Welcome to Mercury Bay Preschool
Learning through play. Exploring with wonder. Growing with confidence.
Welcome to Mercury Bay Preschool, nestled in the serene beauty of a nature rich setting. Our passionate staff are dedicated to providing a warm and nurturing environment for your child's early years.
At Mercury Bay Preschool, we embrace the rich natural surroundings and integrate them into our educational approach. We implement Te Whāriki curriculum, ensuring that each child's learning journey is tailored to their unique strengths, interests, and needs.
We understand the importance of strong partnerships with parents/whanau and actively collaborate with them to align our teaching practices with their aspirations for their children. Together, we create a supportive and inclusive community where every child thrives.
Join us at Mercury Bay Preschool, where our amazing staff, the beauty of rural living and a carefully crafted curriculum come together to create an exceptional early childhood experience for your little ones.
Our Curriculum
Our stunning, nature-rich surroundings provide the perfect backdrop for our early childhood education curriculum where our highly skilled kaiako guide children through a diverse and carefully crafted curriculum which is underpinned by Te Whariki, the National NZ Early Childhood Education Framework.
Te Whāriki is founded upon four principles:
Empowerment | Whakamana – Early childhood curriculum empowers the child to learn and grow
Holistic Development | Kotahitanga – Early childhood curriculum reflects the holistic way children learn and grow
Family and Community | Whānau Tangata – The wider world of family and community is an integral part of early childhood curriculum
Relationships | Nga Hononga – Children learns through responsive and reciprocal relationships with people, places and things
We encourage and appreciate the awareness of the
multi-cultural heritages within New Zealand.
These multi-cultural values are interwoven and visible in our curriculum and environment.