Kindercare Pinehill

Kia Ora,

At Kindercare Pinehill, we’re more than just an experienced team that will keep your child safe, loved, and learning. We see ourselves as an extended part of your family and we are proud of our heart-centred approach to care, fostering a sense of belonging for your whole whānau. We have been in a part of this North Shore community since 2003!

Joy-filled early years enriched with love and wonder are waiting for your child at our daycare centre. Our team are intentional about slowing down for your child, to build connections with them, and be ready in our head, in our heart and with our hands. You are welcome in this place.

So, give us a call, or better yet, pop in for a visit! And bring your child with you. We’d love to meet you, show you around, and hear about how we can support you. We see our team of Kaiako as the key resource to advancing your child’s tomorrow, today, together in partnership with you as their family. We are conveniently located for families in Pinehill, and Albany.

Warm regards,
Marilee Handley
(Acting) Centre Director / Pou Kaitiaki

Why Choose Our Centre

At Kindercare Pinehill, we commit to creating a nurturing environment where children can grow, learn, and get ready for school successfully.

We foster meaningful relationships with familes, ensuring a warm, nurturing and inclusive environment. This includes focussing on each child’s unique needs through responsive care, age-appropriate activities, and a holistic curriculum.

With qualified ECE Teachers and over 20 years in the community, we are an established centre with options for full day and part day care for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.

在Kindercare Pinehill，我们致力于营造一个充满关爱的环境，让孩子们在这里成长和学习，并为顺利入学做好准备。

我们与各家庭建立深度的联系，确保提供一个温暖、关爱、包容的环境。这包括通过提供积极关怀、适龄活动、全方位课程，照顾好每个孩子的独特需求。

我们拥有资深的ECE教师团队，并且已经在当地社区积累了20多年的服务经验，是一家久负盛名的中心，为婴儿、幼儿、学龄前儿童提供全天或半天的托育服务。

Here are a few other great reasons to choose Kindercare Pinehill for your child:

• Our centre’s thoughtful design enables us to provide small intimate room sizes that fosters calm, unhurried peaceful learning spaces; this is unique within our surrounding community.
• We recognise that a child’s first day in a new environment is a big step. Therefore we design an individual plan to ensure your child feels safe and loved while they are settling at our centre, building on the foundations of social and emotional development.
• Our operational hours allow us to provide flexible options to suit your family’s needs, with full-time and part-time care.
• Kai is included. We believe that mealtimes are a special ritual; a moment to connect and converse making it a joyful and colourful experience. So we provide high-quality plant-based whole-food kai, all cooked in the centre.
• We offer a generous leave policy because we understand the unpredictability of children’s absences.
• Our centre offers Sports4Tots (paid for by parents additionally), a weekly program based on active movement, in addition to various physical challenges offered daily as part of our rich curriculum.
• You and your child will be matched with a whānau support teacher who is committed to working in partnership with you as a family to build a respectful, loving, and trusting relationship.
• We’re proud of our history of long serving Kaiako— their specialised passions include language and literacies, performing arts, music, active movement, school readiness, digital innovation, and gardening.

About Our Care

At Kindercare Pinehill, we believe that the best care and learning for your child starts with creating a safe and loving environment, while providing plenty of opportunities to help them learn and grow. Our Teachers recognise that each child has needs and individual behaviours, and we respond in a personal way to promote each child’s social and emotional competence. We foster a You Can Do It! culture, supporting your child to gain positive habits of mind, that build their ability to be confident, resilient, persistent, organised and get along with others.

Our care and play approach to learning and foundations of igniting curiosity allow your child to have fun while being involved in a range of activities appropriate for their developmental stage, whether they are an infant, toddler or preschooler. These activities build and improve essential skills such as reflexes, vision, hearing, sensory awareness, spatial awareness, direction, midline, patterns, memory, and visual discrimination. We know these are building blocks that must be laid in their early years to enable your child to achieve greater success in their schooling years.

We have two specially designed baby rooms that maintain a low teacher-child ratio, where our teams are committed to providing responsive, nurturing care in a naturally lit space. Our toddler rooms offer a relaxed atmosphere where your child is encouraged to be curious, to explore, and grow their emerging self-help skills. Our fun-filled programs will introduce your preschooler to early phonetic sounds, literacy, numeracy, language, and listening skills.

We love hosting events in the centre throughout the year— family breakfasts, centre fun days and whānau evenings to name a few. These events provide an excellent opportunity for us to get to know you and your child better, and for us to learn more about your family’s traditions, values, and language. We believe in recognising the cultural diversity of every whānau, and celebrating national and international events with you and your child.

We also know that families have different childcare needs, and we would love to discuss them with you. This enables us to provide a tailored approach to your child’s care, learning and fees, to support their growth.