Castle Kindergarten
where discovery and creativity flourish
Our vision for children’s learning and development
Our vision is a statement about what we want to achieve for children. Castle Kindergarten’s vision for children’s learning and development is best described by Rich, Casanova, Dixon, Drummond, Durant and Myer in their book ‘First hand experience – what matters to children’ written in 2005.
What matters to children
What is in the world
Who is in the world
Touching and tasting the world
Knowing the world
Making sense of the world
Exploring how things work
Moving about in the world
Acting on the world and making a mark upon it
Being engaged with authentic purposes
Being with friends
Being in different kinds of places
Making collections
Having a sense of big belonging
Making my own world map and my own moral map
Finding out what the world is made of
Being in the world of living things
Understanding how the world works
Finding out how to keep safe in the world
Our kindergarten environment provides lots of opportunities for children to explore, discover, wonder, imagine and create! You will find more detail about the kindergarten curriculum in our seperate section titled “Our Curriculum”
