Child Minding

At Methven Pre School Learning and Childcare Centre children are our primary focus, with each child being unique and bringing and exclusive set of capabilities and needs to our centre.

We aim to provide a warm caring environment with purposeful and challenging experiences which actively promote children’s thinking, problem solving and exploration.

The growing town of Whitianga ensures that this centre has a lot of new families of different nationalities for your child to interact with. Sessions Monday -  Wednesday 9am – 12noon.

The Nanny Company are a friendly, well informed organisation that provide affordable, quality home based care for preschool aged children. We have a range of services for families looking for home based care.

Research shows that little minds grow best at home. PORSE Educators and Nannies are passionate in their fundamental belief that ‘home is where the start is’. They benefit from ongoing support and free training from qualified trained early childhood education teachers.

Set amongst large grounds on a peaceful street, Kiwi Kids provides modern, safe and secure quality facilities with plenty of space for the children to play. All meals are provided and they offer 20 hours free childcare per week.

The Association runs 51 kindergartens in the central north island. Their mission is to provide the highest quality early childhood education for young children in settings that inspire active learning and support inclusion. Call them for locations of other kindergartens in your area or check their website.

Kiwi Kids Early Learning Centre is a family centre where your child and whanau will feel at home and part of our extended whanau. Kiwi Kids is a purpose built centre, creating three developmental areas for your child. The Piwakawaka room is for our young infants, the Tui tots room is for our busy toddlers and the Kereru Kindy is for our ever exploring young children.

We really care about you and your child getting the best start with learning and development. After more than a century of teaching young children in our region, we have both experience and enthusiasm.

Just Four Kids believe that a home based childcare offers a sensible alternative for parents for care and education of their young children. With a maximum ratio of one adult to four children there are benefits to the child such as forming a psychological attachment to their educator who is able to respond to a child's needs allowing the building of bonds through closeness and trust.

The team at Educare Tikipunga pride themselves on incorporating all aspects of our community, from the diversity of the cultures of our families to the frequent adventures we take on our walks to the park, development sites, shops and other interesting localities.

We offer a range of babysitters who will come to your home during the day or evening. They will entertain, feed and bath your child/children and follow their usual routines/bedtime activities, settle them to sleep, and attend to them during the evening should they wake. We also provide Hotel/Motel sitters for those that are on holiday or business in Dunedin. We can also organise multiple babysitters and set up a child friendly area within corporate/sports/wedding and other such events.