Pukeatua Kindergarten

Pukeatua Kindergarten Nga mihi, Welcome to Pukeatua Kindergarten! We are located in the heart of the mighty community of Wainuiomata!

We pride ourselves on our bicultural curriculum and our dedication to Te Ao Maori! Pukeatua Kindergarten offers a warm, friendly and relaxed environment for children/ tamariki and families/whānau in Wainuiomata. The Kindergarten is on a large, flat site, right next to Pukeatua School. A key strength of our Kindergarten is the variety of activities that recognise the multicultural/ bicultural natur

e of our families/ whānau, who come from a rich diversity of backgrounds. We strive to ensure that each child’s identity is acknowledged and embraced and that they know Kindergarten is “their place”. We value and uphold the values of Tiriti o Waitangi and partnership, protection and participation underpins everything that happens within our kindergarten.

Onesie Day Friday!!We would like to invite everyone to join us in supporting the Wellington Free Ambulance Service by we...
10/09/2025

Onesie Day Friday!!
We would like to invite everyone to join us in supporting the Wellington Free Ambulance Service by wearing your onesie this Friday 12th September!

Tongan Language Week Malo e lelei!This week we are celebrating Tongan language week. As part of this, we invited Ana’s f...
21/08/2025

Tongan Language Week
Malo e lelei!
This week we are celebrating Tongan language week. As part of this, we invited Ana’s family to come and share their language and culture with us.

Ana, her mum Feao and auntie Malia came dressed in their traditional Tongan clothes. They also brought special Tapa or Ngatu and the fine woven mat called Kie Tonga to show us.

Feao and Ana taught us the Tongan alphabet sing and Tongan counting. We also got to look at accessories which Ana was wearing as part of her Tongan outfit. The bag is called Kato, the Fan is i and Kafa Pulu is the belt, which is made from coconut husk fiber. Kapa Fulu has tiny flowers attached to it which are made from tiny shells.

We are proud of Ana and feeling grateful towards her family for sharing their beautiful taonga with us - their language and culture.
Thanks you Feao, Malia and Ana. Malo Aupito !

Ko ‘etua lea, ko e fe’unu mahu’inga ia ki he mo’ui’a e Tonga
“Our language is a vital strand of our Tongan culture.”

20/08/2025

Tongan language week - Well done Ana!

19th August 2025 Malo e lelel!This week we are celebrating Tongan language week. We invited Ana’s family to come and sha...
20/08/2025

19th August 2025
Malo e lelel!
This week we are celebrating Tongan language week. We invited Ana’s family to come and share their language and culture with us.

Ana, her mum Feao and aunty Malia came dressed in their traditional clothes and brought special Tapa or Ngatu and the fine mat called Kie Tonga for us to look at.

Feao and Ana taught us the Tongan alphabet song and Tongan counting. We got to look at the Kato(bag), the i or the Fan which Ana was carrying and her Kafa Pulu or the traditional belt made from coconut husk fiber and tiny shell flowers.

We are proud of Ana and feeling grateful towards her family for sharing their beautifuk cultura and language with us, Thank you Feao, Malia and Ana. Mali aupito!

Ko ‘etua lea, ko e fe’unu mahu’inga is ki he mo’ui’a e Tonga
“Our language is a vital strand of our Tongan cultire.”

This Friday 16th May is Pink Shirt Day!!Pink Shirt Day highlights the importance of standing up to stop bullying - help ...
13/05/2025

This Friday 16th May is Pink Shirt Day!!
Pink Shirt Day highlights the importance of standing up to stop bullying - help us show support for this cause by bringing tamriki to Kindy dressed in PINK on Friday!
We will be collecting koha (gold coin donation) to pass on to the organisation - however this is voluntary - please don't feel like you have to contribute. We just want everyone to come and have a FUN PINK DAY at kindy.

06/05/2025

Kia Ora Whānau,
Welcome back to term 2 for 2025!
We hope you are settling back well. This term Chelsea will be returning to Stokes Valley Kindergarten in the Relieving Head Teacher Role so today will be her last day here for now. We will have Fiona Hunt Relieving here at Pukeatua in the meantime.
Just a reminder that communication can go a long way when we are dealing with tamariki routines etc and it helps us to know any information so we can understand certain behaviours. Please have a chat to staff if there are things happening at home that might affect your child's day - whether that would be their mood, health, emotional state etc even knowing if they had a bad sleep can help us to understand why someone might not be their usual self.
Wishing everyone a great day
Nga Mihi
Pukeatua Kindergarten Staff

Finally we have made up our awesome Easter prizes. Raffle will be drawn on Thursday 10th next week. Please bring in your...
02/04/2025

Finally we have made up our awesome Easter prizes. Raffle will be drawn on Thursday 10th next week. Please bring in your tickets and money by Wednesday 9th. More tickets are available. Please ask. Thank you for your support.

Kia Ora WhānauA huge thank you to everyone who has been selling raffle tickets, and donating for our Easter raffle - kee...
24/03/2025

Kia Ora Whānau
A huge thank you to everyone who has been selling raffle tickets, and donating for our Easter raffle - keep those tickets and payments coming in, if you need more please ask Janelle or Nathalie.
In order for our prizes to be really awesome (and more prizes to win) we still need lots more donations of 'Easter' themed goodies and eggs, chocolate etc. If you can help - just bring them along and hand over to a staff member - it is much appreciated!
The raffle will be drawn in the last week of term - Thursday 10th April 2025

Nga Mihi Nui
Pukeatua Kindergarten Staff

Kia ora whanau We will be celebrating Holi at kindy on Friday 21st March at 1 pm .Please send your child dressed in a Wh...
16/03/2025

Kia ora whanau

We will be celebrating Holi at kindy on Friday 21st March at 1 pm .

Please send your child dressed in a White or Black tee shirt.

Whanau are welcome to join our celebration and take photos for us.

We look forward to seeing you join our Festival of colours celebration and have fun with us.

Nga mihi
Pukeatua team

Tomorrow morning is our Christmas raffle Draw. If you have tickets and money to return please do so in the morning.
12/12/2024

Tomorrow morning is our Christmas raffle Draw. If you have tickets and money to return please do so in the morning.

09/12/2024

Kia Ora Whānau
Please get you Raffle tickets and money in ASAP - this will be drawn THIS FRIDAY 13th DECEMBER!!!
If you have last minute selling to do - please ask for more tickets!!

Our Christmas Raffle is coming together. These are some of the prizes we have with more on the way. Only $2.00 a ticket....
25/11/2024

Our Christmas Raffle is coming together. These are some of the prizes we have with more on the way. Only $2.00 a ticket. If you would like some tickets please get in touch.
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Address

21 Frederick Street
Wainuiomata
5014

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 2:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 2:30pm

Telephone

+64274500123

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