Our Story

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Little Blue Penguin Prestons

LBP Prestons was introduced in 2022. Our mixed-age setting features a separate nursery space and sleep room (Whare Teina), and a well resourced preschool classroom (Whare Tuakana), as well as a shared play area.
Surrounded by established trees and gardens, our spacious outdoor environment provides a natural and beautiful setting for our tamariki. They delight in playing on our fort with double slides, exploring the hill and tunnel, and swinging under the shade of the trees on our swings.
We added a new covered deck to expand our play spaces in 2023, and in 2024, we enhanced our indoor environment by creating a play and learning space dedicated to tamariki over the age of two. Our tamariki had lots of input around what they wanted included in this area, and as a result we have a big art and craft station/tēpu for all their creative projects, and a beautiful, realistic imaginary play area.
Being a renovated home, Prestons and all its quirks provides a natural home away from home feel - and we look forward to continuing to enhance the environment further to meet the needs of our teaching and learning community.