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Managing Challenging Behaviours

Join Karen Campbell from Child Behaviour Service for an online workshop giving parents an understanding of behaviour and why challenging behaviours sometimes don’t just go away and a child doesn’t appear to grow out of that developmental stage. There are general strategies and approaches that are proven to be effective. Karen will discuss general strategies that will work for most children in terms of positive behaviour. She will give some ‘case study’ scenarios from her work with p...

Kindergarten Play Morning

Come join us for a fun morning of play for children aged between 0 to 5 years at Moera Hall.We'll have fun activities, toys and craft, as well as face painting and morning tea. It's all FREE!At this event you will meet teachers from our local kindergartens, as well as get free information from organisations who provide a service to families with young children.We're excited for a fun morning and we hope you can join us.Spaces are limited so please register via the link below:https://forms.gle/5m...

Annual Report 2023

Click on the link below to read our 2023 Annual Report...

Kindergarten Play Morning

Come join us for a fun morning of play for children aged between 0 to 5 years at the Wainuiomata Hall.We'll have fun activities, toys and craft, as well as face painting and morning tea. It's all FREE!At this event you will meet teachers from our local kindergartens, as well as get free information from organisations who provide a service to families with young children.We're excited for a fun morning and we hope you can join us.Spaces are limited so please register via the link below:https://fo...

Supporting your child's eating

Join Judith from The Confident Eater for a jam-packed interactive workshop showing you simple, gentle and practical ways you can support your child to eat widely and well. Whether they are a little bit or really fussy, Judith will talk you through proven ways to conquer food refusal and stop mealtime battles - as seen on Breakfast TV, The Project, The Café and heard on Radio NZ.There will also be a question & answer session at the end of the workshop to ensure you leave with a “next step�...

Parent and Whānau Workshop

Get fun and practical ideas for how you can support your child's language development at home. This workshop will be presented by Christian Wright, Private Speech Language Therapist and will cover: what parents should expect of typical speech and language development, important milestones, strategies to support speech sound and language development. There will also be a question & answer session at the end of the workshop to ensure you leave with a “next step�...

Parent & Whanau Workshop

Introducing some of the characteristics of Autism as well as drawing on information from Mona Delahooke’s book, “Brain-Body Parenting”, and other sources, this workshop offers insights into Autism, the biology beneath behaviour, and a compassionate approach that supports understanding of emotions and the development of self-regulation skills in children. This workshop is for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of autistic and neurodivergent children and ways we can support them.Date: Wed...

Parent & Whanau Workshop

Get fun and practical ideas for how you can support your child's language development at home.This workshop shares the role that parents and whānau play in developing a child's language. You will learn about how children learn to talk and techniques you can do at home to encourage their language growth.This is a free workshop for parents and whānau of children enrolled with Hutt City Kindergartens.Presented by Claire Fouhy, Speech Language Therapist from Hutt City Kindergartens. You are welcom...

Parent & Whanau Workshop

Be inspired with nutritional ideas for your child's lunchbox and get hands-on with making your own snack to take away.The Heart Foundation will be joining us to share nutritional advice and do demos of how to make healthy items for your child's lunchbox. You will then be invited to make a snack for yourself.It's free to attend for families who have a child enrolled with Hutt City Kindergartens.Spaces are limited and registrations essential. Register online here:https://forms.gle/mRDJLTGf13pJ6k4E...

Kindergarten Play Morning

Come join us for a fun morning of play for children aged between 0 to 5 years at the Wainuiomata Hall. We'll have fun activities, toys and craft, as well as face painting and morning tea. It's all FREE! At this event you will meet teachers from our local kindergartens, as well as get free information from organisations who provide a service to families with young children.We're excited for a fun morning and we hope you can join us.Spaces are limited so please register via the link below: https:/...

Kindergarten Play Morning

Come join us for a fun morning of play for children aged between 0 to 5 years at the Koraunui Community Hub. We'll have fun activities, toys and craft, as well as face painting and morning tea. It's all FREE!At this event you will meet teachers from our local kindergartens, as well as get free information from organisations who provide a service to families with young children.We're excited for a fun morning and we hope you can join us. Spaces are limited so please register via the link below:ht...

Online Parent Presentation

Tune in to hear the neuroscience around learning! Presented by Kathryn Berkett from Engage Training.We will unpack what physically happens in the brain when we learn! We will discuss how our environments impact learning and concentrate on the importance of modelling, reinforcing and repetition. We will also discuss the importance of learning from other children and what we can do to enhance the learning process.Monday 9th May 20227.00pmZoom Online Presentation (details will be sent closer to the...

COVID-19 Protection Framework - Red Setting

Please see a letter from our General Managers in regards to the COVID-19 Protection Framework - Red Setting. ...

Government Mandated Vaccinations for Education Workers

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Annual Report 2021

Click on the link below to read our 2021 Annual Report ...

Moving to Alert Level 2

Please see link below for an update on moving to Alert Level 2. ...

Whānau Update

Please see link for our latest whānau update ...

Alert Level 4

Please find attached a message from our General Managers - Charmaine Hakaraia and Norma Roberts in regards to the recent move to Alert Level 4...

Kindergarten Play Morning - Hutt Central

Families with pre-school aged children are invited to a free Kindergarten Play Morning at the Moera Community Hall on Tuesday 19th October.This event will be hosted by Hutt City Kindergartens, a not-for-profit who has 12 kindergartens in the Lower Hutt area. Come and meet the teachers from the kindergartens in the area and there will be toys, crafts, face painting, story time sessions and information stalls for parents and whānau. Plus free coffee and morning tea! ...

Kindergarten Play Morning - Stokes Valley

Families with pre-school aged children are invited to a free Kindergarten Play Morning at the Koraunui Community Hub on Tuesday 28th September.This event will be hosted by Hutt City Kindergartens, a not-for-profit who has three kindergartens in Stokes Valley. Come and meet the teachers from the kindergartens in the area and there will be toys, crafts, face painting, story time sessions and information stalls for parents and whānau. Plus free coffee and morning tea! ...

Kindergarten Play Mornings - Wainuiomata

Families with pre-school aged children are invited to a free Kindergarten Play Morning at the Wainuiomata Library on Wednesday 15th September. This event will be hosted by Hutt City Kindergartens, a not-for-profit who has five kindergartens in Wainuiomata. Come and meet the teachers from the kindergartens in the area and there will be toys, crafts, face painting, story time sessions and information stalls for parents and whānau. Plus free coffee and morning tea! ...

HCK are Rainbow Tick certified!

We are very proud to announce that Hutt City Kindergartens is now certified with the Rainbow Tick!We began this process in late 2019 to become a Rainbow Tick certified organisation. This is a continual quality improvement programme designed to help an organisation ensure it is a safe and welcoming workplace for employees who are members of the Rainbow community. We were assessed on our policies, training, staff engagement and support, external engagement and monitoring. A process that would see ...

COVID Alert Level 2 - 15 February 2021 - Whanau Newsletter

Please find our latest update in our response on moving to alert level 2...

Whānau panui - November 2020

We've sent out a whānau panui with the latest news from our Association and key dates for the upcoming holiday break and 2021. Click here to read the e-newsletter...

Our local firefighter in Pukeatua

When the fire siren calls in Wainuiomata the tamariki at Pukeatua Kindergarten jump into action. They know that sitting in the office is their very own firefighting hero and that the siren means she’ll be leaving in a hurry to drive a big red fire truck. Nathalie Pettigrew has worked for Pukeatua Kindergarten as an Administrator for eight years and is proud to be a volunteer fire fighter in Wainuiomata. A role that she can do thanks to the kindergarten being within 5kms of the fire station. A...