sessional hours, full day, school hours, 20 hours subsidy, WINZ subsidies, sibling discounts, childcare, daycare, preschool, kindergarten, excellent transition to school programme and nationally award winning services.

Year: 2015

Please see our list of national awards and accolades here: https://www.chrysaliscare.co.nz/centres/ 2016 GOLD award in the Healthcare category at the Design Institute of NZ Awards. 2016 Excellence award in the Property Council of NZ Awards. 2016 GOLD award in the NZ Commercial Building Awards. 2015 WINNER for "Best Emerging Business" in the Westpac Business Awards. 2015 FINALIST (again!) for "Excellence in Innovation" in the Westpac Business Awards. 2015 FINALIST for "Business Leadership" in the Westpac Business Awards. 2014 FINALIST for "Excellence in Innovation" in the Westpac Business Awards. 2014 Excellent ERO (Education Review Office) report for our sister centre Magic Kingdom: "The experienced centre owners have established effective management and governance systems and lead a team of well qualified and experienced staff. Good teacher-to-child ratios support children’s development as capable, competent learners." 2014: The Chrysalis Group won a nation-wide tender to provide EXCLUSIVE childcare services to families in a multi-national company headquartered in Auckland CBD. A reassuring testament to our highest quality and standards that we aim for. 2013 Award winning centre: Chrysalis Group's centre called Magic Kingdom won a "NZ Commercial Building Award" for its centre's innovative and sustainable building design interior learning environments. 2013 Award winning centre: "Early Childhood Council / Telecom NZ Innovation Award" for our patented online learning system that visualises children's learning as growing trees. 2012 Excellent ERO (Education Review Office) report for our sister childcare centre in Tauranga: "Centre owners provide highly effective governance and management that is responsive to staff and families’ aspirations.....The identified priorities of ‘imagination and inspiration, innovation, partnership and sustainability’, along with, focused strategic direction and prudent financial management, are promoting positive outcomes for children."

Our Core Philosophies 1) "A 'chrysalis' is a protected stage of development, where care is first and foremost, followed by development and transformations that are calm and unhurried, yet filled with wonder and amazement" 2) "Our children are being prepared to learn throughout life – to open endless opportunities and continually create, innovate, change and improve" 3) "We work in close partnership with parents and whanau in a consistent and warm learning environment to support, strengthen and successfully achieve first milestones in life" 4) "We are preparing children to be our future guardians of a sustainable world with respect to and guidance from our bicultural heritage and multicultural society" Our Core Values 1) “Respect for children, caregivers, and colleagues” 2) “Openness with one another” 3) “Empowerment of others” 4) “Believing in yourself” 5) “Integrity in all we do” Our Vision “Te hiki ngākau, me te whakapiki mātauranga mo ngā tāngata katoa o Aotearoa. Lift aspiration, raise educational achievement for every New Zealander.” Our Mission 1) QUALITY: “To exemplify the ‘gold standard’ in care and high quality early childcare education” 2) LEARNING: “To provide positive and memorable learning experiences for each child and family” 3) VALUE: “To deliver highest value outcomes to our key stakeholders (i.e. children, parents, employees, communities)” 4) TEACHING: “To foster innovative and new ways to support, strengthen, and successfully deliver core teaching curricula and first lessons in life”.