Midcity Childcare Centre is a play-based early childhood centre on Rostrevor Street in Hamilton Central, close to the city centre and easy to reach from Victoria Street. It takes children in three stages: an infant room called Rito, a toddler room called Māhuri, and a small-class kindy called Rākau. Learning follows Te Whāriki, the New Zealand early childhood curriculum, and each child has a personal portfolio book that records how they are developing. The centre runs a weekly Born to Move gym programme for children aged 2 to 5, with 30-minute sessions, and Kindy Gym and fortnightly nature sessions as well. Families who have written about the centre say the teachers have been supportive, particularly for first-time parents, and that the transition back to work after a child is born is made easier by the way the team cares for the children.