Childcare & Education

NZ WIDE: PORSE provides home based childcare options throughout New Zealand. Home based Educators with PORSE provide a calm and stable home environment for your child. Natural Childcare ensures nurturing, loving, consistent relationships, which provide the foundations that all children need in order to develop and flourish.

NZ WIDE: BestStart is for families who want more from Early Childhood Education. Safe, nurturing and educationally focused, we’re committed to growing caring people with curious minds. We have friendly, qualified early-learning teachers, quality educational programmes and safe and secure learning spaces. We have over 260 early learning and care centres, from Whangarei to Invercargill.

NZ WIDE: Kindercare is a leading provider of early childhood care and education, for children from birth to 5 years. We’re proudly 100% New Zealand owned and operated, with learning centres in Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Palmerston North and Hamilton.

HAWKES BAY: Little Magpies childcare services in Napier, Hawkes Bay, offers a Childcare Centre and Home Based Childcare for children aged 0-5 years. We place an emphasis on providing quality childcare for your children to ensure they develop all the skills they require to get the best start in life.

WELLINGTON: Nurtured at Home – Nannies Plus provides quality and experienced Nannies in the Wellington region to either live in your home with your family or come in daily. Nannies can provide flexible childcare options to suit the days and hours you require. Having a Nanny is a practical solution to your childcare needs, as they can also be available for other additional household duties.

NZ WIDE: Babysits makes it easy to find great sitters and nannies in your neighbourhood. With our intuitive platform, you can effortlessly search, get in contact, and plan babysitting appointments. Sign up to our website to become part of the largest babysitting community in New Zealand.

CHRISTCHURCH: Pebbles Montessori in Sumner, Christchurch is based in a beautifully renovated villa and licensed for 30 children aged 2 - 6 years. Our trained and experienced Montessori teachers embrace the Montessori method in order to create a prepared and peaceful environment for our children and families.

AUCKLAND: Are you looking for quality, affordable childcare? We are a free service helping parents access affordable, quality childcare in an educator’s or the parents’ home and giving support in providing great education and care.

AUCKLAND: Kidstown is an educational childcare centre situated at the foot of Mount Wellington in a peaceful residential location. We have a unique outdoor and nature focused curriculum, where we encourage children to become guardians of their natural environment helping them to care for the many animals and gardens that thrive in our Centre.

NZ WIDE: Make family life easier with a Dream Au Pair. Dream Au Pair is one of the largest most respected New Zealand Au Pair agencies providing suitable live-in Au Pairs to Kiwi Families nationwide. You don’t need a huge house and it costs less than you think. Dream Au Pair offers a Ministry of Education licensed Programme based on the New Zealand Curriculum tailored especially for Au Pairs and preschool kids.

WELLINGTON: Marsden Preschool provides childcare and early childhood education for children aged 3 ½ - 5 years. It’s a sunny, spacious play and learning space within the Marsden School campus in Karori, Wellington. We develop self-confidence and independence in readiness for school. Marsden Preschool has 3, 4 and 5 days options, you can use your Government 20 hours ECE subsidy and we have competitive rates.

NORTH ISLAND: Choose Nurtured at Home if you’re looking for a nurturing, educational and fun environment for your child.Nurtured at Home offers high-quality early childhood education and home based childcare in a friendly and nurturing homebased environment, for preschool children aged 0 to 6 years of age.

AUCKLAND: Fairy Godmothers Home-based childcare provides quality home-based childcare and education to children 0-5 year olds. Competitive rates. 20 hours ECE and WINZ subsidy available. We are the choice for you if you are looking for a nurturing, educational, and secure environment for your child(ren).

AUCKLAND: If you’re looking for a daycare centre in the Mt Albert area of Auckland, Mt Royal Early Learning Centre is the place to be! Located in a lovely sunny home with a large outdoor grassed area with large established trees, Mt Royal is a delightful small daycare centre with a maximum of only 24 children attending each day.

MID & SOUTH CANTERBURY: Childsplay Homebased Education Service provides a safe, nurturing & stimulating home environment where positive relationships are fostered between the educator & the child in a small group setting. We offer 20 ECE hours & childcare subsidy if eligible. Our educators are supported by qualified visiting teachers.

AUCKLAND & HAMILTON: Junior Junction childcare centres provide quality care and early childhood education in Auckland and Hamilton. To give your child the best start possible, our passionate staff of highly trained educators and caregivers are committed to making each day a wonderful experience. All Junior Junction centres have specialist age appropriate rooms too, custom designed areas to accommodate babies, toddlers and older children.

AUCKLAND, WAIKATO, BAY OF PLENTY: New Shoots Children's Centres deliver the highest quality of early childhood education with innovative Early Childhood Education Centres in Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Children and families are at the heart of everything that we do. Our approach to learning is through play-based theory and our early childhood centres have specially designed rooms for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

AUCKLAND: Pakuranga Learning Centre is a preschool daycare offering childcare and early childhood education for children from 0 to 5 years old. We are focused on providing excellent childcare services, resource and passion to meet your child’s individual needs. Our centre is open from 7.00am to 6.30pm and we provide full or part day services.

AUCKLAND: EDEN Home-Based Childcare has home-based educators throughout the Auckland region, from Warkworth in the North to Waiuku in the south. EDEN Childcare is a 100% Kiwi owned and operated home-based childcare provider that is licenced by the ministry of education. Unlike childcare centres, our maximum ratio is one Educator to four children (including a maximum of two under two's).

AUCKLAND, WAIKATO, BAY OF PLENTY, THAMES VALLEY: JeMMa’s Homebased Childcare is a privately owned quality homebased childcare and service that provides professional, well-resourced, affordable childcare in the homes of carefully selected Educarers. We believe that the best environment for preschoolers is in a learning focused home environment among children of different ages. JeMMa's currently has well-trained, in-home Educarers operating in Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Thames Valley.

NZ WIDE: Au Pair Link provides educational, cost-effective live-in childcare for your family. With a mission to provide high quality early learning and care in a secure and loving home environment, we now have hundreds of families enrolled in our early learning programmes. Our nationwide presence also means our families and au pairs benefit from a personal, safe and reliable service throughout New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, WAIKATO, BAY OF PLENTY & WELLINGTON: KiwiOz Nannies provides quality solutions for all your childcare needs. Nannies are trained to look after your child’s well-being and development, as well as help your Family life run smoothly. Unlike daycare and in-home Educators, KiwiOz Nannies look after your children in your own home.

**FEATURED** Do you want to teach your kids to swim and learn about water safety? Our SplashSave water safety programme has been put together with this mission in mind. A specially designed water safety programme for parents with young kids aged 0 – 7 years old, so they can take the lead when it comes to swimming and water safety education.

Snail Mail Stories sends personalised and educational pen-pal letters in the post to curious 3-8 years old. Customised with a child’s name and delivered by the postie, they have that joy of receiving something fun in their letterbox each month. Each envelope is also filled with poetry, activities and crafts that inspire children to play in nature. Inspiring little readers and future leaders.