Annabel's Educare - New Brighton

The best way to prepare children for the future is to meet children's needs and focus on their strengths in the present.

Our Teaching Philosophy

We believe in providing quality Early Childhood Education and care at our preschools for families/whanau in the Canterbury communities.

Our commitment to quality means:

• respecting, valuing and supporting each child as an individual.
• providing a safe secure, nurturing, creative and challenging environment that builds on the child’s strengths, interests and meets their holistic needs.
• fostering an atmosphere in which parents are supported in their role and feel confident, welcome and are able to contribute to the life of the centres.
• teaching staff are professional sensitive, responsive, committed practitioners who deliver a high-quality learning programme in a nurturing, caring environment.
• providing a quality adult to child ratio that ensures all children have opportunities for positive, constructive individual interactions with teachers.
• providing a comprehensive curriculum that encompasses the Principles, Strands, and Goals of Te Whāriki, the Early Childhood Curriculum.
• all children are given the opportunity to develop a knowledge and understanding of their own culture and the cultural heritage of both partners of the Treaty of Waitangi.