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- Pouwhenua at Kakapo Creek Children's Garden

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.
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.


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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Open Now and Accepting Enrolments
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.