• Empower your child in a warm, welcoming & loving home environment

    We warmly invite you to join our village...

  • Village Kids is a home based early childhood service located in the sunny Nelson Tasman region offering you flexible and subsidised childcare. We value kindness, the importance of collaboration and believe in putting family first. We provide a service, where our Educators empower your child in a warm, welcoming and loving home environment.

  • Village Kids offers your tamariki

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    A Home away from Home 

    At Village Kids we are passionate about childcare. Our tamariki are supported to grow, develop and learn. We value relationships and aim to provide a home away from home.

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    A Safe Environment

    Village Kids provide qualified educators in a safe home environment, fostering a sense of trust, warmth and security. Our team are well supported and the safety and wellbeing of your child is always our highest priority.

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    Equitable Opportunities

    Village Kids is 100% locally owned and operated. Village Kids is licensed by the Ministry of Education and is an approved Work and Income provider. We are able to offer subsidies for all families.

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    Local to Nelson

    Village Kids is a locally-owned home-based early childhood education and care service in Nelson/Tasman.

     

    Owner Kirstie Van Houtte and husband Andy returned to Nelson to raise their family and enjoy the lifestyle our region offers.

     

    Kirsties believes that it takes a village to raise a child. Her passion lies in creating an environment that values family, enhancing parent partnerships, and collaboration to acheive success for all.

     

     

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    Committed to quality Educators

     

    We partner solely with qualified Educators and Educators in training and focus on quality over quantity.

     

    When you are selected as an Educator with Village Kids, we are committed to providing opportunities that will allow you to continue to learn and develop in your role.

     

     

  • Community focused

    At Village Kids we enjoy the outdoors and our local community

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    Small groups

    One on one attention. Maximum of 4 children at a time.

     

     

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    20 hrs ECE for 3 to 5 year olds

     

    Conditions apply

     

     

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    Approved by the Ministry of Education, Village Kids Limited upholds the Licensing Criteria for Home-Based Education and Care Services (2008) and the Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations amended 2021.

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    We value tuakana teina

    Relationships where tamariki of all ages learn from each other

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