Areas & Rooms

The Mahoe Room offers a warm, quiet and caring environment with age appropriate learning experiences for babies and toddlers (0-2 years). The purpose built facility is designed and equipped to promote physical skills such as crawling and walking. A beautiful and stimulating environment with plenty of sensory experiences.

The Mahoe Room is perfectly equipped with open spaces, a custom designed kitchen, two peaceful sleep rooms, bathrooms, large deck area and safe and private outdoor area perfect for inquisitive toddlers and babies.

The Kowhai Room offers a warm, nurturing environment in which your child can feel safe, happy and ready to soak up the learning experiences we have to offer. It is purposefully designed to start promoting your child’s independence, communication and problem-solving skills.

The relationships we form with you and your child are very important and are the foundation on which we build trust, respect and a thirst for learning.

Tools and materials for arts and crafts are available to experiment with such as paint, glue and clay along with opportunities to learn about their body through movement. The environment of the Kowhai Room is specifically designed to provide sensorial and open ended experiences to foster cognitive, emotional, social and fine/gross motor development.

Designed to develop and increase your childs independence and social skills to ensure a smooth move to primary school. The Rata Room caters for children aged approximately 3 – 6 years.

The Rata Room has a range of materials that invite children to explore their many languages of investigating the world. In this room teachers provide an environment that challenges and supports children for their widening interests and problem solving capacities.

For a child to enter primary school with confidence they need to have extensive prior learning and experiences which provide starting points for further learning; and the confidence to be in a new setting that requires social skills.

Children are complex beings and learning experiences occur in all environments, none more so than the communal outside and play areas. A large and covered deck steps down to a purpose built playground, sand pit and grassed area where kids are able to express themselves, develop social skills and friendships, test their learning in new environments and just be kids having some fun.

To nurture the whole child, early childhood education needs to follow the fundamental principle that children are learning everywhere and all the time. The “outdoor classroom” evolves from the real needs of children, offers activities that are personally meaningful to them, and fully embraces developmentally appropriate practices in early care.