About us | Patches Playschool

At Patches...

We ensure to provide children with a loving and caring environment, pointing them towards God with strong, biblical, foundational truths, while they learn through play.
To encourage, train and prepare children to be God fearing faith giants in a big world.
We aim to encourage a love for their Saviour and His word, a hatred for sin, a compassion for others and a love for learning.

For children to enjoy, play and have fun with friends!
Encouraging them to search out who God is, based on the bible and biblical foundations and encouraging children to get to know Him more.
To help children find their identity in God.
Encouraging them to grow and develop in confidence, in love and respect for others.
To encourage a curiosity for learning through exploration and play.
To direct and nurture a character of persistence, initiative, creativeness & perseverance.
To offer an environment where children can exercise love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness & self control.
To encourage each child’s God given potential and gifting, while they walk into the destiny planned for them.
To encourage ‘I can’ children who are built up and equipped for a big world of challenges and change.
Nurturing creative thinkers that showcase our creator God.

After extended research we have based our philosophy and program methodology on ‘Learning through Play’ where children are introduced and exposed to facilitated, hands-on, experiential learning.
Patches offers a loving and nurturing environment that facilitates opportunities for learning, problem solving and creativity.
We encourage children to grasp concepts through the art of play, while they experience and discover through their senses.
We believe in the whole-child centered approach, where we research and think of areas in which the child might need development. We focus on the:
Educational development of the child ( how the brain learns)
Emotional and social development(the behavior of a child)
Self-confidence and impulse control of each individual child
Spiritual development of the child, teaching bible based foundational doctrines of God our Creator & King, His love, redemption and salvation through His Son Jesus and His continued help, guidance and power through His Holy Spirit.
We believe that what the bible says is true, we believe in prayer and we encourage children to trust in God.

Opportunities to discover, explore, and experience.
Opportunities for children to fail and try again, because failure should never be a threatening experience. How we as adults handle failure, is how our child will handle failure.
Facilitated play, social and emotional development and important development stages such as puzzle building, construction and sensory play.

We believe is that the process is more important than the product!
We allow the children to express, experience and creatively discover as they venture through the process.
We allow problem solving opportunities, thus developing creativity, team work, enjoyment of challenges and exercising of independence.
We allowing the children to learn that choice comes with responsibility.
Our programme is structured around majority play together with facilitated, structured activities based around a specific theme.
We allow them to develop at their own pace and according to what is age related.