BestStart Wigram
BestStart Wigram is a specially designed childcare complex with two centres located near Hornby in the Wigram Skies subdivision. We provide quality early childhood education and child care. Our complex gives families options for their child's education where they can choose between our small, intimate, homelike building or our spacious building with a large outdoor environment.
At BestStart Wigram our vision is: There is always time...
Time to explore - Through intentional planning, we provide unhurried routines and learning experiences that consider the individual child, so that children have an opportunity to explore at their own pace.
Time to know each other - Reciprocal relationships with children and their whanau nurture trust and respect and help us gain a holistic and culturally responsive lens, so that children have a sense of belonging and self.
Time to collaborate - Effective communication underpins a smooth transition for our tamariki and their whanau into, within and beyond their time and place with us that children feels supported through change.
Time to have fun - Play offers developmentally appropriate challenges that consider the children’s interests and opportunities to be helpful to one another so that children feel happy and content.
These values help us guide our teaching and also within them are our priorities as a centre. Engagement with whanau is also guided by these values, making teaching and learning more visible for our whanau.
Our centre provides children with the opportunity to follow their own interests, be creative and to have fun. We appreciate the diversity that each child brings into our centre and ensure our programme supports the cultural beliefs of all our families.
Our learning rooms - We have 7 classrooms across our two buildings allowing us to provide age-specific challenges and cater for more individualised learning and care programmes as children grow and develop.
Infants and toddlers are supported by a nurturing teachers who knows each child and their routine well. These teachers work in partnership with parents to ensure their individual routines and requirements are supported in a familiar and caring approach, giving the child the security of a familiar face everyday.
Our programme for our older children recognises the importance of fostering children’s natural ability to be inquisitive. Teachers fully support children to actively explore and learn, preparing them for their journey to primary school. We have a reciprocal relationship with Wigram School where we go on regular excursions to familiarise our older children with the environment and have the new entrant teachers visit them here in our centre.
Our teaching team - We have a team of experienced and qualified teachers who are skilled at working alongside your child to support and enhance their learning. Our teaching team is consistent and the staff turnover is low which means the children experience stability and the same familiar faces everyday. We also have Chinese teachers who support our children and families that use English as a second language.
Session options - We have a range of sessions available that provide families with varying options to work around individual commitments and lifestyles.
Tahi Building
Children are fortunate to experience a large outdoor environment. The space allows our teachers to ensure that children are regularly challenged physically and gain good control over their bodies. Our interchangeable outdoor equipment provides children with a variety and enables them to make decisions about their learning.
Rua Building
Our Rua Building has a lovely, homely feel due to our small numbers and intimate environment. Children get to develop in a space that models a home-like environment, building their confidence and letting them shine with a small group of their peers.
We would love to welcome you to BestStart Wigram. Please feel free to call us for more information, or better still, come in and visit us.
For more information about the specific fees for your centre, please contact us directly (03) 348 4616 / wigram@best-start.org. You might be eligible for support paying their childcare fees. For more information click here.
