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Our tamariki and whānau feel a sense of belonging at Busy Bees Bottle Lake, and we welcome new families in, to feel right at home too in our early education centre. Our teachers live locally, in Parklands and surrounding suburbs, which supports our strong sense of community and comfortable and welcoming environment. Our centre provides nurturing and stimulating environments for young children with its separate Nursery (Taihua), Preschool (Kūkūwai) and Kindy (Ngahere) rooms, as well as areas where tamariki can come together to share tuakana-teina (older-younger child) interactions where wonderful teaching moments are shared. We aim to promote the development and learning of each child, through positive partnership with parents and open communication at all times for family, tangata whenua, whānau, and community.
Our teaching team at Busy Bees Bottle Lake are well respected within the community and we pride ourselves on our strong professional relationships with our families and this enhances our ability to provide the best learning environment for your child, which was commended in our current ERO Review.
Our early education centre is well equipped with resources and this helps to support our greatest asset which is our trained teachers and support staff, many of whom have been teaching at the centre for a number of years. Our passionate teachers show constant enjoyment in their work and build strong relationships with the children.
Our Parklands early learning centre features three age-specific rooms – nursery, preschool and kindergarten. The children and families of our communities experience an environment where their needs and aspirations are valued.
We believe that children learn through play and experience; teachers are facilitators of this learning, but the children are the leaders.
We are proud to be a lunch box centre. We encourage families to make healthy food choices and ensure their child’s pouaka kai (lunch box) meets centre guidelines as well as Ministry of Health criteria for Early Learning Services.
Excursions
Exploring our local Parklands community is something the tamariki love to do. Our children enjoy walks where they can get out and explore locally. We are fortunate the centre is a short walk from Bottle Lake Forest and Titirangi Reserve. Other places our kaiako and children love to visit include The Wetlands and of course our local primary schools.
These excursions provide so many learning opportunities as children practise following instructions, finding things to research, and explore the world around them using their senses. Excursions also provide great learning about health and safety whilst out and about in the community, seeing new things and meeting new people and developing working theories of the world around us.
Readiness for School
One of our strengths is transitions into, between and out of our service where we have 3 key transition co-ordinators who plan, implement and communicate every step of this with you. As your child grows and reaches their next milestone, we have key teachers right there with you supporting the transition all the way until primary school. We have strong connections with all of our local primary schools and nurture this relationship as we prepare your child for school.
We are committed to follow the aspirations of the New Zealand National ECE Curiculum, Te Whāriki. Te Whāriki envisages kaiako in early learning settings working in partnership with parents, whānau and community to realise this vision. The expectation is that, in their early years, children will experience a curriculum that empowers them as lifelong learners, right from their early exploration of the world around them, through to preparation for school.
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