Before/After School
Le Club provides high quality school age care by well
trained early childhood educators. Each program benefits from an exciting
selection of engaging materials, carefully selected by dedicated teachers
who determine the need for resources based on in depth observations of
children and detailed documentation of their investigations. All Le
Club teachers have committed themselves to intensive professional
development initiatives within their community and at locations around
the world.
Children Are Capable, Competent and Curious
School age children are industrious initiative takers who like to learn
new things, challenge themselves physically and express themselves artistically.
At Le Club children are offered a wide variety of opportunities
to engage in exciting activities including; dance and drama, water colour,
painting, sculpture, pottery, drawing and various sports. Based on the
natural drive of children to understand their experiences, their world,
themselves and others, Le Club teachers use prevocational
techniques to spark the interests of the children as they engage in long
term investigations of people and things in the world around them. Any
activity that arises from a child’s innate sense of curiosity and
wonder provides intrinsic motivation for learning. Children are capable,
competent and able to direct the course of their own discoveries, investigations
and learning.
Children Are In Control of Their Own Learning
Children take an active role in the process of building their own knowledge
and in understanding the workings of the natural environment. While engaged
in long term investigations, children have many opportunities to utilize
symbol systems; an essential skill to all learning in the disciplines
of math, science and literature. Through self-initiated activities children
become masters of their own world. Children who control their own learning
are more independent, socially connected, self controlled, and self reliant.
When children choose the direction of their explorations and investigations,
their discoveries are enhanced by fellow peers and teachers as they learn
collaboratively.
Children Naturally Experiment, Construct, Invent, Question and Play
Young children, particularly those in the school age years, are born
scientists who engage in a process of spontaneous research as they act
upon the world around them to discover new meanings, test hypotheses,
solve problems and discover unique ways to explore their world.
In the quest to find answers to the many mysteries that cause them to
wonder, children naturally immerse themselves in environments that are
interesting, stimulating, engaging and empowering. When answers are not
forthcoming, children invent solutions, ask new questions and try out
their ideas in play. At Le Club, children are given every
opportunity to be a positive agent in their world, where the only limit
to their creativity and inventiveness is their limitless imagination.
The early childhood educators at Le Club engineer environments
that stimulate all children; build a sense of community and create warmth
and aesthetic pleasure.
Communities Are Built Through Cooperation and Autonomy
The
school age child stands at the door step of becoming an actively engaged,
self actualized, competent citizen of our greater society.
At Le Club, teachers, families and children come together
as a greater whole to build a strong sense of community. Through a child
generated charter of rights, peace tables, elections for Le Club
program governments and team building activities, children master the
cultural tools necessary to participate in a just society. Le
Club teachers balance the ethics of cooperation and autonomy
in each program to create a strong gathering place and to build upon each
child’s individual strengths and skills as integral members of their
community.
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