The tamariki and kaiako have recently challenged their physical skills at BestStart Opihi through sk...
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BestStart Hei Hei practice graduations from one room to the next.
BestStart Wainoni has teamed up with Foodbank Canterbury to help us with a surplus of food to share...
Once a month, our good friend Athol pays us a visit, bringing with him a huge range of pukapuka that...
Here at BestStart Morrinsville, the tamariki have a wide range of areas to explore.
With the winter months in full steam here at the children's preschool room in Palmerston North, we h...
During the month of August, our curriculum focus has been on music and dancing. This is a popular ar...
Reading and writing are embraced here at BestStart Elles Road, and we encourage our tamariki to embr...
It was a day filled with music and dance at BestStart Newmarket.
We like to keep our activities open-ended to allow our toddlers to be creative and find their own w...
This term, Preschool has been discovering more about our local culture through story-telling.
Our Centre has been involved in the Kia Timata Pai study.
If you go down to the Kaitiaki and Whare Tipu room today, you might get a big surprise....as today w...
This month at Best Start Opihi, the children have been learning the benefits of yoga.
We have been celebrating winter this month, and the kaiako have been planning fun experiences that t...
Here at Best Start Waikite Valley Kindy, we love to celebrate children's identity and who they are....
"Here at BestStart Pacey Ave, one of our values is creativity. We strive to empower tamariki to "spe...
Most of us love to have fun being physically active outside, even as adults. We can run, jump, roll,...
We believe that painting and art experiences can be therapeutic and have a relaxing element.
This month, we greatly focused on health and wellbeing at BestStart Mahora.
I wanted to share this adorable video of Pugalini teaching our younger child Mikail the Maori colour...
Today one of our Kaiako brought in some tiger or composting worms for the worm farm. Tamariki were v...
Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Donna and Rachel into our centre to wānanga with us about som...
On a couple of occasions this month, the children in tahi have been involved in making sandpit volca...
Activities like this here support our tamariki to become more competent using new materials like the...
Due to popular demand, we had a bike day at Beststart Ascot.
Fundraising events are also a big part of BestStart Papakura, and this month we celebrated Daffodils...
It's citrus season, and we have ample lemons and oranges on our trees, so we wanted to test the diff...
At BestStart Mount Wellington, our tamarki love to explore, which builds on their confidence.
We celebrate Birthdays at BestStart Avondale under healthy heart guidelines.
We shared an idea before lunch about moving some favourite equipment around.
We are inspired by our vision "If you believe it, You can achieve it".
BestStart Silverdale was visited by BARK, a dogwise flagship programme for ECE centres and schools.
The children in the Paua room enjoy exploring with the sensorial equipment in a way that extends the...
Our Kauri tamariki love to learn and understand the importance of showing respect, aroha and kindnes...
In Pikopiko (infant's room), we are so lucky to have a wide range of resources available to explore...
As it is said that literacy is the basis for children's learning, enhancing young children's literac...
We have been lucky enough to get some work completed on updating our outdoor learning spaces at Mont...
Who doesn't love getting messy while creating a work of art? Our Tahi children definitely do!
Today we celebrated Rakhi/ Raksha Bandhan (also known as Rakhi) - this is celebrated as a 'brothers...
The weather has slowly but surely started warming up, which means nga tamariki o Nga Tipu have been...
This past month has been a blast at BestStart Ngatai Road!
Our tamariki have recently been busy moulding and shaping playdough in the Centre.
The wait is over, and we have officially opened our doors here at BestStart Paerata Rise!
At Best Start, St.Lukes, we have been facilitating our children with various arts and crafts.
We are lucky to have Jack's Dad, Ben, come in and talk to us about the Mushrooms that he grows and...
The infants and toddlers in the Nursery have been so curious this month!
At BestStart Te Whariki, we enjoy preparing our children for their next step in life by giving them...
Our centre has been very interested in pūrākau - Māori legends and this naturally weaved into our d...
This week we have been experimenting... from volcanoes, mixing colours to textured painting.
Our tamariki have been busy exploring and experimenting with messy play this month in the nursery.
We have had a few new children of a younger age, and we are working on supporting them with independ...
Reading to your child is one of the key ways to help your child’s brain develop in the early years....
To extend the learning of our tamāriki, kaiako added varying objects, coloured water and a dry mixtu...
We believe in learning through relationships and encourage our babies in Pukeko room to learn with a...
As per our journey ‘Korero atu, korero mai, Talanoa, ’ we support and encourage our tamariki in the...
Over the last couple of weeks, we have seen an amazing transformation of our outdoor environment. We...
ANZAC What is happening within our community? Our tamariki have noticed ANZAC poppies around the c...
On 18th August, we finally had our official opening ceremony. Thank the families, our senior managem...
At BestStart Hei Hei, we strive to create an environment where our tamariki can explore, think and r...
As we moved into our brand-new centre, children, whanau, and the teaching team settled very well.
Older children are often seen supporting their younger friends, sometimes in the simplest way holdin...
At Te Atatu Road, we believe in the environment as the third teacher and take pride in providing unh...
We have been enjoying the warmer weather outside lately, which means we can do more learning outsid...
Here at BestStart Raumati, our tamariki participate in our annual Art Exhibition and Sale evening.
This is our vision for our centre – and this photo shows the connection these two tamariki have with...
There's no doubt that fathers play a special role in children's lives. In fact, today's dads are mor...