Childcare options in Milldale

Here at MiniDale Explorers, our experienced team provides comprehensive educational programmes and professional care for your child, with plenty of natural education opportunities in a nurturing environment ready for your child to learn, grow and explore.

Our centre offers separate learning environments for our Infants, Toddlers, and Young Children, these large spaces allow children to actively explore within an inclusive setting which provides quality care and education for all children.

All of our staff are committed and passionate about Early Childhood Education; this is reflected in the responsive relationships and daily interactions with children, parents, and Whãnau. We value and encourage strong relationships with our parents and whãnau. We believe it is important to form these partnerships, valuing whãnau’s aspirations for their children.

We encourage children’s learning through experimentation, exploration, and play. Our project investigations holistically incorporate all aspects of the curriculum, which includes song, music, drama, art, movement, and the natural world.

We have an outdoor environment that is second to none! We believe that our well-designed and generous playground stimulates the diversity of children’s play experience and contributes to their healthy development.

We are committed to ensuring all children are genuinely cared for by dedicated teachers who have the wellbeing of the child as their priority. We provide a nurturing environment that has high-quality education and care practices that are appropriate for all stages of a child’s development.

Our resources are personalised to the interests and developmental levels of the child and provide opportunities for their extension. As they approach school age our programmes develop the very important foundation skills of numeracy and literacy. We understand that it is an important event when your child moves from preschool to school and this is reflected in the curriculum within our transition to school programme.

Here at MilliDale Explorers, our experienced team provide comprehensive educational programmes and professional care for your child, with plenty of natural education opportunities in a nurturing environment ready for your child to learn, grow and explore.

We regard the environment as the third teacher and have designed MilliDale Explorers to match each child’s unique developmental levels and learning needs. We believe that children learn through play and value our environment as it promotes children’s learning. Individual children’s learning experiences are integrated into our everyday routine. Throughout the centre, natural and open-ended materials provide unlimited chances for children’s imaginations to investigate and play.

Our centre programmes will follow the Principles, Strands and Goals of Te whãriki – He whãriki Matauranga mo nga Mokopuna o Aotearoa – Early Childhood Curriculum.

The Early Childhood Curriculum, Te whãriki and its strands focusing on well being, belonging, contribution, communication and exploration are interwoven throughout all we do. Supporting this are our values and principles reflected in both who we are and in our programmes.

Our Readiness for School program has been created by our experienced and qualified team, in collaboration with the new entrant teachers of our local schools. Special attention is given to not just word recognition, numeracy and vocabulary but also concentration, working in a group and routines.

Matauranga mo nga Mokopuna o Aotearoa – Early Childhood Curriculum.