For Parents
Our Home and Nanny Educators create a safe, positive, nurturing environment and provide a rich programme to support your child / tamaiti to achieve their full potential.
Where Children Flourish —
and Educators Feel Supported.
Relationship-led early learning in Nelson Tasman & Marlborough
Children thrive in environments where they feel safe, known and emotionally secure.
Through small group care, consistent relationships, and intentional social experiences, we create strong foundations for confident, well-rounded children.
Because when children feel at home, they flourish. 💛
Nurture@Home is a locally owned home-based early learning service in Nelson Tasman and Marlborough. We provide relationship-led care through a team of nurturing Educators, creating warm, calm, small group environments that foster confidence, curiosity and emotional security.
We partner with whānau to support each child’s wellbeing and development because learning begins at home.
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Looking for Calm, Connected Care?
Our passionate team of heart-led Educators are carefully chosen and whom we believe will provide the level of nurturing care we expect! All of our Educators are safety checked and are genuinely passionate about providing quality early childhood care and education.
Our Home Educators / Kaipoipoi work from their own homes with a maximum of four children, creating a positive, nurturing environment and provide a rich programme to support each child/tamaiti to achieve their full potential.
Our Nanny Educators / Kaipoipoi attend to your childs / tamaiti needs, supporting their learning and development in the comfort of the childs / tamaiti own home. Nanny Educators / Kaipoipoi can also work alongside the families/whanau in a support role.
Or do you want to educate from the heart – but not alone? Make life-long friendships and a great income all while being involved in children’s learning as part of a great team. You can choose to work part-time or full-time and choose hours to suit your own family.
We would love to hear from you.
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Tamariki collected sticks, that became props for imaginative play and adventure- building a campfire and even a magical wand!✨
We finished our session by gathering together to sing our waiata (Nga Atua) bringing a sense of calm and closure to our NatureFocus session.
We love spending time in the taiao and learning through nature.💚❄🌳🌾
💚 Special moments, lasting memories 💚
Jo beautifully captures the heart of home-based education. In the busyness of everyday life, it's often the simple moments spent together that mean the most. Sharing conversations, exploring interests, enjoying outings, and building meaningful connections.
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Have you guys heard of Matt & Patt from the Zeelow guys? ! Nelson is very lucky to have them to entertain children with their really fun music & songs, stories and they even sell merchandise now. The t-shirts are very cool!
If you haven't heard them perform before, be sure to come and check them out at our Family Fun Day in September!!
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As part of our Matariki celebrations, the children created beautiful Matariki stars using coloured tissue paper. They practised their fine motor skills by carefully using scissors to cut the tissue paper and glue it onto their stars. The tamariki showed growing confidence with scissor control and enjoyed discussing the names of the Matariki stars. These stars will be added to our wall art-display as we continue our learning about Matariki.❄✨
There were many opportunities for imaginative and family play throughout the session. Children used loose parts to extend their exploration and pretend play. This type of play supports creativity, communication, and social development.👒🌸
Other favourite activities included playdough and sandpit play, where children explored, created, and worked alongside their peers. Through these experiences, the tamariki continued to develop important social skills, including sharing, cooperation, turn-taking, and building positive relationships with one another.🥰
It was a busy and engaging morning filled with creativity, learning, and meaningful connections.❤️💙
Belonging Comes Before Learning
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