Grow Early Education

Grow Early Education provides inspiring and innovative education- genuine back to basics of warm caring and highly responsive teaching from birth to five, 7am - 530pm Monday to Friday. We pride ourselves in delivering the best in ECE: smaller group sizes, lower ratios, purpose built learning areas and passionate teaching professionals for every age group. We have earned a four year, very well placed Education Review (ERO) report which we welcome you to read. Grow Early Education is proudly a privately owned childcare and kindergarten. Our knowledgeable and experienced owners are onsite registered teachers who engage day-to-day with our Grow tamariki and their families.

Our location borders 19 hectares of recreational space including two wetland areas with a large playground, both walking and cycle tracks which we make use of as we explore our wider environment. With the St Kilda retirement village just down the road, Grow have a programme where our little ones and members of the retirement community spend regular time together. We have established connections for second language learning, swimming lessons and access to the best in technology advances appropriate for supporting preschool learning.

Our purpose built learning areas at Grow are reflective of the high standard of living maintained at St Kilda, Cambridge (including sustainability principles such as using solar energy.) Our playrooms have been designed to support age/stage development for infants, toddlers and young children with interconnected options for working independently or together. Our soft furnishings provide a modern, homely feel that promotes taking pride and ownership of our environment. We support New Zealand owned and operated when sourcing resources with a large portion handcrafted from local providers.

Grow's own outdoor environment ties exisiting elements together with a consistent, natural theme reflective of the wider quality environment at St Kilda, Cambridge. Our playground incorporates bike tracks, swings, a stage, cubby houses, fireman's pole, slide and rock climbing wall, messy kitchens, mud pit, raised veggie gardens, chalkboards, large sandpits and a dry riverbed with water play. As children advance through their education at Grow, they experience new and varied challenges. There's lots to explore with pine and macrocarpa towers/platforms/playhuts that introduce a sense of height to an otherwise flat area providing many opportunities for imaginative play and physical challenges.