Busy Bees Mangakakahi

Our Environment

Busy Bees Mangakakahi offers a safe and fun learning environment for your tamariki, providing a place of belonging for children to learn, develop and grow through social interaction in an engaging environment.  Indoor and outdoor play spaces are carefully set up by kaiako, with lots of opportunities to explore and learn.

Our centre offers wonderful, safe and fun outdoor spaces where children are provided with a range of diverse resources, including natural gardens and environment visuals, whilst enjoying the fresh air.

Our team is made up of passionate and experienced teachers who are warm, welcoming and naturally caring people.  We see all children as individuals, valuing each unique stage of life, show them respect for who they are and providing equal opportunities to ensure the best possible start in life.

Intentional activities and provocations are set up daily throughout the centre, providing calming and inviting spaces, where you'll often hear children, whānau and kaiako engaging in meaningful conversations.

Van & Excursions

We proudly operate our own Busy Bees centre van, allowing us to help support both new and existing families who require assistance with transport to and from the centre. We also utilise this awesome resource for excursions out and about in our local community!

Our children also enjoy walks where they can get out and explore locally. We are fortunate the centre is a short walk from the local park and Western Heights Primary School. Other places our kaiako and children love to visit include MIGs Gymnastics and the Redwoods. We often have our local community join us in Centre for visits and enhance our children’s knowledge about people, places, things and events.

Curriculum

Our curriculum reflects our philosophy for strong relationships. We absolutely love coming together with our tamariki, whānau and community to strengthen our connection with one another. At Busy Bees Mangakakahi, we love to celebrate different cultures and events, which provide boundless learning for tamariki and an appreciation of different cultures and traditions.

Our core programme at mat times focuses on shapes, colours, letters and numbers, and are integrated throughout each week.  We often see tuakana-teina relationships at play, with the older children encouraging and helping the younger ones, leading to many heart-warming learning moments.