Hi Dianne and Team

You opened as a new centre in late January and welcomed a new group of children and their families to your care.

About eight weeks later Lockdown arrived!

You have now welcomed our little ones and us back after an eight week break.

On my first pickup day it was so obvious how all the children and especially my three little grandchildren, have come back to you well settled, happy and keen. To develop this caring environment in such a short period of time before the lockdown is a tribute to your leadership and the passion and skill that you and your team bring with them to work every day.

I would like to recognise this achievement and thank you all for what you contribute to our precious children at this important stage of their lives.

Please pass on my thanks to your team and I am happy for you to share this feedback.

Once again thank you. -- Faith

Thanks for the update. It's really nice as a parent to see you guys being so proactive and really makes me fee that we have absolutely made the right choice by moving our kids from their previous daycare to Hand and Hand. Much appreciated. -- Annette

I like to thank teachers in Hand and Hand for taking good care of my son Park-Hin for the past 3 years. Park-Hin has grown so much. He is now a considerate, confident, super sweet and happy boy. Big thanks to Ange for the wonderful graduation ceremony yesterday, and always being supportive and helpful to our family.

Special thanks to Pam for the Kura time. One day my son wanted to play counting game with me, I suggested to write it out for him. But he surprised me by saying he knows how to write numbers. He then wrote down and count number 1 to 9. I was super impressed, he must have learnt it at Kura time!! I think that would definitely be helpful for his transition to primary school.

Wish everyone very happy Christmas, and a blissful new year!! -- with Pam Moodley and Angela Allwood

Thank you Hand and Hand Flat Bush for all the loving memory, all the teaching and all the love that you provided to Caitlin over these years. She started as a wee Tiny Hand, to Little Hand then to Big Hand. She learned how to feed herself, to sharing toys then to write and count. Altogether she is now graduated from Hand and Hand but all these memories will not be forgotten. Thank you.

An exceptional place for learning while having fun. All of the staff are caring towards the children and they communicate with the parents whenever necessary. This is what I like the most because I get to hear what my daughter has been doing in the centre. My husband and I are very happy with the way the center operates. Many thanks to all at Hand and Hand early learning centre at Hobsonville.

If anyone is looking for an amazing Daycare Centre for the children in Hobsonville, I would highly recommend Hand and Hand Hobsonville.

Hand and Hand is such Wonderful childcare that my son Sami has been going to for the last 4 years. He has truly learnt a lot and has been well taken care off. The Staff and the Management do such a wonderful and excellent job of taken care of the kids. I highly recommend the place to all parents.

Our daughter Lucie really enjoys her time at Hand and Hand Flat Bush. She especially enjoyed the recent school holiday programme run by the centre which offered daily activities such as Cupcake Hair Day, Mismatched Clothing Day, Face Painting, Baking etc. No only did this bring excitement to her day but we all appreciated the extra effort by the teachers and staff. We highly recommend the centre.

I just wanted to say how happy we are with Mika at Hand and Hand.
Even more so with Kimmy, Parvam (apologies I don’t know how to spell her name), they create such an energetic environment, a happy and safe place which makes me feel so comfortable leaving Mika each day.
The other teachers are also fabulous, I don’t know them as well, but I see Mika go to them and hug(want to be picked up). He seems to be making special connections with everyone there and it makes us so happy.

Thank you so much for all your help with our wonderful little Mary-Grace. All of your cuddles and love are just so important and have made so much difference. The toe nail painting was the bomb!! (You have no idea how much she loved that!!) Thank you all so, so much. We are all being great mums to MG!!