Prickly Hedgehog Pre-School was the first of the three early childhood education centres in the Pukekohe Pre-Schools "family". Since 2001, the teachers at Prickly Hedgehog Pre-School have been providing a sensitive and supportive atmosphere, where every child is valued as an individual. Our teachers are passionate in their profession; they invest much of their time engaging and interacting with every child in their care, to gain an insight into their personalities and to know them as individuals. This enables each child's special personality to be taken into account in our many programmes. Children's growth and development are a strong focus for our educators.