Kiwi Treasures Early Learning Centre is a play-based early learning and childcare centre at 586 Fraser Street in Greerton, Tauranga, for children from six months to six years. Play is the main way children learn here. Through play they build curiosity, problem solving, flexibility and language, and the centre sets up hands-on activities that let each child explore at their own pace.
Older children also join the Extended Learning programme, which builds early literacy, numeracy and self-help skills. Te Reo and tikanga Māori are worked into the day, and the team is led by qualified teachers. The centre opens its doors at 8am, and children bring lunch boxes from home that they can eat from through the morning, with a teacher sitting with them to help.
Kiwi Treasures also runs a centre in Stoke, Nelson, so families who move between the two islands can keep to the same approach.