Our lovely educarers form safe and secure relationships with the children in their care ensuring the same routines as home. Children who attend Little Magpies Home Based Childcare are encouraged to become independent, self-confident and resilient, developing knowledge and skills that will assist them in their life-long learning journey.
Our educarers offer a relaxed home environment with fun, educational learning opportunities and encourage families to share their aspirations, cultural identity, values and beliefs.
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We feel these values, and learning priorities, are important for your child to experience while at Little Magpies (click here)
Our Philosophy (click here)
This epitomises everything I know and love about my job. The relationships with Visiting teachers, the office team are so pleasant to talk on the phone, the responsiveness of everyone. If I need anything, have a question or need, it’s no problem for anyone to jump about until it’s sorted. I think it’s important that educarers feel this way, it’s the first thing I tell my families: ‘any queries, just call the office they will bend over backwards to help you as quick as possible’
I love nothing more than seeing educarers online promoting themselves. I hit that like button and put forward my praise for that person (even those I don’t know particularly well) and I see others doing it for Little Magpies too. There are no other educarers I see on other networks getting support from fellow workers. I see it as; we all like each other. I think it looks fantastic that we support each other and sell us as more of a community than company.
“Little Magpies a beautiful local provider, owned by local people, small enough to care, big enough to make it happen’. We aren’t in the business of big flashy websites, we are in the business of people. Natasha – Little Magpies Home Based Childcare Educarer
Some excerpts from our latest ERO report which we would like to share with you…
“Children experience a curriculum that is grounded in the local community, promotes the service’s priorities for learning and responds to their interests well.”
“Relevant and aligned professional development increasingly supports visiting teachers and educarers to design and implement a responsive curriculum.”
“Leaders promote strong relationships across the service which enables enactment of the service’s vision, priorities and improvement goals.”
“Leaders use a range of information to make well-considered decisions about resourcing, systems, processes and improvement priorities.”
We are very lucky to have such an awesome team of kaiako to learn alongside our tamariki.
Click here to view our full ERO report online.
We have procedures and processes in place which guide us in the delivery of professional, consistent, safe and appropriate practice. Our educarers have a hard copy of our procedures or alternatively you can contact admin@littlemagpies.co.nz for a copy to be emailed to you.
We review our procedures annually and share these with our families for their input, via email.
We are looking for educarers who have a level 3 or higher qualification to join our small team. Alternatively, if you are not qualified but keen to join a small, supportive company to help you gain the level 4 qualification we would love to hear from you.
We have amazing dedicated Visiting Teachers who are qualified and fully certificated. They provide support and encouragement to our educarers, children and their families. Our childcare consultant supports our educarers, and families, with family/educarer matching and administration paperwork.
Our small group of educarers are welcoming, caring and nurturing. They provide children in their care with the opportunity to belong to a small family group, which is flexible to each individual child’s needs.
We provide our Educarers:
We would love to hear from you if you think Little Magpies could suit you.
Please feel welcome to ring, or drop a line to:
Annie Gower – Childcare Consultant
phone: 06 877 5261 or email: annie@littlemagpies.co.nz
Annie Gower – Childcare Consultant
Email: annie@littlemagpies.co.nz
Phone: 06 877 5261
Amanda Cullen – Home Based Manager & Visiting Teacher
Email: amanda@littlemagpies.co.nz
Phone: 06 877 5261
Rachael Grimwood – Visiting Teacher
Email: rachael@littlemagpies.co.nz
Phone: 06 877 5261
Lynley Kite – Administration Manager
Email: admin@littlemagpies.co.nz
Phone: 06 877 5261
Shane Rooney – Director
Email: srooney@xtra.co.nz
Phone: 06 877 5261
Our Office hours are 8.30am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday
We offer affordable rates with flexible hours to suit you. Simply fill in the form below to enquire.
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