What's New
27 Jan 2012
We had a couple of big events to celebrate around the preschool this week including Chinese New year on Monday and Australia day on Thursday.
The children had a great time making lots of Chinese New...
16 Jan 2012
Please remember as from today we are now loading all daily Diaries straight into the website so we no longer emailing all families with this. We hope you enjoy this new system!
9 Jan 2012
Password protected Parent area soon available,details to follow or ask Kathryn if you can't wait!
23 Dec 2011
We are thankful to report all children and Staff are safe and have been collected or left the building.
22 Dec 2011
Today we had another smaller Christmas party to celebrate the end of the year with the many children who missed out on our big party held at the Heathcote domain on the 10th December.
There were...
26 Oct 2011
Here are a few photos from our Celebration Evening which was held last Thursday. All our three areas (Nursery, Toddlers and Preschool) presented a musical item for the parents and whanau. We also had...
12 Sep 2011
- we are currently updating this site and hope you find it helpful.
You have been invited to make suggestions, add feedback and comment on what is already available on this site via our online survey...
15 Aug 2011
6.30am 15 August 2011
We are closed today due to snow
Any queries to Kathryn 027 2401414
8.00pm Saturday 13 August
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1 Feb 2011
Due to a rapid growth in numbers we have now employed two new teachers, Bec who is our new Head teacher in the Preschool area. She is very experienced and holds both a Bachelor of Teaching (Early...
21 Jan 2011
What a busy start to the new year, we have had lots of people come in to have a look around and sign up with us, you will notice a lot of new faces in the preschool over the next few weeks. We would...
10 Jan 2011
We hope everyone had a great Christmas and a lovely New year holiday! Most families have now returned from Holidays now and we are starting to get back into the swing of things. Last week we had fun...
7 Jan 2011
New and prospective families are welcome to visit us at any time
14 Dec 2010
Thanks to everyone for coming along on Saturday we hope you all enjoyed yourselves!
Children performing their songs
Santa arriving
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3 Dec 2010
Our Reception area now has one piece of special art and a special photo above the window which we will rotate each week. If your childs art or photo is up there, please see reception to get a copy...
16 Nov 2010
Our vegetable gardens in both the toddler area and the preschool area, are now ready for harvesting. It is a very exciting time for the children after all the hard work they have put in to grow the...
8 Nov 2010
Guy Fawkes Day - Friday 5th November
Over the last couple of days at preschool we have been talking lots about fireworks, so for some of the children that have never seen them before we played some...
1 Nov 2010
We have had a slight increase in our rolls lately so if you are thinking about childcare then now is the time to come and have a look. We have lots of children on the waiting list to start in the new...
27 Oct 2010
What a sucessful evening we had last Friday at our first ever disco held at the Heathcote Valley School Hall. We had a DJ who played lots of dance tunes for us!! Everyone had so much fun!
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22 Oct 2010
New Shade sails have been installed in all the three areas of the preschcool, so it will be lovely and shady everywhere over the hot summer months!
18 Oct 2010
For the last activity of the school holidays, the whole preschool brought along their teddy bears from home and joined together on the nursery lawn to have a special teddy bear story and a picnic....
8 Oct 2010
On Wednesday as part of our Holiday programme, the big preschool children held the first ever Heathcote Valley Olympic Games!
All the children lined up in anticipation of the games...
First...
1 Oct 2010
We had a fire engine visit us at Preschool on Thursday! First the firemen came into the Teaching room to show us all the equipment they use and put on their fireman suit to show us!
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28 Sep 2010
For the next two weeks of the school holidays we will be having fun days with some of the major events on the days below...
WEEK ONE
Monday 27th September
Whole Preschool trip to the...
20 Sep 2010
On Thursday the preschool children went down to the local library for their weekly library trip however the library was still closed due to the recent earthquake so we did a spontaneous trip to the...
16 Sep 2010
We were so pleased to see so many families back and that everyone is safe after the big earthquake we had recently.
The children don't seem to notice the very slight aftershocks we have...
31 Aug 2010
Today the preschool helped celebrate and support daffodil day and the amazing work that the Cancer society does. We had daffodils in the Reception area and the children had the oportunity to make...
23 Aug 2010
The preschool children ventured off down to the local library last Thursday for their first week of library visits. Every Thursday from now on the preschool children who attend in the...
17 Aug 2010
From this week we will be starting our regular weekly trips to our local library to celebrate National library week, we will post some photos on here later so make sure you come back next week to...
9 Aug 2010
Welcome to all the new families that have recently enrolled with us we hope you and your children enjoy your experience with us in our new centre.
Here is some of the feedback we have been receiving...
2 Aug 2010
We had another dance class held in our own gym on Friday, have a look at our beautiful little dancers!
The preschool children have been working on growing their...
27 Jul 2010
Our open days on Sunday mornings have proven extremely popular for families enabling a lot of Mum's & Dad's who work during the week to visit at a leisurely pace,we have now finished these and...
15 Jul 2010
Dress up day - Tuesday 13th July 2010
Here are the nursery teachers Lydia and Ngaire with some of our gorgeous babies!
Our Toddler teacher Katrina reading stories to the children
A little...
12 Jul 2010
Last week we had so much fun at the preschool with our crazy hair day, pjama day and on Friday we had Pizza day! All the children brought in an ingredient from home to put on thier own pizza for...
6 Jul 2010
The beautiful weather brought out lots of families to our last open day on Sunday, it was great to meet you all and thanks to all our new families who have enrolled as a result of these open days! We...
28 Jun 2010
Due to the sucess of our Sunday open days we have decided to extend them into the month of July so please feel free to come down next Sunday and have a look around!
We have been really busy over the...
23 Jun 2010
Thank you to all our families who came along on Thursday night to take part in our first Celebration Evening. It was wonderful to see so many parents, caregivers and grandparents celebrating the work...
14 Jun 2010
We have been having so much fun at the Preschool lately and this Thursday we will be presenting all the wonderful work we have been doing since opening at our Celebration Evening this Thursday 17th...
10 Jun 2010
Thank you to all those families who braved the wet weather on Sunday to come and have a look around our preschool. We took in a few more enrolments so our rolls are quickly growing fast. Don't miss...
2 Jun 2010
We have been taking in a lot of new enrolments lately so don't delay in enrolling your child now! If you want to come and have a look around we are able to show people around anytime between 7.30 and...
20 May 2010
If you missed our first Open day, don't worry we have more opportunities to come and view our new centre in the month of June! No appointment necessary just bring your family and friends during the...
12 May 2010
We will be starting regular updates from today so everyone can see what the children are up to at the moment, so keep checking to see whats happening!
Don't forget we are open from 7.30am until 6pm...
16 Apr 2010
Yes, we are OPEN.
We became licensed as of Monday 12th April and have families enrolling everyday due to the success of our OPEN DAY held on Saturday 10th April.
We would like to take the opportunity...
14 Mar 2010
Only 4 weeks till opening, we will be having an OPEN DAY on SATURDAY 10TH APRIL. All enrolled and prospective families are welcome. We would love to see you all here, you won't be disappointed, we...
6 Mar 2010
WOW! It's hard to believe the progress to date, over the last month the building has been painted both on the exterior and the interior, the colours are looking great! We are having artists coming in...
3 Feb 2010
Now that the progress of the building is nearing completion, with a proposed opening date of Monday 12 April, we are taking full enrolments now.
All information and enrolment forms can be found on...
17 Jan 2010
We're excited about the launch of the first phase of our great new website. All the information on our programmes, our enrolment process and all our various policies can be found on the site....
