WELCOME NOTE
Bambini Atelier, meaning Children’s Workshop in Italian, is a space created for children to experience learning in the backyard, where it is natural and fun. It is a safe and fun environment for children aged 0 to 6 years old to explore their senses through interactions with natural mediums, such as clay and plants, to express themselves other than words.
Inspired by the Reggio Emilia and Forest School Approach, Bambini Atelier hopes to celebrate the joy and fun in childhood through sensorial exploration with the nature and themselves. As Loris Malaguzzi advocates, workshops in Bambini Atelier are plan to allow children to express themselves through a hundred different ‘languages’ such as clay work, gardening, movements and so on.
Bambini Atelier, meaning Children’s Workshop in Italian, is a space created for children to experience learning in the backyard, where it is natural and fun. It is a safe and fun environment for children aged 0 to 6 years old to explore their senses through interactions with natural mediums, such as clay and plants, to express themselves other than words.
Inspired by the Reggio Emilia and Forest School Approach, Bambini Atelier hopes to celebrate the joy and fun in childhood through sensorial exploration with the nature and themselves. As Loris Malaguzzi advocates, workshops in Bambini Atelier are plan to allow children to express themselves through a hundred different ‘languages’ such as clay work, gardening, movements and so on.
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About Us
PHILOSOPHY
We believe that children have the right to make real choices and be empowered of their own learning curve. We believe in sharing the children's journey in learning through exploration and discovery. As active agents of learning, we believe that play supports children's learning in decision making, problem solving and discovering through manipulation and experimentation.
Children learn through enjoyable experiences such as messy play, water play, sensorial boxes and discovery boxes. Using facilitated play, games and hands-on activities as mediums of learning, children's developmental skills such as numeracy, language, social and motor skills can be enhanced. At Bambini Atelier, we design and especially customize our play sessions to provide this learning experience for children in a space that is fresh and warm at the same time.
MISSION
Based on Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence, Bambini Atelier aims to provide quality programmes that include and engaging curriculum framed for the holistic development of the child.We believe that learning in the backyard through natural mediums in a Mother Nature inspired environment helps to engage and cultivate nature appreciation and awareness in the 21st century children.
Through interaction with peers and adults and the environment, we aim to instill the following positive skills in children at a young age, to allow them to further develop into confident and sociable children: • Intrinsic motivation
• Sound emotional regulation
• Social skills (sharing, turn-taking, friendships)
• Self-awareness
At Bambini Atelier, we offer hands on experiences and sensorial activities for children to explore and engage in. With the age group focused on 18 months to 3 years old, children get to learn through engaging their 5 senses and make meaning of the world on their own. With a small ratio of 1 teacher to 5 children, the teacher will be able to observe, reflect and plan individualised learning plans for each child in the group.
Please refer to our Drop Off Play Sessions for more details!
Our Inspiration
REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH
(from the Reggio Children Identity website)
http://www.reggiochildren.it
The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy based on the image of the child, and of human beings, as possessing strong potentials for development and as a subject of rights who learns and grows in the relationships with others. This global educational project, which is carried forth in the Municipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy, and has inspired other schools all over the world, is based on a number of distinctive characteristics: the participation of families, the collegial work of all the personnel, the importance of the educational environment, the presence of the atelier and the figure of the atelierista, the in-school kitchen, and the pedagogical coordinating team. Focusing on the centrality of the hundred languages belonging to every human being, in the atelier spaces young children are offered daily opportunities to encounter many types of materials, many expressive languages, many points of view, working actively with hands, minds, and emotions, in a context that values the expressiveness and creativity of each child in the group.
FOREST SCHOOLS APPROACH
(from the Forests Schools website)
http://www.forestschools.com
A Forest School is an innovative educational approach to outdoor play and learning.’ The philosophy of Forest Schools is to encourage and inspire individuals of any age through positive outdoor experiences. By participating in engaging, motivating and achievable tasks and activities in a woodland environment each participant has an opportunity to develop intrinsic motivation, sound emotional and social skills.These, through self awareness can be developed to reach personal potential.
Drop-Off Sessions
PROGRAMME DETAILS
Casual Care Programme:
- 1 or 2 days a week (Mon-Fri)
- 3 hour programme (9am to 12pm)
- Morning snack and light lunch provided
- Pick up time at 12 noon
Flexi Care Programme:
- 3 to 5 days a week (Mon-Fri)
- 3 hour programme (9am to 12pm)
- Morning snack and light lunch provided
- Pick up time at 12 noon
- Developmental report every three months
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