Our Location > Peachgrove Kindergarten

Hours	Monday - Friday Extended Day: Any 6.5 – 7.5hrs between 8am – 3.30pm Morning: Any 4 - 4.5hrs between 8am - 12.30pm Afternoon: Any 3 - 3.5hrs between 12pm - 3.30pm 20 Hours free from 2 years old. $5.00 per hour for any additional hours* (*NOTE: $8 per hour if you have attested any of your 20 ECE Hours at another service)
Contact	P 07 856 6659 E peachgrove@kindergarten.org.nz 0800 CHILDREN (244 537)
Address	181 Galloway Street, Hamilton
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Enrol from birth. 20 FREE Hours from 2 years of age.

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Peachgrove Kindergartens Waikato is well-respected for providing high-quality, affordable education and childcare. We provide an environment where children’s learning is enhanced through both planned and spontaneous learning experiences. We believe in providing learning opportunities that develop the skills necessary to enquire and explore.

Warm & welcoming staff who are passionate about teaching and learning.
Safe, caring and stimulating environment.
Well resourced and huge outdoor play area.
Children develop social interaction and respect.
Private online learning portfolios for parents (sharing photos, videos and stories about your child).
An exclusive early childhood partnership with the Enviroschools Programme (eg. recycling, composting, gardening).
In Partnership with Sports Waikato Under5 Energize to eat healthy, be active & have fun!
Learning based on the NZ Early Childhood Curriculum, Te Whāriki.
Value family/whānau and kindergarten partnership.
Transition to school programme.

"Very friendly teachers and family orientated environment."

- Family Survey

"Aspects of literacy and numeracy are incorporated meaningfully, together with the underlying physical strengths and aptitudes that support these important learning areas."

- ERO Report

"Love the environment and the teachers are so lovely."

- Family Survey.

Our qualified staff carefully plan programmes that fulfil the early childhood curriculum. We aim to ensure children are competent, confident and successful learners. Children will learn and develop:

A strong foundation in reading, writing and maths
Art, creativity, music and dance skills
An understanding of sustainability and their environment
The importance of New Zealand's heritage
Social skills, behaviour management and manners
Self confidence
Learning skills such as independence, creativity and curiosity
Friendships that may last throughout their schooling
Relationships with consistent, familiar teachers
To understand and operate within a structured routine

Teachers provide learning extensions that prepare you child for school which include numeracy & numbers, literacy & language, nature & science, computers & technology, puzzles & games, creative arts, sand & water play, trips, transition to school programme, child friendships… and more!

Children work together at mat time to share daily information, stories, songs, movement, drama & waiata, etc.

A typical daily learning routine

We believe in uninterrupted, imaginative and creative play. This means our mornings and afternoons at kindergarten are unstructured and unhurried.

This encourages imaginative and inventive thinkers, and through play children are learning to develop key life skills such as problem-solving, initiative, resilience, persistence, and getting along with others.

When children arrive at kindergarten, they are free to choose what they would like to do, child-led play.
We have morning tea together at 9:45am. Tamariki are encouraged to care for their tinana with healthy kai, fruit and vegetables.
Music, dancing, and stories are offered after morning tea for those children who would like to join in.
We come together at 12.15pm as a group. This ritual includes practising mindfulness, relaxing to peaceful music and breathing. Encouraging the children to calm their bodies down before they transition to lunchtime or home. This time is a ritual that brings a rhythm to the day for our children. It lets some children know we will soon be dining, and it lets others know that soon they will be heading home.
We sit together for 30 minutes at lunch, afterwards children have a warm facecloth, a ritual that guides the end of lunchtime, and lets children know that the afternoon has begun.
At the end of the day children gather inside for home time and a story from 3:15pm onwards.