Another special celebration
Happiest Birthday to our wee Birthday Princess - how fabulous coming to preschool and getting the royal treatment for your birthday. 5th birthdays are always bittersweet - we love to look back at how much you have learned but there is always a little sadness as we will miss you when you go to school
Manaakitanga for our teacher
We love getting out an about in our community - today we headed off to leave a care package for one of our teachers who has been in hospital. Manaakitanga underpins everything we do and we role model this value in everything we do.
Visit from the Public Health Nurse
Every term we have our friendly Public Health Nurse pop in to visit to give our 4 year olds hearing a vision check ups.
Farewell and Happy adventures
Staff catch up to farewell Einni on her overseas adventure - was great for some of the old faces to join us for this special farewell. Bon Voyage and happy adventures!
Nurturing Friendships
Through freindship, children develop a sense of belonging, reduced stress and a big boost of happiness - we love watching friendships blossom.
Farewell Celebrations
High Tea celebration for one of our original children - saying goodbye to the children is hard but saying goodbye to one that has been with us from the beginning is a whole different kind of hard.
Quiet play
Sometimes children just want to find a quiet place to play uninterrupted and let their imagination create thier own narrative
Visits to school
Some of our older children were invited to the local school to watch their kapahaka performance for Matariki celebrations - what a passionate display of haka and waiata!
Firefighters come to visit
As we learn about keeping ourselves safe, we had the local fire crew come and talk to us about what we can do in an emergency.
Pyjama Day Pancakes and Hot Chocolate
Pyjama day was started with pancakes and hot chocolate - happy children!
Superheros
We think all our children have their own unique super powers just like these two wh love to dress up with a cape and run around looking for others who need help
Learning letter formation
Our older children practicing the base formation of “open circle” as we learn to write the letters for our names
Autumn Foraging
Every Autumn, we head off around the local community to see what we can find - Autumn brings so many treasures waiting to be discovered
Easter Egg Hunt
Easter always bring excitment as the children hunt for the chocolate eggs that have been hidden around the playground.