Seatoun Kindergarten

💜 Spaces Available at Seatoun Kindergarten in Wellington! With 20 hours free for all tamariki- including under 3's.

If you’re looking for a safe, nurturing and community focused early learning environment, we’d love to welcome you and your child 🌿

What makes our kindergarten special:
✅ 20 Hours FREE ECE for ALL children - including 2-year-olds.
✅ 100% qualified teachers
✅ Learning through Te Whāriki - Aotearoa's world-leading early childhood curriculum.
✅ OPEN THROUGH SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

🏠 Visit us at 14 Gore Street, Seatoun, Wellington.

📞 Call 04 380 8933 or register your interest today! https://wmkindergartens.org.nz/find-a-kindergarten/show/74-Seatoun%20Kindergarten

One week to go whānau! 🎉 Kia ora everyone, we’re so excited, our Quiz Night is now just one week away, and it's shaping up to be a brilliant evening. We already have seven tables sold, so the room is going to be buzzing.

We'd love to fill those last few seats, so please share this with your friends and family and help us pack the place out. The more the merrier.

Here are the details:

📅 Friday 21 August, from 7pm
📍 Seatoun Bowls Club
🎟️ $30 for one ticket, $50 for two tickets, or grab a table of six for $120
🍽️ Nibbles provided

We've got loads of fantastic prizes and giveaways up for grabs on the night, thanks to our wonderful local sponsors.

Pop your name down on the register at kindergarten to lock in your spot or drop us a line to secure yourself a table, and let us know if you'd like to get involved in any way. We'd love to have you.

Can't wait to see you there!

Ngā mihi,
The Seatoun Kindy Whānau Group

We’ve been making our own instruments recently and these sturdy drums have been a popular addition to our collection of drums, shakers and cardboard guitars! Made with formula tins and decorated at the art table and gluing station with vinyl skins they make a soothing deep pitter patter sound used with hands or sticks.

Monday is Library day at Seatoun Kindergarten! We head next door to Seatoun School Library for a story time and to borrow some books from their wonderful librarian! Our relationship with our neighbouring school is something we both value and appreciate and makes our tamariki transition to their chosen school that much easier as they’ve experienced a ‘real’ school environment before they turn 5 and head off on their next learning adventure! Thank you to all our whanau volunteers!

💜 Our latest Whānau Pānui is out now!
👉 Read about the newest addition to our whānau, a name change for York Street Kindergarten, election year and enrolling to vote, teaching and learning plus catch up on what tamariki have been up to around the regions

WM kindergartens Whānau Manaaki Kindergartens is a not-for-profit organisation that runs more than 100 kindergartens and several home-based early education services across the lower North Island.

One of our families/ whanau brought in a game of Co****le for children/ tamariki to play - what a wonderful way to strengthen the tuākana/tēina bond - where an older or more knowledgeable child supports the learning of a younger or less knowledgeable child. Kindergarten is full of opportunities for tuākana/tēina experiences and opportunities!

Threading activities - like the ones we do at here Seatoun Kindergarten - help build crucial fine motor control, hand-eye coordination, and bilateral skills in our children/ tamariki. This precise pincer movement strengthens finger muscles required for later writing, drawing, and self-care tasks like buttoning clothes - and then there is the social skills formed around the threading basket, as tamariki work chatting and threading with teachers/ kaiako and their friends/ ō rātou hoa

Our strawberries are in the ground! Tamariki weeded the garden bed with the help of kaiako and we planted strawberries hoping to get a bumper crop🍓😊🍓Tending the gardens, planting and food growing and preparation is a HUGE part of our programme here at Seatoun Kindergarten - it’s been a joy seeing tamariki hands on and at one with papatuanuku!

We work together at Seatoun Kindergarten to take care of our environment and our resources - recently our chairs were in need of a good scrub “we can do it!” our tamariki told the teachers/ kaiako. We found small brushes and cloths, filled a bucket with soapy water and set up our chairs in the sun - a busy time chatting and scrubbing and getting our chairs nice and clean! Teamwork!
“Teaching tamariki to care for equipment requires clear modeling, simple routines, and positive reinforcement.”

Our glue gun station is NEVER quiet - always busy, someone waiting for a spare glue gun, planning their next creation. The possibilities are limitless here and the creations coming out of this area show the minds of true artists!

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." — Pablo Picasso