Our Philosophy

Our Vision - Tauāki Tirohanga

Nurturing tamariki to become confident and capable life long learners.

Mission Statement - Tauākī Mīhana

To provide a joyful, fun, safe, enriching, educational, and quality learning environment for all children through the implementation of our core values and beliefs.

Philosophy Statement - Tauākī Rapunga Whakāro

Rutherford Preschool is a community childcare Centre which acknowledges and supports parents/whānau as primary caregivers.

We believe in learning as a life-long process, based on Rutherford College’s founding principal, Eric Clarke’s, vision of learning being from the ‘Cradle to the Grave’.

We acknowledge that each child is an individual, and therefore value and support everyone’s uniqueness and individuality.

Our free-development play programme, aims to provide a calm, caring, warm, nurturing environment to foster the children’s all-round development (physical, cultural, social, emotional, intellectual), together with self-esteem, self-discipline and independence.

We are guided by the NZ Early Childhood Curriculum, Te Whariki (Te Ara Whanui).

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