Active Explorers Grey Street

Are you looking for an education and care centre where your child can explore, learn, and be challenged? A place where they are supported to be all that they are and can be? You’ve found it here, at Active Explorers Grey Street.

Situated on the UCOL campus grounds, our award-winning purpose built centre offers the very best in resources and facilities, including an outdoor playground that needs to be seen to be believed! Family orientated, welcoming and inclusive, Active Explorers Grey Street is the ideal step in their lifetime of learning. Staffed by a dynamic team of qualified and experienced educators, we are here to make sure your child gets the best possible learning experience.

Why choose us?

There are a host of reasons why so many families choose Active Explorers Grey Street. Here are just a few of them:

• Convenient location on the UCOL campus grounds
• Open to students and whānau/families from the wider community
• Family orientated
• Amazing revamped outdoor playground
• Highly skilled teachers develop individual learning plans to suit each child’s interests, aspirations and learning goals
• Strong bicultural understanding and practices
• Celebration of our multicultural environment
• Innovative, fun-filled learning environment
• Purpose-built building with great facilities
• Healthy meals provided
• Gym programmes with Tiny Y’s, Palmerston North Boys High and Flip-it
• Rising 5’s programme that includes foundational skills development, school visits, library visits, lunch box days and literacy and numeracy activities
• Regular excursions (e.g., library, events and local attractions)
• We celebrate GUFF’s Day (Grandads, Uncle, Fathers and male Friends Day), opening the centre on a Saturday to show all the cool males in our children’s lives what they learn
• We celebrate Matariki when our children adorn their wearable art creation on the catwalk for whānau/family and friends
• Active in community events (e.g. Shorts for Hospice, Loud Shirt Day, Pasifika events, Chinese New Year and Diwali)

Our Rooms

Active Explorers Grey Street has two separate rooms, enabling us to deliver age appropriate experiences for children in a safe and nurturing environment.

Pohutukawa Room

This warm and welcoming space is for our under two year olds and it’s a room full of daily celebrations of milestones and emerging personalities. It’s overflowing with smiles and coos of excitement, rolling, crawling and first steps, and the magic of discovering sand castles and making it to the top of the climbing box. This is a space where whānau/parents feel excited and happy to say ‘see you later’ to their child.

Kauri Room

The Kauri Room is aptly named to illustrate the strong foundational skills and learning that our children gain here. It’s a hum of questions and discussions, negotiations and provocations. The teaching team can be found creating masterpieces with the children in the art area or digging through the undergrowth for bugs to learn about. The mixed age group of 2 to 5 year olds facilitates meaningful learning opportunities for all ages.