Martinborough Playcentre

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PARENT’S MESSAGE

Welcome to Our Village. Each Playcentre around New Zealand is cooperatively managed by parents and supported by Playcentre Aotearoa sta at a regional and national level. At Martinborough Playcentre, we are a warm and welcoming centre, catering for families in our South Wairarapa community. Our centre provides a safe and nurturing space for our tamariki to grow and develop, and a supportive environment for parents that provides meaningful connections. Our centre is focused on child-led learning, in each session we o er a variety of learning and play experiences for our tamariki such as painting, making playdough, sand and water play. Playcentre o ers a unique opportunity to be part of your child’s learning and join a vibrant community. Our sessions run on Wednesdays and Fridays from 9am to 12pm. Come visit us at Martinborough Playcentre, we would love to meet you!

While 2021 continued to throw curveballs at us all, the whole Playcentre community has pulled together to support each other through these uncertain and challenging times. A highlight for many of our Martinborough Playcentre members was simply being back altogether again at our centre. We saw the joy and excitement from our tamariki at being reunited with their friends and favourite play activities, and for our parents it provided a much-needed opportunity to reconnect in person with one another. Playcentre Aotearoa is a vibrant and growing organisation and our centre in Martinborough is thriving. Now, more than ever families are looking for their ‘village’ and here at Martinborough Playcentre we are beyond thrilled that in the past 12 months our memberships have increased by over 200%. This is a fantastic achievement that our centre is really proud of, and means that from this term we have added an additional session so even more families in our community can join. At Martinborough Playcentre we continue to enjoy lling our kete/basket with te reo Māori kupu/words. We want our tamariki to grow their mōhio/knowledge and whakaaro/understanding of te reo Māori. Together we celebrated Matariki, some highlights included waiata, whetū art and a whānau matariki disco. The evening was lled with fun, dancing and shared kai, and a special part of the disco was singing and doing the actions to the waiata Te Whānau Matariki. This year has also seen the beginning of our playground redevelopment. We have cleared part of our playground to make space for play set-ups that cater for all needs and abilities. We also made a new mud kitchen space, which we are sure will be very well utilised heading into the summer months. We are looking forward to developing our playground space further in 2022.

Tamariki explore paint, providing opportunities for ne motor skills, messy play and developing their creativity.

Friendship, creativity and communication as tamariki pick owers to create a garden in the sandpit.

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Tamariki building friendships through imaginative play and dress ups.

Developing skills in caring for the environment as tamariki create a fairy garden.

Imaginative play alongside friends and most importantly having fun!

Whānau playing, teaching and learning alongside their tamariki.

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