We love our place and we hope you will too.

Our environment has been designed to promote relationships, communication, collaboration, and exploration through play.  Equipment & new resources are continually added & rotated to the environment to promote creativity, thinking and problem solving skills, questions, experimentation and open-ended play.

 
 
 

Outdoors

Our outdoor space has been designed to help children to understand and respect nature, the environment and the interdependence of humans, animals, plants, and lifecycles…


Our outdoor play space contains:

  • Climbing structures (including a tree)

  • A mud kitchen

  • A bike track

  • Rock sandpit

  • Hand water pump

  • Carpentry area

  • A vege gardens

  • A pet rabbit (Honey Bunny)

  • A huge grass area

  • A Garden

  • Concrete for bikes

 
 

Indoors

Our inside environment is open plan and includes a variety of spaces where the children are encouraged to explore, learn & play with exciting and engaging learning experiences.  These areas include a science & nature focus, messy art area, literacy & numeracy, construction zone, music space, pretend play in kitchen, family, dress up and shop areas. As well as an inviting couch and mat space with a library area.  

 
 
 

Sustainability

We have started our journey to being a more sustainable centre by adopting a range of initiatives such as using grey water, having a worm farm, growing our own veges, recycling, and encouraging parents to pack waste-free lunches.  The children are part of all of these processes including growing the veges, feeding some to the rabbit, cooking with them and putting waste into the worm farm.

 
 
 

Food 

We encourage healthy waste-free lunches and support and encourage our parents with plenty of information and ideas. All children eat morning tea, lunch and afternoon fruit time together.  This can be inside around tables, or outside on a mat under the tree or a picnic on the grass. 

We also celebrate a variety of cultures by cooking & eating a shared meal together.  This is done with the help of the children’s parents & whanau.

We are an allergy friendly kindergarten.