Te Pahu Preschool Group

Te Pahu Preschool is a not-for-profit Incorporated Society and is an independent community-driven early education provider.  We are not affiliated to the Playcentre or Kindergarten associations but are similarly funded by the Ministry of Education.

Preschool is run by our Centre Management who are responsible for the day to day running of the Preschool.

Te Pahu Preschool’s philosophy acknowledges parents as first teachers to their children and our teachers respect the knowledge and interests that children have acquired through their families and early life experiences.

Our aim is to:

• Give children access to a variety of stimulating experiences.
• Give children the opportunity to become confident in themselves as individuals
• Give children an awareness of their environment and their multi-cultural heritage with positive links to the community.
• Extend our children’s social skills, allowing them to grow and develop individually with the process of learning being paramount.

Our goals are to:

• Provide learning experiences that are stimulating, challenging and nurturing.
• Encourage children to use their minds and bodies creatively and expressively.
• Support them to extend their ideas, explore, question, problem solve, practice existing skills and learn new ones.
• Help them develop the skills to set their own goals and become independent learners

…and above all have fun doing so!