Kidsfirst Hoon Hay

Hoon Hay

Hoon Hay Kindergarten opened on the 21st of May 1973.

Since then, the kindergarten has seen lots of laughter, learning and fun.

In 2005, Ronald McDonald visited the kindergarten to teach tamariki about cycle-safety and inspire a love of keeping their bodies active.

During a visit in April of that year, Ronald helped to increase road safety awareness. The children learned about keeping themselves safe when riding their bikes or scooters around cars and other people. To practice their new safety skills they held a sponsored wheel-a-thon around the centre grounds (see the picture at the top of the page).

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Tamariki enjoy nature in the big backyard of Kidsfirst Hoon Hay.

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Parents gather for a luncheon at the kindergarten in the late 1990s.

Memories from our kindergarten album:

Recently, the kindergarten celebrated their history with a dedicated wall installment.
Practicing at the carpentry table is as popular now as it was back then.
Tamariki celebrate their new cycle-safety knowledge with a lap around their big backyard, 2005.
Kindergarten has long encouraged tamariki to be social, and interact with children who are older and younger than themselves.
The big purple dinosaur, Barney, was popular with children at Kidsfirst Hoon Hay in the 1990s.
Kindergarten whānau joined together to produce some stunning bottle-top artworks for Kidsfirst Hoon Hay’s big backyard.
Friends swing upside down in Kidsfirst Hoon Hay’s big backyard in years gone by.
A big dumping of snow in the winter of 1997 meant tamariki got the chance to create their own snowmen.
Ronald McDonald visited the kindergarten in 2005 to teach tamariki about cycle and road safety.

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