The Gardens Early Childhood Education

The toddlers at Mill Road have been busy painting their pot plants, getting them ready for springtime.

Cindy’s trolley of fresh fruit and vegetables for our Hill Road centre including something for the rabbit.

Our gumboot garden at Hill Road is blooming.

At Charles Prevost the children have been encouraged to build on their self-help skills.

It’s a beautiful day for the excavators to be out today!

At The Gardens Early Childhood Education we encourage meaningful free play, setting up a range of activities each day for the children to participate in, and love to see them using their senses, developing their fine motor skills and strengthening their imaginative play!

Today the Toddlers at Mill Road enjoyed reading books together. They were sharing their ideas and developing their literacy skills!

At Charles Prevost our nga tamariki love being creative with their drawing skills.

It's reading on the menu this afternoon in the Infants Room! The children enjoy looking at the pictures, identifying familiar objects and naming them to their teachers and peers. They are strengthening their communication skills and developing their confidence to share their ideas.

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The children in the Pukeko Room enjoyed making their own Koru art last week which they have proudly displayed on the wall in their classroom!

These beautiful tulips have popped their heads out at Hill Road, just in time for spring!

The Toddlers at the Mill Road Centre were busy constructing and making habitats for the animals last week. They were learning to work together and listen to each other's ideas.

At The Gardens Early Childhood Education we encourage meaningful free play, setting up a range of activities each day for the children to participate in, and love to see them using their senses, developing their fine motor skills and strengthening their imaginative play!

Look at this wonderful fruit birthday cake one of our parents brought in a few weeks ago to celebrate their child's birthday with their friends!

The babies at Hill Road were enjoying having their hair done this afternoon 😀

Today our PTK children enjoyed pretend play with dinosaurs.

At The Gardens Early Childhood Education we encourage meaningful free play, setting up a range of activities each day for the children to participate in, and love to see them using their senses, developing their fine motor skills and strengthening their imaginative play!

Our Tui Kiwi room had a ROARSOME time last week creating tiger faces!! 🐯

We celebrated Raksha Bhandan and appreciated the beautiful bond between brothers and sisters

It was sandpit play for our toddlers at Hill Road today who were enjoying the sunshine 🌞

The Toddlers at the Mill Road Centre have been developing their problem solving skills while exploring puzzles today.

The children in the Infants room at our Mill Road Centre love building towers!

At The Gardens Early Childhood Education we love to create inviting learning opportunities - tower building is not only great fun but develops the children's balance and hand eye coordination.

We were kindly gifted lemons by one of our whanau today. We are incredibly blessed that we all look after each other here at Hill Road ☺️

The children in the PTK room at the Mill Road centre have been constructing houses with different materials as part of their exploration of The Three Little Pigs story. They have been testing them for strength and seeing if they could keep the Big Bad Wolf out!

Today at Charles Prevost our Nga tamariki extended their transportation interest and enjoyed the rainy day playing with these alphabet trains!

Our infants are loving their baby doll play today at Hill Road.

Look at this sensory set up, ready for our babies to explore!

The children in the PTK room at the Mill Road centre have been busy this morning, making flowers using cups and paint. They are very proud of their creations!

Yesterday the children at our Mill Road centre went on an excursion to Alfriston School where we celebrated bike day as part of our Olympic Games celebrations! The children had so much fun riding their bikes with their friends!

Today at Charles Prevost the children had a WHEELS DAY to support the Paris Olympics 2024. There are a lot of budding champions at The Gardens Early Childhood Education!

Over the past week at The Gardens Mill Road Centre we have been celebrating The Olympic Games. The Toddler's room made a torch and took it and flags on a parade around the centre. You can see the torch proudly displayed outside the Toddler's room by the classroom door!

This morning the children in the PTK room at Mill Road had lots of fun racing their cars around a race track we had drawn on the carpet. We extended this interest by painting a race track on the lino for the children to use after morning tea.

Today at Charles Prevost we welcomed a very exciting guest, Samoan Rugby Sevens player Alamanda Motuga. Alamanda is one of our whanau and we were so proud to see him play in the Paris Olympics 2024!

Our tamariki enjoyed the wonderful opportunity to share in the Olympics sport experience!