ABOUT US

We are a family of eight, living in rural Cambridge, and looking forward to sharing our beautiful space with eighty or so pre-school children!

Our dream of opening a centre has been in the pipeline for a very long time, and it is exciting to finally have it as our reality. Having lots of children is our only experience in the industry, so naturally we will be supported by excellent and qualified staff, and our full time manager, Jayne Dahlberg. Craig, always the handyman, will be taking care of business with the maintanance and creation of new play equipment, and Jo will be doing as she is told by the people who know best...

We have been exceptionally lucky to have wonderful Early Childhood Centres already in place in Cambridge from which to model our own, while integrating our ideas. Robyn from Learning Curves in Morrinsville has been a fabulous mentor helping us along each step of the way, and Sally from Treetown has supported us not only by caring for two of our brood, but by intelligently answering any number of silly questions in our long process!

Our children Nick, Hunter and Cole will be attending Little Einsteins, while our middle child Laura goes to Hautapu Primary School. Daniel and Ashleigh are at Cambridge High.

Monty, Shaggy, Bella and Dia are the resident alpacas. Curious and friendly, they love to be fed pellets by the children.

Biscuit, Toffee, baby Poppy and Chocolate are the Centres' Miniature Ponies. They love to be ridden, groomed and cuddled. Toffee can pull a cart, so we hope to have occasional cart rides!

Fifi and Bob are our very amorous dwarf-lop-eared rabbits. They regularly delight us with new baby bunnies, it's great to watch them grow! Their buddies are two fluffy guinea pigs, Hairy McLeary and his yet-un-named brother.

Mowgli and Bobby are the resident calves. Very sweet, and very friendly, as they have been hand reared. We plan to add lambs to the chaos next year, so that the children can bottle feed them.