The community of learners at Te Atatu Village Kindergarten wish to acknowledge the academic and research achievements of our long-term reliever Lucinda Murch.

Lucinda has completed her Master of Education this year, through The University of Auckland with an enlightening thesis titled: Finding the way through the forest: Shining light on young children’s play dates with nature.  Lucinda’s full thesis can be found in print and online through The University of Auckland library database.

Look out for an article written from Lucinda’s research on nature play provision in natural outdoor spaces, published in the next Space magazine due out shortly. Also published in the last edition of Space magazine and in the next publication are beautiful poems that Lucinda wrote as part of her research.

Lucinda presented her incomplete Nature Play research at The Natural Phenomenon Conference in November 2014 and will be presenting at the Nurture in Nature conference to be held in Auckland, May 2016.

We congratulate Lucinda in her achievements and are proud to have her working alongside us!