
Facilities
Our Preschool is situated within the main campus grounds in Karori and provides easy access to all main school facilities.
Marsden Preschool is for girls and boys, aged 3 to 5 years.
Open from 8:15am - 3:30pm, five days a week during school terms. Most children come five days, but there are options for 3 or 4 day attendance:
Marsden Preschool’s learning programmes are child-centred and holistic, created within the national Early Childhood Curriculum, Te Whāriki.
Our programmes are fun and foster a love of learning; creating lifelong, capable, competent and confident learners, ready for their world beyond Preschool. Our future focused teaching and learning focuses on:
We embed a variety of literacy and mathematical concepts for our children throughout the day.
We use Letterland for an introduction to the alphabet and its sounds. A 'Letter of the Week' provides the structure for our phonics and writing programme, with children bringing an object from home to share with the group.
Children practise counting in varied languages and experience different ways to explore mathematical concepts at both group times and one to one with a teacher.
Marsden Preschool has Specialists that teach Chinese and music in fun and creative ways each week. The school librarian runs a weekly programme where the children share and borrow books.
We join in Primary Chapel service, Discovery Time with Years 1-3 and enjoy buddy reading with Year 5 students. We also participate in annual events such as cross country, athletic sports, church services, Grandparent’s Day and attend Primary School productions.
We provide a warm caring environment that challenges all children to reach their full potential
Helen McConnell Head of Preschool
Marsden Preschool uses Educa to keep parents up-to-date with their child's learning.
We also encourage our Marsden Preschool parents to visit our i-SITE for term dates and the school calendar and other useful information about the school.
Check out the Preschool news page for special stories to see what we've been up to.
Our Preschool is situated within the main campus grounds in Karori and provides easy access to all main school facilities.
Children at Marsden Preschool benefit from being part of the wider Marsden family.
Read the latest Education Review Office report on Marsden Preschool