Who we are
Early childhood learning in a whānau-led community
Crossways has a long standing reputation for providing quality early childhood education through a curriculum where play, partnership, and respect shape every day.
We have high teacher-to-child ratios, and our dedicated team of certified kaiako (teachers) and kaimahi (staff) ensures a nurturing atmosphere that feels like a second home.
We have a maximum of 22 children attending each day, catering to children from one year to school age. This ensures we can offer your child individual support in their care and education.
We are a not for profit, whānau-led co-operative and our whānau and community are at the heart of everything we do. This benefits the children and creates a strong bond and sense of community between the children, families, and teachers.
Please feel free to come and visit us, we would love to show you around our centre.
Opening hours
Monday - Friday
8.30am - 2.30pm
We are open 50 weeks of the year
(closed for a two week break over Christmas and New Years)
Our history
1979
Our history reaches back to 1979, when a group of families formed Crossways Community Crèche for the care and education of young children in the local community of Mt Victoria. It was envisaged as a place in which children could play, learn and have fun.
Crossways first home was in the Crossways Community House located on Brougham Street Mt Victoria, and this is how we got our name.
2009
The Brougham Street homestead was sold but the end of the Community House did not mean the end of the creche, the parents and staff were determined to carry on. Crossways Community Creche was rehomed into an old school in Newtown for the next few years.
2013
Current and past Crossways family’s pooled together to provide Crossways with a number of small interest free loans, and two families acted as guarantors enabling Crossways to secure a loan and purchased the Mt Victoria Cottage, we now call home.
TODAY
Over 40 years later, the management and governance of Crossways has remained firmly in the hands of the families who make up its community. The people in the community may change but the ethos has remained over time, the belief that children in their first year’s flourish when learning is embedded within a culture of respect between family child, teacher and community. Over this time some of its founders and attendees have become grandparents and parents themselves and returned to Crossways with their mokopuna.
“Children are well supported to thrive as confident and competent learners in a family-focused learning environment. Their curiosity is fostered through highly responsive teaching. Toddlers and older children play well together, learning to take responsibility for each other.”