Daisies Early Education & Care Centre

12/02/2026

Exciting announcement!!
The Whanake Education Trust has officially launched LumiTree (link below)!! Please follow us.

LumiTree is a special place to come to find inspirational ECE content. Mostly it is in short bite videos accessible free to anyone and designed to be interesting to both educators and parents.

Note: Whanake is a registered charity. The trustees are Anne Meade, Rachel Denee and Linda Meade.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1AkHszwdjc/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Lumitree, a place where people looking for ways to create a high-quality early learning experience can come for information, and inspiration.

09/02/2026

We have a place available for a child aged beween 30 months (2.5 years) and 4 years. It can be for 4-5 days and the start date is early-mid March. Email me on [email protected] if interested.

18/01/2026

Tip #4 - the best time to enquire about a place (via our Waitlist form) is around 3 months before you want to enrol

09/01/2026

Tip 3 - if you’d like to add a day later, we can Waitlist you for that but we can’t “hold” a day to add later.

08/01/2026

Waitlist tip 2 - our busiest days are Tuesdays and Thursdays and our quietest day is Friday

22/12/2025

Tip #1 - it is not necessary to put your name down on a waitlist 12 months before you think you need a place 😊

17/12/2025

It's that time of year when families make decisions about what the next year looks like for them!

We have a few movements meaning some rare places have popped up last minute. If a place at Daisies in the new year appeals to you please get in touch!

[email protected]

Our last day for the year is 23 December and we can offer a visit up until then.

Edit - places are available for start dates late Jan to mid Feb.

31/03/2025

Read about Daisies Enviro-schools journey, culminating in our recognition at the Totara (formerly Gold) level.

Daisies' reflected on their changes, growth and commitment to the Enviroschools kaupapa, and shared stories with the wider community

25/03/2025

Two spots have unexpectedly become available in mid to late April and both at the same time! After months of responding to enquiries with a “try and again later, maybe in August” we can now offer these. So if you are one of those people we asked to be patient - please get in touch now by emailing [email protected] (please don't ring us or email another address) These places are in our Te Purapura house for children aged up to about 3 years.

22/05/2024

This blog, written by our founder (and still very involved pedagogista) Dr Anne Meade, describes how she became passionate about the Reggio Emilia approach and how it could be applied in a NZ context.

My learning about the Reggio Emilia educational project began as I listened to a presentation by Leila Gandini, editor of The Hundred Languages of Children. Leila Gandini’s session challenged my (limited, then) view of how capable preschool children could be as thirsty knowledge seekers. She showe...

10/04/2024

Sign up for the upcoming Daisies seminar (professional development) day!

Kia Ora koutou
We are excited to be holding a Daisies seminar day on Saturday 25 May. This seminar day is focused on sharing our whole centre investigation approach

Daisies’ whole centre investigations have been researched and developed over many years, and we have found strategies that really work in practise. We are excited to share these with you and empower other ECE teams to develop their own contextual approach.

See attached flyer for more information and to register. Please share widely across the sector. We look forward to seeing you there!

Link to register is here

https://forms.gle/GMHBgdorRvsbkiuG6

Ngā mihi nui
The Daisies Leadership Team

01/02/2024

Sign up for the upcoming Daisies seminar (professional development) day!

Kia Ora koutou
We are excited to be holding a Daisies seminar day on Saturday 9 March. This seminar day is focused on sharing our whole centre investigation approach

Daisies’ whole centre investigations have been researched and developed over many years, and we have found strategies that really work in practise. We are excited to share these with you and empower other ECE teams to develop their own contextual approach.

See attached flyer for more information and to register. Please share widely across the sector. We look forward to seeing you there!

Link to register is here

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1hUZRlUKOTrE0UIkzVv-rv_ayKIX8_6Cnem6jd9l9IPh0tw/viewform

Ngā mihi nui
The Daisies Leadership Team