“With Step 2 Growth you get the 

best of both worlds”

 

 

Step 2 Growth is a locally owned and operated home-based childcare service in the Marlborough Region created in 2011 to provide a more affordable form of quality childcare. The vision was to build stronger relationships between all parties (educators, families, Step 2 Growth and the children), working together as a team to provide the best for the children in care. We have bi-monthly meetings to ensure all our educators know the changes and have a say in the running of the business, giving them motivation and inspiration as stakeholders in the business. We run fortnightly playgroups and encourage our educators to attend community ‘play’ groups to ensure children in our care get the best experiences in their community. 

 

With Step 2 Growth you are assured of the best of both worlds by either being an educator and having the opportunity to work from the comfort of your own home doing something you are passionate about, or as a family seeking childcare within a secure home-based setting that provides educational learning experiences that enhance and support children's growth and development to become confident and competent individuals.

 

Knowing that a good educator is one who is well supported and has resources when needed, and a good parent is one who is involved in their child’s education, a happy child is created by passionate care and teamwork between all parties, generating strong trusting bonds.

 

Step 2 Growth is a locally owned and operated business. Together as a team we are one family helping other families.

“We value relationships that form 

secure bonds”

 

 

Step 2 Growth believe in the power of learning through play, and that when a child is in control of their own learning their life skills are developed until they are ready for more conventional classroom environment learning. Our educators are encouraged to support the concept of guided participation and support the children in their care, to provide them with an environment where they can explore, develop rational thinking, empathy, patience and a sense of belonging. We support the concept of Ā tōna wā - ceding them the autonomy to master positive learning dispositions and skills in their own time, and educators are encouraged to slow down and be fully present with the tamariki as they play.

Step 2 Growth believe in the power of teamwork, working with children, working with parents and whanau, and working with the wider community to be co-constructors of knowledge. Whanau are equal partners in encouraging their children to learn, and participation in their children’s education is not only encouraged, but is expected in order to help children become effective communicators and to also become trusting , with a great sense of well-being.

Step 2 Growth implements the policy of primary caregiving, particularly for the infants and toddlers within our care. These children know that they have a reliable adult that will care for them day by day, and is the next best thing to their caregivers at home. Their needs are met appropriately and promptly.

Step 2 Growth is passionate about quality home-based early childcare and education, and we want to do everything we can to provide the next best thing to children being at home with whanau. Your educator will become your whanau, and we believe in building the best possible relationship in order to encourage our children to be a generation of wonderful people. While working with the New Zealand Early Childhood curriculum Te Whariki we will work together to encourage our children to be “Competent and confident learners, healthy in mind, body and spirit, secure in their sense of belonging and in the knowledge that they make a valued contribution to society” (Te Whariki, page 5).

• Promote warm nurturing care to all children

• Promote stimulating learning environments within a home-based setting

• Form strong bonds between our educators, children and their families/whanau

• Share special moments in each child's learning journey through an individual learning journal

• Provide the  community with the opportunity to further their career and knowledge with relevant training and professional development

• Provide and promote nutritional food to establish healthy eating habits

• Provide a before-school check of learning goals 

Our Aims