BestStart Te Heuheu Street Kindy

In our centre, your child will get the care, encouragement and attention needed to prepare them for a happy, well-balanced and positive future.

We get to know each child and family individually. This allows us to discover their interests and each families aspirations and then create an Individual Development Plan. This makes sure that each child is growing and developing to the best of their ability whilst maintaining home family values.

Our wonderful portfolios capture each child’s journey through Kindy and are a treasure for families to keep. We capture each child’s growth and progression through personalised stories and images. Individual goals are updated regularly. We also use the online platform Storypark, which allows you to access their learning anytime, and is perfect to share with friends and family members who are near or far.

Our town has so much pride in what we have to offer, and at Kindy, we ‘Love Taupō’ too. We have a great array of community experiences that we love to involve our children in.

Being close to town, we can walk to many places. We take groups of children to visit our closest rest home and bring smiles to the faces of our cherished elderly. We take children shopping for Kindy resources to teach them essential skills when out and about. We have taken the whole centre on a walk to the movies to see a movie about superheroes!

We get regular visits from Cath at Bike Taupō, which has seen many of our children grow into excellent confident bike riders and lose their training wheels before starting school. We also take part in the Tūwharetoa Festival each year, where we take all the children on a bus, and practice each day leading up to having our moment on stage!