Premier Preschool is a small boutique owner-operated centre providing full-day care for 20 preschoolers (ages 3 to 5 years). 

Owner-manager Marian Ayres Hill is hands-on in the daily programme and operates just this one centre.  For families its important for the service provider to be someone who lives locally and who knows them and their children. 

Open:  Monday to Friday 8.30am – 3.30pm (all children attend these hours). Closed during school holidays.

Address:  Morgan Street, Johnsonville, Wellington,

Online: http://www.premierpreschool.co.nz/

Children with Disabilities:  Personal transition procedures are put in place for each child with the co-operation of parents, staff, and any agencies involved.  An inclusive environment for children to achieve in all learning and skill areas is provided.

Children with Medical Conditions: The staff undertake necessary training from health professional to assist/support a child's personal medical needs.  Medications are administered safely and a record kept.  The staff liaise closely with the child's family and health professionals.

Gifted and Talented Children:  Gifted children are catered for by extending their interests, promoting inquiry learning, and providing resources of interest.  All areas of development are promoted - social, cognitive, emotional, and physical - in a holistic way.   

Children with Special Learning Needs: Children are nurtured, encouraged and supported to reach through full potential through careful observation, individual attention, peer tutoring (research shows that this holds huge benefits!), access to specific resources and agencies, and collaboration and consultation with parents.

Staff Gender:  All staff are women.

Languages Spoken Fluently by Staff:  English  (some Spanish and Maori is also known)

Range of Different Qualifications held by Staff:

• NZ Kindergarten Diploma
• Massey University Certificate in ECE
• Higher Diploma of Teaching
• Advanced Diploma of Teaching
• Higher Diploma of Health Education
• Diploma of Teaching 

Grouping Practices:  The children stay together and are not split up into classes.  They play together and stay together. Each day, whole group activities take place which involve music, drama, brain gym, puppetry, books, gymnastics, self-esteem games, and group discussions on topics of interest or just to allow children to share their thoughts and feelings. Small group activities are common and involve board games, floor puzzles, creative projects, block building, cooking and story-telling. 

Features Premier Preschool Say They Are Proud Of: 

1. Our Children

• Our children are from diverse cultural backgrounds and we support their cultural heritage, beliefs and values.
• We are proud of how the children develop life-long learning skills and the confidence to take them easily into learning at school.  Making the transition to school is helped by being on-site at Johnsonville school and our preschool has strong links with the junior classes.
• We encourage our children to respect themselves and others, and their environment and you see this in their behaviour.  Having a mixture of free play and structured activities during the day allows for children to learn at their own pace and for optimal development.

2. The Indoor Environment

• It is organised, child centred, clean and attractive.  It is numeracy and literacy rich.  We are well resourced. 
• Children’s work is displayed around the walls.
• There are notice boards and a daily whiteboard to help keep parents informed of daily activities, our programme, activities, and articles of interest.  

3. The Outdoor Environment

• It is mostly natural!  And we are re-developing areas using as many natural materials as possible. We have equipment that children can move and change around so it’s both a safe environment and a challenging environment for learning. 
• We have a vegetable garden, compost, worm farm, and trees and shrubs along the fence line. 
• It is an exciting place for children to explore and have fun.