BestStart Baverstock Oaks  

BestStart Baverstock Oaks is located in the centre of East Auckland next to Baverstock Oaks School. BestStart Baverstock Oaks has an excellent reputation for ensuring children are ready for school and have smooth transitions into school life. We offer a range of full days, short days and sessions to suit family needs.

Parents are a vital part of centre life and families are involved in various events throughout the year. Well-balanced nutritious meals (including cultural and allergy sensitive meals) are provided by our onsite chef. Our Healthy Heart Gold award menu and physical activity programme promotes the health and wellbeing of our children.

Our teaching programme is based on values of respect, responsibility and community through exploration and discovery in a supportive and enriching environment. We have three dedicated rooms caring for children of different age and developmental stages. Each room has their specially designed indoor and outdoor areas, and the teaching team in each room implements teaching methods and strategies that best suit children of different interests and needs. Our programme follows Te Whariki (Early Childhood Curriculum) and BestStart's unique Be School Ready initiative.

Acorns In the Acorns room we have a mixture of young infants and crawling babies. We develop warm, responsive relationships with our children and our practice recognises children's autonomy, and capabilities. Infants have a primary caregiver who gets to know the child and family needs, and follows home routines.  Our experienced teachers plan exciting and challenging learning opportunities and environments to stimulate young minds.

Budding Branches The children are offered lots of fun and challenging experiences every day. Our very skilled and experienced teachers work closely with the children to help them develop social and self-help skills as well as starting their early literacy and numeracy learning. The teachers are also very experienced in helping children during toilet learning to ensure that they are fully competent and capable when they move to Tall Oaks room.

Tall Oaks This is the room where children are further encouraged for their sense of wonder, self-help and social skills. They are introduced to some key learning skills to explore and research areas of interest. We do many "school-like" activities in this room (including lunchbox for 4.5 + year olds). The teaching team incorporate different teaching methods and strategies in our daily activities to further children's early literacy and numeracy, ensuring that all the children build a solid foundation for the formal learning experience at school.