BestStart Botany Junction  

BestStart Botany Junction is a cosy, inviting and beautiful newly built centre located in Botany Junction, across from the local shops. We have a cosy homely environment designed to meet the individual learning needs of the children by involving their whanau in this process. We have age specific smaller group sizes to provide the safe, nurturing and stimulating environment to explore.

We are a multicultural team of experienced and dedicated teachers who understand the importance of Early Childhood Education and learning through play. As a team we are committed to ensure that we provide nurturing as well as challenging environment to children to explore, experiment, discover and to develop problem solving skills in imaginative, supportive and playful way. We provide culturally rich respectful environment where all cultures are acknowledged, respected and celebrated. We encourage our whanau to share their culture with us, this supports making lasting links between the centre and home and help children and their whanau to gain a strong sense of belonging in the centre.

Our beautiful learning environment is divided into two age specific rooms named Aroha (Toddlers) and Arataki (Pre-schoolers) to support age specific learning and development.  Our Aroha room supports the growing development needs of children aged from 2-3.5 years old. As the name AROHA itself means love/ compassion, our teaching team demonstrate it in practice by providing responsive caregiving to ensure children’s emotional and physical hauora is well supported in loving, nurturing, safe and stimulating environment.

As the name Arataki means-to lead, our teaching team of Arataki room aims at growing our pre-schoolers confidence in their abilities and skills. We provide a child oriented and child led programme, which allows them to take ownership of their learning. Both the rooms are equipped with high quality, focused resources designed to spark curious minds and to connect them to the natural world around them. Our internal environment is connected to one challenging outdoor area, to encourage physical outdoor learning for children.  Outdoor area is inviting, challenging and provide different curriculum areas for children to learn and explore.

We understand that choosing an early childhood centre is a big decision. We assure you that you and your child will enjoy your time with us. Visit us today to know more about our lovely centre.