St Clair Corner

Kia ora Whānau
On this beautiful Wednesday morning we celebrated a lovely Mihi Whakatau to warmly welcome our new tamariki and whānau to St Clair Corner Early Learning centre In the Kōwhai rōpū! This special gathering beautifully reflects the Belonging (Mana Whenua) strand of Te Whāriki, connecting our families and giving children a sense of place. In the morning, our young chefs baked muffins for shared kai, before taking those measurement and baking skills outdoors into the sandpit. Tamariki also challenged their physical capabilities on our plank obstacle course—supporting Well-being (Mana Atua)—linking home and centre and practicing cooperative social roles by creating a lovely outdoor home to care for our babies.

Morena families, due to continued snow fall we have now made the decision to remain closed for the day to ensure the safety of all staff, children and families. We appreciate your understanding. Stay warm!!!

Due to the snow and ice we are opening at 10am. Please stay safe and warm out there.

With snow on the forecast for overnight this is a good time to remind you of our snow procedures.

If snow does visit us over night please listen to The hits radio 89.4FM, their page, our pages and Storypark for late start or closure notifications.

Stay safe and warm.

Taylor is demonstrating how to make snow angels in our mat which worked very well.

Kia ora whānau

This week at our centre, we explored what it meant to be a truly great friend during International Friendship Week. The tamariki learned about sharing, taking turns, and using kind words with their peers.

To bring these lessons to life, we wrapped up the week by participating in Cure Kids Red Nose Day.
We Combined Them as empathy starts with the people we see every day and grows as we think about the wider world.

By connecting Friendship Week to Red Nose Day, we helped our tamariki practice manaakitanga—extending our circle of friendship to help other Kiwi children who face serious health challenges.
Thank you for partnering with us to grow kind, empathetic, and globally-minded tamariki!

🔴🔴🔴Every year, childhood cancer impacts thousands of children and their families, turning their lives upside down in an instant. Behind every diagnosis is a child showing incredible courage and a family facing unimaginable challenges.

Join us as we come together to raise funds and awareness, helping provide hope, support, and vital resources for children battling cancer. Every contribution, big or small, helps make a meaningful difference.

Dress in red tomorrow to show your support. A donation jar will be by the iPad if you wish to contribute. We appreciate your support 🔴🔴🔴

This week we are celebrating international friendship week. We made scones together taking turns and sharing the scones with all our friends in kowhai and whero rōpū. We also chose some photos of our friends showing how to be a good friend. We then turned them into puzzles offering everyone a turn to connect the pieces and make the picture. There was a lot of discussions about who was in the picture, what they were doing and how they were being a good friend.

Ko koe ki tēnā, ko ahau ki tēnei kīwai o te kete.

pīpī heihei. Cheyenne on her study day brought in 18 pīpī heihei that she is looking after. Thank you for sharing this opportunity to learn about chicks and all have a cuddle.

You may be wondering what we are up to........After many years of play, creativity, imagination and fun, we have decided to remove the old playhouse to make way for further playground development. As you can imagine playground development can take time to make sure we are making changes for the benefit of our tamariki. We plan to take away the playhouse and surrounding fences to open up the back. We will then bring back the big yellow slide that the tamariki loved so much.

We would love to hear about any ideas and suggestions they we may incorporate into our planning and development of the play areas. We will be asking the tamariki what their aspiration are for this area, through conversations, drawing and sharing ideas.

Thank you for your support while these changes are happening.