Our Services

Our beautiful, modern centre is located in a unique setting right next door to Southern Park and Kirk’s Bush. This allows us to take advantage of the wonderful learning opportunities that Papatūānuku has to offer. Our centre not only backs onto these beautiful open spaces, but offers its’ own outdoor environment featuring challenging obstacles for our tamariki to explore.

What we believe in
At Nature’s Point Childcare Centre, we promote children’s learning and development by fostering a rich, nurturing environment where tamariki are empowered to explore, discover, and grow. Guided by Te Whāriki, we support the development of key dispositions such as curiosity, perseverance, and confidence. Our holistic approach values each child’s unique strengths, encouraging manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, and ako. We provide meaningful experiences that spark imagination and deepen understanding through play, nature-based learning, and relationships. Kaiako intentionally plan and respond to children’s interests, creating a foundation for lifelong learning and supporting them to become competent and confident learners, secure in their sense of belonging.

One of the advantages of our centre being right next door to Southern Park is the chance for us to utilize the football and rugby field. Tamariki will have the opportunity to engage with sports coachsfrom outside organizations who specialise in soccer and rugby as well as other sports.

We believe that during these Little Kickers sessions,tamariki will reap the benefits of outdoor physical sports. These include developing and extending their small and large ball skills; hand-eye coordination; balance; strength; gross motor skills and so much more! There are also many social benefits of these physical sports such as learning to play in a team with friends and sportsmanship. These are life skills that will benefit your child both at Nature’s Pointand in the future when they go on to primary school and beyond.

At Nature’s Point we provide all delicious, nutritious kai to all our tamariki. This includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. These meals are prepared fresh and cooked on –site by an experienced cook who holds a Food Safety Certificate as part of government requirements. We’re also a nut free centre and promote healthy eating habits. We understand that a nutritious diet is vital for a child’s development; hence we ensure that we guide and teach tamariki about healthy eating habits during meal times. Tamariki love to eat together, so the meal times at a centre are always fun!

Nature’s Point is well equipped with resources that will support your child’s learning in a fun and enjoyable way. With a mixture of beautiful hand-crafted wooden toys; natural and recycled materials; puzzles; a dedicated science area; lots of pukapuka (books); an abundance of small and large construction resources; art and craft supplies; a whānau and dramatic play area and so much more, our tamariki will be provided endless opportunities to learn new skills and extend on those they bring with them to the centre.