Discovery Kindergarten

"The curriculum promotes ongoing opportunities for children to make choices and lead aspects of their learning in well-resourced, thoughtfully designed indoor and outdoor environments. High levels of sustained and imaginative play are deliberately modelled and monitored by teachers. Authentic contexts for literacy and numeracy are intentionally introduced as ways to enable children to make links to their prior knowledge and promote further exploration and sense making."

Effective teaching and learning evident; assessment and planning developing.

"A settled, calm environment supports children's participation in learning and development of social competencies. Independence and self-management are promoted."

Strong emotional environment and social-emotional development supported.

"Reciprocal relationships with whānau are prioritised. A variety of effective communication strategies are used including an online platform to share children's progress and learning achievements with parents."

Effective communication and partnership strategies in place with families.

"The acting head teacher leads a collaborative, improvement-focused teaching team which values the skills and expertise of each member. Refining and deepening understanding of internal evaluation is a next step so that leaders and teachers can make sound decisions about change and improvement."

Collaborative leadership evident; internal evaluation systems emerging.