About Us
LEARNING LINKS CHILDCARE CENTRES
Learning Links 學前教育中心
As a privately owned Childcare operator and parents ourselves we know first hand the importance of making the right decision for your child.
作为父母及经营學前教育中心,我们亲身了解您为孩子做出正确决定的重要。
With over twenty years experience and Centres in Auckland, Dunedin, Palmerston, Horowhenua, Taupo, Te Awamutu and Hamilton; we look forward to getting to know you and your child.
我們中心在Taupo, Te Awamutu兩間在Hamilton拥有二十多年的经验, 我们期待了解您和您的孩子。
If at anytime you would like to discuss your specific needs call 0800 690 920 and we will put you in touch with our local Centre Manager.
如果您想讨论您的具体需求,请致电0800 690 920,我们将与您联系当地的中心经理。
THE LEARNING LINKS APPROACH TO CHILDCARE
Learning links學前教育的方法
We believe that Learning Links stands out from the rest through its commitment to three important educational priorities:
我们相信,Learning links承诺三个重要优先教育而脱颖而出:
Learning through play
通过游戏学习
Keeping children emotionally healthy
协助孩子维持健康的心境
Educating with a sustainable environment focus
以可持续发展的环境为教育重点
LEARNING THROUGH PLAY
LEARNING THROUGH PLAY通过游戏学习
Play based learning supports children to develop confidence in their capabilities, work creatively and discover an endlessly new world.
基于游戏的学习支持儿童培养对自我能力的信心,创意工作,探索一个无休止的新境界。
As children explore with curiosity the environment, and engage with it, they learn foundational language, science and mathematical concepts in a meaningful way.
当孩子们好奇地探索环境并与之互动时,他们会以有意义的方式学习语言,科学和数学的基础概念。
KEEPING CHILDREN EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY – THE ‘LOVE LANGUAGES’
让孩子保持健康的心境 - '爱的语言'
Children express and receive love in different ways — some through acts of service; others through affirming words; gifts, quality time or physical touch.
儿童以不同的方式表达和接受爱 - 有些通过服务行为;其他人通过承诺;礼物,质量的时间或身体接触。
By understanding your child’s unique love language, we are able to develop a deep and strong individual relationship ensuring your child feels loved and cared for.
通过了解您孩子独特的爱情语言,我们能够建立深厚而强烈的个人关系,确保您的孩子感受到被爱和照顾。
SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY可持续发展
Learning Links is committed to sustainable practices and is striving to be a zero waste organisation.
Learning Links致力于可持续发展的实践,并努力成为零浪费组织。
We have a strong focus on reducing, reusing and recycling. Children have the opportunity to take part in gardening, potting, growing, harvesting, cooking and eating.
我们非常注重减少,重复使用和回收利用。儿童有机会参与园艺,盆栽,种植,收获,烹饪和饮食。
We believe that the link between nature, food and wellbeing is vital so we aim to make these links as visible as possible.
我们相信自然,食物和健康之间有重要的联系,因此我们的目标是尽可能地明显这些联系。
Forest sessions are included in our program providing opportunities for children to learn and grow outside the centre and connect with the natural world.
我们的计划中包含森林课,为儿童提供在中心以外学习和成长并与自然世界联系的机会。
WHAT WE OFFER
我们提供什么
- A welcoming environment for children and families. 为儿童和家庭提供温馨的环境。
- Opportunities for parents to become part of our community父母有机会成为我们社区的一份子
- A safe and nurturing place for children to play and grow, through experiences and opportunities that help children develop physical, social, emotional, and intellectual skills. 通过帮助儿童发展身体,社交,情感和智力技能的经验和机会,让儿童玩耍和成长的安全和學習的地方。
- Wholesome, healthy, homemade meals that meet the Healthy Heart gold standards (we cater for special dietary requirements). Meals provided in Hamilton, Taupo, Te Awamutu. 符合健康心脏金标准的自制健康膳食(我们满足特殊饮食要求)
- Forest sessions森林课
- A large nature-based outdoor play area大型自然户外游乐区
- Fun for children给孩子们带来乐趣
- Storypark an online portfolio enables us to share with you and your extended family your child’s learning. Storypark是一個线上集子使我们能够与你和你家庭分享你孩子的学习经历。
- Nappies尿布
- Sunblock防晒霜
- We welcome children from babies to school age 我们欢迎从婴儿到学龄儿童
- WINZ subsidies accepted接受WINZ补贴
*Infant formula and babies bottles to be provided by the families.
奶粉和婴儿奶瓶将由家庭提供。
THINKING OF ENROLLING? 想注册麼?
The best way to find out if we’re the right centre for your family is by seeing it for yourself! Please come in for a visit.
想了解我们是否适合您的家庭的最佳方式是亲眼看到它!请进来参观。

If you want to read more about Learning Links, please download our Parent General Information Book.
如果您想了解更多有关Learning Links的信息,请下载我们的家长一般信息手册。
Some of our latest adventures!
Forest Programme
Connecting children to nature is something we are passionate about at Learning Links Hector. An enriching programme like this certainly isn’t something that was decided one day and began the next – it has taken a lot of preparation, consideration and dedication.
Well today, our passion became a reality! The group headed off on their expedition within our local community. They began this weekly ritual with a forest karakia and a willingness to explore and test their limits in the dense bush. We are very proud that our tamariki showed such respect for the beautiful forest and its creatures and this will be something that they will remember for many years to come – a huge thank you to our Kaiako, Rebekah and Ana for bringing our programme to life today everyone should have a good sleep tonight!
Our tamariki are becoming increasingly confident and familiar with the forest. They have already gained a strong sense of direction and able to show their kaiako which way could lead us to the destination.
They were lucky to find and try some kawakawa, which we learnt that the leaves can be made into medication that helps our digestive system. We even brought some back to our centre for our friends to try as herbal tea.
No doubt, the muddy puddles was the favourite. It was such fun for each of us to get wet, get muddy and be engaged with nature! We are also amazed to see the growing resilience of our children when they slipped into mud, when they got dirty and when they were in dilemma. They were determined to take risks and challenge themselves, physically and emotionally!
It was equally impressive to notice how tamariki cared for each other and helped their peers out of a challenging situation, they were demonstrating their growing social competence and caring nature in their bush play! We highly recommend getting out into nature - the children will surprise you!
As we continue to connect locally, to our Rototuna area, we discovered Rototuna means "lake of eels". In Pre-European times, our area had a lake named Tunawhakapeke. The lake and surrounding swamps had an abundance of tuna resources. As a result of our new knowledge the tamariki are discovering where the tuna like to live now and what they like to eat! Trying to coax them out of their hiding places, the children have been patiently dangling some food for them and to hopefully catch a glimpse soon!
Our team are INTENTIONAL TEACHERS, what this means is they are constantly thinking about what they are doing and how it will support or enable children’s development and learning. It requires an ...
Dec 17
Our team are INTENTIONAL TEACHERS, what this means is they are constantly thinking about what they are doing and how it will support or enable children’s development and learning. It requires an awareness of and being deliberate, thoughtful and purposeful in their decisions and actions.
Intentional Teachers invite children to share their interests and ideas, identify opportunities to help children to become involved in play, and build on interests and ideas that they observe that day.
Today, was no exception! One of our tamariki, Jackson, has recently been into Garden Place to see the ‘BIG Christmas tree’ after explaining how big this tree was, our intentional teacher used a range of interactional strategies and supported them to investigate and extend their thinking, challenge their ideas and expand their interest.
Jackson, got to re-create his 'out of centre' experience using our Loose Parts and engaged a large group of his peers – facilitating the whole thing! Got to love being an Educator when we see learning like this. 🤩🤩 #Childcare #Daycare #Kindergarten #Preschool #EarlyLearning #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation #ChildcareHamilton #LearningLinks #LearningLinksChildcare #LearningLinksHamilton #FamilyGoals #Babies #ToddlerLife #Toddler #KiwiMum #NZBaby #LoveLanguages #SustainableLiving #Whanua #Tamariki #HamiltonNZ #Waikato #Rototuna #TeTotaraPrimary #LoveTheTron #HectorDrive #LearningThroughPlay #LearningTogether
Our Kaiako are on the journey of becoming more culturally responsive. We are all at different stages and understandings; and through the use of the Hikairo Schema we are learning to rethink our ...
Dec 16
Our Kaiako are on the journey of becoming more culturally responsive. We are all at different stages and understandings; and through the use of the Hikairo Schema we are learning to rethink our teaching approaches, reconfiguring our learning environment and develop new and innovative ways of facilitating culturally sensitive and inclusive learning settings.
We know that by incorporating te reo Māori and NZ sign language into our preschool experience will have such a positive impact – not only on our tamariki brain development, but on New Zealand culture as a whole.
Starting off small is the key and being committed! 🤩 SNEAK PEAK.... Here are a group of our tamariki beginning to learn to introduce themselves in te reo Māori and NZ sign language. 😍
We see all our tamarki as being capable and confident and we look forward to seeing their progress.. watch this space! 👀
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👶 💦 Splishing and a Splashing 💦 👶🏼
Many of our experiences are new for our tamariki and filled with amazing opportunities to learn about how things work, cause and effect, ...
Dec 13
👶 💦 Splishing and a Splashing 💦 👶🏼
Many of our experiences are new for our tamariki and filled with amazing opportunities to learn about how things work, cause and effect, relationships between people and objects and what things can do.
This is why babies investigate their whole new world using their senses as their main tool for discovery, as just about everything needs to be touched and tasted to be truly understood!
Thanks, Caroline for bringing in your water mat - the babies LOVED it.
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S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math)
Welcome to the future of programming in the early years!
Blue-Bots are an innovative Bluetooth robot designed for young ...
Dec 11
S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math)
Welcome to the future of programming in the early years!
Blue-Bots are an innovative Bluetooth robot designed for young children and can be controlled using a tablet or PC/Mac whereby you create your program on the screen, send it remotely and see Blue-Bot perform your program right before your very eyes! 🤖👀 Our tamariki are experimenting with what components perform which duties and have been creating their own maps for the robots to follow! 🌏
With many more challenges to overcome our tamariki are developing innovative ideas and computational thinking… look out future here we come!
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