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Kakapo Creek Boutique Childcare Centre | North Shore | Auckland

KAKAPO CREEK Children’s Garden offers attachment-rich childcare and education. Opening in April 2022, Kakapo Creek will be a boutique childcare in the heart of Mairangi Bay on Auckland’s North Shore offering bespoke care and support for you and your child. Waitlist your child today.

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KAKAPO CREEK Children’s Garden offers boutique, attachment-rich childcare and education in the heart of Mairangi Bay on Auckland’s North Shore. With our relationship first focus and consistent long term caregivers, our farm-forest school, our environmentally friendly playground and our bespoke architecture, Kakapo Creek offers you the ultimate experience in early childhood care and education.

Meet the Directors

Ian McKean

Ian is the founder and Clinical Director of the Parents Partner and is passionate about helping families be their very best.

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Kaye McKean

Kaye has long dreamed of designing an early childhood centre that provides an uncompromising service and meets the holistic needs of families. Passionately committed to the quadruple bottom line philosophy, Kakapo Creek is designed to meet these aspirations.

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We offer the best
early childhood care and education on the Shore

  • Specialist teachers
    Specialist Itinerant Teachers
  • playgroup
    Play 'n Stay Playgroup
  • personal teachers
    Personal Teachers
  • fun
    Fun Play
  • science-circle
    Science
  • nature
    Nature
  • numeracy
    Numeracy
  • literacy
    Literacy
  • Forest School
    Farm-Forest School
  • fantastic equipment
    Fantastic Equipment

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Kakapo Creek

About Us

Privately owned and operated by Ian & Kaye McKean, Kakapo Creek is designed using the very best evidence based family research, incorporating attachment theory and neuroscience.

Ian and Kaye have worked within the early childhood industry for the past 20 years and have decided that it’s time to create a childcare that really does what is best for children and their families.

Ian has a Masters Degree in Family Life and Kaye has a Masters Degree in Social Welfare. Both are passionate that happy, healthy families are what children need best to thrive.

We are now open and accepting enrolments.  Check and follow our facebook page for regular updates.

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Kakapo Creek is a boutique childcare centre in the heart of Mairangi Bay on Auckland’s North Shore offering unique benefits to children and their families.

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About Us

Privately owned and operated by Ian & Kaye McKean, Kakapo Creek is designed using the very best evidence based family research, incorporating attachment theory and neuroscience.

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