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Professional Learning, Mentoring & Development

Noho Marae – What’s involved and making the most out of your overnight stay at a marae

If you’ve attended noho marae before, you will likely have some knowledge of the pōwhiri or mihi whakatau process, and of the specific tikanga of the marae.

If it’s your first time, you may feel nervous and keen to ensure you know what to do, to show respect to the haukainga. 

Noho marae are a unique and powerful experience of learning and connectedness. 

Many ECE teams attend noho marae. This may be for professional development, team building, wānanga, connecting with tangata whenua or all of these reasons! Noho marae are also usually included in initial Teacher Education programmes. 

Pōwhiri Process

Pōwhiri are important welcoming ceremony which welcome manuhihi onto a marae.

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Health and Safety Management

Daylight Saving is here – what you need to know to support tamariki over this period

Losing an hour of sleep can be hard on your body clock.

So it’s no surprise that young children can seem particularly grumpy and out of sorts at the start of the daylight saving period. 

In Aotearoa, daylight saving begins on the last Sunday of September, when 2am becomes 3am.

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Pet Lamb – What You Need to Know

TITLE: Pet Lamb – fostering agreements, day-to-care care, benefits for children’s play and learning, and regulatory requirements

Some lambs are sadly orphaned at birth or there may be another reason why a farmer may decide the lamb would be better off to be hand-reared (such as in the case of multiple births and the mum having only one teat).   

Your service could offer to help to hand-rear the lamb.

A lamb gives children a new responsibility.

A lamb is a new playmate and a friend that will love them unconditionally.

A lamb is gentle. It delights in playing but also at times needs to stop and drink or sit down and rest.

This is a pet that is dependent on care for survival and that will teach children to nurture. 

Introducing a pet lamb to your early childhood service is an excellent way to naturally support children to spend more time outdoors running, jumping and skipping and enjoying the spring weather. 

Below we cover aspects of
– How to get a lamb
– Agreements with the farmer and with your children for fostering the lamb
– Preparing for the lamb and what you need

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Teaching and Putting Theory into Practice

Money – Teaching Children in ECE About Money

Teaching Children About Money

By Lucy Wood

Money. They say “it doesn’t grow on trees”, but also that “it makes the world go round”. They say “it doesn’t buy you happiness” although admittedly it’s very rare to see someone looking sad while on holiday in Paris! It’s a big topic and it affects life, and lifestyle, in lots of different ways.

In researching this article, I came upon a lot of advice saying that teaching our tamariki about money is important, and that we can’t start early enough. Even infants can begin to learn about the concept of delayed gratification, an important skill for managing finances later in life.

How can we as ECE kaiako help tamariki to develop positive attitudes about money, and to see themselves as capable and competent when it comes to things like saving? While conversations about money are something which likely will also be happening at home, in ECE spaces we can support this learning, in ways that are age appropriate, positive and empowering for our tamariki. 

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Child Health, Attachment, and Wellbeing

Children’s Clothing and Keeping them Warm and Dry – Clothing Advice, Not Losing Socks and Hats, and Solutions to Other Problems

Cooler weather means more layers of clothing, for us and children. The cooler weather also comes hand in hand with more wet weather, and in the interests of minimising the spread of winter ills and chills, here’s some practical advice around keeping everyone warm and dry, as well as how to keep track of the extra clothing-particularly things like socks and hats which are easily removed by tamariki and can end up being found in the most unexpected of places around the environment!

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Professional Learning, Mentoring & Development

Associate Teacher and Centre Information on Supporting Student Kaiako & Payment

Associate Teacher and Centre Information on Supporting Student Kaiako & Payment.

If you’re a qualified, registered teacher and you’re ready to start supporting student kaiako as an Associate Teacher, we’ve got some helpful information to make the experience as rich and rewarding for everyone involved.

Practicums are a keystone of

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