BestStart Balclutha  

BestStart Balclutha (formerly ABC Balclutha Central) offers quality childcare and education for children from 3 month to 5 years old. We are now open 7.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday.

We have dedicated kaiako (teachers) who are passionate about children and a curriculum that offers each child a balanced programme. This provides opportunities for them to follow their individual interests, build on their strengths, get support for challenges and develop their social and team work skills.

Working with our small rural community, we provide a home away from home environment. In our outdoor play area, the children can explore, care for our vegetable garden, extend their physical skills on the play equipment and still have ample space to ride bikes. 

We offer a Be School Ready initiative which helps prepare our children for lifelong learning.

We have a team of amazing qualified teachers and we provide healthy morning and afternoon tea.

Working with the community:

At BestStart Balclutha Central we believe that the community is the heart of everything we do. We have a range of activities and initiatives where we work alongside the community. Some of these initiatives are:

– Paying it forward 

– Using our vegetable gardens, we sharing it with our whanau  and local pensioners 

– Participation in the A & P show and the Santa Parade

– We’re actively looking to reduce sugar for our tamariki and have a Gold Healthy Heart Award

– Come and grab a book from our Lilliput Library - this allows people to get a book suitable for their children, free of charge.