Ruru
Owl Group
Our Ruru Group is a special transition-to-school programme offered each afternoon at 1:00 pm. It is designed to gently prepare our oldest tamariki for the next step in their learning journey.
With a focus on growing independence, confidence, and responsibility, this group supports children as they get ready to enter a school environment.
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Confident Steps Toward School Life
With a focus on independence, self-management, and leadership, this afternoon session supports children as they prepare socially, emotionally, and practically for school life.
The teachers support the children in developing self-help and social skills, including:
- Literacy and numeracy development
- Responsibility for belongings
- Independent toileting and dressing
- Turn-taking in conversation
- Focus and task completion
- Problem-solving with peers
- Managing lunch and packaging
- Leadership roles and special privileges
Growing School Readiness
Building Confidence and Independence
Children in this group are supported in developing:
- Extended literacy and numeracy skills and strategies
- Responsibility for their own belongings
- Independent toileting and dressing
- Patience and turn-taking in conversation
- The ability to focus on and complete tasks
- Problem-solving skills for peer disagreements
- Confidence in managing their lunchbox and food choices
Ruru Group tamariki are also encouraged to take on leadership roles, participate in special outings, and enjoy unique privileges that celebrate their role as preschool leaders and soon-to-be school students.
Biblical Foundations
Guided by God’s Word in all we do
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.