Our Fantail teachers value our open dialogue with the parents and whanau; we understand that our role of the teacher in terms of this precious age group is to establish trusting relationships from teacher to child, and teacher to parent/whanau.

We believe that through our positive and caring reciprocal relationships we can allow our babies the time to smoothly transition from home to our loving environment.

Morepork teachers work with the one year olds and are all very passionate about working with infants and toddlers. We believe that it’s during these years that the foundations are laid for children to become capable and confident learners.

We strive to work alongside the children as co researchers, to empower them as young individuals with valid and valued ideas, provide a safe and respectful environment where they can test their working theories with their peers and adults and to promote their sense of well being.

We believe all children are unique individuals and our role as educators is to support and provide them with the tools for their learning journey throughout life.

As a multicultural team we value the diversity in which our learning environment is set upon as children build their learning from multiple environments. We believe in forming reciprocal and responsive relationships with each child and collaborate with their families as this is important to each child’s holistic development. Being curious investigators of their wider world we strive to encourage everyone to appreciate the value of the environment as the third teacher and by working together we can bring out the best in every learning experience.