Best Private Nurseries In Auckland Near Me

4worldlovers: 279 Mount Wellington Highway. Piccolo Park childcare centres Mt Wellington is just 500m from the motorway, directly across the road from Burger King, Sylvia Park shopping centre, and right next door to Sylvia Park School for a smooth transition from preschool to primary school. Drop off and picking up your child is be a breeze!

Located at 415 Ti Rakau Drive, East Tamaki. Piccolo Park childcare centres Botany Downs is located in the historic Guy Homestead at 415 Ti Rakau Drive, right on the border of Botany Downs, Dannemora, Huntington Park and East Tamaki. It’s a hop, skip and a jump from Harris Road, Te Irirangi Drive and Botany Road.

Piccolo Park childcare centre Mt Richmond is just 500m from the motorway towards Otahuhu. Located on the border of Otahuhu and Mt Wellington and just down the road from the new Mt Richmond development, on the corner of Panama Road and Mt Wellington Highway making for an easy ‘on the way’ drop off and pick up point.

Open Now! We’re excited to announce the opening of our newest childcare centre, Piccolo Park Dannemora. Situated on the corner of Chapel and Smales Road, this site incorporates another historic building – just as we had taken on for our very first centre in Botany.

Piccolo Park childcare centres at Sylvia Park, Botany Downs and Mt Richmond feature fresh, purpose-built, state-of-the-art equipment. Check us out!

Piccolo is an Italian word that means: small, little, tiny, young. That’s why our logo features a baby Pukeko. And the “Park” part of our Piccolo Park name is a nod to the park-like outside areas at our childcare centres. The children liken the outside area to a beach at our Sylvia Park, centre and a farm at our Ti Rakau Drive, Botany Downs.

Our wonderful, warm and caring teachers will guide your child on their exciting learning journey. Our childcare centres are staffed with qualified, professional teachers. These include owners and family members Rukshana and Narisa, who are actively involved in running our childcare centres.

Our diverse skills make us a great team and we absolutely love what we do.

The Piccolo Park approach is a reflection of our deeper reason for being

Our role is to see each child grow and develop to their true capacity in the critical early years. We get great joy and satisfaction knowing we are creating a strong foundation for future years. We do this through loving care, spending quality time and ensuring each child gets individual attention. We also believe in having fun, building confidence, expressing individuality, and fostering relationships with children and their parents. All in a stimulating environment where children are inspired to learn, grow, create and explore.

To ensure we create a great experience for children and parents, we consciously weave our core values into daily life at Piccolo Park childcare centres…

Perhaps you’d like an information booklet? We’d love to show you around our childcare centres and chat with you, so lets make a time. Just get in touch!

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4worldlovers: BestStart Grey Lynn is a special childcare centre located in a quiet, secluded spot just outside of Ponsonby and close to Westmere. Our location provides easy access for parents/whanau with plenty of parking just outside.


At BestStart Grey Lynn we have a gorgeous playground that provides a challenging, natural learning environment which is a lovely quiet, peaceful place for special moments. The essence of nature in our environment engages the senses, cultivates curiosity and discovery. We are surrounded by parks and reserves and are lucky enough to have park like surroundings in our centre with lots of leafy green trees.

Our Whare room caters for children from 3 months- 2.5 years. We practice primary care-giving, where your baby will have a key teacher responsible for all their care needs and special moments. This builds secure relationships to allow us to support your child as an individual to reach their full potential. Our babies have a beautiful natural environment inside and out where children are encouraged to explore at their own pace. We provide lots of opportunities for our younger children to learn through their senses while developing their fine and gross motor skills. They are encouraged to explore the natural world around them with plenty of opportunities to explore their very own nature walk and real grass!


Our Studio caters for children from 2.5-5 years. The Studio children have a fantastic natural setting in which to learn. Our inside environment encourages thinking and exploration and our outside caters for all of those developing physical skills. We run a Be School Ready initiative where children are encouraged to begin writing their own names and even make their own lunch once a week. There is a focus on increasing children’s independence to enable each child to build foundation skills for life long learning. The Studio children go on a weekly bush walk and we encourage physical fitness through our weekly Jiggle Jam programme.


Our centre cook designs a well balanced menu with Healthy Nutritious food for your children. We have a seasonal menu that is approved by the Heart foundation and provides a variety of yummy meals. This is on a weekly rotation every 4 weeks and is available to view at the centre.

BestStart Grey Lynn are focused on reducing our environmental impact and becoming more sustainable. Each child receives their own machine washable wet bag to store any wet or dirty clothing in, eliminating the need for one-use plastic supermarket bags. We have an emphasis on sustainability and have a worm farm to enable children to learn about recycling. We participate in the Paper4trees programme which is a waste minimisation programme for Early Childhood Centres and schools.

We are also taking part in the Terracycle Recycling Programme. The programmes we are involved with are Fonterra Pouch Recycling, Colgate Oral Care Recycling and the GLAD Food Storage Recycling programmes. We will receive $1 per kilo of pouches and 2 cents for every oral care item and food storage item we send away for recycling. We will be donating all money received through the programme to a local charity. For more detailed information about Terracycle, click here.

Children in our studio room enjoy nature walks every week. They explore the natural environment by fossicking for bugs, climbing trees, collecting natural items, discovering plants and more. It’s a great way for our children to discover and learn about the world around them.

We have yoga sessions every Wednesday at 10am. Practicing yoga poses helps children learn about the benefits of exercise. It helps to develop their confidence, teaches them breathing techniques and to concentrate for more sustained periods.