BestStart Vivian Street

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BestStart Vivian Street early learning centre in the heart of New Plymouth provides care for children from 0 to 6 years old is a lovely environment that feels like home. We're open right through the year from 7.30am to 5.30pm and provide a range of full and part time spaces to suit our community's needs.

At BestStart Vivian Street what matters to your family, matters to us!

We learn about what's important to each of our families and support our children to discover more. Our children know that who they are and what interests them is important. 

We are lucky to be situated in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Where we have the mountain and the sea. We offer care to a wide range of cultures and backgrounds.

During the terms, we offer a few regular excursions, and even more spontaneous excursions. We have a weekly Library/Museum trip, as well as a weekly bus trip. This gets us out into the community and offers the tamariki a different space to explore and learn different things. When these regular excursions are not running in between terms, we have very well planned and thought out holiday programs. This is where we have a different out of the ordinary experience every day on offer for our tamariki.

Our Team

Our team is a very close knit team who get along with one another well. This enables us to work well as a team and bring the best learning outcomes for tamariki. We all have the same goal, to educate and care for the future generation. We find this is the most crucial age group and this is the time that shapes them into their future selves, therefore we place a high importance on the care they receive from us.

What We Offer

  • Fresh, healthy, nutritious meals and snacks provided throughout the day 
  • 20 hours free for 3-5 year olds and WINZ subsidies available* if required
  • Experienced tight-knit team of passionate teachers
  • Get Set for School programme
  • Dance class every Friday and Play Ball every Thursday

Our Spaces

Our centre is very homely, that is something we proud ourselves on. We welcome tamariki, whānau and visitors in with a warm smile. We have great relationships with whānau in our centre and this can be seen through any of the daily conversations we have with all. Through parent feedback, our centre feels very warm and welcoming and it is obvious the children are always engaged and busy.

Infants and Toddlers

Preschool

Video Gallery

Learning Moments
Centre tour
Quality Service Award 2023

kind words from our parents

Parent

I have nothing but positive things to say about Taryn and her team at BestStart Vivian street! My daughter was very warmly welcomed and fit right in. All the children are encouraged with their individual personalities catered to, respectful, whilst also taught important values and independence. Harlow and our family were very sad to leave BestStart Vivian and their lovely, compassionate teachers and staff members and we will be calling back to visit from time to time as genuine relationships were formed and nurtured. We were lucky to be part of the BestStart Vivian family and know we always will be. We miss you guys a lot!

Parent

Changing to BestStart Vivian Street was the best decision for my little girl. Her confidence has sky rocketed. She now has many friends and enjoys her time here. Sometimes she doesn’t want to leave!. The staff are very child focused and the centre manager gets heavily involved with the children. Having a male staff member is an added bonus and the children adore him. Five stars for BestStart Vivian Street.

Parents

We as parents of one daughter are very happy with BestStart Vivian and how far they have come. Our daughter loves going to kindi and is greeted with warm hugs and smiles. The teacher’s team goes above and beyond, in stimulating our child’s interests and has built volcanos, explained and built a solar system, got a science corner going, do experiments, and so much more. The support we got throughout the lockdown via Storypark was amazing. We love the fact that they go on regular outings and trips and that they have special events such as discoes and beach picnics. We will greatly miss the Taryn and the teacher’s team when our daughter is ready to go to school and our daughter is going to miss the teachers very much.

Parent

I was very reassured by the fact the centre manager shared that your approaches are based on attachment theory. All staff seem genuinely caring and like they genuinely enjoy their jobs. Staff always take the time to listen to me about my son, and have also given me some good advice. Staff are very empathetic. Good range of activities for the children, I am pleased that under 2s are separated from toddlers too. I also love the fact you bake from scratch for the kids every day.

Parent

BestStart has been such a huge support to me as well as to my children. Having moved back to New Zealand from overseas at the start of the year, this has been our first experience of Daycare here in NZ and we were so fortunate to have found Taryn and the Vivian Street team. From the start we felt that the staff really cared about our experience and about what was important to both us as well as the children. I feel very lucky to know that not only do my kids love the teachers and the centre, but that everyone there has been such an excellent resource for us as new parents too. The staff go out of their way to provide advice and guidance whenever I have asked for help, and their experience and knowledge has been invaluable. They have taught me so much and we could not have asked for a better place for the kids to play and develop. I have seen such a huge improvement in their communication and social skills in the last year, as well as their love of activity. Thank you so much Taryn and the team from all of us!

Parent

BestStart Vivian Street has been our home away from home for over 4 years. The team is outstanding and they went above and beyond to ensure we felt at ease every day. I wouldn't look any further than this fantastic centre. BestStart really is the best!!

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