Term 1, 2025 

 

 

New Soft Fall

 

We are so lucky to have received a grant from the Rotorua Trust to replace our safety matting in our playground.

Vision and Hearing 

Vision and Hearing do regular visits to check our four year olds. They play a game that helps to check their hearing levels and their vision. This is such an important check and can pick up early signs of anything not being quite right, giving time to get it checked further.  Some of our tamariki have needed glasses following these check ups or extra hearing checks so it's a great service. Next visit is at the end of April.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We have welcomed 8 new children in Term 1, 2025. We have a few spaces available due to some of our children starting school next term.

We've had a dress up in pink and red day for Valentines Day, and a green dress up day for St Patrick's Day!

 

Look out for our bright and fun flag if you are passing by or looking for our centre - we are a hidden gem, but don't want to be hidden!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Library visits

We are very excited that this year, once a month from February through to November each year we will be taking part in the 'On the road' preschool programme. Whaea T.A. from the Rotorua Library will be coming in at 11am on a Wednesday each month to share a story time, musical instruments or sensory play with our tamariki. 

The library also delivers a box of books for us, to compliment our bookshelf. We are able to look at and read the books,  then they are collected after 4 weeks, and another box delivered! We get to choose the topics we would like and they pick out a few surprises too. 

 

 

Staff Training:

2025 - Our Centre Manager and Admin Manager will be attending a Governance course with the Ministry of Education in January, and one of our teachers will complete her Red Cross First Aid Certificate.

Three of our teachers recently completed a workshop for Kowhiti Whakapae which is a new website designed to help us in our assessments of our tamariki.

Anna recently attended a Funding Forum on how to best obtain funding for our bigger projects.

All of our teachers are Red Cross First Aid trained and attend revalidation courses every two years.

All our teachers have completed a Child Protection Course,  an important aspect of Early Childhood Care and Education.