Phoenix Preschool INC Ashburton

We are currently Fundraising for a Play table and stool set to go with our play kitchen upgrade.

If you would like to support our Fundraising, please click on the link below to order some yummy hot cross buns.

We will contact you with a time to pick up your frozen hot cross buns on the 1st of April.

N.B. If you are supporting a child's fundraising efforts, please write in the message who your supporting.

Phoenix Preschool - Phoenix Preschool Hot Cross Bun Fundraiser Help us fundraise - Purchase today!

We are seeking an Office Administrator extraordinaire!!

Check out Arofa Cafe - The South Island's First Neurodiverse Cafe.
- Delicious food & great coffee - made and served by the passionate neurodiverse team
- Role models in action - showing that neurodiverse people belong and contribute in the community
- Unique sensory space - a calm corner inside the cafe for anyone who needs it
- Coffee runs available - they deliver within Ashburton CBD

Go and support, connect and celebrate neurodiversity!!

🌿 Takiwātanga Whakatere Update 🌿
Through our practical arm – NeuroHub – we’ve seen our kaupapa truly come alive. Our four pou are in action:
✨ Connect
✨ Work Experience
✨ Sensory
✨ Café - Arofa Cafe
We are humbled by the incredible support from our community, and excited to continue building pathways together so that we all will thrive. 💚
Ngā mihi nui to everyone who stands with us on this journey. 🙌

𝗕𝗥𝗖𝗧 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 - Phoenix Preschool

Here’s a look at the beautiful new playground we supported at Phoenix Preschool INC Ashburton.

The upgrades create more opportunities for play, learning, and connection, reflecting the centre’s focus on nature, sustainability, and community.

We’re proud to help provide a space where tamariki can explore, grow, and thrive.

📸 Enjoy the photos and see the difference this project is making for the children and their whānau.

𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲? 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀.

Ngā mihi nui to the team at The Plains Vintage Railway & Historical Museum in Tinwald, for hosting our centre and whānau. The weather was stunning, allowing us to enjoy the railcar, the miniature train, and to tour the museum.

Our whānau were absolutely raving about the amazing time they had and the tamariki really enjoyed their rides on both the small and large trains!!

https://whanaucompass.org.nz/

A great website for parents and caregivers who are just looking for some strategies, ideas, ways to do things differently. We are with our young tamariki for such a short time of their lives but what we do how we do it has the most impact on their future.

Whānau Compass Bringing together practical tips, expert guidance, and products and resources – from tools to support your tamariki to calm-down to fresh ideas for connection. Since what matters most is the love and connection we build with our kids every day.

PHOENIX FUNDRAISER - LARGE CROISSANTS!

Please contact [email protected] if you would like to order - alternatively all of our whānau and Kaiako have order forms and would be more than happy to take your order.

Ngā mihi nui for all of your support.

Ngā mihi nui Anthea Moore from Eco-Educate for visiting us and coaching our tamariki in recycling, rubbish and worm-farming!! We learned so much and will be changing some of our practices to support this:
* Recycling has to be CLEAN!!!
* Clean paper (flat paper and larger than an envelope)
* NO paper towels or tissues as they are dirty
* Clean cardboard (flat cardboard larger than an envelope)
* Clean tin cans
* Clean aluminium cans
* Clean hard plastic 1, 2 and 5 (larger than yogurt pottles and up to a 4L container)
* ALL LIDS are rubbish - small lids off bottles, flat lids from margarine/ice cream/takeaways, and tin lids

After our chat about recycling, we took a look at some tiger worms that Anthea had brought along to repopulate our worm farm. We learned how to make them nice and toasty for winter. The tamariki were super excited to eat their apples and bananas for kai so they could feed the peels and cores to the worms!!

Thanks Anthea - it is always great having you join us to remind us of the different ways that we can all be kaitiaki of our environment.

Wahoo!!! Best Float for NBS Ashburton Santa Parade!!!

A huge thank you to all of our Kaiako and whānau that turned out dressed in red to put on our best show! It was super hot but you all did us so proud! Fantastic to see lots of current and Phoenix tamariki in the crowd too.

Shout out to Jacob Holdaway Contracting Ltd and our driver Will for escorting us in the parade!!

We had an absolutely awesome adventure to the A&P Show last week!! Pearsons Bus arrived promptly at 1245pm arriving at the show at 1pm. We divided up into three groups and went off to explore the many exhibits in the show. We saw eels, piglets, guinea pigs, chickens, calves, lambs, bees, we were able to get our faces painted, find balloons, watching the horse jumping, and then we got to see the our artwork displayed and the many prizes awarded to our Phoenix tamariki. By the time we boarded the bus again at 230pm we were ready to put our feet up and have a big drink of water! A huge thank you to Pearsons, and to our parent helpers and Kaiako that helped make the trip possible.

Thank you Advance Ashburton for supporting the Hakatere Cultural Festival - such an awesome opportunity for our young tamariki!

Phoenix Preschool