A child needs:
✔️ Love and Respect
✔️ Feel safe
✔️ Learn at their own pace
✔️ Be heard and understood
✔️ Opportunities to play, learn and manage risk
✔️ Socialize, belong to a community
✔️ Stimuli, challenges and limits
✔️ To move the body
✔️ Present and dedicated adults
✔️ Contact with nature and a sensory environment
With so much known about Early Childhood Education, our activities follow a holistic approach, consensual among pedagogues, which places the child at the centre of learning. Thus, we focus on educational practices honouring the child as a complete human being from birth.
Children are resilient and have an excellent capacity for learning. Once their interest is understood, they can achieve more significant results.
Vision
✔️ Offer an educational environment focused on contact with nature in a space where children can develop naturally.
✔️ Offer opportunities for free play and exploration, where children, guided by their interests, feel involved, motivated and active agents of their learning.
✔️ Provide opportunities for children to develop their communication, imagination and cognitive skills by interacting with a multisensory environment.
✔️ Build children's confidence and resilience, and problem-solving ability actively.
Forest School inspiration
An environment at Forest School allows children time and space to play, connect with nature, and develop their adventures, perceptions of risk and limits. As a result, children learn to use their initiative and imagination, respect the environment, to solve problems.
We use a balance of teasing, flexible planning, free play and sensory exploration in natural environments to support all children's development and inspire relevant and meaningful learning.
The long-term impact it has results in children and young people who enjoy being outdoors, who are adventurous, who take risks, who learn to cooperate, negotiate, compromise and take responsibility, who are confident, and that explore your
imagination.
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Montessori inspiration
The Montessori method characterizes by a focus on autonomy, freedom with limits and respect for the natural development of the children's physical, social and psychological abilities. It reminds us how the child has an enormous capacity for choice and control over their interests and how their independence must be encouraged to build trust. In this approach, the materials allow a great possibility of creation, which the child dictates. Adults are present to accompany and advise without imposing what must be learned. In building autonomy, we promote opportunities for the child to apply what they learn to practical life, bridging the gap between the learning community and the home.
Waldorf inspiration
Waldorf pedagogy seeks to holistically integrate children's physical, spiritual, intellectual and artistic development. The aim is to develop free, integrated, socially competent, and morally responsible individuals.
Waldorf inspires us to stop, meditate and give thanks for the simplest things. The feeling is stimulated by the constant artistic approach and craft activities. In the preschool context, thinking is cultivated and imagination is encouraged, mainly through tales, legends and myths. It is an approach that promotes and encourages creativity and imagination as a basis for free and autonomous thinking. One of the characteristics of Waldorf pedagogy is that the child is not required to cultivate abstract thinking early.