Our ethos/Our why
We want children to adopt a healthy way of living through CHILD DIRECTED CARE.
🧠 Mentally- Positivity and COPING MECHANISMS such as outdoors and meditation.
🤸🏼♂️Physically- Have a good range of fundamental movements to allow them to be HEALTHY & FIT.
💭Emotionally- To support and VALIDATE their FEELINGS.
🗣️Socially- To INTERACT NATURALLY and playfully with others.
👭Relationally- To build a strong network or peers and to have ATTUNED RELATIONSHIPS.
And here at Spring in your step we provide ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES for children to develop this HEALTHY ATTITUDE regards mental and physical health and how they’re interlinked.
Our ethos is CHILD DIRECTED.
What that means👉🏻 Standing back, OBSERVING and listening to the children as they play and interact voluntarily.
FREE PLAY is important to us.
We believe in allowing the children to NAVIGATE and lead their own play so that we can observe their INTERESTS, NEEDS and CAPABILITIES.
Upon observation of the children we can facilitate these interests, needs and capabilities through DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE games and activities.
We can then provide an APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENT in which supports the children’s interests, needs and capabilities.
Following the direction from the children enables them to feel COMFORTABLE and COMPETENT in their environment, leading to a positive disposition with movement and outdoors. Thus, a positive disposition towards “HEALTHY BODY, HEALTHY MIND”.
Through our child directed ethos children in our care develop to their FULLEST POTENTIAL mentally, physically, emotionally, socially and relationally.
Our child lead environment CATERS TO THE DEVELOPMENT of each and every child.
And we pride ourselves on that.
We have the BEST INTEREST of the child at heart, ALWAYS.