Outdoor Play – Photo request
Term 4 2023 brings a slight summer feel which always brings more of our community into our Centres! With the changing seasons it’s a great time of year to be outdoors and thinking about ways we can set up invitations to play outside!
I wonder in what ways you could set up areas of play that are usually inside, outside.
If you have any photos of outdoor set ups you would like to share with us, that you are happy for us to share in the next bulletin please email Karina [email protected]
Local curriculum leadership programme
A huge part of the role of PLD facilitators is to support Centres around curriculum, this is part of the licensing requirements, and our facilitators are passionate about inspiring Centres to look at different ways to acknowledge and support curriculum development.
A highlight for us this term is the online local curriculum leadership programme in the UNI region which we look forward to repeating next year throughout the regions.
PLD Vacancies
If you enjoy sharing your knowledge and supporting others with process improvement all while meeting amazing Playcentre whānau, please take a look at the job description for PLD facilitators on Playcentre Vacancies page and put your name forward as we are advertising for PLD Facilitators across the country, in particular with skills in growing Te Ao Māori in Playcentre. If you know of someone who would be great, please shoulder tap them as well.
If your Centre has something you would like PLD support with, please reach out and we will see how we can help you!
Message from Tamsin: Celebrating cultural diversity
Tālofa lava,
I have recently had the privilege of undertaking some rich and rewarding mahi in Ōtautahi Playcentres, around the celebration of cultural diversity; a kaupapa that is very dear to my heart as a Centre Advisor with a focus on cultural support.
Through talanoa/kōrero with Centre whānau at Shirley, Russley, and Harewood Playcentres, we made purposeful and achievable goals that echoed the uniqueness of each Centre community and considered their existing practices around embracing culture.
We intertwined fun and meaningful ako around the Pasifika cultures, and the celebration of them, with activities such as making Pacific mea’ai, inu, (foods, drinks), tapa cloth designs and creating ‘ie lavalava with both ngā tamariki and ngā pakeke.
This kaupapa is linked back to Tapasā and Te Whāriki, as well as taking into account the Action Plan for Pacific Education 2020-2030.
It has been a pleasure to engage in this mahi, as I believe that seeking to understand each other and being intentional with culturally-informed practice, alongside genuine, caring, and respectful collaboration, will tautoko cultural diversity within our Playcentres, to the benefit of all.
Ngā manaakitanga, Tamsin Aulaumea.
