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Minerva House Preschool

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Minerva House Preschool is a state of the art preschool in St. Albans, Christchurch.

Minerva House offers the best in early childhood care and education, with highly trained and experienced staff in a purpose built, beautifully designed and excellently resourced centre.

09/09/2026

This term, the Nursery tamariki have been learning all about how things move. 🚴🚜✈️
This week, we focused on different types of vehicles, and what better way to explore this, is a special visit from our local police officers and their police car! 🚓👮‍♀️
The tamariki had an absolute blast,sitting inside the police car and pretending to drive, trying on some of the police gear, watching the flashing lights and, most importantly, hearing the VERY loud siren 🚨

A huge thank you to our wonderful police officers for coming to visit us and making the tamariki day so special! ❤🙂👍

08/09/2026

This term the Butterfly Room has been learning about the continents of the world. 🌍🗺
This week it’s been all about Antarctica! ❄️🌡What a fun way to learn about the continent by going to the International Antarctic Centre!
We had so much fun exploring all the sights. 🐧
A big thank you to the wonderful parent help, we couldn’t have done this trip without them. ❤ 🙂 What a fun Tuesday!!

26/08/2026

What a fun couple of days we have had in the Nursery! 👍

Firstly, we had bike day, which everyone always enjoys. All the tamariki enjoyed riding their bikes up and down the driveway, having running races and exploring a different environment in the sunshine. 🚴🚴‍♀️
We also celebrated sports day where some of our tamariki came as their favourite sports teams. 🏊⚽🏈
We spent the day playing T-ball, throwing balls around and colouring in some sports pictures. ❤🙂

05/08/2026

For the Butterfly Room’s term topic “Around Te Ao” (world) we have been learning about different countries from the world. 🌍

To start our topic, we focused on learning about New Zealand for a week. We learnt about what a Prime Minister is and how he is the ‘boss’ of the country. We learnt about Christopher Luxon and even wrote him some letters and asked him some questions. 📝✏

Today we received a letter back from him answering all our questions. ❓
We had so much fun reading them as a class! 🙂

Please enjoy reading his answers below. 👍❤

04/08/2026

A quick trip outside this morning, no time for jackets to enjoy the snow falling!! ❄🌨 how much fun does it look! 😅 The laughter and squeals said it all.

Stay warm today whanau. ♨️❤ 👍

24/07/2026

This week the Nursery began our new term focus - how things move!
We started by exploring vehicles and transport, a topic that has sparked lots of excitement!
We learnt about buses, rubbish trucks, trains, and race cars, discovering what each vehicle is used for and the unique sounds they make. 🚌🚋🚚
We then got very creative by doing painting of our own buses, rubbish trucks, trains, and race cars, and even used toy cars to make colourful tracks and patterns on the paper. 🎨
We also had fun playing vehicle bingo, listening carefully to different transport sounds and matching them to the correct vehicle. 🏎🚜👂

We can't wait to continue discovering more about how things move throughout the term! 🙂❤👍

09/07/2026

This week to celebrate Matariki the Nursery tamariki made some parāoa parai (fry bread). 🍞🥖
This is a very simple yet yummy recipe that everyone loved helping make it and enjoyed eating more! ❤🙂👍

07/07/2026

Today we were lucky enough to have Nikki from St John visit. During her visit we saw pictures of emergency services. 🚑Nikki shared some of the equipment we might see on an ambulance, tried on some special jackets and practiced putting bandages on ourselves. 🩺

Thanks, Nikki, for visiting us again. 👍

Like always, the tamariki loved having you to visit! ❤ 🙂

30/06/2026

Today we all celebrated Matariki with a shared music session with Loopy Tunes Preschool Music and morning tea with our whanau!

We had a great time upstairs learning some new songs and dancing along with our friends. 🕺🎤
Thanks to all our whanau who came in and shared this morning with us we had a great time, and we hope you did too. ❤🙂👍

11/06/2026

The Nursery recently welcomed some exciting new toys, and one of the biggest hits has been our brand-new bubble machine! 💧

As many of you may know, the tamariki are absolutely bubble crazy, so when the giant bubble machine made its debut, there were squeals of excitement and lots of happy faces all around. 😄

There has been plenty of fun, movement, and excitement as the bubbles float around the room. It's safe to say that the bubble machine has quickly become one of our favourite toys. 👍

We've already used it so much, and every time it comes out, the fun begins all over again! ❤️🙂

Address

90 McFaddens Road
Christchurch
8052

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	8am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	8am - 5:30pm
Thursday	8am - 5:30pm
Friday	8am - 5:30pm

Telephone

033558886

Website

http://www.minervahouse.co.nz/

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