Discover Your Local Kindergarten!
Auckland Kindergarten Association Announces Open Week
Auckland, Thursday 28th July 2016: Discover Your Local Kindergarten Week is returning this year, with events taking place across a number of its 107 Auckland Kindergarten Association (AKA)
kindergartens during the week, so people can discover the wonderful world within.
In its tenth year*, Discover Your Local Kindergarten Week, will run from the 8 – 12 August.People will be able to pop along to their local kindergarten and meet AKA’s qualified
teachers and see why learning through play is so important for a child’s development.
Established in 1908, AKA has been looking after Auckland’s children for over 100 years. The charitable trust employs
professional Early Childhood Education (ECE) qualified and registered teachers who provide a safe and enriching early
childhood learning environment where children can develop as confident and competent learners.
At Auckland Kindergarten Association kindergartens children are encouraged to express themselves and actively discover,
experience and come to understand the world around them while making friends and having a whole lot of fun.
Tanya Harvey CEO of AKA, says: “Everyone is welcome to come along and experience their local kindergarten first-hand,
meet our brilliant teachers and see why AKA kindergartens are the natural stepping-stone to primary school and how our
educational approach will best equip your children for a life of learning.”
With hours that mirror school hours available across the AKA network, and early childhood education funding for up to 20
hours of subsidised kindergarten education each week, there really is an option for everyone.
AKA kindergartens offer quality early childhood education that is inclusive of the diversity of the children, parents
and whānau that attend. AKA believes that children learn and develop best when they are nurtured and extended by
teachers who are responsive and who share with the child an understanding of the world.
AKA subscribes to educational evidence and research proving that empowering young children who are able to explore the
learning environment and be fully involved in a wide variety of activities is the best way for children to learn the beginnings of independence, individuality and self-assuredness in their
relationships with others.
For more information about AKA’s Discover Your Local Kindergarten Week, visit:www.aka.org.nz/discover or follow them on Facebook: facebook.com/mykindy
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