The City Kids Teaching Team
City Kids employs six full-time teachers and one part time teacher. It is City Kids policy to employ teachers or people with a suitable qualification that will enhance the Centre's curriculum. City Kids has a policy for professional development and learning which encourages staff to make use of the funding available, courses offered and additional support provided by Early Childhood agencies. The teaching team's present focus is regular inquiry time where they are examine specific components of their practice. Our six teachers are registered teachers and our support teacher has a Diploma in Early Childhood Education (Pasifika) - level five.
City Kids also employs a part-time cook to make meals fresh for the children each day as well as a part-time administrator and night-time cleaners.
City Kids employs six full-time teachers and one part time teacher. It is City Kids policy to employ teachers or people with a suitable qualification that will enhance the Centre's curriculum. City Kids has a policy for professional development and learning which encourages staff to make use of the funding available, courses offered and additional support provided by Early Childhood agencies. The teaching team's present focus is regular inquiry time where they are examine specific components of their practice. Our six teachers are registered teachers and our support teacher has a Diploma in Early Childhood Education (Pasifika) - level five.
City Kids also employs a part-time cook to make meals fresh for the children each day as well as a part-time administrator and night-time cleaners.
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Lynda - City Kids Supervisor
Registered Teacher Lynda joined the City Kids team in October 2016. She has been involved in a wide range of early childhood services in teaching in leadership and specialist roles during her many years of practice. Lynda was attracted to City Kids as she believes that the small size of the centre offers the opportunity to focus on high quality and high equity for every learner and member, whether they be child or adult. Outside of work Lynda enjoys swimming, crafts and spending time with friends and family. Qualifications:
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Ruth - Registered Teacher
Born and bred in South Africa Ruth had the opportunity to live on the west coast of Canada for many years before settling in New Zealand. With a lifelong background in the Arts (Ceramics and Weaving /Raranga) she completed her Post Graduate Diploma in ECE at Victoria two years ago to follow her passion of working with young children on a full time basis. She is constantly energised and motivated by life through the lens of the young child. Besides the Arts her interests are the Sciences, our environment and nature based education. She is very excited to be working at City Kids and to be part of the team of passionate and like minded teachers. Qualifications:
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Sally - Registered Teacher
Sally joined City Kids in August 2016. She has been in Wellington since 2014, and has moved down from the Hawkes Bay where she worked in Early Childhood Education for six years. Sally graduated from the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand in 2013 with a Diploma of Teaching in Early Childhood Education. Sally is passionate about supporting and promoting social and emotional competence in children and values and respects the importance of relationships. In Sally's spare time she enjoys arts and crafts, spending time with family and friends, and pottering around in the garden. Qualifications:
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Lynette - Registered Teacher
Lynette Raeburn joined the City Kids Team at the beginning of 2018 and she is a registered teacher. She has many years experience working in a variety of Early Childhood Centres in Wellington. It is really important to Lynette to build supportive and respectful relationships with the children and their families as well as with her colleagues. She loves being a part of City Kids because the whole team shares these values. Lynette believes that these values create the best foundation that enhances children’s love of learning for their lifetime! She lives in Miramar with her husband, Neil. Their two beautiful grown daughters live in Wellington – Jenna lives in Petone and Mikayla lives in Strathmore. They also have a dog, Poppy that keeps them fit with lots of walks around the Seatoun Bays! Qualifications:
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Pam - Support teacher / Kaiako
Pam joined City Kids as a permanent team member in August 2015. Prior to this Pam has been a regular reliever. She was born and bred in Wellington and comes from a big family of 5 siblings. After college she completed her Diploma in Early Childhood Education (Pasifika) at New Zealand Careers College. Pam enjoys building relationships with the children and families at City Kids and likes to watch them as they learn and grow. Outside of work, Pam enjoys relaxing with family and friends and also loves to play Volleyball. Qualifications:
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Mikayla - Registered Teacher
Mikayla graduated from Victoria University with a Bachelor of Education in 2011 and she loves that she is still challenged by tamariki to learn new things every day! Mikayla's mother is also an early childhood teacher so she grew up experiencing a variety of different early childhood settings and recognised from a young age what a difference quality early childhood education can make in a child’s life. Attracted to City Kids natural outside inner-city playscape she believes her strong interest in nature-based pedagogy, Place-based Education and environmental sustainability will support the existing learning and the outside area's future development. Qualifications:
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Jaya - Registered Teacher
Jaya joined City Kids after finishing her Degree in Early childhood education from Victoria University of Wellington in 2018. She firmly believes in the pedagogy of AKO - a Maori concept which means reciprocal learning and acknowledging the way that new knowledge and understandings can grow out of shared learning experiences. Therefore, she quite enjoys working alongside the Kaiako (teachers) and tamariki (children) and getting to know everyone. Jaya's strengths come from whanaungatanga (Kinship and her sense of family connections), learning from children and adults alike; and teaching on the lines of the theorist Vygotsky who believed in learning from a more knowledgeable other. Jaya has been working as a relief teacher in ECE for almost five years and brings with herself a wealth of exposure from over two dozen day care centers across the Wellington region. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, cooking, spending time with her family, doing mantra meditation and going on spiritual retreats as a family. Qualifications:
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Diane - Administrator Diane (Di) joined the team in February 2017 as a teaching reliever and is now employed in the centre's Administrator role supporting the team with the day to day administrative running of the centre. Di is a qualified ECE teacher. Prior to being a teacher, Di had three years experience as an Education Support Worker, 13 years experience in banking related procurement and administration with responsibilities for fixed assets and administration team functions, and five years of corporate accounts payable/receivable experience prior to that. Talking about City Kids Di says "I was so impressed with the commitment and professionalism of the City Kids teaching team and the community spirit here while I was relieving, that when the chance to work here long term came up I was eager to be on board". Outside of work she is a mother to three young men, is the treasurer for the parent's group at her son's college, and is doing Te Reo Māori level 3 and 4 studies. Qualifications:
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If you can’t find what you’re looking for please contact our Supervisor on 04 473 1947, 027 748 9237 or email us supervisor@citykids.org.nz