Located at Docklands Campus, Children’s Garden Early Years Centre provides a peaceful and safe environment that nurtures learning and exploration. It has well-equipped classrooms and a large playground set within a beautiful enclosed garden. contact us: childrens.garden@uel.ac.uk
We offer full day, morning or afternoon care to children aged from nearly three to five, and places are available to children of students, staff and local residents.
We provide nutritious homemade snacks, hot vegetarian lunches, herbal tea and fresh water for the children. These are included in the fees.
Our mission is to provide a safe, positive, and stimulating environment where healthy development is supported. We introduce relevant and engaging early childhood education inspired by Steiner (Waldorf) education.
Children’s Garden integrates the principles of Steiner education with the diverse cultures and traditions represented within our community. In the colourful, nurturing and healing environment of the kindergarten the children receive a wonderful educational foundation. They are given the freedom to play, discover, and develop naturally without stress or pressure.
Steiner education is based upon the belief that when children relate what they learn from their own experience they are interested and alive, their learning becomes their own. Rather than becoming a passive receptor of information, the child is led to participate actively, to become a seeker of beauty, truth and knowledge.
The curriculum practiced at Children’s Garden circles through the seasons of the year and the festivals that fall in each one. Hence, the curriculum allows the early years education programme to live in an environment where rhythm, repetition, and ritual can be the foundation for healthy imitation and learning. The curriculum is designed to provide children with experiential, holistic learning and all-round balanced development.
The kindergarten is a place where children sing, dance, paint, play, listen to stories and watch puppet plays, a place that is a gentle introduction to the school and to the wider world. Through songs and poems they learn to enjoy language; Creative playtime provides the children with the opportunity to learn how to play together. They build houses out of wooden stands, colourful fabrics, and planks. and develop interactive skills such as sharing and cooperation. Throughout the curriculum music, handwork, sewing, woodwork, and beeswax modeling are all used to stimulate the mind and creativity of the child. The children enjoy baking and cooking and during gardening, nature walks and outdoor play a sense of wonder and love of nature is nurtured. Allowing children to become fully engaged in such activities is a wonderful gift and helps prepare them for life. It builds powers of concentration, interest, and a lifelong love of learning.
We were rated as: ‘Outstanding in nursery education, teaching and learning, enjoyment and achievement, protection of children and promotion of health’.
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