Caring & Passionate Childcare Hibiscus Coast, West Auckland
Why Nurture? Our simple values speak for themselves - we are passionate about our children, people and our environment. These values underpin our teaching teams’ daily practice and curriculum delivery.
We proudly provide childcare on the Hibiscus Coast and in West Auckland and Onehunga. Our three childcare locations provide an inspiring space for children to grow and learn.
Each space contains its own unique features that make them so engaging for children to join. Whether it’s the advanced learning spaces, the separate cafe style kitchens or treetop areas, your children will always have an area where they feel happy to engage and learn.
What childcare services do we provide in West Auckland, the Hibiscus Coast and Onehunga?
Our childcare services revolve around four imperative principles, including:
Social competency: We believe that for children to thrive in primary school a key element is for them to have development confident social skills. Therefore, we provide a comfortable and inclusive zone for children to learn this crucial life skill through play and activities.
Creative based learning: Because creativity covers so many bases: critical-thinking, leadership, outside-of-box thinking, problem-solving & more. We encourage creativity to enhance a child’s ability to think independently.
Environmental awareness: Connection to the land and the sustenance it provides is essential to Nurture & this can be seen through our outdoor natural spaces.Nutrition: Nutrition is essential to wellbeing from childhood to adulthood, and is essential to a person’s ability to optimise their potential. Therefore, we encourage healthy nutrition amongst all our children in a safe and inclusive space.
We value our children, we value our people.
When you enter a Nurture Early Learning Centre you will also feel the value that has been placed on providing our families with generous childcare spaces to engage with and move within. At Nurture we strive to create meaningful learning spaces that our teachers are proud to take ownership of, and that our families will treat as a second home.
A Nurture Early Learning Centre offers several unique spaces which expand our children's environment during their time here. Our 10 years serving community families has highlighted to us the importance of offering these unique areas allowing smaller groups to come together for meals in the kitchen Cafe or special time in our upstairs learning space we call the Treetops. We value our Cafe as a place of life and relationships where we seek to make eating a positive experience, inspire kindness and nurture conscience. We celebrate it as a place to explore our various cultures and embrace togetherness.
“He kai kei aku ringaringa” (“I can eat my food with my own hands”). Here, we can offer our children opportunities for self-empowerment and support their development as competent and confident eaters. We believe that nutrition education happens through play and investigation by utilising each child's natural curiosity to explore, thus reconnecting them with the food we eat and how it gets to their plate. In our large Treetops space, children can engage in deeper learning opportunities and investigations, extend their creativity in the separate art atelier, or participate in our Moving Smart Program, or story yoga sessions.
The Nurture outdoors space is designed to reflect nature and provide enough open-ended opportunities for our teachers to create different learning environments and physical challenges to keep our children inspired and engaged.
To find out more about our Hibiscus Coast, West Auckland or Onehunga childcare, simply fill out an inquiry form on our contact page or call one of our individual centres and we will be happy to discuss your child’s enrolment at one of our locations.
The Nurture Team
All our centres have qualified educators, who have trained for many years as well as up and coming teachers in training.
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Moving Smart
Moving Smart is an internationally recognised movement based program that uses movement to help develop school readiness in our children. Our Nurture teachers are trained and accredited teachers of the Moving Smart program. We have resourced our Treetop spaces with all the Moving Smart equipment so that our teachers can help assess and develop your child’s readiness for a formal education setting.