Bear Park · Est. 1986

The Journal.

9 stories

Wearable Arts by Bear Park: rubbish into wonder

A year of milk-bottle lids, old uniform shirts and bubble wrap becomes a runway show, and $2,500 for Hato Hone St John.

Mirrors, clay and the hundred languages, and what emerges when children are given time to really look.

Gentle, practical ways readiness is built long before the first bell, from routines to independence and confidence.

Kindergarten, home-based, playcentre or a centre like ours. An unhurried look at the options and how to tell what fits your family.

Our philosophy

Children have a hundred languages. Our work is learning to listen to all of them.

The Reggio approach at Bear Park

From one house in St Heliers in 1986 to eleven centres across Auckland and Dunedin. The people who carried it here.

What generous staffing actually looks like across a morning, and what it does for a child.

How the first weeks run at your child's pace, one primary caregiver, no clock.

Beans, worms and the slow rhythm of the seasons, as a classroom.

Clay, light and returning to an idea across days and weeks.

One familiar person, a slow morning, and how trust is actually built.

Nothing here yet.

Ideas are best seen in person