Tui Early Learners Birth to School

Tui Early Learners are five privately owned childcare centres in Palmerston North and Feilding which provide high quality early childhood education and care for children from birth to starting school.

Our vision is 'what is in the best interest of the child?'

At Tui we value children’s strengths, interests and abilities. We recognize young children’s need to develop their abilities to become independent and their desire to begin to guide their own learning experiences and outcomes. To achieve this we include a variety of free play and planned structural events within the routine of the Tui day.

Play as a Teaching Tool.

At Tui, play is seen to be a meaningful learning experience which focuses on processes, roles and interactions between people and objects. Studies show the links between play and many foundation skills and complex cognitive activities such as memory, self regulation, oral language abilities, successful school adjustment and better social skills.

Our philosophy

At Tui, we believe that early childhood education is a collaboration between parents, children and teachers.

Parents are important to us - you entrust us with your children; you appreciate us; you challenge us; you support us.

Children are important to us - they are the reason we come to work with a smile every morning! Children delight us, test us, cuddle us, extend us, learn with us.

Teachers are important - all children have great potential that we need to understand and guide

so we continue our own learning through professional development both as individuals and as teams.

Parents and families are joint players with teachers in the task of raising healthy, curious, happy, resilient children.