About

TLC is a early childhood centre catering for children from three months until they go to school. 

TLC 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 a fully qualified teaching team.  

TLC 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 caregivers. 

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 caregivers. 

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'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 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. 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.