About
TLC The Learning Centre™ is a early childhood centre catering for children from three months until they go to school.
TLC The Learning Centre™ is a centre dedicated to the very highest quality of care, achieving this by having small group sizes, the best teacher to child ratios, and we have 100% qualified teachers for government ratios.
TLC The Learning Centre™ has a strong philosophy which focuses upon respectful and responsive relationships between teachers and children.
Upstairs
Upstairs is our infant and toddler rooms, and has its own entrance and outdoor play space. While the whole centre is inspired by Magda Gerber's Educaring Approach, upstairs is particularly, and passionately so.
Kākano
Our Kākano room is for infants from three months to around 18 months. We aim for a group size of 7 infants with two key teachers.
Weka
Our Weka room is for toddlers from 18 months to around 30 months. We aim for a group size of 8 toddlers with two key teachers.
Downstairs
Downstairs is a mixed age environment and has two whānau groupings.
Kea
Our Kea children are from two years and three months to around three years old. We aim for a group size of 8 to 10 children, with a 1 to 5 ratio.
Tui in a Kowhai Tree
Our Tui in a Kowhai Tree children are from three years until they go to school. We aim for a group size of around 21-25 children, with three to four key teachers.
A Natural Environment
TLC The Learning Centre™'s location was chosen to provide a homely and natural environment with a big, natural outdoor area, surrounded by Vermont Street reserve. This value extends to the types of resources we choose (mostly wooden, heuristic and natural resources) to our food which is home cooked, healthy, and sometimes even grown at TLC!
For example the menu for week commencing 10th August 2020 is
Monday: Pumpkin soup and garlic bread
Afternoon tea: Date scones
Tuesday: Apricot paprika chicken
Afternoon tea: Hummingbird cakes
Wednesday: Vegetable korma
Afternoon tea: Marmite and corn thins
Thursday: Rosemary potato pizza
Afternoon tea: Apple poppyseed cake
Friday: Spinach feta penne
Afternoon tea: Pumpkin Date pinwheels
The menu for week commencing 20th January 2020 is:
Monday: Mexican beans
Afternoon tea: Bran muffins
Tuesday: Beef bolognese
Afternoon tea: Cacao bliss bars
Wednesday: Cauliflower curry
Afternoon tea: Feijoa muffins
Thursday: Spinach macaroni cheese
Afternoon tea: Marmite pinwheels
Friday: Courgette and capsicum pizza
Afternoon tea: Feijoa ice-cream
For example the menu for week commencing 14th October 2019 is:
Monday: Vegetable Tagine with couscous salad
Afternoon tea: Hummingbird cake
Tuesday: Kumara pear soup with tortillas
Afternoon tea: Beetroot dip and corn thins
Wednesday: Beef and mushroom casserole
Afternoon tea: Carrot cake
Thursday: Egg salad sandwiches
Afternoon tea: Marmite and corn thins
Friday:Mexican beans
Afternoon tea: Apple pinwheels
Community Involvement
We are blessed with a wonderful community at TLC The Learning Centre™. We have a parent voice committee which meets every month, to advise us with our communications, and who also plan our fun social events.
We use an on-line portfolio system called Educa which can be accessed by the whole whānau here and abroad, which also has a great notice board where we let the community know what is happening at TLC The Learning Centre™.