Our Rooms

Our purpose-built Centre is split into 2 rooms: Pipi Room (0-2 years), and Paua Room (2-6 years). The age range are flexible to ensure your child is in their most appropriate room for their developmental needs. We pride in our low teacher-to-child ratio which is a maximum of 1 teacher to 3 children in the Pipi Room and 1:7 in the Paua Room.

Pipi Room (0-2 years):

Pipi room caters for infants from 3 months through until around 2yrs of age. As children have such high needs at this age and need careful nurturing and plenty of love and 1:1 interactions, we set our ratios at a maximum of 1 teacher for every 3 babies. As infants and babies sleep and rotate their rest periods, this often means children get even more one to one time with their teachers.
High quality interactions, as in all of our rooms, are key and in considering this for our youngest learners. Staff adopt the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers- Magda Gerber) philosophy in this room. This means we not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. By this we mean understanding that your child is a unique human being with feelings thoughts and ideas even from the youngest age. It is our aim to grow and nurture children to feel secure, autonomous, competent, and connected.
We trust in their competence and provide your baby opportunities to develop mastery of their skills, offering support when needed but giving space for your child to develop and initiate their learning and interest at their own pace. In this we adopt sensitive observation and provide an environment of learning that matches your child’s needs and interests. The environment is safe and challenging but also predictable so that your child can explore, re-visit and attempt new things in a secure way.
We also provide consistency in routines, gentle expectations and our care and environment to allow children to become self- disciplined and feel secure.
We value communication on a daily basis, so we can all be on the same page for your child for that pertaining to that particular day. We encourage you to share with us where they are up to for their day so we can follow it through here at Crackerjax. We will communicate with you as much as possible on pick-ups about your child’s day. A bit about your child’s day will also be recorded in their Journal, which is yours to take home each day as another way to communicate with us about your child.

We use an online portfolio system – Storypark. We post on Storypark daily about the highlights of our day to keep you updated with what is happening at the Centre.
This room is full of love and nurturing, encouragement and discovery!

Paua Room (2-6 years):

Our Paua room takes children from around age 2, through until they leave to attend school. Again, with our transition process, we consider each child’s readiness and the timing that will benefit them best if they are moving from our toddler room.
In this space, children are moving through the stages and becoming increasingly confident in many aspects of the daily routines and activities. Deeper friendships and relationships form, and social play and interactions are usually heightened. Children look for new challenges and are increasingly inquisitive with their world, forever seeking new information and discovery. Your child will gain much satisfaction from attempting and achieving tasks and seek to be even more independent as they journey towards being ‘big’ and heading off to primary school.
In this age group children are encouraged to further develop their self-discipline and to consider others in their actions more carefully. A whole wider world of discovery awaits and more complex ideas and challenges are presented. Regular Excursions and extra-curricular learning experiences are the highlights of this room.
As your child progresses through this room, they move into the transition to school program. This is decided with the child’s needs in mind, but often happens around age 4, although can happen closer to school age if a child enrols later or needs more time to comfortably work and learn in larger groups. We have 2 primary qualified teachers who have developed our transition to school programme. We also work closely with our local schools and visit them on a regular basis.

Start Your Journey with Us Today

CONTACT US

Links

Contact