Lollipops Blighs Road

Featuring fantastic outdoor playgrounds, and safe, nurturing rooms, Lollipops Blighs Road is a home away from home for little explorers. Our strong focus on sustainability and diverse line up of activities and excursions will ensure your child is inspired and stimulated, while our team of passionate and dedicated teachers will help them learn and thrive.

At Lollipops Blighs Road, every child is loved and respected for who they are, and each child is supported to grow up as a happy, confident and competent learner.

Seeking the best for your little one? Join us.

Our philosophy

At Lollipops Blighs Road, our programme is influenced by Te Whariki and the Reggio Emilia approach to learning.

The values and beliefs that are important for the children, their whanau and the teachers in our centre are:

• Respect for themselves, others and the environment, and the beliefs and traditions of other cultures
• To feel valued, supported, appreciated and encouraged
• Confidence to have a voice and know that they will be heard

Our Rooms

Lollipops Blighs Road has four separate rooms, enabling us to deliver safe, nurturing and age appropriate learning experiences for all our children.

Tui Room

The Tui Room caters for our children up to the age of 18 months.  It is a beautiful, calm area where our youngest children can develop at their own pace. We provide lots of opportunities to explore and grow in a safe, clean, homely space – and there’s a spacious playground with real grass!

Kakapo Room
Designed for our 1 to 2.5 year olds, the Kakapo Room is a spacious area with lots of learning opportunities, including stairs to a loft area. We have a covered deck leading to a large outdoor area with blossom trees, a vegetable garden and a strawberry patch.  Plus, we’ve got a pet fish

Kiwi Room

This is home away from home for our 2.5 to 4 year olds. The Kiwi Room features a large playground with a vegetable garden, a pet rabbit and pet turtle.  There’s a strong focus on learning through play with lots of sensory and exploratory play opportunities.

Pukeko Room
The Pukeko Room is set up for our 3.5 to 6 year olds and highlights include a large playground with loads of equipment to inspire and challenge the children. There’s also blossom trees, a vegetable garden and a worm farm. Our young adventurers also enjoy our weekly forest excursions!

Why choose us?

There are a host of reasons why families choose Lollipops Blighs Road. Here are just a few of them:

• Great location, close to park for visits
• Fantastic multicultural centre that celebrates diversity
• Healthy Heart gold award
• Cooked lunch
• Nappies provided for under 2s
• Weekly yoga sessions, playball, kapa haka
• Regular visits to Elmswood Rest Home, Pitcairn Park, Papanui Library, Animates
• Beautiful nursery rooms and playground with real grass
• Large spacious playground for over 2s
• Brain gym at mat times to switch on for learning
• Father’s Day breakfast, Mother’s Day morning tea and pamper session
• Annual Grandparents afternoon tea
• Annual Disco
• Weekly forest excursions for the Pukeko Room
• Special celebrations for birthdays and graduations
• Vegetable garden and strawberry patch that the children help plant and tend
• Focus on sustainability – worm farm, recycling, no plastic bags in the centre, grow our own vegetables to use in meals, flowers to encourage butterflies and bees