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Lakeview Private Kindergarten is a privately owned early childcare centre offering both full daycare and sessional services. With an outstanding community reputation, we cater for children aged two to five years in an attractive well-resourced environment.
All our childcare staff are carefully selected for their outstanding teaching skills, warm personalities and, of course, their strong affinity with children. You'll find we're a friendly, experienced team, which no doubt contributes to the centre's welcoming, homely feeling.
Our hours of operation are:
- Morning Session: 8:00am-12:00noon
- Afternoon Session: 1:00pm-5:30pm
- Full Day: 8:00am-5.30pm
Our aim at Lakeview Private Kindergarten is to achieve a secure, happy, loving and educational environment in which each individual child will thrive, learn and gain confidence.
Lakeview Private Kindergarten is proudly owned and operated by local couple Michelle & Adrian Bosch. We are born and bred local residents, loving what the area, beaches and community offers on the beautiful North Shore. Our three children all attend local schools, which we are very involved in. Michelle is also the Vice President of the Early Childhood Council and active in the childcare sector.
Our philosophy...
- We believe in a virtual circle – happy children, happy teachers, happy parents & whanau.
- Our teachers love coming to work! We give our time enthusiastically. We have fun, a great sense of humour, enjoy the children in our care and are truly genuine in our approach. We offer diversity of personalities and teaching styles, but join together as a cohesive, dedicated, professional team.
- Our aim is to nurture and celebrate each unique child as they develop a passion for lifelong learning and assist each child on their journey towards this.
- We believe children’s holistic development is paramount. Their wellbeing and sense of belonging is the foundation of our environment and their future learning.
- We encourage & support an environment where children feel confident and motivated to direct their own learning. We promote independence and self-help skills through stimulating and challenging learning experiences.
- We seek to create a community within Lakeview that is based on respect, trust, warmth, open communication & involvement. We value high levels of honesty and sensitivity to the children and families in our care, with an emphasis on inclusion & equality.
- Our environment will be inviting and encourage stimulating & challenging play spaces that will offer a broad range of learning experiences.
- We will role model respect and a sense of responsibility for ourselves, each other and the environment.
- We openly welcome children & families from different cultures and backgrounds and aim to reflect their aspirations & identity in our centre.
- Our approach, designed for the child, will be based on intentional teaching, combining the child’s interests with teacher knowledge. Intentional teachers use a variety of teaching strategies to provide for and accommodate the range of ways that children learn.
- Our teaching philosophy follows the NZ Early Childhood Education Curriculum Te Whaariki. We believe children learn through a play-based approach. We believe learning is a reciprocal process where children will learn through both spontaneous & planned experiences.
- We believe it is our responsibility to create an environment, which honours the bicultural heritage of New Zealand and the principles of protection, partnership and participation inherent in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
- We support children through a positive guidance approach as they learn to deal with their own feelings and behaviours.
- We believe children thrive in a community where child accomplishment, teacher innovation and parent/whanau commitment and involvement are celebrated.
- We take pride in building strong collaborative relationships with family/whanau and celebrating our shared commitment to each child.
- We take pride in building strong collaborative relationships with family/whanau and celebrating our shared commitment to each child.
CHILDCARE FEES
2-3 YEAR olds
- Morning / Afternoon Session - $36
- Full Day (8:00am till 5:30pm) - $72
3-5 YEAR olds
- Morning / Afternoon Session - $30
- Full Day (8:00am till 5:30pm) - $52
Holidays
We are closed for 1-2 weeks at Christmas and fees are not applicable during this time. Xmas closure dates are notified to families mid-year. In addition you are entitled to 2 weeks holiday per year with a 50% discount, i.e. if you attend 3 sessions a week, you are entitled to 6 holiday sessions per year. We do not close for school holidays.
