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As an early learning centre, we believe we play an important role in our community and have a very special opportunity to positively impact young children’s lives in the early stages of their development. We offer nutritious, home-cooked meals, as well as a huge backyard play area for our tamariki. We have separate, stimulating environments across two buildings, catering for children aged 0–2 years and 2–6 years.
We love building reciprocal relationships with whānau, tamariki, and the wider community to provide a safe and welcoming environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We aim to be a home away from home for our children and families.
We welcome you to come and explore our centre with us.
At Busy Bees Ngongotaha, we are passionate about teaching sustainable habits and practices to our children. By encouraging reduce, reuse, and recycle, we instil a love for the environment in young minds. This includes learning about and caring for our centre worm farm. We also have a range of fruit trees.
These gardens help tamariki learn through hands-on activities, encouraging them to work together to plant, harvest, and taste. This supports children to develop a love for nature and to care for our environment.
Fruit Trees and Vegetable Gardens
Our centre has vegetable gardens and fruit trees. These gardens help tamariki learn through hands-on activities, encourage them to work together to plant and harvest, and teach them where food comes from. They also help children develop a love for nature and care for the environment.
Worm Farm
We love our centre worm farm as it provides a hands-on educational tool for children, teaching them about composting, recycling, and the environment. This interactive activity fosters curiosity and responsibility as kids learn how organic waste can be transformed into nutrient-rich soil.
Dietitian Designed Early Childhood Menus
Our dedicated cook and centre team have proudly achieved the Bronze Healthy Heart Award | Tohu Manawa Ora from the Heart Foundation.
Our in-house cook provides a wide variety of nourishing meals for the children at our centre, providing foods that are minimally processed, avoiding recipes that are high in added sugar, instead using fresh, real and wholesome ingredients.
Our centre proudly supports the KidsCan Foundation. KidsCan provides centres with fresh, healthy ingredients each week, allowing staff to prepare easy, child-friendly meals. Menus are designed with the Heart Foundation, follow Ministry of Health guidelines for 5-year-olds, and include a balanced mix of protein, carbs, and vegetables, plus fruit and yoghurt. To find out more, please visit KidsCan ECE Food for Kids Programme.
Children often get involved in baking, which helps them to understand where food comes from, develop healthy eating habits with our garden to table projects, and well as learning scientific and mathematical concepts as they bake delicious afternoon teas!
We're committed to Te Whāriki, the NZ National ECE Curriculum. It envisions collaboration between educators, families, and the community to empower children as lifelong learners. Te Whāriki provides a framework of principles and strands, guiding curriculum decisions and supporting children's development. Each setting weaves a curriculum whāriki based on these principles and strands in partnership with families.
The implementation of the centre curriculum contributes to an environment where children are happy, trusting, confident and engaged in meaningful play and learning.
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