About us

Welcome to our sKids Centre where the safety and care of your child is our number one priority. 

Cherryl Donovan and Lesley Bennett purchased Skids Whenuapai on January 27^th 2012, just in time for term one of the new school year.

We purchased our other site, based at Kristin School in Albany, in early December, where we successfully ran a holiday programme over the holidays.

Cherryl will be based at Whenuapai and Lesley at Kristin, however, we will be involved with both sites on a regular basis.

Both Cherryl and Lesley have recently come from their professions in the travel industry, where they worked together for some years.  This was very rewarding for both of them, however, they finally followed their passion for children and their well being.

Both mothers of 3 adult children each and 1 grandchild each, Cherryl and Lesley have the maturity and understanding of your children’s needs.  After school care should be fun, a place where the children can feel safe and you, their parents, feel comfortable that they are being well cared for.

While structure is important, we do realise that children need some flexibility.  Once they have had afternoon tea, time to blow off the cobwebs, homework has been completed, an activity will be planned for each day.  Our aim is to keep them busy in a constructive way.

Once each terms planning has been completed, we will post this on the school’s website so you can keep up with what we are doing.

Cherryl and Lesley look forward to being part of your school community and welcome any feedback from you.

Our contact details are

Programme Owner - Lesley Bennett and Cherryl Donovan

Tel: Mobile 0274 841762

Office: 09 479 8116

Site:  021 174 8473

Email - whenuapai@skids.co.nz