We have an exciting project in the pipeline to further enhance our wonderful preschool.

As you will know we currently run 2 nursery areas:

Whakanui - this area caters for our younger infants & toddlers

Puawai - this area catering for our older toddlers

While these are two amazing spaces, having the 2 areas separate poses challenges.

We have been discussing this for quite some time at a Governance level and looking at various ways we can sustain and further enhance this.

What we are looking to do is further develop our nursery area and build a wonderful combined space between the two current areas.

This area will have a dividing wall to continue our current quality practice of safe nurturing spaces for our younger infants and a more challenging environment for our toddlers. It will also have the ability to be opened up to best cater for the age group that are currently in the nursery - and this can change daily.

By placing our new nursery at the heart of our centre it will allow for even better connections throughout the centre with Atawhai and Manaaki.

Atawhai and Manaaki will also gain a little extra space which will be great.

Our architect has drawn up an initial 'footprint' to ensure what we are 'dreaming' about is possible. It looks amazing!!

Financially:

We work really hard to ensure our centre has the best possible resources which are being continually updated, we maintain excellent ratios of experienced and qualified staff, our building and outdoor areas are maintained to a very high standard, our fees are exceptionally low and we have very positive funds in the bank. Our financial statements are on display on the noticeboard outside the office for you to read at any time.

We are in a really stable position to invest further in our centres development and excited about the many benefits this will bring!

Over the 15 years we have substantially developed our centre many times to respond to the needs of our community and are really proud of what we offer.

We would love your feedback on our initial proposal and design, see the attached plan.

Please feel free to drop me an email or stop by the office and I can show you further where we are planning this.