Active Explorers Lower Hutt

Located next to Eastern Hutt School, with excellent links to the busy Lower Hutt community, Active Explorers Lower Hutt provides high quality care and education in a warm and friendly environment.

Passionate about meeting the childcare needs of busy families, we offer great facilities, a well considered curriculum, and a team of qualified and experienced teachers who love what they do. We’ll help your child tap into their unique potential and lay the foundations for a lifelong love of learning.

Give your little one the perfect start. Visit us today at Active Explorers Lower Hutt.

Our philosophy

We believe that secure relationships are the fundamental foundation to learning. We strengthen self-esteem through respectful interactions, appreciation of views, Te Whariki, the New Zealand Early Childhood Curriculum guides our teaching, while concepts of RIE and Reggio Emilia theories are reflected in practices, thinking and on-going professional learning.  Principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, te reo, tikanga and kaupapa Maori are woven into daily practices.  We acknowledge our multicultural community and value all cultures, religions and beliefs.

Rooms

Active Explorers Lower Hutt has two separate rooms, enabling us to deliver age appropriate experiences for children at each different age and stage.

Infants and Toddlers Room

This room caters for our youngest Active Explorers, up to the age of around 2.5 to 3 years. It is equipped with its own sleep area, a homely quiet area, a music area, a family corner, blocks, trainset, art area, and a large outside space with a covered sandpit.

Preschool Room

This well resourced space caters for our 2.5 to 5 year olds and has everything they need to build skills and develop a love of learning. There is a separate area for our 4 year olds to take part in our transition to school programme.

Why choose us?

There are a host of reasons why families choose Active Explorers Lower Hutt. Here are just a few of them:

• Multicultural, inclusive environment
• Safe and nurturing
• Purpose-built centre
• Healthy Heart meals provided
• Conveniently located next to a school and handy to everywhere
• Secure
• Weekly library visits for our 4 year olds
• Regular visits from community organisations (e.g. Police, ambulance, SPCA, local marae)
• Family orientated, parent involvement encouraged
• Playball available
• We celebrate a wide range of cultural days/weeks
• Lots of fun activities and events including dress up days and family evenings