Our Philosophy and Goals
At Mother Duck we believe:
- In providing a warm, supportive, accepting, safe, healthy and consistent environment, so that children's confidence, happiness and potential can be fostered.
- In offering experiences for all children that help prepare them for their schooling and future years.
- In educating children in issues of safety and basic social moral values.
- That no two children are the same, each having individual needs, developing in their own unique ways and at their own pace.
- That children have a natural sense of wonder, curiosity and awe about the world around them.
- That children's learning is encouraged through positive motivation, a stimulating environment and interactions with other children and adults; and that their learning takes place continually in a wide variety of circumstances.
- Children progress through fun and educational experiences that help develop an understanding of abstract ideas and concepts.
- That children who come to us, have the right to a warm environment.
- That the environment, experiences, formal and informal teaching, should foster the development of the child as a whole and develop in them the basic values of life.
- That PARENTS are the first educators of their children.
- That children have a right to form friendships and foster positive relationships with peers.
- We welcome children with additional needs.
We Strive:
- To recognise and meet the needs of each child and their families.
- To provide our children with various opportunities for learning to share, to help others, to become independent, to take growing responsibility for their own actions; and to gradually accept the consequences of their decisions, according to their particular stage of development.
- To guide children in developing respect and love for each other.
