery of nature through the arts, holistic and unscripted exploration.
Elements of Life
Created by Country Bears founders Rita & Shaun Eastell, this unique program uses a variety of approaches to link natures elements & children’s responsibilities. Our children gain an understanding of how natural elements are interlinked and has need of the other to survive, thus ensuring a healthy world for all of us to live in.
Learning Curiously
We value each opportunity for our children to play, use their imagination, explore and learn through adventurous play within a safe environment – this encourages delight of curiosity and creates a culture of eagerness towards further learning.
Te Whāriki
This full NZ early childhood curriculum features 5 areas of learning and development, where we focus on supporting children to develop the capabilities they need as confident and competent learners.
Social & Emotional Wellbeing
Social & emotional intelligence is a foundation for all learning. It is not only taught, but needs to be nurtured through a healthy natural environments - through freedom in nature, freedom to socialise with children of mixed ages & the freedom to make judgements. It results in children who are confident, creative, empathetic, intrinsically motivated & are able to cooperate with others.
