Playcentre News

What a difference a year makes! This time last year we had only five active members in the fallout of Covid-19. Now we are ending the term with 16 families and several visitor bookings! Our new members are reinvigorating our centre and we’re having so much fun getting to know each other while playing alongside our children.

We’ve also got 15 lovely new mums who come to our centre for Space with their babies on Thursdays, and we’ve been enjoying making connections with local families who casually attend our Messy Play Friday sessions. This term has seen us reopen our playground after replacing the edging, and we’ve started taking party bookings again.

We were lucky to only be minimally affected by all the rain this summer, and the plus side has been that our brimming water tank has provided unending water play. We rounded out the term with a trip to Good Planet for ice creams and bouncy castles.

Term two is our most fun season at Playcentre as we gear up for our biggest family celebration, Matariki. We’ll be doing fire cooking in the sandpit, learning waiata, retelling Māori myths, and learning about the stars of the Pleiades cluster.

We love having visitors so please contact us via Facebook or email (coatesville@playcentre.org.nz) if you’d like to join us Monday to Wednesday, or drop in on a Friday morning to our casual session.

We look forward to seeing you!

Sarah Craig

Council Cleans Up

Hardfell Arborists have completed a difficult operation removing large trees from a 550-metre stretch of the Rangitopuni Stream.

They were well equipped and very skillful. Landowners affected appreciate Council's assistance and are very pleased to have had the work done in such a timely manner.

Thanks to Louise Johnston, Mark Thomson, Shaun Hardman and his team (Hardfell Arborists).

Owen Aspden