Piwakawaka
Fantail Group
Our Piwakawaka Group is specially designed for our two- to three-year-old tamariki who are just beginning their preschool journey.
In this gentle, teacher-led morning session, children are welcomed into a nurturing and supportive environment where they begin to explore group learning through play, relationships, and routine. This time helps lay important social, emotional, and spiritual foundations that will support their growth throughout their early years.
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Foundations for Growth
Each morning, children aged two to three years old come together. This is a planned teacher-led time to encourage the children into small group learning situations.
Children are supported in developing understanding in:
- Turn-taking
- Conversational skills
- Cognitive Skills
- Following instructions
- Co-operation
- Prayer / Karakia to God
- Body awareness / control
Growing Hearts and Minds
First steps in learning and friendship
During their time in the Piwakawaka Group, children are supported in developing:
- Turn-taking and learning how to share space with others
- Conversational skills, such as listening and responding to questions
- Early literacy and numeracy concepts through songs, stories, and play
- Following instructions and understanding simple routines
- Co-operation with peers and teachers
- Prayer and spiritual awareness, acknowledging God as part of their daily lives
- Body awareness and control through movement, music, and sensory play
This group lays a gentle yet meaningful foundation for future learning, helping each child feel secure, included, and loved as they grow.
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.