Childcare options in Takaro

Busy Bees Pioneer Highway have a wonderful purpose built Nursery and Preschool sitting alongside each other, featuring fantastic outdoor play areas and quality educational resources.

Our childcare centre caters for children aged 0-5yrs, with each age and stage receiving meaningful care, as well as personalised learning and development.

Your child will love the well laid out learning spaces, consisting of family play, creative art areas and a quiet space for reading and reflection.  There’s also plenty of natural resources with space to explore.

Our qualified, experienced daycare teachers at Busy Bees Pioneer Highway are warm, welcoming and fun. They guide our tamariki to engage in challenging experiences. We treat all children with respect. Plus, we provide equal opportunities to ensure your child gets the best start in life.

Parents love the rich sense of community, and our curriculum reflects our philosophy for strong relationships. It values input from parents, teachers, whānau, children and our wonderful community.

Welcome to Inspiring Minds Montessori Preschool

The Inspiring Minds Montessori preschool is a high quality Montessori preschool, nestled in a homelike environment.

Inspiring Minds Montessori Preschool is open from 8.00am- 5.00pm and is located at Matipo street, Palmerston North. The centre caters for children from 2 - 6 years of age.

Our philosophy

Inspiring Minds Montessori is a Pre-School based on the Montessori philosophy to education while being accommodative of other educational approaches

The Inspiring Minds Montessori approach is designed to bring the best outcome for children up to the age of six through nurturing, their spirit, personality, love of learning, curiosity, creativity and emotional intelligence.

We work in partnership with families, community and children to provide a quality early childhood programme.

We work within the four guiding principles of Te Wháriki. The principles of Te Wháriki include empowerment, holistic development, family and community, and relationships.

Our environment

Inspiring Minds Montessori provides a rich environment for learning, one that is calm, respectful and fosters independence. Materials are presented

beautifully and in ways that provokes children's interest, thinking and investigatory skills. Children's natural tendencies for creativity, problem solving and self discovery are highly valued, and opportunities to cultivate these tendencies re embedded in the environment.

The fundamental component (main curriculum) of the Montessori Method is the Prepared Environment where children are free to respond to their natural tendencies.  The phrase 'Prepared Environment' refers to a well thought out environment where children have extensive opportunities to learn and explo

• Beauty, order, simplicity, reality and accessibility.
• Children have the freedom to work (play), move round and interact freely within appropriate guidelines that enable them to be part of a community of learning.
• Specially designed material and other activities help them to explore their world, and foster holistic development. 
• Everything in the environment is child-sized, to foster independence.
• A mixed age group (2 ½ -6) encourages all children to develop their personalities socially and intellectually, at their own pace.

Kia Ora from Ruahine Takaro Kindergarten, an open and inclusive learning environment driven by bicultural and multicultural practices.

At Takaro everybody is welcomed with open-arms.  Many cultures and diverse needs are celebrated, and strong bonds exist between tamariki, kaiako, tangata whenua and local schools. 

This is a place of Ako (learning together), where every tamaiti is a taonga (treasure) and whānau are acknowledged as first teachers.  We work closely with whānau to strengthen learning and provide consistent strategies which support tamariki at kindergarten and home.  

Te Reo Māori is spoken freely and integrated throughout our kindergarten programme, and tamariki develop as kaitiaki (guardians) of our environment as they plant, cultivate and harvest fruit and veges.

With access to our spacious and well-resourced indoor and outdoor environment, there are ample opportunities for learning all aspects of the curriculum through play.  Creativity and problem solving skills are fostered through a rich mix of planned and spontaneous activities and strong  friendships are formed between tamariki and participate in the many opportunities for manaakitanga (hospitality).

Our team can provide positive parenting support though the 'Triple P' programme at no cost, we offer free transport to and from kindergarten in our van, and no tamaiti will go hungry or be excluded for financial reasons.  

Come and experience the warmth and wairua permeating all aspects of life at Ruahine Takaro Kindergarten. 

Our centre is open Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 2.30pm, and closed over the Christmas and New Year break, as well as three weeks during the year when teachers are engaged in professional development (dates to be advised on enrolment).

Three, four and five year old's may attend our kindergarten up to 30 hours at no charge, a fee of $2.50 (inclusive of GST) is in place for tamariki under 3 years of age, but we may be able to assist you with fees if you have a confidential kanohi ki te kanohi (chat) with Tina our Head Teacher.