B-side Stories

Playcentre is a unique parent cooperative model of early childhood education created right here in Wellington, New Zealand, back in 1941. The kaupapa of Playcentre is "Whānau tupu ngātahi — Families growing together".  Playcentre members Jesse Pirini and Kate Mitcalfe spoke to B-Sides host Sadie Coe about what it feels like to be part of a community of adults and children sharing learning alongside each other, and the joys and challenges of that shared commitment and input.  We learned about how their Playcentre experience informs Jesse and Kate's adult lives, about the organisation's commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi, and, most of all, about the fundamental wellbeing that comes from the connections made at Playcentre.