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HeadStart Childcare & Early Education Centre
We are a quality full-time daycare for 2 to 5 year olds. We provide stimulating and developmentally a
Wishing everyone lots of happiness, good health and prosperity this Lunar New year! A big ‘thank you’ to our awesome mums, grandparents and big brothers, who came to share Lunar New Year celebrations with us. Tamariki loved making dumplings, learning traditional paper cutting art and experiencing Chinese Calligraphy. Our centre looks very festive with many red decorations and an abundance of art work created by the children. Tamariki are learning to celebrate cultural diversity and extending their knowledge of the wider world.
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Happy New Year 🥳
Welcome back everyone! We are so happy to see you all again and we are all looking forward to a fabulous 2025 with everyone.
Here are a few shots of summer fun we have been having already - we love Summer!
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Creativity
Kaiako always love to see and celebrate the amazing creativity of tamariki. A range of resources are provided each day for tamariki to explore, setting up opportunities for creative arts both indoors and outside to inspire different groups of children. Here are some of their recent beautiful creations.
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Swimming
We are so excited to be back swimming for term 4! Once a week we head down to Hilton Brown swimming pool in Hobsonville for our own small group swimming lessons. Tamariki have already been extending their swimming skills such as water-confidence, floating, kicking and arm-strokes. Tamariki feel so proud of themselves as they develop new skills and abilities. It is especially important to strengthen swimming skills as we head into summer and whānau are spending more time by the water. We are looking forward to seeing our swimmers progress though to further levels in the upcoming weeks.
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What wonderful parents and whānau we have in our learning community! We love to have parents come in to share their special talents with us. Amber (one of our learner’s mums) comes in each Friday to teach us dancing. We love learning about a range of movements, music, developing coordination and confidence with her.
Sophia, another one of our lovely mums, has come in twice this year to do amazing facepainting art for our tamariki. We are very grateful for these meaningful contributions to the centre. Children are building a sense of belonging and connection between home/centre life.
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Mid-Autumn Festival 2024
Recently we celebrated Mid Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival. Tamariki enjoyed hearing about the story of Chang E, the Moon Goddess. We used our imaginations to listen to the story and then made moon cake biscuits for afternoon tea. Many tamariki helped make the moon cakes. The moon cake moulds used were kindly donated by one of our HeadStart families.
Once baked, the biscuits needed to rest for a few days to soften. Tamariki learned to be very patient! It's not often we bake kai and have to wait a long time before enjoying it. The following week, we enjoyed the delicious honey flavoured biscuits for afternoon tea.
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- 09 416 4300
- 193 Hobsonville Road, Hobsonvlle, Auckland, 0618
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