Our children have been showing an interest in building their physical development as well as an awar...
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We showed our appreciation for our mothers by hosting a high tea just for them.
We had such a lovely celebration for our mums and a great informative evening with our parents about...
In the prep room we love celebrating our children's learning and they love sharing it with everyone
Children are curious about the change in weather and are exploring their environment to learn a...
Children showed a great interest in exploring their senses and being curious about their environment...
This month we celebrated Pink Shirt Day to show support for mental health
We held a Pink Ribbon Breakfast to support the Breast Cancer Foundation
BestStart Glen Eden celebrated the Maori New Year, Matariki, with a fantastic whanau (family) event....
We were absolutely thrilled when one of our amazing whanau recognised a learning opportunity for our...
As Autumn approached and then arrived in a hurry, so did all the leaves off the neighbouring trees.
The sandpit has been a big hit with the children as they explore freely with the diggers alongside t...
At BestStart Gillies Avenue, we want all our mothers and loved ones to know that we love you and tha...
We have had 3 beautiful guinea pigs join us as part of our BestStart Greerton family - Mr Tomato Sau...
It has been extra special to celebrate this week at preschool, as some of our families are from Samo...
We celebrated receiving our Gold Healthy Heart Award after many months of hard work from our amazing...
Our tamariki decided they would like to do some drawing at a different level.
We felt joyous with the sun warming up our bodies and decided that dress up and pretend play was a g...
Will it fly?
We can throw them in the air and watch them fall to the ground, developing the concepts of gravity a...
Children are encouraged to climb, balance and jump from height
A lot of our children leave for school to go to Beckenham Primary School
We encourage tamariki to take an active role in caring for our learning environment to help them bu...
This experience offers many different learning opportunities to develop different skills such as fin...
We hosted a yummy Pink Ribbon Breakfast for our wonderful mums to fundraise for the Breast Cancer Fo...
Wow! How time flies when you are having fun and there has been definitely a lot of that this week.
We have been really interested in learning about living things around us including insects, animals...
We have been exploring different methods to help children develop their verbal language skills as we...
Tawhirimatea is the Maori God who controls the wind, storms and other weather. We've been thinking...
In the toddlers room at BestStart Bader Street we were lucky to have Kyle visit us from NZ Sign Lang...
The drop in temperature means that soup season is well and truly underway.
Today some of our older children visited the new entrant class at St Martins School for the morning
On Friday 28th May we came together to support the organisation I AM HOPE by wearing our gumboots an...
Reading books allows our children to learn, use their imagination as well as tell their own stories....
Our children are building on their sense of belonging and growing themselves as competent and confid...
We’ve had an action-packed month which was kicked off with a magnificent Mother’s Day celebration
We were lucky enough to have two firefighters join us
Nature provides our children with amazing learning experiences
Everyone loves baking, the smell of freshly baked goods throughout the room and the taste of soft, s...
During the month of April, BestStart Ngatai Road focused on celebrating our ANZAC Heroes
Getting out into the community is an important part of our curriculum at BestStart Girven Road, sup...
We are exploring how our bodies work in the world around us.
We have regular Friday visits to our local school, St. Mary’s Primary School, for our 4 year olds to...
This excursion was meaningful and empowering for the tamariki to be able to truly put their capabili...
We feel It’s really important to celebrate diversity and it creates a sense of belonging for all of...
Our Nursery has a strong focus on tuakana teina: a Maori concept which promotes for the older childr...
Getting children to concentrate - especially at home - can be tough!
Our Montessori Bethlehem families and teachers come together to create a very culturally diverse co...
Our Tahi room planned a visit to our local community shops, they wanted to spread kindness by giving...
Painting is great for fine motor and hand eye coordination but also for expressing our ideas and fee...
Infant House have spent Haratua supporting our community in several ways
Tamariki began to show an interest in sea creatures both in the Prep Room and at home, asking about...
Every school holiday, we have a very special holiday programme running at BestStart Huntington, fil...
For the month of May we focused on anti-bullying bat BestStart Maui Street.
Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora. Speak up, Stand together, stop bullying.
Kelly made a special visit from Timaru in her police car to come and share all about her job with ou...
Tamariki under the age of five are learning how to get along with each other, share and understand t...
The children in the Kea Room have been busy in the art area making choices about what they would l...
Today was finally corn harvesting day
We're getting behind anti-bullying
It was so awesome to see the amount of pink worn all over the centre and the donations that were mad...
We raised $200 plus from our bake sale and cake raffle for such a great cause
This video of the week is all about the learning that can be achieved through playing with boxes
With the change of seasons we had noticed the leaves changing colour in and around our centre. When...
We celebrated Pink Shirt Day which is about working together to stop bullying, promoting kindness an...
Messy play experiences include gloop, sensory ice and water sensory gel as well as painting and dot...
Clay provides the opportunity to enhance their imagination and creativity while developing skills.
We love to physically move our bodies and keep ourselves challenged at Mangorei Rd.
We very much value getting out into the community and exploring nature
Our deaf community is very important to us here at BestStart Buchanans Road so participating in NZSL...
Tamariki are busy enjoying the changing colours of Autumn
We've teamed up with Kids Greening Taupo to get our tamariki out and about in the community and invo...
There has been a variety of events that have taken place this month, with so much learning, explorat...
We provide a nurturing environment where children can be themselves, make new friends, solve problem...
We have our very own secret garden called 'The Meadow' that our children help plant and take care...
We created a Wearable Arts Night – creating 35 costumes mainly out of loose parts!
Today in the nursery we welcomed the children to the Northwood Spa and Nail Salon
We talked about sign language and how it is a language that we can use to talk to those that can't h...
Our kaiako (teachers) are passionate, creative and love to get messy so this is something you will s...
We went to the library to find out more about construction for our special construction project
During the school holidays we like to organise a fun week with our tamariki at the centre.
This week the nursery kaiako and tamariki walked up to the Graham Condon Recreation Centre for Tumbl...
We've been learning a lot about healthy eating, how to care for their bodies and how to care and gro...
We went looking for acorns to make some brown dye for our tapa cloth
Animals are such an important part of our life, and we are learning all about them as we have fun.
Our current group planning focus is around construction, so we invited Bunnings to come in and build...
Physical activity is a favourite past time for our tamariki and we ensure we cater for all abilities
At Beststart East Tamaki our Be-School ready program assists in helping our children prepare for pr...
Our tamariki in the nursery have shown an interest in exploring messy play
There are so many reasons that we love our mums...
We're proud to be involved in our local community, so when the opportunity arose for us to create a...
We've been practicing our independence skills during clean up, kai and care times
It's been a busy month filled with lots of learning opportunities for tamariki
We're lucky enough to have a wonderful, huge, old walnut tree
From celebrating Mother's day to being creative, May was full of fun, creativity and celebration.
What an amazing time we had celebrating our whanau with our whanau breakfast.
What fun, adventurous and exciting times we have at BestStart St Andrews to work towards Growing gr...
The rain has passed, and the children were back out exploring
We pride ourselves on being a centre that embraces many diverse cultures.
Every school holidays we always look at ways to introduce new and creative ways to learn, especially...
The tamariki love to dance and this is a great way for them to move their bodies to the rhythm and t...
Our children love tea parties so we decided to throw one and made some imaginary cupcakes and strawb...
We're continuously thinking of creative and fun ideas to extend children's early numeracy and early...
The tamariki were fascinated with each tool and piece of wood coming out, eager to be the ones to he...
We invited Grandparents to come and have a shared afternoon tea with the kaiako and nga tamariki
Our environment in our Nga Pepi room encourages our babies to learn through the curiosity of play.
Our children engaged in some meaningful experiences to help them learn and understand what this day...
We've been looking into emergency services and learning all about what and how they do what they do
Our children often see teachers request resources that then arrive sometime later, so Frankie though...
We'll soon be travelling to China, South Korea, India, Australia, Netherlands, Chile and our final d...
We're using nature plus creative thinking to make dress ups and presents for special occasions
What happens if we add vinegar?
We have been so lucky to get to work alongside Jase Te Patu and his amazing M3 movement
We celebrated our mums with a special high tea and a room of pampering.
This morning the children gave their special mothers, nans and grans a morning tea treat
At BestStart Herewini we are looking at animals and how they can help us, and we can help them.
To celebrate our amazing mothers/grandmothers and special people in our BestStart Rolleston whanau,...
Our Mums, Nanas, Aunties and friends joined us for our annual Mothers Day High Tea Party
Marne Road Kindy held their Annual Concert at the Hawkins Theatre in Papakura for all our families.
Our creative teachers arranged a beautiful photo shoot and made cake jars as gifts from our tamariki...
Today we had some of the residents from Chatswood Retirement Village come visit us in our preschool...
Exploring with our sense of taste
Our current group learning focus is 'Construction' so we were hoping we could use the trip as a rese...
Happy Mother's Day to all our BestStart Queenstown Mums!
We had a magical night was had under the stars as whanau joined us for a family favourite movie “Moa...
We wanted to show our appreciation to all the mothers, aunts, grandmothers, sisters for their hard w...
We made the most of their big fields, bike pump track and courts to practice our bike skills
Our BestStart Bader Street whanau went to Memorial Park to acknowledge an important part of Aotearoa...
This month we held a pink ribbon breakfast to raise funds for Breast Cancer
To show our appreciation to our wonderful mothers, nanas we decided to organise an afternoon te...
Thank you Mum for being a source of strength, guidance, happiness, and inspiration everyday.
We celebrated Mother's Day at our Centre with a shared morning tea in each classroom.
Carpentry helps to develop and practice a wide range of skills while developing capability and diffe...
We've been busy finding ways to use all the feijoas we have received this season from our wonderful...
This week we got messy using shaving foam
During April we had a fun filled school holiday programme for our little explorers at BestStart Pal...
This was morning was enjoyed by many of our amazing Mum's. We hope that you all felt special and lov...
We were fortunate to have visit from our local ASB St John community educator
Have you ever tried painting on clipboards suspended by string?
BestStart Montessori Kilbirnie holds a Montessori Playgroup session every Thursday during term time
Tamariki have been showing an interest in the way that things move and in transferring water, sand...
It was a great morning to be able to come together to celebrate our journey to opening as well as to...
Our BestStart Totara whanau brought in some of our amazing pets for the children to meet!
We believe in empowering our children to lead their learning whilst supporting them in their journey...
At BestStart Katikati we provide a learning rich environment for all aged children to actively expl...
We provide a play-based environment that supports our tamariki to become school ready
Today we celebrated our Indian families with special dances, dress ups, and henna
The ground is lava!
Valerie Roberts gifted us a signed book about the adventures of Big Ted and Monkey
Today a group of children and teachers had the opportunity to take part in a Kelly Sports session
Yesterday marked a special occasion as our first day welcoming children and Whānau at Best...
We had a variety of activities to help our tamariki at BestStart Stratford learn and be a part of co...
Sparked by tamariki interested in dinosaurs, Mana and Tiaki tamariki had a dinosaur day.
For the past few weeks the children of the Kiwi Room have been learning about ANZAC Day
BestStart’s Be Ready for School Programme which is an initiative to support our older children to b...
We love bring water play inside not just on rainy days but as a continuous messy play experiences fo...
We love using our imagination and relating it back to the world around us
The discovery room is very hands on and allows the children the opportunity to touch and get involve...
We've been busy with a range of fun and educational science experiments
As gross motor skills begin to strengthen, children’s ability to concentrate, use trial and error an...
Our tamariki love to explore lots of sensory activities
Our sandpit was transformed into a building site, trucks, pipes and diggers controlled the flow of t...
Celebrating and staying true to our vision, "Creativity and aroha lead the way" we had a fun-filled...