BestStart Mount Eden

Outdoors
Sandpit
Carpentry
Hands up
Bubbles
Spade
Garden
Blocks
Messy play
Mt Eden - Forest
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BestStart Mount Eden is located right next to Eden Park. We provide high-quality early education and award-winning childcare for your babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.

Curiosity in the World Around Us

As you walk through our doors you will see, feel, and hear the Aroha (love), Whakaute (respect), Whakawhirinaki (trust), Tākarko (play), and Koa (joy) that are the foundations of our interactions with children, parents, and whānau.

Our ‘Meadow’ is our touch of nature right in the heart of Auckland Central, where we have a vegetable garden, mud pit, fruit trees, a compost area, a worm farm, and a fire pit during Winter. Here, children experience the true essence of learning through nature where they can make mud pies, forage for bugs, and help in the vegetable patch. Natural learning is so important to us at BestStart Mount Eden - we teach our tamariki to take care of the earth which strengthens our connection to Papatuanuku, our Māori earth mother.

We take pride in our core foundations and believe our tamariki are capable and competent learners who benefit from engaged kaiako (teachers) as well as engaging in real-life experiences and using practical resources. We inspire creativity and independence through open-ended resources or "loose parts", meaningful activities, and a challenging learning environment where tamariki can take risks in a safe space.

Call us today to book a visit!

Our Team

Our qualified team of teachers will support tamariki to become confident learners through intentional teaching strategies and purposeful learning in a play-based setting with magical moments sprinkled throughout. Our teachers encourage tamariki to develop their social skills and give them opportunities to assess risks, problem-solve, develop an awareness of mindfulness, and gain confidence in themselves.

Our onsite cook provides healthy meals for the children to ensure they are well-fed and have the required energy to engage their curious minds.

What We Offer

  • Unique learning environment with nature-based activities and open-ended resources
  • Nutritious meals prepared daily by our onsite cook
  • 20 hours free for 3-5 year olds and WINZ subsidies available* if required

Our Spaces

The Pipi Room

(Babies)

Paua Room

(Toddlers & Preschoolers)

Video Gallery

Quality Service Award 2023

kind words from our parents

Parent

The staff are fabulous, and really care about the children. They are also very flexible and accommodating if we have specific requests on a given day such as nap length or changing nap time for an early pick up.

Parent

The teachers are lovely. Warm and welcoming. Ludi is an outstanding manager who encourages the use of Te Reo Maori which is important to our family.

Parent

Best Start Mt Eden is a wonderful place for our children. It's well-managed, clean, friendly, with a great variety of learning resources. But what makes it special is the staff, and the connection they build with our children and their whanau

Parent

The team do a wonderful job and it's clear that they enjoy their work. The children adore them and it's a happy and positive learning space.

Parent

I like the many different learning opportunities there is available, and the amazing fresh homemade meals prepared for the children.

Parent

For me I just LOVE the learning spaces. All the little areas you set up to inspire and engage the children are just so creative. The children are so engaged and involved in their own discoveries and investigations and it’s all inspired by the amazing spaces that spark this. I always want everyone I know to visit the center to see how awesome it is. Creativity, imagination, curiosity, confidence, challenges. I’m going for a sparking/igniting type of word - that’s what the children get. To me that’s the best thing - to capture their attention and imagination and let them explore and learn from that. To be curious. To want to learn more. Awesome foundation for life.

Parent

The lovely environment that my child enjoys exploring each day. Knowing that I will see so many smiling faces and positive energy from the wonderful kaiako. This is what keeps me coming back each day, whenever I ask my child what she loves about daycare the first thing she says is: "Friends!"

What we're proud of

Read our latest ERO report Read our latest ERO report e-portfolio e-portfolio Most Trusted Childcare Most Trusted Childcare Quality Service Award Quality Service Award Set for School Set for School BestStart Educare Governing Organisation Report BestStart Educare Governing Organisation Report

LATEST STORIES FROM OUR BLOG

Our Christmas Party Festivities

We kicked off our Christmas party by having a big and small soccer game in Eden Park, followed by a visit from Santa himself.

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Visual Arts

Our kaiako are extending their knowledge on Visual Arts so that they can engage and create awesome learning experiences for children.

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Kia Orana from BestStart Mount Eden!

The theme of this years celebration was ‘Ātuitui'ia au ki te Oneone o tōku 'Ui Tupuna’ which means ‘Connect me to the soil of my ancestors.’

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