Services
Yoga
Yoga is very beneficial for young children. It promotes physical strength, balance and coordination, focus and concentration and self-esteem and confidence. At Smart Kids Educare, yoga sessions are conducted.
Trips
At Smart Kids Educare children go to various trips like parks, farms which help the children understand the outer world and where they learn a lot out of these experiences. They also develop social skills as they stay together in groups and engage in conversations.
Transition to School Programme
We run a transition to school programme for pre-schoolers (4-5 years old) to support the children in smooth transitioning to primary. Children engage in activities that are related to science, cooking, art and technology based on their interests and abilities. Children also engage in numerous activities, drawing, writing, board games, dominoes and circle games. The aim is to support children develop skills such as listening, concentration, sharing ideas, critical thinking, problem solving and for them to be able to sit for a short period of time and complete a task. Children are encouraged to develop their self-care, self-help and independence skills. We liase with our neighbouring schools like Balmoral primary and Balmoral Seventh-day Adventist school to discuss about schools expectations for new entrants.
Cultural events
Our centre is a multi-cultural centre where we have children and teachers from various cultural backgrounds. We acknowledge this by celebrating various cultural festivals like Chinese New year, Matariki, Diwali and Christmas. Parents and Whanau are usually invitedon these special occasions. We all enjoy the cultural programmes and different food from various cultures.
Community Services
Life Education
Interactive lessons for 3-5year olds.
Bringing Harold and meeting with children and discussing about key parts of our body (brain, lungs and stomach) things that need to keep our bodies healthy and happy.
Water Safety
Swimming instructor visits the centre to show and discuss with children how to keep themselves safe.
Jump Rope for Heart
Smart Kids Educare supports, “The Heart Foundation” is New Zealand’s heart health charity leading the fight against heart disease. As part of it, we have jump rope for heart programme where children involve in various activities.
Heart Kids
Supporting “Heart Kids” by organising ‘Little Heart Day’ to support children who have congenital heart defect.