What We Offer
Licensed for 52 children 0-8 years
Open Weekdays 6.30 am to 6 pm (Closed Public Holidays only)
Long Day Care: Ages 0-5 years, Full-time, Part-Time, Casual, Full Days or Half Days
Outside School Hours Care: Up to 8 years. Pick Up and Drop off to Lockyer Kindergarten, Mount Lockyer Primary School, Bethel Christian School and Parklands School.
Vacation Care
Meals: Morning Tea consisting of Breakfast type foods, Hot Cooked Lunch, Afternoon Tea Fruit platter and sweet or savoury snack. All meals cooked on site with Vegetarian, Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Allergy Aware considerations
Excursions & Incursions at no extra cost.
Special Activities Including End of Year Celebration. Cultural Celebrations, Harmony Week & NAIDOC
Breast Feeding is Welcome and Catered for.
Multi-Cultural Educators with decades of experience
Communication App (Playground) to communicate and log childrens daily activites and needs (sleep checks/nappy changes)
Mobile Phone on the floor with the Educators for direct communication to the people caring for your child.
Flexible Booking Options through the App.
No Holiday closure over the Christmas Period.
Friendly Experienced Team to help you with your parenting questions.
Regular Cleaning Procedures to ensure Health and Hygiene Standards are maintained, our children are rarely sick.
Outdoor mealtimes so children have access to fresh air every day.
Large Shaded Outdoor Playground for Mixed Age Group Play.
Open Door Policy.
Our Program
The Early Years Learning Framework, is the basis for all our programming.
All of our staff have had training and experience in areas of early childhood education. Due to our high standard and commitment of our staff, we are able to provide developmental and educational programs for each group of children.
The staff will develop a weekly program, observe the children in their care and plan their programs around the needs and interests of the children in child free time.
If your educator feels there is an area of concern, they will inform you and advise where help may be sought, e.g. speech therapist. It is always your decision to follow this up. Staff are willing to discuss any aspect of development with parents.
The Early Years Learning Framework Learning Outcomes:
Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity
Children feel safe, secure and supported
Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency
Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities
Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world
Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation
Children respond to diversity with respect
Children become aware of fairness
Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment
Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
Children become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing
Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesizing, researching and investigating
Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
Children resource their learning by connecting with people, place technologies and natural and processed materials
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators
Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts
Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking