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Our centre revolves around child-led, learning through play and exploration. Our children’s ideas spring from their imaginations, not from screens. Our big open play space allows our tamariki to engage in authentic, exciting interactions with the ‘real world’ and its elements.
We believe that animals have much to teach children and offer children a wide variety of animals to interact with, including ponies, ducks, birds, turtles, chickens, and even a lizard called Sly! As well as working closely with animals, their feeding and care, we also focus on horticulture and spend time gardening, and growing plants and flowers. We are lucky to offer Pony riding lessons! The classes involve grooming, leading the pony, learning the parts of a pony and its gear, saddling a pony up ready to ride, and riding.
We would be delighted to share in your child’s learning journey. You’re welcome to call or visit anytime.
We have four separate areas, catering for tamariki in their similar learning and social groups. Ruma Maungakawa, our infant area, is our wee nest for our littlest learners from 3 months to 2 years. Ruma Te koo utu is a wonderfully large but homely space for our toddlers from 2 to 3 years old. Ruma Maungatautari is for our intermediate group aged 3 to 4 years. Our last Ruma is Karapiro, where we focus on preparing our 4 to 6-year-old tamariki for school readiness, and a significant part of this preparation involves bringing their lunch boxes from Monday to Thursday (Friday is centre cooking day). Lunch boxes play a crucial role in this process, not only by fostering independence and promoting healthy eating habits but also by teaching our tamariki the valuable skill of portioning their food for the day.
Nutritious meals crafted with care
Our inhouse cook provides freshly made meals for children each day. We believe that through nourishing food, children are fuelled to thrive physically and mentally, whilst cherishing the connection that takes place during shared meal times.
Teachers also do regular baking with the children, which provides them opportunities to engage and learn a range of food preparations skills and fine motor movements such as pouring, sifting, spooning. It is a great hands on sensory experience for children to develop independence through self-help skills, practice simple maths as they measure and count quantities.
Nature Programmes
Our programmes revolve purely around child-led, learning through play and exploration. Our children’s ideas spring from their imaginations, not from screens. Our big open play space allows our Tamariki to engage in authentic, exciting interactions with the ‘real world’ and its elements.
Swimming Lessons
In summer, we offer swimming lessons where they learn, basic water confidence, songs and games, bubble blowing, floating and kicking, respect for the water and general water safety. Our solar-heated in-ground pool operates throughout the summer months with our instructor facilitating a class specific to preschool children to begin their water confidence journey. Parents/caregivers will swim with all children under two.
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