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BestStart Pleasant Point Community Connections
At Best Start Pleasant Point we are lucky to have great community connections with our local schools, whanau and public services. Every week a group of children from each of our local Primary Schools come over to interact and engage with our tamariki. This builds connections for our tamariki for when they are ready to transition to school.
To continue to build on these connections and support a smooth transition to school once a term the tamariki ready to start school go on an excursion to Pleasant Point Primary or St Joseph’s School. This gives the tamariki an opportunity to meet their teacher, reconnect with old friends from BestStart and be involved in school routines and expectations with our support.
Pleasant Point Primary have got their school production at the end of this term. Last week the new entrant room came over to perform their piece in the production to us at Best Start Pleasant Point. Our tamariki were so excited to watch their brothers, sisters, cousins and old friends perform. We regularly welcome whanau and the community in to be a part of our curriculum. We recently celebrated Father’s Day with our Dads, Grandads, and Father figures with a shared breakfast.
The tamariki showed so much pride sitting down for cooked breakfast with their whanau. The museum has also recently visited us teaching us about the history of the moa. We learnt moa bones and footprints can still be discovered in our area. After the tamariki learnt and saw pictures of a moa, they were sure they were not extinct and can be found at one of our local cafes – The Shearers Quarters! The museum visit has led onto the tamariki hunting for bones in the sandpit, eggs in the playground and sparked an interest in the connections between the moa and dinosaurs.