Strawberry Garden Childcare

childcare — Bay View · Napier

About Strawberry Garden Childcare

A small nature-based childcare centre on Onehunga Road in Bay View, Napier, which opened in 2017. Its work is built on relationships, nature and play, and the site is set among trees, gardens and native birds. The youngest children have the Pēpē Room, which takes up to 12 babies and toddlers in a separate, free-movement space with its own outdoor play area. Once children are around two, they move to the Koru Room, which takes up to 26 children and has a large outdoor space, creative, construction, literacy and numeracy areas, and a quiet book nook for resting. Families of babies receive a daily record of sleep, meals, bottles and nappy changes, and can call or message through the day, with photos during the settling-in period. The website says the team is qualified, and it describes the centre manager as having a Bachelor of Education in early years. One parent says they would not want their child anywhere else.