We are different.
Welcome to The Devonport Community Crèche - a non-profit, teacher-led centre, offering top-quality early childhood education and care for the children of our local community, aged between 18 months and 4 years old. Being non-profit means that we have an advantage over other for-profit childcare centres. All the money from donations and grants is reinvested back into the Crèche. What's more, we have lower child-staff rates, better-educated, passionate and long-standing staff, as well as higher rates of professional development.
Why choose us? Our team of seven experienced registered Early Childhood teachers have over 70 years of combined experience working at our Crèche. They work tirelessly to nurture and ensure positive and innovative learning outcomes for our children. In November 2008, our Crèche Manager, Tessa Dunleavy was awarded the NEITA National Excellence teaching award - no mean feat.
Our Crèche programme aims to foster and empower children’s holistic learning and development, nurturing creativity, autonomy, resilience, and social interaction. The result is happy, healthy, curious young minds.
Our teachers.
Here at the Devonport Community Crèche we truly believe that our kaiako are our greatest asset. They are a passionate bunch, so it's no wonder between them they have over 70 years of combined experience working at our special and unique Crèche. Our highly trained and experienced teachers work together as a team to ensure the needs of all children are met. It is at the heart of everything we do.
Our current staff are:
Manager: Tessa Dunleavy.
Registered Teaching Staff: Tessa Dunleavy, Sarah Ganley, Jenny Rees, Caroline Beasley, Yanan Li, Maddy Hill.
Registered Relieving Staff: Rozanna Colman.
Support Staff: Kiri Ropitini
Our curriculum.
Here at the Devonport Community Crèche, we follow the strands and goals that weave together to form Te Whāriki, the New Zealand Early Childhood Curriculum. The curriculum is founded on the following aspiration:
“That children grow up as competent and confident learners and communicators, healthy in mind, body and spirit, secure in their sense of belonging and in the knowledge that they make a valued contribution to society.”
This aspiration underpins everything we do here at the Devonport Community Crèche.
To learn more about Te Whāriki, please click below:
The best play dough recipe.
At Crèche, we love encouraging creative play. Keep the play going at home with this great recipe which helps put the 'play' in to dough.
Ingredients.
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup water
- 2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1/3 cup salt
- 1 Tbs vegetable oil
- Food colouring
Instructions.
Mix together all the ingredients, except the food colouring, in a non-stick saucepan.
Cook over low/medium heat, stirring. Once it begins to thicken, add the food colouring.
Continue stirring until the mixture is much thicker and begins to gather around the spoon.
Once the dough is a smooth ball, remove and put onto wax paper or a plate to cool.
After cooling (30 minutes) knead playdough for a few seconds.
The above recipe will make you one large ball of playdough. You can make it repeatedly for however many colours you want. Keep the playdough in a sealed air-tight container or ziplock bag (it does not need to be refrigerated).
Play your heart out.
Our Crèche.
Our Crèche is located in the heart of Devonport, minutes from the ferry, local beaches and just around the corner from the supermarket - talk about handy.
A: Devonport Community Crèche
32A Clarence Street
Devonport, Auckland
P: 09 446 0490
E: devonportcrèche@xtra.co.nz