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“Lovely staff members, quality childcare with quality resources. Spacious outdoor and indoor learning environments. Hidden treasure on Universal drive. My baby girl enjoys going to school every morning.”

“best thing about this kindergarten is that all the staff are very friendly and welcoming. whatever views or ideas you give will be respected and appreciated. I had done my teaching practicum there and I loved it. they respected my culture and values and implemented my ideas into their centre programme during planning. both the indoors and outdoors setup and environment is perfect. my deep acknowledgement to all the staff and of course the wonderful children for allowing me and accepting me as one of their team member during my teaching practicum.”

“Our grandaughter attended Epsom North Kindergarten for the past 2years and I have nothing but admiration for the teachers. They run an amazing curiculum of children learn by play.They are understanding of different cultures and the children love them.They have made the transition to school so easy for our grandaughter.I would totally recommend Epsom North Kindy it's a family inclusive kindy.”

“Great place! Teachers and helpers are friendly and great with the children!”

“It was a awesome daycare for my daughter when she was 2 and a half years old”

“Awesome place good atmosphere teachers are awesome too a lot Patience with our tamariki”

“A beautiful nature based kindergarten!”

“Great place friendly staff very welcoming :)”

“The best decision we ever made. Nature is all the toys you need. Imagination sparks creativity. We have seen confidence increase and a greater awareness of self and so too increased sense of belonging. A Nature based classroom is the best school for anyone young and old. Amazing heartfelt teachers enhance the experience even more so”

“imma just leave all my memories here!”

“Both of my girls have gone through Te Atatū Peninsula Kindergarten (6y & just turned 5y). The team creates a safe, fun environment for our tamariki to thrive in their years before starting school. I would and do recommend this kindy to anybody who will listen!”

“Mt Albert Kindergarten is a lovely kindy with kind and caring teachers. The outdoor area has lots of room and a huge sandpit.”

“Fantastic place. The Laingholm Play Centre is welcoming and always wanting more parents and children to come join them. A great family environment.”

“It's been 16 years since I've been here but I still remember the caring and patient staff at this kindergarten. Paula and Simrat who worked here in 2005/2006 always looked after the children, they never shouted or got angry about accidents and overall had great work ethic. Highly recommended to take your children here once they turn 4. The only down side though is during school holidays their services are limited.”

“This is a fun and exciting place to be super friendly staff my experience here was awesome stress free enrollment and enviroment most of all my daughter loves her new school.”

“We couldn’t be happier with BPM. All of the teachers are amazing and have shown so much compassion and patience with our daughter as she transitions into kindy. They take the time to get to know each child and really engage with them to make them feel so safe and loved, as well as provide reassurance and regular updates for us as parents. We are so lucky to have found them and can’t recommend BPM enough.”

“Howick Kindergarten entrance is from the Wellington St. If see on the map it seems like it is on the Waterloo St. But it is not and it is from Wellington St. There is a small sign board "Howick Kindergarten" on the entrance of the by road. Cannot imagine there will be such a nice kindergarten inside that road. The staff and teachers are very nice, very friendly and helpful and taking good care of the kids. Inside the kindergarten, there are plenty of activities kids can do. Sometimes we cannot find this much of activities even in big place. Kids can play with sand and some sand activities with toys and many kids enjoying this. They have the freedom to do whatever they like there. Some containers kids can collect water and some kids make holes and filling water, some kids filling sand to containers, some filling sand to trucks and they are enjoying very much. Next to that, there are some activities area, like sliding, climbing, rope activities, and some other I don't know the names. Inside the classrooms there are activities like different kind puzzles, watercolor painting activity, then small carpentry workshop with all the hammers, screwdrivers, goggles, saw, nails, pliers, clamp, leveling instrument, and some other instruments, And there is a big basin and teachers fill up the water to that basin and kids allow to do some water sports, floating boats, filling different water bottles, different shapes, funnels,.......etc, Then around 10:30am, school arrange kids with milk and fruits. And the day I stayed with my son, (as he was crying I had to stay with him sometime there inside the kindergarten), I saw teachers made fried rice with kids, teachers advise and show them hot to clean and cut vegetables and kids do it as a activities and everything did with kids help and I saw kids were enjoying that very much and at the end, everybody eat fried rice as lunch and it was amazingly delicious. My son ate 2 times the fried rice. Some kids playing with play houses, some are doing some painting and drawing. some are playing all the time. And there are more activities to do. I saw next to classrooms, there is a nice garden with flowers and kids enjoying that garden too. And there are many other activities kids can do and I just told what I saw and notice only. so, it was an amazing experience for me, looking at the kids and how the teachers let kids to do different activities and give them such a nice experience where kids cannot have at homes. My son was crying and teachers were trying their best to make him calm and their service and efforts beyond someone can expect. So, I have no hesitation to recommend this place for anybody looking for a kindergarten. And I'm putting this note as a privilege and to respect their polite service and honest efforts for looking after kids.”

“We love this Playcentre! There's something for every child, from the playground, to the arts and crafts, books, cooking, water play, messy play. My child has a great time learning with other kids, and I get to interact with other adults. Highly recommend.”

“I really miss this wonderful school and lovely Hanne's family and lecturers.”

“Amazing staff, super happy to have my little baby girl there. The staff there treat her as if she's their own.”

“Lovely staff and plenty good times with my twin daughters. 2005-2007”

“We enrolled my son when he was just 18months old, as we had just emigrated from South Africa, leaving behind all friends and family and the teachers were amazing and super supportive, they became our family away from family! So when my daughter came around, I never had any concerns of enrolling her at just 4 months. My kids are both now in primary school and their time at Lollipops is always looked back on fondly by us all.”

“Such an amazing beautiful centre!!”