BestStart Herewini Street

BestStart Herewini Street has an amazing natural outdoor environment. It's designed to encourage children to use their motor skills and give them opportunities to explore nature, grow flowers and vegetables, search for insects and bugs, and learn to care and respect animals.

The Heart of our Community

He Taonga to Mokopuna, Kia whangaia, kia Tipu, Kia re

A child is a treasure, to be nurtured, to grow, to flourish.

Nau Mai, Haere Mai, Welcome to BestStart Herewini.

There is nothing like feeling at home when entering a place of learning, to know that you belong. Our community feel this the moment they walk through our gate.

The smell of fresh, healthy, and nutritious meals fills our learning environment and sit side by side with our silver healthy heart award.

We welcome visitors at any time and encourage whanau to stay and immerse themselves in our community of learning. We empower our tamariki to explore their learning environment at their own pace, in their own time.

Kaiako create learning experiences that allow for all tamariki to showcase their own special skills and then grow them.

Our indoor-outdoor flow allows for many learning opportunities to happen with teachers guiding along the way. The natural environment is essential to our learning community creating pathways of learning that are authentic, simple but challenging.

Once a month we have a Librarian from Rotorua Library visit us to share stories, songs, dance and art, which our tamariki look forward to. Our kaiako enjoying getting out in the community with our tamariki, exploring and investigating the things that interest them. We enjoy getting together with our tamariki and their whanau with special evenings created just for them, where they can get to know other families and share a meal together.

We have strong connections with our wider community to support our whanau with diverse needs. We can help with referrals, Work and Income support paperwork, Early learning process paperwork and anything else you may need us to help with.

Our Kaiako can see and discover potential in all tamariki so attend professional development, and really listen to the needs of the whanau to help guide this.

We welcome you to come in, sit down for a while, let you and your child explore and meet our amazing team. Push the big red door open and come on in to your second home.

We have two learning spaces designed to meet the needs of our tamariki as they grow.