About Us

For our younger children, we provide primary caregiving. We have a key teacher who will provide all the care moments for your child including bottle feeding, nappy changing and supporting them at sleep times. Your child has their own cot in our lovely spacious sleep room, and throughout the day we follow their individual routine. While for younger children these care times are critical for their wellbeing, we also provide them with fun, interactive learning opportunities that support their brain development and understanding of the world.

For our toddlers, we have a routine based around their eating and sleeping. This provides them with consistency and familiarity which helps them settle into each day. Throughout the day we have a range of activities and ideas based around their interests, and their developmental and dispositional needs. The toddler stage is a very busy time where children are developing their communication skills, testing boundaries and growing into their fabulous personalities. By providing them with an environment designed around their needs, where they can become active explorers, work and learn alongside their peers and be supported by our kind and experienced educators we see tremendous growth in their language, physical abilities, understanding and problem solving ability, as well as the ability to relate to others.

For our 3 and 4 year olds we have a beautiful room with a wide range of interesting and challenging resources for them to explore. Once a week we have sandwich day, where our children are supported to make their own sandwiches. This encourages them to make their own choices, develops their hand, eye co-ordination, concentration and independency. We have experienced educators who work alongside the children and their families and whanau to support the ongoing development of their child. At this age group, most children are toilet trained, are continuing to develop their verbal communication skills, and are supported to actively problem solve, work with their peers, share, become increasingly independent and take an active interest in the world around them. At this age the literacy and numeracy which has been weaved throughout the programme becomes more formalised in a focused phonics literacy programme. This supports the learning of numbers and letters, their sounds, how they are written and much more. This is taught in a fun, engaging way each day to support our children in developing a good understanding of numeracy and literacy before they enter primary school.

Each child at Mt Wellies has an individual development plan based on their specific needs, interests and dispositions. They are also involved in group project work which is based on the groups collective interests. Parents see and hear about their children’s learning each day at pick up time where they receive feedback from their child’s teacher as well as their children. Parents also receive monthly learning stories which highlight some of the key learning happenings based on the plan that has been developed for their child. This is received electronically via an online system called Story Park.