Inspired Minds Early Learning Centre

99 Kiripaka Road Whangarei
Open from 7:30AM to 4:30PM

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2 - 3 Years
3 - 5 Years

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Kia ora! We are a early childhood care centre in Whangarei for children aged two and over in a mixed-age setting. We are inspired by the belief that we are helping build the foundational skills for a happy life. We know children are natural learners who learn through play. Through play, our dedicated professional teachers work alongside your child to build knowledge together. We focus on real learning that will build the foundations for success in everything your child does in the future. Children’s positive dispositions, such as perseverance, determination, curiosity, confidence, and kindness, will be nurtured in our quality home-like environment where the children feel safe and secure.
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Why Inspired Minds?

Caring Teachers
Our teachers love their jobs and love making every day a better day.  We practice primary caregiving, which means your tamariki will have a key teacher who will work really hard at forming a close relationship with your child. Once a child feels secure, they can establish quality relationships with others. 
Bush Trips
Once a week, some of the older tamariki head out into the bush. We experience the best of nature, enjoying everything it offers. The children get to explore the bush and take ownership of where they go. There is a lot of problem-solving and confidence-building.
Real Learning
Our play space is free and flexible allowing children’s creativity to flourish while understanding the rules and boundaries of respectful social interactions. Children feel relaxed and loved at Inspired Minds and are open to learning.

The Importance Of Play-Based Learning

Here at Inspired Minds Early Learning Centre in Whangarei, we focus our early childhood education on play, which we believe is an incredibly important and effective way of ensuring healthy and well-rounded development in young children. 
When children play, they become more receptive to learning. This helps them to develop important skills for life without even realising that it is happening in a way that is natural and fun.
Through play-based learning, children benefit from development in several key areas:
Cognitive Development
When young children play, their minds are challenged by various problems that need solving. Children develop an innate understanding of how the world works and how their interactions with objects and their environment can cause either favourable or unfavourable changes. Through play, children can start to comprehend the laws of physics and even start to understand the foundations for basic mathematics, among other things. This provides an excellent foundation for later cognitive learning in school and can have far-reaching consequences on their futures.
Physical Development 
A huge part of early childhood learning is centred on physical development, wherein children learn to use their bodies with ever-increasing degrees of dexterity and precision to achieve their desired goals. Nothing accomplishes this better than playing, which challenges children to experiment with their bodies and learn new skills that are essential for life. This gives children to confidence to experiment more and discover new ways of playing and learning.
Social Development
Learning how to navigate social interactions is essential to children finding happiness and success later in life. Children who do not develop competency in social skills will struggle with a range of psychological and emotional problems as they grow older. Through playing with other children and interacting with them in a freeform but guided manner, children can learn subtle but incredibly important social skills such as empathy, patience, consideration, gratitude, kindness and confidence.
Emotional Development 
Emotional development goes hand-in-hand with social and cognitive development. As children play and interact with others, they begin to develop a better understanding of their own emotions and how to process them. Social interactions help young children to comprehend the consequences of actions on emotions, and this can teach children important skills such as self-control and the ability to show kindness and empathy. 

Our Childcare Centre

We are a quality early childcare centre located in a wonderful villa in Tikipunga, catering for local families and wider Whangarei. We are open from 7:30 am until 4:30 pm. We offer full days and part-day sessions, as well as 20 hours and some limited 30 hours free for children aged three and over. Talk to the team about free childcare.
Our daily routine is structured in a way to suit the different age groups. We focus on Tuakana–teina where the older children are role models and experts for the younger children. This builds leadership qualities in our children and teaches respectful interactions and kindness. We go on regular trips to the bush twice a week to further our interests and love of the environment. This is a big hit with the children
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99 Kiripaka Road Whangarei
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Monday: 7:30am – 4:30pmTuesday: 7:30am – 4:30pmWednesday: 7:30am – 4:30pmThursday: 7:30am – 4:30pmFriday: 7:30am – 4:30pm
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