Milford kindergarten has been selected as a finalist for the Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Awards in the category of Education Focus Prize. This category celebrates a focus on collaboration along the whole education pathway to improve health, wellbeing, and learning success for every child and young person.

Milford kindergarten facilitates the environment for children to learn based on the forest school philosophy, which fits very well with Enviroschool and the NZ Early Childhood Curriculum – Te Whāriki. The teaching team reviewed the culture and physical environment to improve the ways children learn, grow and develop. The new environment encourages children to use it more physically and enables the engagement of parents in the process. Children now have more physical skills, are stronger in themselves and have gained knowledge.