Riverlee Early Learning Centre is dedicated to high quality standards in education and care of young children, that supports and empowers children for the journey of life long learning.

It is our philosophy that children deserve to be immersed in a beautiful harmonious environment that resembles a home, where each individual child can find a sense of belonging to the centre and to the natural environment.

Our dedicated teaching team is experienced and highly skilled and share a vision of nature based learning and Education for Sustainability to be significant in the early years. The teachers will marvel in the simplicity of the natural world with your child, finding bugs and making huts will be daily events, as will be making bread, feeding and visiting the farm animals and gardening.

The 12 acre farmlet located just outside of Whitianga is unique and majestic and the natural environment creates the foundation for our programme which underpinnes by the principles of the Early childhood Curriculum, Te Whariki.

" If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. "

Rachel Carson

Nature’s Nest - infant & toddler room

Nature’s Kindy - children ages 3 to 6

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