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Otūmoetai Cottage

157 Otūmoetai Road
Brookfield
Tauranga

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07 394 4262

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Pāpāmoa Cottage

2 Te Rito Way
Pāpāmoa Beach
Pāpāmoa

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Both Pāpāmoa and Otūmoetai Cottages are open from 7.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday at both centres. We are open 52 weeks of the year and only close for Stat Holidays.

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Team Value Tuesday: Communication Communication i Team Value Tuesday: Communication

Communication is a teacher kneeling down to really listen to a child who's struggling to find the words, not rushing them, not finishing their sentences, just giving them the time to get there. It's also the honest conversation at pickup, the good and the tricky bits of the day, not just the highlights.

It's how we work as a team too. We'd rather have the sometimes-awkward conversation early than let something fester, and we check in with each other properly, not just in passing. That's what keeps this place running the way it should, for your child and for each other.

#pāpāmoacottage #otūmoetaicottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #Communication #TeamCulture
Today's menu, freshly written up for the team, ras Today's menu, freshly written up for the team, raspberry yoghurt with seasonal fruit, a proper lunch, and afternoon tea baked fresh in house. Every meal here is made from scratch, right down to the little sign someone takes the time to chalk up each morning.

For your child, that means real food, real variety, and the kind of meals that make a place feel like home rather than just somewhere they spend the day.

Want to know what a typical day of kai looks like for your child? Flick us a message and we can tell you about our menu. 

#pāpāmoacottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #ECETauranga #ChildcareTauranga #TaurangaMums #EarlyChildhoodEducation #HomeFromHome
Our Otūmoetai tamariki took a trip out to @kererug Our Otūmoetai tamariki took a trip out to @kererugardens.nz  today, the first step in building our newest passion project. Lots of looking, lots of questions, and plenty of inspiration for what's about to grow back at the centre.

Passion projects like this only work when the children are genuinely driving them. This is just the beginning, so please watch this space as it takes shape.

#otūmoetaicottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #ECETauranga #ChildcareTauranga #TaurangaMums #EarlyChildhoodEducation #Curiosity
Anyone who's ever taken a preschooler shopping kno Anyone who's ever taken a preschooler shopping knows it can go either way, but this crew were absolute stars. ✨✨

Our Paua room headed to Mitre 10 today to pick out the new round of plants for their gardening project. 🌻🌿🌱

We love when children choose new projects for us all to get involved in. Choosing what goes in the ground, they're not just watching something grow, they're the ones deciding what grows. It's also a nice example of curiosity in action, ours and theirs, always asking what if we tried this instead. 💚

Thanks for always being a go to shop for us Mitre 10 Pāpāmoa! 

#pāpāmoacottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #ChildrenAsCapable #Curiosity
We've got spaces opening up right now at both our We've got spaces opening up right now at both our Otūmoetai and Pāpāmoa centres, particularly for our 3–5 year olds. If you've been thinking about starting your child with us, or switching from somewhere that isn't quite the right fit, now's a genuinely good time to get in touch.

Spaces like this don't sit open for long, so if you're even half considering it, come have a chat or book a visit. We'd love to show you around.

157 Otūmoetai Road | 2 Te Rito Way, Pāpāmoa
07 394 4262 | www.thebluecottage.co.nz
#otūmoetaicottage #pāpāmoacottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #ECETauranga #ChildcareTauranga #TaurangaMums #EarlyChildhoodEducation
Remember the family farm trip a few weeks back? Th Remember the family farm trip a few weeks back? That same whānau brought a little bit of the farm to us this time, tractors, right in our carpark. 🐓🚜

Lights getting flicked on, wheels getting a good inspection, and plenty of children climbing up into the driver’s seat feeling very important indeed. 🛞 

Connections like this are what happen when a community actually knows each other. One visit turns into another, and suddenly the children get two completely different ways to experience the same thing….Community.

#pāpāmoacottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #ECETauranga #ChildcareTauranga #TaurangaMums #EarlyChildhoodEducation #Adaptable
Team Value Tuesday: Excellence Excellence is a te Team Value Tuesday: Excellence

Excellence is a teacher going back over a learning story until it actually captures who that child is, not just what they did. It's noticing the small things, a scraped knee that needs a cuddle, a quiet child who needs coaxing out of their shell, and choosing to do that well rather than just doing it.

It's also the standard we hold ourselves to as a team. Meeting the minimum was never the goal here. We want every child, every day, to get our best, not just enough to get by, and that's a standard we check each other on, not just ourselves.

#pāpāmoacottage #otūmoetaicottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #Excellence #TeamCulture
Not every childcare centre has a bearded dragon on Not every childcare centre has a bearded dragon on staff, but ours does. Colin clearly had strong opinions about tonight's meeting, four claws, zero notes, full supervision.

Even our office assistants take learning stories seriously around here.

Little things like this are part of what makes Pāpāmoa feel different, we're not trying to be like every other centre, we're just trying to be genuinely ours.

Want to meet Colin yourself? Come on in for a visit, we'd love to show you around.

#pāpāmoacottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #ECETauranga #ChildcareTauranga #TaurangaMums #EarlyChildhoodEducation #Adaptable
Carpark full of bacon butties, home baking made by Carpark full of bacon butties, home baking made by little hands, and good coffee, Father’s Day at The Blue Cottage looked exactly like it should. ☕🥓 

Dvine Grindz kept Otūmoetai caffeinated and @thecoffeewagontauranga at Pāpāmoa, over two mornings at both sites this week. 

Grateful for a community that turns up for mornings like this. Thank you to everyone who came along.

#otūmoetaicottage #pāpāmoacottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #HomeFromHome
Full circle moment at Pāpāmoa today. 📖✨ Students Full circle moment at Pāpāmoa today. 📖✨ 

Students from Pāpāmoa College came to visit and read stories with our Paua room, and one of the readers, Alyssa, actually attended The Blue Cottage herself as a little girl.

Watching her sit down and read to this generation of tamariki, in the same place she once grew up in, is exactly the kind of moment that reminds us why we do this. 💙

#pāpāmoacottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #Relationships
Three years of The Blue Cottage Otūmoetai today, a Three years of The Blue Cottage Otūmoetai today, and we celebrated the only way that felt right, a full blue day. 💙 Blue outfits, blue activities, blue everything, the tamariki were all in on it.

Three years in, and it's the people who've made it what it is, the families who trusted us with their children, the community around us, everyone who's been part of this journey so far. 🏘️ 

Thank you for being here for it. We do appreciate you 💙 

Happy 3rd Birthday Otūmoetai! 🎂 🎉 

#otūmoetaicottage #bluecottage #earlylearningnz #HomeFromHome
Something very exciting has arrived at The Blue Co Something very exciting has arrived at The Blue Cottage! 💙🎶

We are incredibly grateful to have been selected for the Tonies School & ECE Initiative, and our very own Toniebox has arrived! 🥰

A huge ngā mihi nui to Tonies New Zealand/Australia for this incredible opportunity and for gifting us a Toniebox and a collection of Tonies for our tamariki.

We can’t wait to use it to bring stories, music, waiata and imagination into our learning environments, while supporting language development, listening skills, independence and a genuine love of storytelling. 📚✨

It’s already proving to be a very exciting addition, and we can’t wait to see all the learning, dancing, singing, storytelling and imagination that comes from it! 💙

Thank you, Tonies, for supporting early learning and investing in our tamariki. We are SO grateful! 🥰

#Tonies #Toniebox #ToniesECEInitiative #EarlyLearning #LearningThroughPlay TheBlueCottage ECEAotearoa
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