Our Rooms
Lollipops Waikato Hospital has two separate rooms, enabling us to deliver safe, nurturing and age appropriate learning experiences for all our children. Each of our rooms have their own indoor space with a shared outdoor area. There is a spacious covered deck, which allows children to play outside even on very wet days.
Kowhaiwhai Room
This warm and welcoming space is our baby and toddler room for our under 2s.
Kowhaiwhai is the beautiful scroll like pattern seen on Māori meeting house ridge poles and rafters. Nowadays, it is incorporated into Māori carvings and art to represent the importance and significance of a loving family.
Daily Routine
6:30 am: Centre opens. Set up room for the day, set out breakfast for the children
8:30 am: Check nappies for early children
9:00 am: Morning tea time. Children to the kai table, karakia to sing on the wall before kai
9:30 am: Nappies checked and changed for all children
10:00 am: Free play activities
10:45 am: Nappy changing
11:00 am: Lunchtime. Children to sit at the table for kai, karakia before kai
12:00 pm: Bottles for the sleepers if they did not have them earlier. Sleep time for toddlers, nappies to be changed when children wake up
2:00 pm: Afternoon tea
2:30 pm: Free play activities
3:30 pm: Outside deck and sleep room tidied up for the day
4:00 pm: Nappy check and change, late kai
6:00 pm: Centre closes for the day
These routines are flexible and subject to change according to our children’s needs.
Koru Room
Our vibrant preschool room caters for children aged 2 to 6 years. Often used in Māori art as a symbol of creation, based on the unfurling circular shape, a koru conveys the idea of perpetual movement, while the inward coil suggests a return to the point of origin. It symbolises the way in which life both changes and stays the same.
Daily Routine
6:30 am: Centre opens. Set up room for the day and set out breakfast for the children
8:30 am: Check nappies
9:00 am: Morning tea, rolling kai for the children who want it
9:30 am: Free play (areas of play set up based on children’s interests)
11:15 am: Nappies
11:30 am: Mat time
11:45 am: 4 year olds go for lunch
12:00 pm: 3 year olds go for lunch
12:15 pm: Sleepers go for lunch
12:15 - 2:00 pm: Free play (areas of play set up based on children’s interests)
1:00 pm: Nappies
2:00 pm: Afternoon tea, rolling kai for the children who want it
2:30 pm: Free play (areas of play set up based on children’s interests)
4:00 pm: Nappies
4:15 pm: Late snack
5:00 pm: Close outside, put toys away and tidy sandpit
6:00 pm: Centre closes
*Tuesday at 9:30 am baking is one of the free play activities offered
These routines are flexible and subject to change according to our children’s needs.