Fanau Pasifika

All cultures are welcome at Fanau Pasifika, the first Pasifika kindergarten in Horowhenua.   Fanau Pasifika was initiated when the voice of the community was heard in 2012, in the former Cambridge Street Kindergarten.    

Our programme offers unique learning opportunities for all children in our aiga (family) based environment, where children attend from under one to five years old.       

We provide opportunities for aiga and matua to be involved in our programme and we encourage them to learn alongside their fanau by staying and working with the teachers. We begin our sessions each day with lotu which is a blessing for the day and we finish our day with another lotu.       

We have a weekly Falelalaga on Wednesdays from 10.00 until 11.00, led by our matua and aiga with support from our faiaoga (teachers). The topic for every Falelalaga is based around the children’s interests.  Va Feiloai ma le Faa’aa’aloalo  (warm relationships and respect) is our protocol that we live by at Fanau Pasifika every day. We also have regular Kapa Haka sessions and our kaiako is Anahera Winiata.    

O le gagana Samoa, Tongan, English and Maori languages are all used in our kindergarten each  day and all faiaoga are aware of what we do and seek support and help from our aiga, matua and our community.     

We encourage healthy food and ask parents to help us with this by ensuring that chippies and other packaged snack foods are left at home. Water is available to the children throughout the session so we ask our matua not to send drinks along.      

Traditional food is provided when we have special occasion in our kindergarten. Parents and aiga are asked to participate and contribute to these special events.    

All faiaoga at Fanau Pasifika are 100% qualified.  Our team is a mixture of cultures, Samoan, Tongan and papalagi with beautiful Pasifika hearts.