Just Kidz Kelston

Just Kidz Kelston is a brand new, beautifully designed purpose-built centre. We have a license for up to 90 learners including 22 under two-year olds.

We are open from 7am – 6pm Monday to Friday and offer half day sessions, ‘school’ days or full days on either a full-time or part time attendance.

We are located on the outside of Kelston Shopping centre, where the teachers and families enjoy the convenience of the shopping amenities upon dropping or picking up their children. We also have our own designated underground carpark with a very helpful elevator (or stairs) designed to assist you and your family needs.

Our centre is warm, welcoming and has a nurturing environment.

Our handpicked team of professionals are all Early Childhood Qualified and Registered Teachers of New Zealand. They are very experienced and confident in their teaching pedagogies, so we can support children to flourish and grow in their early years.

We are very fortunate to have our own onsite Chef who has had years of experience in creating nutritious meals, which enables us to be able to provide healthy and fun meals for our children. Please note that we also support children’s dietary and or cultural food requirements, just have a chat with us.

Our centre is made up of 4 wonderful learning spaces named after our beautiful West Auckland Beaches.

The Piha Room

Is specially designed for infants through to children up to 2 years old.

This room allows lots of space for our youngest learners to move around and explore. The environment is set up to create a safe learning space with plenty of natural light and all the comforts that our littlest learners require.

Be reassured that your children will experience respectful and peaceful relationships with their teachers. We believe in providing an environment where children’s routines can be calm and unhurried, with a huge emphasis on communicating with you as their parent or caregiver.

Our Piha Room also has their own wonderful outdoor area, with a sandpit and beautifully designed playground. This is separated from our older children, which promotes our little one’s safety and physical wellbeing.

The Muriwai Room

Is specially designed for our active explorers aged 2 to 3 years old.

It is sunny and warm with amazing natural light. The environment is created to respond to our toddlers rapidly growing capabilities, and it provides opportunities for individual exploration as well as peer engagement.

We have essential learning areas that are fully equipped with amazing and well thought out resources that are designed to promote experiences that will extend your children’s learning and foster their creativity.

Our Muriwai Room has TWO outside play spaces, with a sand pit, a little Whare and even their own little waka, along with lots of other fun resources and equipment to challenge our little one’s holistic development.

The Whatipu Room

Is located on our top floor and designed for children aged 3 to 4 years.

This room has amazing learning areas, along with resources that are of a very high standard and that are designed to support your children to develop a greater awareness of themselves as learners.

Our Whatipu room supports our young children in how to plan and monitor their own individual learning and with peer interaction.

This also includes a beautifully designed dramatic play area, which is very popular with this age group, as it supports them to develop those essential social skills that enable them to establish and maintain friendships.

Our Whatipu Room shares a very large playground on the top balcony with the Cornwallis room. It includes beautiful outdoor equipment, and a very popular bike track! Along with other fun resources and equipment that your children will enjoy!

The Cornwallis Room

Is also located on our top floor and is specifically designed for children 4 years to 6 years.

Our curriculum throughout our centre is designed to promote readiness for school, however our Cornwallis Room has an array of experiences for young children to engage in, that promote preparation and transitional learning into our local primary schools.

The learning resources that have been chosen for this room promote and allow children to engage in literacy rich learning, mathematical concepts, inquiry-based challenges and holistic growth.

Our Cornwallis Room shares a very large playground on the top balcony with the Whatipu Room. It includes beautiful outdoor equipment, and a very popular bike track! Along with other fun resources and equipment that your children will enjoy!

Be reassured that the teachers will support you and your child to have a fun, and smooth transition into primary school.