Children at Magic Garden painting together on a large sheet of paper in the sun.

Centre of amazing

A place where your child is nurtured,
and challenged to grow to their fullest potential.

Find your centre

Northcross
Oteha
Takapuna

Quality
learning

Te Whāriki guides our work, enriched by Reggio Emilia, RIE and Magda Gerber.
Natural
environment

Open-ended natural materials, and long stretches of uninterrupted play.
Nutritious
meals

An in-house chef cooking fresh daily. Five fruit and five vegetables every week.
Amazing
teachers

Experienced and qualified, with real time set aside to plan, coach and mentor.
Happy
whānau

Regular dialogue with our community, and a place where families belong.

Three centres, one family

Magic Garden has been family owned since 1998. Every centre runs the same curriculum, the same standards and the same kitchen-first approach to food. Pick the one closest to you.

Northcross & Browns Bay

Our founding centre, open since 1998. Three rooms, an in-house kitchen, and a garden the children have been shaping for years.

170-174 Carlisle Road
Northcross, Auckland 0632

09 479 1240
Oteha

Same philosophy, same standards, on Ponderosa Drive.

Ponderosa Drive
Oteha, Auckland

Phone and enrolment details coming soon. Email office@magicgarden.co.nz in the meantime.
Takapuna

Same philosophy, same standards, in Takapuna.

Takapuna, Auckland

Phone and enrolment details coming soon. Email office@magicgarden.co.nz in the meantime.

Welcome to Magic Garden

Where children thrive and grow

Our environment is designed to empower children. Respectful, unhurried, peaceful, safe and secure. Children learn here by making decisions, working together, solving problems and leading their own way through the day.

We make time to listen. We treasure each child's gifts, curiosities and potential, and we treat them as capable of contributing real knowledge to the world around them.

He aha te mea nui o te ao?
He tangata! He tangata! He tangata!

What is the most important thing in the world?
It is people! It is people! It is people!Whakataukī

A toddler kneeling on the grass, lining up blue bottle caps end to end.

Three rooms in every centre

Each room is shaped around where your child is right now, and led by a teacher who knows that stage well.

Infants & Toddlers

Respectful, unhurried care at a teacher-to-child ratio close to one to three. We do not carry children to sleep or prop them up before they can sit. They set their own pace.
Over 2 Years

A room built to hold attention. New things to puzzle over sit beside familiar favourites, so children can settle first and then stretch themselves.
Over 3 Years

Getting ready for school means much more than letters and numbers. It means thinking deeply, speaking up, making friends and taking on hard things with courage.

Loved by our families

Magic Garden has provided our two children with some amazing learning opportunities. They have had chances to try new things, consolidate what they know, share their own thoughts and have had fun doing it. Our son was so settled when he started school thanks to the skills he learnt through the teachers at Magic Garden, and our daughter is having the same experiences.

Di EdgooseMagic Garden parent