Botany Downs Kindergarten is an Auckland Kindergarten Association centre at 22 Maroubra Place in Howick, Auckland. It aims to build a community of resilient, risk-taking, creative thinkers who inspire each other, with inclusive relationships based on inspiration, respect, role modelling and understanding. Its learning programme is based on children's interests and emerging theories, and it draws on children's own ideas and language.
The kindergarten lists its strengths as oral literacies, risk-taking, perceptual motor skills, divergent thinking, inclusive practice, digital media and transitions. Pets have a central role in its curriculum, and the kindergarten says they help children learn kindness and respect for animals. The website describes a new teaching team that values community input into the programme. Its blog covers the wider Auckland Kindergarten Association network.