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Celebrating everything about Playcentre in the Upper South Island region. Find fun & friendship for you and your tamariki at one of our Canterbury, West Coast, Nelson/Tasman or Marlborough Playcentres

21/06/2023

See below link to our very popular Babies Can Play and Space
groups starting in Term 3. Be in quick!

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Weekly sessions for under-18 months are now being held in various Playcentres throughout the Canterbury region, focusing on learning through sensory play, stories and music, while also providing a supportive environment for whānau Facilitators lead the sessions providing opportunities to share and ...

02/10/2022

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10/03/2021

I don't know half these women and I came in this morning, having a really hard morning and I just got cuddles and, you know, they were just like ‘just go be with Max’ and that's just what I needed.

Read more about Kesha here https://www.playcentre.org.nz/event-calendar/playcentre-open-week-2021/

08/03/2021

My partner, he makes us all breakfast every morning, which is a very nice start to the day! And their smiles, that keeps me going. You often get the comments, you know ‘double trouble’, ‘good luck to you’, things like that, but the occasional, very rare ‘you are doing a good job’. Yeah, that feels good.

Read more about Timea here... https://www.playcentre.org.nz/event-calendar/playcentre-open-week-2021/

08/03/2021

“First thing, when I came into this country with Anish, he was a bit fretful because of the long hours of flight. He got a bit upset at the Auckland Airport, and we were supposed to go into quarantine. The officers there were lovely, they just came in all the way to help, to see that I’m OK, you know, bringing a child and all that luggage. They were just lovely.”

As soon as Saroja could cross borders, she completed the interrupted immigration to Christchurch to reunite Anish with his Mum and Dad. Helping them on their difficult journey to New Zealand to complete their family, Saroja and Anish have a tight, special, bond, that was only strengthened by their forced isolation together.

“Doing the Nana job is not difficult, but landing in this community, you know, getting used to your ways in your country. Overall. We have very close family friends, but still it’s a little hard… It’s OK, we will learn. I will learn.”

And who did Saroja say was helping her the most to get used to her life in New Zealand “my children, of course! And the people here at Playcentre are very lovely, very friendly”.

Read more about Saroja here https://www.playcentre.org.nz/event-calendar/playcentre-open-week-2021/

03/03/2021

“My original concern with Ruby was that she wasn’t making friends that well. She goes to daycare but never talked about people, so I really wanted to see how she was in action, with everybody else… Ruby has flourished here and every day she’s asking, ‘when am I going to Playcentre?’”

Read more about Jared here... https://www.playcentre.org.nz/event-calendar/playcentre-open-week-2021/

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