Step Ahead

Step Ahead Your children deserve the very best in early childhood education! Step Ahead is a home away from home for your 3-5 year olds in Whangarei.

Based in Kamo, our private kindergarten offers a homely environment, catering for small numbers with 4 qualified teachers supporting the children's interests through play. We provide a beautiful, safe, challenging and inviting environment where children are nurtured, respected, encouraged and challenged. We encourage children to respect themselves, each other and the environment. As teachers, we a

dvocate the right and need for children to play, which fosters the love of learning. We believe that our environment is the third teacher, inviting active investigation, exploration, creativity, independence, leadership and helping to develop a sense of social awareness and interaction with others. We offer the very best when it comes to early learning.

We wrapped up the term with a beautiful new addition to our leadership program - a shared dinner with the children and t...
25/07/2025

We wrapped up the term with a beautiful new addition to our leadership program - a shared dinner with the children and their wonderful parents. The tamariki took the lead by doing the shopping and cooking - how awesome is that!

Last term we were lucky to have the local fire brigade visit our centre and spend some time with our tamariki. Our leade...
25/07/2025

Last term we were lucky to have the local fire brigade visit our centre and spend some time with our tamariki. Our leadership group wanted to show our appreciation, so they got busy in the kitchen baking up some delicious treats and delivered them ready for one od their training sessions.

Last week our leadership group of children headed to our local park, via the bakery. It started to pour with rain but th...
17/06/2025

Last week our leadership group of children headed to our local park, via the bakery. It started to pour with rain but that didn't stop us from having fun and enjoying our bakery treats!

Last week we were lucky enough to have our local Kamo Volunteer Fire Brigrade Crew bring in their fire truck for our chi...
17/06/2025

Last week we were lucky enough to have our local Kamo Volunteer Fire Brigrade Crew bring in their fire truck for our children. We had a lot of fun exploring, and we were lucky enough to give the hose again. How great is our Te Kamo Community!

Our second leadership trip of the term was our give back to the wonderful Te Kamo Community, Whangārei where our tamar...
22/05/2025

Our second leadership trip of the term was our give back to the wonderful Te Kamo Community, Whangārei where our tamariki get stuck in to help clean up our environment. Normally we come away with at least four bags of rubbish but on Tuesday we only collect two bags! Well done to our tamariki for all their hard mahi!

Our leadership programme has kicked off for Term Two 2025. As always, we start with a trip into the Te Kamo Community an...
22/05/2025

Our leadership programme has kicked off for Term Two 2025. As always, we start with a trip into the Te Kamo Community and a visit to our one and only Kamo Pet & Aquatic Centre. Our children loved seeing all the variety of animals, and would love a centre pet!

Keep an eye out for more of our leadership programme adventures!

22/11/2024
Today's leadership trip was to give back to our wonderful Te Kamo Community, Whangārei ! Our lovely children hit the foo...
05/11/2024

Today's leadership trip was to give back to our wonderful Te Kamo Community, Whangārei ! Our lovely children hit the footpaths and grass area around the hall and collected 4 bags of rubbish! Top effort by them, so rewarding! They all came back excited about their effort. Well done to our tamariki.

This week we headed out for our first leadership trip for term 4. With a new group of children, our first trip is always...
23/10/2024

This week we headed out for our first leadership trip for term 4. With a new group of children, our first trip is always to Te Kamo Village, learning about road safety and visiting some local shops. One of our younger tamariki grandads invited us to visit his very cool clock shop, our children found clocks they loved and jewelry they wanted to buy their mums 🥰😁 thank you Graeme Johnson Jewels and Time Ltd for having us and sharing your special shop! We will be back! We then headed to Kamo Pet & Aquatic Centre and introduced our tamariki to all the pets and of course they loved Oreo. The children all enjoyed their first trip and we look forward to the next one!

29/07/2024

We are still on the hunt! If you or you know of someone, feel free to contact me for more information 🙂

19/06/2024

One of our amazing Kaiako has been offered an exciting opportunity to become an Infant teacher. This means we have a position for another fantastic qualified and certified ECE teacher to join our team full time.

If you are newly qualified and like the sound of a well experience teaching team to help support and guide you through your provisional years, we are the team for you. Or if you are looking for a change, we would also love to hear from you.

We are a hidden gem in Kamo, a beautiful villa that really gives the home away from home feel for all our Kaiako, Tamariki and whānau.

We are a family owned and operated for children aged 2 –6, with a license of 30.

As part of the teaching team, we offer the following.

• Extended Pay Parity
• Paid First Aid
• Paid Registration
• 3 hours Non-contact every week
• 50% off childcare for staff children
• Mentoring for provisional registered teachers
• PGC for all Kaiako
• Professional development opportunities
• Passionate teaching team
• A fun space to work
• This role is full time, 32 – 39 hours.

We look forward to hearing from you.
Please send your CV and cover letter to Vicky Brandso, [email protected] or call 0226449456 if you have any questions.

This week we had a very small group for our leadership programme adventure. We have had a busy time with our big childre...
12/06/2024

This week we had a very small group for our leadership programme adventure. We have had a busy time with our big children heading off to school, we will be ending the term with just 3 tamariki before the new group get to take part!

On Tuesday we took two of our oldest tamariki to the Town Basin to the Art Museum to enjoy the big blocks. Before it opened they stopped for a cheeky hot chocolate, once they were at the blocks, they made the 3 little pigs house! Some great mahi, and determination by these two! What a fun morning out!

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13 Grant Street
Kamo
0112

Opening Hours

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

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+6494352825

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Step Ahead is Whangarei's newest early learning centre. Based in Kamo, Step Ahead is a homely centre, catering for small numbers with 3 fully qualified teachers supporting the children's interests through play. At Step Ahead we believe all children to be capable and competent. We provide a beautiful, safe, challenging and inviting environment. One that is ‘home away from home’. Where children are nurtured, respected, encouraged and challenged. We encourage children to respect themselves, each other and the environment. As teachers we advocate the right and need for children to play, which fosters the love of learning. We believe that our environment is the third teacher, inviting active investigation, exploration, creativity, independence, leadership and helping to develop a sense of social awareness and interaction with others.