Central City A childcare centre your family will love

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Learning Through Play Week

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Conveniently located in the heart of Christchurch, Active Explorers Central City is a vibrant, nurturing and high quality daycare centre. Well resourced, and staffed by highly experienced educators, we support children to tap into their full potential. Our tamariki are encouraged to explore the world around them through rich, meaningful programmes and regular excursions that can’t help but bring out their ‘inner-explorer’. Children learn concepts such as taking responsibility, independence and helping others, and are part of a learning journey that celebrates and grows enquiring minds.

Our families are a vital component of daily centre life, and we welcome and encourage whānau participation and

Learning Through Play Week

We have a week of fun filled activities your little one will love all centred around play - why you ask? Because we know children learn best that way!
Book a tour and see what makes our centre special!

Location

396 Manchester Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8041

Centre Hours:

Monday to Friday: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm

Closed Saturday, Sunday & public holidays

Ages Catered For:

0 – 6 years

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Lunches/Food
20 Hours Free ECE
Extended Hours
Excursions
3 rooms
Purpose built
Transition to school
Healthy Heart

I was nervous about making the right decision for my children in terms of childcare, I don't know what parent isn't. But Active Explorers Central City provide such a loving environment that I felt secure in the knowledge my children were with people who really cared for them - both teachers as well as support staff. Best of all they provided my children with nutritious meals so I knew they were getting all the vitamins they needed - we all know how hard it can be to get them to eat their vegetables at home! I could also rest assured knowing they were having a ball while mum and dad were at work. Isn't that what you want as a parent?

Hilary

I currently have two children attending Active Explorers Central City. The staff have always been so welcoming, accommodating and thoroughly professional. We have really appreciated how the teachers tell us about our child's day and keep us up to date with their playing, learning and any funny moments that have happened. My children come home talking about their teachers and their friends at pre-school, singing songs they have learnt and in our case, lots of art work! That is the biggest recommendation - that our children love it there!

Miriam

Our daughter attended Active Explorers Central City for two months, while our family was visiting Christchurch from overseas. The facilities and staff were friendly and capable. We were pleased that our daughter experienced New Zealand culture and learned a few Maori words. Payments were affordable and easy. We would definitely recommend Active Explorers Central City to other families.

Joshua Davis

News

Urban Explorers Sessions!

We’ve done it. We have started our Urban Explorers programme. We have now had three Urban Explorers sessions. Tamariki and Kaiako are having a wonderful time being amongst nature, noticing the various plant life, meeting locals (and their pets) and learning about different natural phenomena. We’ve found a birds’ egg that the children made a structure out of fallen tree twigs to protect it! We have collected harakeke for a sun screen for our vege garden at preschool along with having the space to run and explore and immerse themselves with nature. As these sessions progress we hope to observe the change of seasons, take sports equipment for movement sessions and much more!

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September's Sustainability Adventures

Welcome to our 3rd instalment of our sustainability journey.

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Sustainability journey - part 2

What and how do you re-use, recycle and upcycle things you find lying around?  How creative can you get with a bunch of things that could be thrown away?

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Sustainability at Active Explorers Central City

Earlier this year, we thought – wouldn’t it be great to teach the children how to make paper that they can re-use in their creative play.  Well – this just opened up the flood gates on what else we could do.  We have so many ideas for where this journey will take us and we know that this practice will become an embedded part of our every day life throughout the centre.

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