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This attractive kindergarten offers:

• Staff who are approachable and strive to create a warm positive learning environment
• Teaching strengths in all areas
• Well resourced kindergarten.......including computers with a wide range of software
• "Open door" policy where parents are encouraged to come and stay at the kindergarten

The Staff

We have three full time Staff all with a New Zealand Teaching Diploma and who are registered Teachers, on Fridays we also have a Teacher Aide 

Fordlands Kindergarten Accountability Review

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The Curriculum

At Fordlands we use Te Whàriki (Use the Back key at the top of your browser to return to this site) the early childhood curriculum linking it to The New Zealand Curriculum Framework. Outlining essential learning areas, essential skills, attitudes and values, so that it is a foundation for children to become confident and competent and then during their school years, to be able to build on their previous learning here at Fordlands.

  Click to view our Philosophy

Fordlands Kindergarten is one of 53 kindergartens that comprise the Central North Island Kindergarten Association.

We are in Rotorua .... Manaakitanga - Feel the spirit. Which is situated in the centre of the North Island. It is the home of New Zealand's Forestry and is a leading tourist destination, as well as having an agricultural base. Rotorua has a population of 65,000