A Few Words About Us
Our mission at Bright Eyes Academy is to bring together children, teachers, parents and the community in the journey of early education. We offer programs that challenge, encourage, and support children in their quest for knowledge, recognizing developmental stages, as well as, each child for their own abilities and talents.
We use a Reggio Emilia based approach for teaching and learning. This approach fosters children’s intellectual development through systematic focus on symbolic representation, as children are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves through words, movement, drawing, painting, playing and other natural modes of expression. We trust, respect and value children’s sense of ownership, autonomy and control of their own learning and play.
The teaching method at BEA incorporates aspects of both the Reggio Emilia and Project Approaches. Our program curriculum is developed by weaving cognitive skills throughout the children’s interests, involving the children as active participants in the construction of knowledge. We provide an environment where education goes beyond the basic skills as children are challenged to observe, investigate, question, analyze, construct meaning and think critically.
Our Principles
1. To create an atmosphere of trust, security and comfort in which the child can feel motivated, esteemed and appreciated.
2. To promote the uniqueness and individual worth of each child by focusing on competence and capabilities.
3. To provide an enriched and stimulating environment that meets the needs of the whole child, including the cognitive, creative, social, emotional and physical self.
4. To provide opportunities for self-expression, investigation and experimentation both independently and collaboratively.
5. To cultivate attitudes, habits and appreciations that will enable the child to explore, question and discover the world, its people and their cultures.
6. To encourage problem solving skills and responsible decision making through respectful guidance.
7. To provide an appropriate balance between active and passive activities, and between child-initiated and adult-initiated activities.