Childcare options in Kaikohe
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Kaikohe - Kaikohe
BestStart Kaikohe
At BestStart Kaikohe we provide a warm, welcoming, and nurturing environment for whanau and tamariki. We pride ourselves on providing quality education and care as well as experienced staff who will support your child at every stage of their learning and development.
Standing Up and Standing Out in Kaikohe
At BestStart Kaikohe we strive to lead the way in Early Childhood Learning.
We aim to foster a sense of Kotahitanga (unity, solidarity) with kaiako, whanau and tamariki. Our social interactions and experiences are the essence of what we do, providing tamariki with many opportunities to build and maintain positive friendships built on trust, respect and fun!
Our outdoor space is used to maximize our vision through providing our older tamariki with opportunities to develop their Rangatiratanga (leadership) skills, tuakana-teina relationships, as they help to guide and care for our younger learners.
We pride ourselves on our fun filled child-led, play-based approach to learning. We provide a variety of resources and tools to support the varied interests of our learners, enabling them to direct their own learning. The use of ‘wait time’ is a key strategy used to give children time and space to practice and learn skills for themselves, encouraging them to build competency to engage with the different experiences that arise in their lives.
Open-ended resources play an important role in helping us to provide opportunities for our tamariki to explore and form their own ideas and theories about the world around them.
We also have a dedicated Heuristic Playroom in our Centre, full of wonderful, fun, real world resources for our children to engage with and use in whatever ways they see fit.
We engage with our local community ,through walks to our local library, visiting local places of importance and historical significance, and school visits. These valuable excursions enable our tamariki to really feel part of their community and help to develop a sense of belonging and pride in where they come from.
We are working hard to support our tamariki to learn about the importance of sustainable living. We provide our learners with vegetable gardens for them to plant and harvest seasonal vegetables to be used in our lunches. We are a centre that has a healthy heart award and we are proud of our Tamariki’s understanding of healthy choices. We also have a worm farm and pig bucket for tamariki to place their food scraps into. The ‘tea’ from the worm farm is then used to water and feed our gardens.
Tamariki are also given opportunities to make beeswax food wraps for their lunchboxes when we have lunchbox day, to help cut down on single-use plastic wraps. As we continue to work on our sustainable practices, we are now looking to replace our single use paper towels with washable, reusable hand towels for tamariki.
We would love for you to be part of this journey with us, so contact us to discover what we can offer your child today!
Mai i te kopae ki te urupa, tatou ako tonu ai
From the cradle to the grave we are forever learning!
Who is BestStart?
BestStart is for families who want more from early-childhood education. Safe, nurturing and educationally focused, we’re committed to growing caring people with curious minds.
Together we teach, learn and nurture.
Our vision is to work in partnership with families, whanau and communities to enable children to achieve their learning potential.
Ko tō mātou tirohanga hei mahi ngātahi i te taha o ngā whānau me ngā hāpori, kia āwhinatia ngā tamariki, kia tū pito mata ai rāatou, hei rangatira mō āpōpō.
We are committed to being a progressive and responsive leader in early-childhood education. We do this by enhancing our services, investing in our people, developing our support structure and continuously improving the educational outcomes and experiences of our children, families and the communities we serve.
Some facts:
- We’re licensed to educate and care for 15,000 full-time children daily.
- 18,000 families use BestStart services annually.
- We have over 270 centres nationwide located from Whangarei to Invercargill.
- Each centre is managed by a Centre Manager who is supported by a local Area Manager. This gives our centre teams ongoing quality training and support.
- Te Whāriki, the world-wide acclaimed national early childhood education curriculum, is used in all centres.
- We have over 4500 permanent teachers nationally. Over 90% of our permanent teaching staff are either fully qualified with a diploma or bachelor of teaching (ECE) or higher, or are in training. These figures are very high by national standards within the ECE sector.
- We provide a two-year Advice and Guidance Programme for all recently certified teachers, providing further mentoring and training. This gives strong support for teachers from provisional registration to full teacher registration with the NZ Teachers Council.
- We regularly spend around $4 million on teacher training per annum.
We’re for children
At our heart is our commitment and passion for children. Central to this belief is our focus on the holistic development of children. We support children to explore the world around them, learning through relationships, creating a love of learning in an ever-changing world. Exploration, friendship and fun are part of the journey.
We’re for good
BestStart is a registered charity owned by the Wright Family Foundation. We support initiatives and programmes within BestStart and the wider early-childhood education sector (ECE) that support good outcomes for all children. We do this because we want to make a positive difference to the lives of all children.
Innovation leads us
At BestStart, innovation guides our thinking. We advocate positive change for learners through our research and practice. We’re proud to be thought leaders within ECE, openly challenging ourselves to think differently to provide the best for our children, families and staff.
We’re responsive
Our centres reflect their children, staff and communities. We celebrate individuality, uniqueness and diversity, encouraging a spirit of empathy, understanding and collaboration. Through our responsive relationships and our curriculum, we support learners to choose their own path.
Our people matter
At BestStart people come first. When we grow and develop our people, everyone benefits. We strive for whakamana/empowerment, nurturing a culture of excellence with engaged, talented professionals. Their commitment, skill and passion light our way.
Licensed for
62 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Hillcrest Kindergarten - Kaikohe
Hillcrest Kindergarten is a community based educational provider in Kaikohe. We are based on the corner of Hillcrest and Park Roads and have been part of the community since 1955.
We are a kindergarten that is culturally diverse. Our families belong to several ethnic groups and our common theme is respecting and looking after each other. He wahi maanaki tenei mo tatou katoa.
We are going to be open all year from 2020. This means that your family will be able to access the high quality programme we currently run for 48 weeks a year. This opportunity came about because NKA and the teachers, are aware that there are many within the community that require a service in what would usually be school holidays breaks. Families will continue to have a choice around when their child attends and will not lose their position at kindergarten if they chose to only attend a few of the extra days.
Our programme is woven within the Principals and Strands of Te Whaariki, the Early Childhood Curriculum He Whaariki Matauranga mo nga Mokopuna o Aotearoa. It is an exciting sector to be involved in and teachers aim to follow children’s strengths and interests to stimulate and extend their learning within these dimensions.
You will find four very dedicated teachers who are qualified and registered who work hard to enhance learning opportunities for your tamariki. Our ratio is 1-10. We also have a very dedicated support staff/admin person, who is also our cook. We provide morning tea and cooked lunches for all our children each day. We also have a qualified lunch cover so this means we are a 100% qualified teaching staff.
We are part of the Kidscan trial for ECE so we are able to supply all kai at no cost. We are also part of the Northland DHB initiative around teeth brushing once a day in the kindergarten. The dental team visit us once a term to monitor the children’s teeth and to ensure they get treatments if needed. The DHB supply all the resources required for this to happen.
We are looking for children to join our waiting list and pride ourselves on an open door policy for all whaanau/families community and visitors so please feel free to call in, email or phone us. Welcome Haere mai Piki mai Kake mai.
Licensed for
30 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
KaTui Early Childhood Learning Centre
Licensed for
40 children
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Education and Care
Teacher-led and at least half of the educators will be qualified early childhood education teachers.
Kindergarten
Community-focused childcare, where the teachers seek to involve families and whānau.
Playcentre
Parent-focused and family-orientated approach to childcare. Play-led learning.
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Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Kowhai Corner Learning Centre
Authentic Learning Education Centre (LTD)
Helping children experience success
Leading tamariki with a heart and soul
Ko te ahurei o te tamaiti arahia o tatou mahi
Let the uniqueness of the child guide their work
Licensed for
33 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Nga Puawai o Kaikohekohe
Nga Puawai o Kaikohekohe is a privately owned bilingual centre, which opened in 2014. It is located in Kaikohe and is licensed to provide for up to 60 tamariki, including 15 under two years of age.
Education and care are guided by Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum. Integrating te reo Māori as a living and relevant language and honouring the heritage of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, are central to the core values of the centre. Manaaki, aroha, tautoko and awhi underpin the centre's philosophy, "Our pou represent the history, wisdom, and kete of knowledge of our tupuna and is embraced and nurtured for our tamariki, mokopuna and whānau".
Licensed for
60 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Te Kōhanga Reo o Kaikohe
Te Kōhanga Reo
The kōhanga reo movement is a unique initiative based on total immersion in Māori language and values with the aim of passing on Māori culture to future generations.
Kōhanga reo emphasise the revitalisation of the culture through te reo Māori and are dependent on the active participation of the whole whānau. The kaupapa of kōhanga reo aims to strengthen whānau capabilities in cultural, social, economic, spiritual and political matters. Education, health and wellbeing are inherent within all aspects of the kaupapa. The prime focus is the whānau – its collective development, growth, accountability and wellbeing set within a Māori cultural context.
Kōhanga reo do not regard tamariki in isolation, but as important members of the whānau. The kōhanga reo philosophy is that tamariki will benefit when whānau successfully operate according to the kaupapa. Tamariki are an integral part of whānau development.
The following key goals are the foundation of te kōhanga reo kaupapa established in 1982:
- total immersion in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga in daily operations
- whānau decision-making, management and responsibility
- accountability
- health and wellbeing of mokopuna and whānau.
The key goals of te kōhanga reo assure that there will be:
- security in te reo Māori
- a supportive, caring environment for mokopuna
- whānau (collective) sharing of responsibilities, knowledge and expertise
- greater respect and appreciation of each other.
Licensed for
21 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Te Kōhanga Reo o Ngā Toa Iwi Whenua
Te Kōhanga Reo
The kōhanga reo movement is a unique initiative based on total immersion in Māori language and values with the aim of passing on Māori culture to future generations.
Kōhanga reo emphasise the revitalisation of the culture through te reo Māori and are dependent on the active participation of the whole whānau. The kaupapa of kōhanga reo aims to strengthen whānau capabilities in cultural, social, economic, spiritual and political matters. Education, health and wellbeing are inherent within all aspects of the kaupapa. The prime focus is the whānau – its collective development, growth, accountability and wellbeing set within a Māori cultural context.
Kōhanga reo do not regard tamariki in isolation, but as important members of the whānau. The kōhanga reo philosophy is that tamariki will benefit when whānau successfully operate according to the kaupapa. Tamariki are an integral part of whānau development.
The following key goals are the foundation of te kōhanga reo kaupapa established in 1982:
- total immersion in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga in daily operations
- whānau decision-making, management and responsibility
- accountability
- health and wellbeing of mokopuna and whānau.
The key goals of te kōhanga reo assure that there will be:
- security in te reo Māori
- a supportive, caring environment for mokopuna
- whānau (collective) sharing of responsibilities, knowledge and expertise
- greater respect and appreciation of each other.
Licensed for
23 children
Kaikohe - Northland
Kowhai Corner Learning Centre
Kowhai Corner Learning Centre is a privately-owned early education centre catering for ages 0-5 years.
Licensed for
20 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Te Kōhanga Reo o Te Ariki
Te Kōhanga Reo
The kōhanga reo movement is a unique initiative based on total immersion in Māori language and values with the aim of passing on Māori culture to future generations.
Kōhanga reo emphasise the revitalisation of the culture through te reo Māori and are dependent on the active participation of the whole whānau. The kaupapa of kōhanga reo aims to strengthen whānau capabilities in cultural, social, economic, spiritual and political matters. Education, health and wellbeing are inherent within all aspects of the kaupapa. The prime focus is the whānau – its collective development, growth, accountability and wellbeing set within a Māori cultural context.
Kōhanga reo do not regard tamariki in isolation, but as important members of the whānau. The kōhanga reo philosophy is that tamariki will benefit when whānau successfully operate according to the kaupapa. Tamariki are an integral part of whānau development.
The following key goals are the foundation of te kōhanga reo kaupapa established in 1982:
- total immersion in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga in daily operations
- whānau decision-making, management and responsibility
- accountability
- health and wellbeing of mokopuna and whānau.
The key goals of te kōhanga reo assure that there will be:
- security in te reo Māori
- a supportive, caring environment for mokopuna
- whānau (collective) sharing of responsibilities, knowledge and expertise
- greater respect and appreciation of each other.
Licensed for
20 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Te Kōhanga Reo o Te kotahitanga
Te Kōhanga Reo
The kōhanga reo movement is a unique initiative based on total immersion in Māori language and values with the aim of passing on Māori culture to future generations.
Kōhanga reo emphasise the revitalisation of the culture through te reo Māori and are dependent on the active participation of the whole whānau. The kaupapa of kōhanga reo aims to strengthen whānau capabilities in cultural, social, economic, spiritual and political matters. Education, health and wellbeing are inherent within all aspects of the kaupapa. The prime focus is the whānau – its collective development, growth, accountability and wellbeing set within a Māori cultural context.
Kōhanga reo do not regard tamariki in isolation, but as important members of the whānau. The kōhanga reo philosophy is that tamariki will benefit when whānau successfully operate according to the kaupapa. Tamariki are an integral part of whānau development.
The following key goals are the foundation of te kōhanga reo kaupapa established in 1982:
- total immersion in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga in daily operations
- whānau decision-making, management and responsibility
- accountability
- health and wellbeing of mokopuna and whānau.
The key goals of te kōhanga reo assure that there will be:
- security in te reo Māori
- a supportive, caring environment for mokopuna
- whānau (collective) sharing of responsibilities, knowledge and expertise
- greater respect and appreciation of each other.
Licensed for
25 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Te Kōhanga Reo o Wharepunga
Te Kōhanga Reo
The kōhanga reo movement is a unique initiative based on total immersion in Māori language and values with the aim of passing on Māori culture to future generations.
Kōhanga reo emphasise the revitalisation of the culture through te reo Māori and are dependent on the active participation of the whole whānau. The kaupapa of kōhanga reo aims to strengthen whānau capabilities in cultural, social, economic, spiritual and political matters. Education, health and wellbeing are inherent within all aspects of the kaupapa. The prime focus is the whānau – its collective development, growth, accountability and wellbeing set within a Māori cultural context.
Kōhanga reo do not regard tamariki in isolation, but as important members of the whānau. The kōhanga reo philosophy is that tamariki will benefit when whānau successfully operate according to the kaupapa. Tamariki are an integral part of whānau development.
The following key goals are the foundation of te kōhanga reo kaupapa established in 1982:
- total immersion in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga in daily operations
- whānau decision-making, management and responsibility
- accountability
- health and wellbeing of mokopuna and whānau.
The key goals of te kōhanga reo assure that there will be:
- security in te reo Māori
- a supportive, caring environment for mokopuna
- whānau (collective) sharing of responsibilities, knowledge and expertise
- greater respect and appreciation of each other.
Licensed for
23 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Te Kōhanga Reo o Whirinaki
Te Kōhanga Reo
The kōhanga reo movement is a unique initiative based on total immersion in Māori language and values with the aim of passing on Māori culture to future generations.
Kōhanga reo emphasise the revitalisation of the culture through te reo Māori and are dependent on the active participation of the whole whānau. The kaupapa of kōhanga reo aims to strengthen whānau capabilities in cultural, social, economic, spiritual and political matters. Education, health and wellbeing are inherent within all aspects of the kaupapa. The prime focus is the whānau – its collective development, growth, accountability and wellbeing set within a Māori cultural context.
Kōhanga reo do not regard tamariki in isolation, but as important members of the whānau. The kōhanga reo philosophy is that tamariki will benefit when whānau successfully operate according to the kaupapa. Tamariki are an integral part of whānau development.
The following key goals are the foundation of te kōhanga reo kaupapa established in 1982:
- total immersion in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga in daily operations
- whānau decision-making, management and responsibility
- accountability
- health and wellbeing of mokopuna and whānau.
The key goals of te kōhanga reo assure that there will be:
- security in te reo Māori
- a supportive, caring environment for mokopuna
- whānau (collective) sharing of responsibilities, knowledge and expertise
- greater respect and appreciation of each other.
Licensed for
25 children
Kaikohe - Kaikohe
Whiz Kids
Licensed for
35 children