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Our early education centre features six classrooms specifically designed for different age groups, fostering Tuakana/teina relationships and engaged tamariki. Our focus at Busy Bees Hobsonville lies in empowering tamariki to direct their own learning while ensuring they feel supported and safe. We offer a diverse range of open-ended and natural resources to encourage teachable moments and create happy, learning-focused experiences.
Our kaiako create beautiful provocations where materials are carefully selected to provoke curiosity, promote critical thinking, and encourage tamariki to express themselves through various art forms. At Busy Bees Hobsonville we believe that every moment is an opportunity for learning, and our kaiako utilise these teachable moments to enrich our children’s understanding of the world around them.
Special Events
Our tamariki love to take part in all the special events that we celebrate here at Busy Bees Hobsonville. This promotes a sense of belonging for tamariki as they’re able to affirm and extend connecting links with whānau and their wider world.
Exploring our community
Our tamariki enjoy going on walks throughout the community. Together we explore our local parks, schools and communities while linking it to our sustainability and local curriculum. The exercise and fresh air helps promote independence, has a variety of health benefits, continues to build on children’s social skills and is FUN!
We are proud to have many different cultures attending and working in our centre. We offer an inclusive environment where culture plays a part in our daily provocations and learning. We also enjoy taking part in celebrating different cultural events from around the world. We work hard at building strong foundations with our whanau underpinned by whanaungatanga. We support tamariki to realise their full potential and work in partnerships with whānau, acknowledging their expectations and aspirations for their tamariki.
Dietitian Designed Menus
We prioritise the health and wellbeing of your little ones by offering nutritious meals crafted with care. Our menus are designed by an experienced dietitian, ensuring they meet the specific nutritional needs of growing children whilst also bursting with flavour. Our centre cook takes pride in preparing all meals onsite, adhering to the Ministry of Health Healthy Eating for Babies, Toddlers and Children to guarantee optimal safety and quality.
Our dedicated cook and centre team is currently striving towards the New Zealand Heart Foundation Tohu Manawa Ora | Healthy Heart Award.
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.
Our Rooms
Our infant’s rooms are based on building loving and trusting bonds, our kaiako work closely with families to understand infant cues and develop a routine that supports children’s natural rhythms. When tamariki are ready to progress, they will head into the Nikau room, and utilise sensory play, outdoor exploration, music, and movement to create a fun, interactive atmosphere whilst maintaining a focus on the love and care that infants need to thrive.
The toddler rooms are designed to help our tamariki balance the desire to be independent with the need to be nurtured and cared for. Our early education centre kaiako support the unfolding autonomy of the older tamariki to encourage the child’s emergent personality to blossom.
Our preschool room supports the tamariki with social and emotional competence at a time when they are ready to engage in meaningful play with others. When tamariki start to become more aware of their upcoming transition to school, our resources are reflective of the medium’s children will be using at school. Kaiako observe and converse with children to develop projects based on their interests.
Reading and writing programme
Our 4-year-old children take part in a reading and writing programme to prepare them for school. Fostering early literacy in in an early childhood setting, gives tamariki the confidence to know what is expected once they start school. This also supports tamariki in their cognitive development which strengthens their communication skills and instils a lifelong love of learning.
Local Curriculum
Our local curriculum is currently focusing on sustainable living initiatives, agriculture, horticulture, clay and Airforce history. You can find this throughout our learning experiencing too.
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