Planning and providing for a range of learning experiences and opportunities
For playgroups, the educational programme is made up of all the things that are happening for children while they are attending playgroup. This will include:
- how the environment is set up
- what equipment is provided
- all the experiences, activities, events and routines that happen
- interactions that occur between all the people in the group.
Playgroups that are meeting the curriculum requirement will plan for and provide:
- a warm, safe, secure, predictable, interesting and stimulating environment
- a range of equipment and resources that invite exploration, stimulate thinking, include the familiar and the unfamiliar, and reflect the dual cultural heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand
- warm caring relationships, prompt responses to children’s needs, and interactions and responses that build positive relationships with people, places and things, draw on children’s interests and capabilities and encourage children to try things out and revisit experiences
- a variety of play opportunities to encourage learning
- opportunities for children to make decisions.
Each playgroup will do things in ways that best suit the values, beliefs and interests of their own children, families, and the resources available in the setting and local community.