Nga Taonga Aroha Early Childhood Centre

🎶 Music time is our happy place!🎶😍
“We like to move it move it”🥰Music helps our tamariki build confidence, express themselves, and have loads of fun together. ✨
We love the energy as they move to the beat!🕺💃🏽🤩 Taonga Education Centre

🙌A massive shout‑out to Kindness Collective and the powerhouse duo Tiana & Tiana for providing pyjamas for our little ones! 🥰 Your work reaches far beyond the items you give, it brings joy, hope, and a sense of being cared for. We’re so grateful for everything you do for our community and others across Aotearoa ❤️🙏🏽
Taonga Education Centre
Kindness Collective Foundation

✨Catching up on last weeks
events 🥰
Celebrating Pink Shirt Day where our tamariki showed what it means to stand up, speak up, and spread aroha, not just today, but every day.❤️😍
And of course, the rest of the week was filled with simple, joyful learning, exploring, creating, playing, and discovering new interests.

🏆Congratulations to our 11 participants completing our 8‑week challenge, showing commitment, and perseverance💪 this time around we had 6 $$prizes going to the following
1st place Miss Biggy Piggy- Annalese
2nd place- 8 week warrior- Chrissy
3rd place - Coke Zero- Briana
4th place- Cornbeef- Ata
5th place- Dolly - Liz
6th place- Grinch - Pasquelina
also acknowledging
7th place -Lala-Daela
8th place - Roman- Mano
9th place- Hello Jello- Jasmine
10th place - Roo- Reagan
11th place- Michael Jackson- Saturn
*Best nickname - Hello Jello- Jasmine!
👌
Looking forward to another week full of fun learning! 🙌🤩
Taonga Education Centre

🎶🤩🎂🥳
Double the candles, double the fruit cakes, and double the celebrations🥳🎂🤩🎶
Happy Birthday to our two superstars today!! Zoe-3 and Jeremiah-4 🧁🧁
We look forward to another year of watching you grow and learn🙌🥰🥰

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🙌Thank you to all our lovely Whānau who joined us for our Mother’s Day morning event. 🥰 We thoroughly enjoyed connecting with you, and sharing this special time together❤️
For our Whānau who could not make it, we hope that you have something special planned for this weekend! 🤩

😎Our winner for our guess the goodies in the jar will be announced by the end of the day, so if you haven’t had a chance to, please see one our lovely team😍

✨Have a great day whānau! ✨
Taonga Education Centre

Kia Ora Whānau🙂
As we wrap up another wonderful week together, we want to take a moment to thank our whānau for the ongoing support, smiles, and shared moments that make our centre feel like a true community.

ANZAC Day – Centre Closed on Monday 27th April
A gentle reminder that our centre will be closed next Monday for ANZAC Day. We hope your whānau finds a meaningful way to honour the day, whether that’s attending a dawn service, baking ANZAC biscuits, sharing stories with your tamariki, or simply taking time to reflect together.
We’d love to hear what your whānau will be doing to commemorate ANZAC Day, so please feel free to share some photos with us!

Welcoming Our New Tamaiti
A warm welcome to Yannis Rokodakunivosa and whānau who have joined us this week. We’re so happy to have you become part of our centre family, and we look forward to being a part of your learning journey! ☺️

🎓 Farewell to Our Taualai
Today we say a heartfelt farewell to our Taualai, ❤️who turns 5 tomorrow and will be heading off to big school next week. We have loved watching her grow into the confident, kind, and capable person that she is today. She will be dearly missed, but we know she is more than ready for her next BIG adventure!

*Whānau Support
A HUGE thank you to Arikirangi's Nana Tania for the incredible job she’s done in our community garden this week — it looks SUPER AMAZING! ✨

🎉 Birthday Shout‑Out to Jasmine
A special happy birthday to our Kaiako Jasmine, who is also celebrating her birthday over the weekend. We hope your day is filled with fun, laughter, and all the things you love.❤️

💛 Appreciation for Our Team
Lastly, a big mihi to our incredible teaching team for continuing to show up with heart, patience, and presence every single day. Your dedication to our tamariki and their learning journeys does not go unnoticed.✨

Wishing all our whānau a safe, restful long weekend. We look forward to seeing you all back on Tuesday the 28th, ready for another week of learning and connection. 🤩 Taonga Education Centre

The joys of having a feijoa tree at our centre 👌🏽🤩
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🤩What an awesome two weeks it’s been! Our holiday programme was full of busy hands, big imaginations, and tamariki who brought lots of energy🥰
Thank you, whānau, for sharing your little superstars with us these holidays. 😍
We can’t wait to see more of our tamariki returning next week!🌟
Enjoy the weekend Whānau 🙌
Taonga Education Centre Nga Taonga Aroha Early Childhood Centre

🚲Check Pita out on Friday morning, rolling into kindy with his parents on their bikes. Helmet on, a BIG smile, ready for the day.🤩
Love seeing our tamariki and whānau finding fun ways to save on gas and stay active. Awesome mahi, Pita and whānau. 👌🏽
Keep leading the way! 🚲🙌
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