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By The Team At Cherry Grove Childcare October 15, 2025
Discover the profound benefits of play-based learning for children's development, from cognitive skills to social-emotional growth. We share insights from our experience.
Baby sitting with caregiver, both looking at the camera. Baby holds green block, in a room with green toys.
By The Team At Cherry Grove Childcare September 17, 2025
Discover why a nurturing, 'home-away-from-home' environment is crucial for your baby or toddler's development. Learn how Cherry Grove in Hawke's Bay prioritises secure attachments and small group sizes to build a foundation for life.
Children in a classroom with teacher. Some children are building with blocks and others are drawing.
By The Team At Cherry Grove Childcare August 18, 2025
Discover the benefits of quality early childhood education (ECE) in New Zealand. Learn about play-based learning, Te Whāriki, and how to access 20 Hours ECE for your child.
Five diverse children laughing while playing at a table, some with playdough, in a bright room.
By The Team At Cherry Grove Childcare July 17, 2025
Discover how high-quality kindergarten fosters a life-long love of learning. Our teacher-led, play-based approach prepares tamariki for school and life.
Children playing with toys on the floor in a brightly lit preschool classroom.
By The Team At Cherry Grove Childcare May 15, 2025
Choosing the best childcare centre in Havelock North for your family? Find out what to look for in an early learning environment and how our programme is established to help every child flourish. Busy Bees Havelock North parents and others in Hawke's Bay can find out why our early childhood education centre stands out.
Cherry Grove Childcare & Family Centre logo with green text.
August 5, 2021
Cherry Grove Childcare and Family Centre is a privately owned education and care service. This service sits adjacent to Cherry Grove@101 and children transition between both services. A separate family centre provides services and support for whānau and children, including facilitating collaboration with external community agencies.
Cherry Grove Childcare & Family Centre logo with green text.
July 1, 2021
Education Review Office: 10th June 2021 Feedback Cherry Grove Childcare @ 101: Review Akanuku – compliance has been met. Cherry Grove Childcare & Family Centre Compliance has been met Akarangi Review
Child making a play-dough ice cream cone with colorful balls and cone on a red table.
May 11, 2021
I have been working with child psychologists as we prepare to welcome children back to Cherry Grove at Alert Level 2 to make sure we are doing everything we can to ensure a smooth transition for tamariki. This has been an unprecedented time for our generation and it's important that we acknowledge changes have occurred to the way we live and it has affected us all in different ways.
We're Emphasising Movement - Here's Why!
April 16, 2020
Our current wellbeing focus has a big movement aspect to it and here's why we have and continue to invest heavily in giving our Cherry Grover's lots of active options!
Tuesday Morning Musings
March 17, 2020
Mōrena Cherry Grove It's certainly an interesting time that we are currently facing as a nation and it was lovely to hear from parents this morning how nice it was coming into Cherry Grove where everything is going on as normal! Every day is a new learning adventure for our tamariki so we are continuing with our usual protocols but have just added some further administration behind the scenes to ensure we can stay 'normal'.