Welcome to Karori Kids

Quality education and care within a family environment in the heart of the Karori community

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We have full time space available now

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LIMITED FULL TIME SPACES AVAILABLE IN 2022

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1:4 Teacher to Child ratio

Karori Kids Inc wants to spread our message of hope and compassion. We believe that a single action can make a difference in the community, and that collective action can greatly impact the world. Through advocacy and outreach activities, our team works tirelessly each day to contribute their part to the greater good.

About Us

Our Vision

Our Centre's vision is to 'Provide quality education and care within a family environment in the heart of the Karori community'. This is underpinned by our mission 'To inspire courageous investigators within a secure, nurturing learning community'.

We consult with parents to make sure we tailor the Te Whaariki early childhood curriculum to capture the identity and priorities of the centre.

Karori Kids Philosophy

Getting Ready for School

Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds (four year-old programme)

We have a four year-old programme that operates four days a week MON-THURS 2:30-3 pm. The children work in small groups with a teacher, to not only further develop their basic literacy and numeracy skills but to also expand their general knowledge, introduce them to the wider world through fun projects and encourage them to share what they already know and expand on it . We also take the four year olds on school visits as a group, before their individual school visits, we find this hugely benefits with their transition to school.

We foster close relaionships with nearby local primary schools as part of our transitioning programme.  

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At our preschool and childcare centre we also have a three year old programme that operates on a Friday afternoon from 2:30pm-3pm. This encourages children to learn to listen, take turns, take part in discussions as well as encouraging social interaction.

Different resources are used to contribute to the children’s learning including supervised internet access, (e.g. watching the NASA space shuttle launch) the community, as well as inviting different organisations to speak to the children (e.g. SPCA and the Police).

If you would like to receive our handout about how we support children for school  please email the centre.

What's Happening at Karori Kids

March 2021

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Kia ora Karori Kids Whānau

Our current role is 21 children.  We have 3 spaces available immediately (although have had several inquiries to fill these) and 2 spaces available later in the year.  If you know anyone who may be looking for a full-time space for their child, please promote our centre.  As an added incentive, if you successfully refer a family to Karori Kids you will receive one week free of fees.

Please also check out and like, share or add a review to our Karori Kids Preschool Facebook page and put a review of Karori Kids on google.  This will all help in promoting our centre and getting our name out into the community.

We have had a busy month settling our new tamariki into the Karori Kids routine and saying goodbye to Ivan.

BUSY KARORI KIDS TAMARIKI

• Our tamariki have been busy engaging in lots of visual art experiences this month.  From cotton bud painting to sand art, self-directed art works and taking inspiration from famous artists; our tamariki have been learning about expressing themselves, developing fine motor skills, inventing, and experimenting with their visual art exploration.

• We have also had a big focus on supporting children’s social and emotional development.  We have been reading stories about how to be good friends, coaching children to be able to join in play and solve conflicts by modelling and providing them with the words needed, gifting children the strategies needed to calm themselves down like taking big deep breaths and taking themselves to the chill out corner.  In developing these strategies, we have also engaged in learning yoga which has been very popular with our tamariki, particularly at rest time.  We explore yoga through books as well as some fantastic youtube clips called cosmic yoga.

• Science has also been a big interest for our tamariki lately as we explore chemical reactions through baking and volcano making, as well as going on bug hunts and learning about bugs in books.

• Today Catherine and I took a group of 8 children to the library for the Rainbow Reading storytime.  This very special story time was hosted by 3 drag performers who shared some fabulous stories about being uniquely you, being inclusive and embracing self-care and personal growth.  We also did some fun actions songs to move and groove along to.  This experience shows our tamariki the importance of accepting yourself as you are; and being accepting of others.

TEACHERS

• Eva and Victoria are attending a professional development course over 2 Saturdays based around He Māpuna te Tamaiti: Supporting Social and Emotional Competence in Early Learning.  This workshop will introduce teachers to ideas around emotional literacy and encourage teachers to start thinking about ways of being proactive rather than re-active when considering how to grow emotionally literate children.  Teachers will also be learning about establishing a positive climate, constructing values, developing and promoting expectations, establishing consistent routines and creating a safe and inclusive space.  We look forward to Eva and Victoria sharing the strategies they learn through this in order to help guide our internal evaluation on supporting social and emotional development.  This learning also ties in well with the course that Savannah and I have been attending over a series of weeks and a workshop that Catherine attended at the end of last year.

GENERAL

• A huge thank you to everyone who was involved with making our stall at the Karori Karnival such a great success!  The roast pork buns were very popular, as was the face painting.  What a fantastic way to get our name out into the community!

• Just a reminder that we are closed over easter on Friday the 2nd of April and Monday the 5th of April

Tracy Keyes