Jubilee Catholic Early Childhood Centre

Jubilee offers quality care and education in a nurturing, faith filled environment for children aged 3 - 5 years. We are licensed for 30 children maximum daily.  Our teachers are all fully qualified and certified with over fifty years of combined Early Childhood experience. We aspire to provide a warm, welcoming and homely environment where children have fun!

Jubilee is a community based service operating under the auspices of the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. We have close links to Marian Catholic School, Sacred Heart Girls College and the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We warmly welcome your family to become part of our extended whánau. 

Our philosophy

• Our role is to support children’s faith development in partnership with whánau, community and parish.
• Each child is unique with God given potential. It is our task to nurture and strengthen these individual gifts.
• We will model and support children’s development of Christian Attitudes: including Love; Care/Compassion; Respect; Acting with kindness; Strength/Courage; Speaking with gentleness; Self-control; Patience; Perseverance; Justice/Being fair.
  
• Children learn best through their play. We will provide an environment that supports children’s holistic development through the provision of ‘open-ended’ resources.
  
• Learning and teaching is most successful when children feel safe, loved, valued and their achievements are acknowledged.
  
• Relationships are fundamental in ensuring children and their whánau feel a sense of ‘belonging’ at Jubilee. Through these relationships parental aspirations and expectations for their child can be supported.
  
• Te Wháriki and The NZ Catholic Curriculum statement are our guiding documents and these are supported by current theory and teaching practice.
  
• Maori hold a special place in Aotearoa/NZ as tangata whenua therefore we celebrate and share our bi-cultural Aotearoa and the multicultural community of our centre.