The Caterpillar’s Cove Child Development and Study Centre focuses on growing children’s potential and connecting a learning community through sharing, research and teacher education. Working together, we strive to exemplify the best child care and educational practices for the benefit of children, families and the larger community.

Our Core Beliefs

Relationships
The Caterpillar’s Cove centres on relationships, how each part of our school creates and supports every other part: child, teacher, parent, staff, environment, and community.

Children, the focus of our programme
Children are the focus of the preschool programme. Each child is viewed as a valuable human being and a contributing member to the community, bringing along with him a rich fabric of individual, social and cultural experience which will enrich other children and teachers.

• Children are curious explorers
• Children are keen observers
• Children learn through play
• Children learn from their peers
• Children learn within many contexts`
• Children learn with support

Teachers are an important part of the centre
At The Caterpillar’s Cove, we value the teachers and teaching. The centre is committed to keeping the joy of learning alive for both teachers and children. All the teachers are highly qualified with at least a Diploma in Early Childhood Education. With a joy in teaching, the teachers’ passion has a lasting and profound influence on the children’s positive attitudes towards learning. They treat children equitably and have an understanding of how children develop and learn. They first seek to establish a bond with the child and then educate the whole child physically, intellectually, socially, emotionally and aesthetically. Our teachers create an intellectually vital, emotionally safe, and supportive environment to encourage every child’s holistic development.

Being a child study centre means to provide an exemplary and quality preschool programme. Our teachers strive to exemplify the virtues they seek to inspire in the student teachers – passion, patience, reflective and experimental.

Parents are a vital part of the centre
We believe in cultivating effective partnerships with parents through consultation, collaboration and negotiation.

Advocates for children
We have a responsibility to be advocates for children to the larger community by respecting and empowering children and their rights.