@WilliamNZ
Hi William,
I'm Steve German nationality, most time of my life I spent in Germany, recently I've been a 5th time to NZ; I spent 1,5 years already at the south island of NZ. I have a daughter who's half french and I had her in a German Waldkindergarten between 2019-2021.
If you have some questions about schools you can contact me; with schools my knowlwdge is a bit limited, as we are on the way to settle in France and after having our daughter in school in Cameroon she'll go straight in the French system now. But my sister in law is German and studied education; she's working in a "Hort" but has her oldest daughter in school in GER.
We also could exchange about NZ, as I tried to get a foot on the ground over there; still under progress...
Cheers,
steve