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Parent and toddler play with a colorful bead maze in a sunlit living room while another adult stands nearby.
By The Team At Cherry Grove Childcare November 17, 2025
A clear guide for Hawke's Bay parents on navigating NZ childcare costs. Learn about fees, what's included, and how to access government subsidies like WINZ and 20 Hours ECE.
Children playing with wooden blocks in a bright classroom with large windows and a playground view
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.
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'.
Wednesday Brings Wheels Football to Cherry Grove
March 11, 2020
Happy Wednesday to you! It has started with a hiss and a bang and lots of swinging, dancing, and a new activity we like to call biking football! It's a lot like polo but with bikes, goals and a football - thanks to our Blossom tamariki for bringing this game to life this morning and all the fun we had with it!
We LOVE Reading ... and here's why!
February 17, 2020
All our rooms at Cherry Grove have a large array of books that are constantly changing, added to, read, transported, read again, looked at, shared, and loved. We love reading as it provides children with such wonderful opportunities to experience communication that is received and can be returned. It allows children to question, develop understanding, grow their ideas, and spend valuable time with kaiako and peers.