Our Rooms
Active Explorers Victoria Ave has two separate rooms, enabling us to deliver safe, nurturing and age appropriate learning experiences for all our children.
Ngā Kakano o Tāne - Infant Room
Our infants room caters for ages 0 to 2, is warm and welcoming and staffed by an experienced teaching team who provide a calm and peaceful environment for tamariki and their whānau.
Here at Active Explorers Victoria Avenue we recognise children’s individuality and are flexible with our routines to accommodate their individual needs, especially in our infant room where children will often have two or three sleeps and bottles throughout the day.
Our Daily Routine
7.30 – 9.30 am - Welcome tamariki and whanau. Spontaneous play child led/intentional teaching. Inside/outside experiences.
8.30 am – Nappies checked and changed.
9.30 am – Karakia Timatanga / Karakia kai & morning tea
9.45 am – Intentionally planned learning activities alongside play based learning experiences, utilizing indoor and outdoor environments that encourage children to develop their skills, knowledge, attitudes, and dispositions.
10.45 am – Nappies checked and changed
11.15 am – Lunch
11.45 am – E Moe (sleep time)
1.00-2.00 pm - Rolling wake up time, nappies checked and changed
2.30 pm - Karakia Whakamutunga / Karakia kai & afternoon tea
2.50 pm – Intentionally planned learning activities alongside play based learning experiences, utilizing indoor and outdoor environments that encourage children to develop their skills, knowledge, attitudes, and dispositions.
3.00 pm – Nappies checked and changed
3.45 pm – Spontaneous play
4.30 pm – Combine with Koru Lounge. Nappies checked and changed
5.30 pm – Centre closes
Koru Lounge - Over Two's
Our Over2’s teaching team create an environment that all the children and whanau feel welcome. They provide high quality early learning experiences to discover and enrich our tamariki’s independence, curiosity, creativity, and social competence through a range of individual and group learning experiences. Our tamariki are supported and encouraged to discover their potential and develop their own learning capabilities to become a confident life-long learner.
Daily Routine
7:30 am - Centre opens - all tamariki start in under two’s room for spontaneous and free play
8:00 am – Koru Lounge open. Tamariki go back to Over2’s room. Intentionally planned learning activities alongside play based learning experiences, utilizing indoor and outdoor environments that encourage children to develop their skills, knowledge, attitudes, and dispositions.
9:20 am - Mat time
9:30 am - Karakia Timatanga / Karakia kai & morning tea
10.00 am – Intentionally planned learning activities alongside play based learning experiences, utilizing indoor and outdoor environments that encourage children to develop their skills, knowledge, attitudes, and dispositions.
11:20 am - Mat time – Waiata and Karakia Kai
11:30 am - Lunch
12:00 pm – E moe (sleep time) for those children who sleep.
12.00 pm - Intentionally planned learning activities alongside play based learning experiences, utilizing indoor and outdoor environments that encourage children to develop their skills, knowledge, attitudes, and dispositions.
2:20 pm - Mat time – Karakia Whakamutunga - Waiata and Karakia Kai
2:30 pm - Afternoon tea
3.00 pm – Intentionally planned learning activities alongside play based learning experiences, utilizing indoor and outdoor environments that encourage children to develop their skills, knowledge, attitudes, and dispositions.
4:30pm – Room closes. Tamariki go to Under2’s room for end of day.
5.30 pm – Centre Closes