Early learning helps children to be confident and curious about the world.
It also helps them do better when they go to school or kura.
Already your child is learning through:
• Everything they do, see, feel, smell, taste and hear.
• Everywhere they go.
• Everyone who talks, smiles and plays with them.
Research shows children who are involved in quality early learning services benefit in many ways and their family, whānau and the wider community benefit too.
• Early learning services build on the early learning your child is already doing: at home with whānau, on the marae, at church or playing with their friends.
• Early learning services can help your child learn important skills that will help them become strong, happy, and successful in later life.
• Early learning services help your child learn to get on well with other children and with adults by learning to:
• Make friends, to share, take turns and to co-operate.
• Listen to others and communicate their own ideas.
• Be independent and to take responsibility for others’ needs as well as for their own.
Children who take part regularly in quality early learning services are likely to be confident and curious about the world, which can help them do better when they go to school or kura.
Early learning services support your child to:
• Become resilient — to manage challenges and to stick at it when things get difficult.
• Settle more easily at school or kura and to get the benefits of education more quickly.
• Become life-long learners, for example: talking, singing and listening to stories build children’s language skills and help them to love books.
Early learning service is fun and friendly — it is something the whole family can share.
Whānau are welcome at early learning services.
Services support whānau to help children learn and grow.
Source: education.govt.nz
