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Little Kiwis Early Learning Centre offers a rich educational programme for children aged 0—5 years old.

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)

Little Kiwis is Christian-based and we believe that growing up with God’s love builds and prepares our children for their future. Our school is located in the central of Manukau City, is architecturally designed and purpose-built for providing a safe, caring and secure environment for your child.

The environment of our Childcare Centre is founded on the concepts of Reggio Emilia. Its purpose is to provide inspiring possibilities for children’s learning. It is equipped therefore with richness and room for exploration, which draws out children’s curiosity and inclination to learn and work at their own pace.

Montessori’s educational methodology supports our programme planning, by bringing elements of order and structure within the environment, to facilitate children in making competent choices for leading their own learning.

Our teachers are passionate for our children’s learning, and equally dedicated to serving the needs of parents and whanau in our community. We carefully design and review individual planning for each child’s learning interest, to ensure children’s developmental needs are being met.

With the friendly, exciting, and nurturing environment at Little Kiwis, your child will have a great start in life!

Our teaching is based on the New Zealand Early Childhood curriculum, Te Whariki and inspired by the principles of the Reggio Emilia approach.

We aim to create a welcoming, nurturing, home-like surroundings that have the potential to inspire children, where parents and whanau are treated as valued members of our community.

At Brilliant Minds we offer an environment where children understand the foundation of Te Ao Maori, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and acknowledge Maori as Tangata Whenua. We offer a rich bi-cultural experience that helps children value the New Zealand culture and its way of life.

We apprize the diversity of cultures at our centre and aim to build respectful relationship between Whanau, Tamariki and our educators. We acknowledge all ethnic groups by respecting their cultural identity, heritage and language. We ensure that there are equitable learning opportunities for all children irrespective of age, ability ethnicity and diversity.

We derive inspiration from the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy where children are active participants in their own learning and develop a unique reciprocal relationship with their teachers. We believe that children have multiple ways to express themselves. They are encouraged to foster critical thinking by exploration and observation.

We encourage our educators to respect a child’s choices and value child-initiated experiences. They challenge and provoke ideas through open ended questions and allow the child to make mistakes and learn from them. The child’s learning and developmental progress is observed, documented, displayed and shared with parents.

We aspire to build a place of encounter and connection, and interaction and dialogue.