Belgrave
About Us
At Belgrave Kindergarten, children learn through play as part of our high quality, accredited program for 3-5 year olds. Our kinder fosters a sense of community and kindness to ensure all children are supported as they develop greater independence and knowledge about the world around them.
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Chirnside Park
About Us
Our vision is to work in partnership with families and the community to enhance the abilities and skills of children through play. We offer a play-based curriculum in which children are encouraged to participate in a wide variety of open-ended activities designed to extend them in all areas of development.
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Colchester Park
About Us
A safe, nurturing environment where children learn, grow and thrive, Colchester Park Kindergarten provides a range of programs to support your child’s growth, including a regular “out and about” program in the local community, road safety education, integrated music program and nature play in our extensive outdoor spaces.
Coldstream
About Us
Coldstream Kindergarten is in a beautiful bush setting within the local primary school, maternal health nurse, community centre, playgroup and playground precinct.
We run an investigative play-based program that includes strong links to numeracy, literacy, creative, physical development and social and emotional competence.
We support children's understanding of the natural world through our gardening and animal programs.
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Fernhill
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Fernhill Kindergarten focuses on providing support to children to develop their identity, links to local, learning and communication skills. Educators carefully observe and plan learning experiences for each child in order to enhance their learning. From these observations, individual goals are set and play activities are provided to help the children practise specific skills and to build on their strengths.
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Hansen Park
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Hansen Park Kindergarten has been offering quality 3 and 4 year old programs for more than 40 years.
We focus on the development of social and emotional wellbeing, language skills, and preparing for the transition to primary school. Our curriculum fosters the child’s curiosity and develops their unique skills and interests.
Our newly renovated centre also has a spacious native outdoor area with a bike track, sandpit and fort. We believe in providing a range of experiences that cater to the individual child and nurture their sense of imagination and belonging.
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Joy Avenue
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Joy Avenue Kindergarten is a place of safety, education, exploration, fun and friendship. We believe that children learn best by playing and being active participants in their learning. We provide a curriculum that encourages children to be active learners when they are supported and inspired to explore, create, role-play, experiment and discover. We believe that play is an essential part of a child's growth and development and how they learn about themselves and the world around them.
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Lancaster
About Us
At Lancaster Kindergarten we believe that children learn through play. Through a quality program children gain self-esteem, confidence in their own ability and a passion for learning and discover, an understanding of others, independence, enjoyment and sound knowledge of the world around them. We run an indoor/outdoor program using the Walker Learning approach to dictate our curriculum, with a focus on building strong relationships and giving children choice and autonomy.
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Launching Place
About Us
We believe all children are unique individuals who deserved to be embraced and respected, to feel safe and secure and to be supported to achieve their potential in all areas. We view children as competent and confident learners who can make choices, express opinions, have ideas and determine their own learning.
Our play-based curriculum has particular emphasis on social and emotional competence, language and sustainability. It includes long periods of indoor/outdoor times when children can develop and their own their learning ideas.
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Mooroolbark
About Us
Mooroolbark Early Childhood Education Centre (MECEC) is a community kindergarten that provides a range of programs and experiences to support your child. These include a therapy dog who visits regularly, incursions and excursions within our local community, special events like Book Week and Harmony Day, and a focus on engaging in the world around us. We also provide a Chin Hakha language program, supporting the many families from Myanmar who live in Mooroolbark.
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Millgrove
About Us
We aim to work in collaboration with all families to provide a safe, nurturing and happy environment enabling children to learn skills they will build on throughout their life.
Our programs are designed to support children's strengths and ideas allowing for each child's individual and unique developmental journey in all areas, including social skills, respect for self, others and the environment, emotional skills, language, literacy and numeracy skills, creative arts, a joy of learning, making friends and being open to new ideas.
Our learning environments are planned to be engaging and interesting with many diverse open-ended resources and activities supporting children’s investigation, curiosity, exploration, discovery, spontaneity, risk-taking and experimentation.
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Montrose
About Us
At Montrose we provide high quality educational programs children which reflect and respect the values of families and celebrate the diversity of our local communities.
We have a friendly, highly qualified and experiences staff who provide a nurturing environment for your children. We take pride in working as a team, each contributing a variety of educational ideas that your children will not only benefit from but will also love participating in.
We follow a holistic approach of teaching the whole child and are committed to developing children who can think for themselves and for others, can create and imagine, who are strong in their literacy and numeracy and who can navigate the world’s challenges with resilience and a strong sense of self.
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Mount Dandenong
About Us
Mt Dandenong Kindergarten provide a safe, nurturing environment where children learn, grow and thrive. Our teachers help each child discover a fascinating world of learning and play. Our service is designed to inspire your child to discover, create friendships and to learn and grow.
Join us to make new friends, learn new things and build self-confidence in a super fun and supportive environment. Our new kindergarten building has been completed in 2024, with all new facilities, playground and much more.
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Mount Evelyn
About Us
Mount Evelyn Memorial Kindergarten is cherished by the local community and has been providing high quality three and four year old kindergarten programs for more than 75 years.
We offer a spacious and well-designed learning environment, with an inviting and engaging curriculum. We have established links with our local community and offer small group sizes of 22 children.
We are proudly rated 'Exceeding' the National Quality Standard.
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Sarah Court
About Us
At Sarah Court Kindergarten, it’s our mission to ensure all members of the community feel welcomed and valued, to recognise each child is unique and feels safe and secure, and to provide a dynamic learning environment for our children in which they play, grow and learn.
We are engaged in our local community, local schools and community groups.
Our children make choices, express opinions and have ideas that determine their own learning. Through interactions with others, they develop valuable communication and social skills.
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Sassafras
About Us
At Sassafras Kindergarten, we’re driven by the belief that early childhood should be an exciting adventure, full of wonder, imagination and open-ended play.
We take pride in providing a warm and friendly environment where children and families feel welcome. We strongly believe in developing a sense of community within the pre-school and building trusting and collaborative partnerships with families.
We value the involvement of parents and believe in close relationships between home and preschool which instills children with a sense of security and belonging.
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Upwey
About Us
We aim to ensure the whole child’s development. We’re focused on the social, emotional, physical and intellectual development of each child in our care. Our program is based on the belief that children learn through play and we offer a flexible program determined by the children's interests.
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Upwey South
About Us
Upwey South kindergarten aims to create a safe and enriched play-based learning environment. This play is child-initiated and based on their own thoughts and ideas. This form of play is used as a platform for intentional teaching by educators and allows for children's interest in the natural world to be continually explored and built upon with the children being active participants in their learning and development.
Children having uninterrupted time to play in natural environments with open-ended material allows them to engage in a range of activities that foster their development and learning, encouraging them to become flexible thinkers, develop self-confidence and independence.
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Wandin
About Us
Supporting the community since 1964, Wandin Kindergarten provides a welcoming, safe and inspiring environment, stimulating each child's growth and development through play-based educational programs.
Our preschool is a place where children's rights and best interests are paramount, they are recognised as being successful, competent and capable learners. We achieve this by promoting an atmosphere of care, consideration and mutual respect. We believe that each child is precious and has the right to be happy and safe.
The curriculum is geared towards meeting the individual needs of the children and focus' on identity, wellbeing, community, communication and learning. We achieve this by having fun, meeting new friends, playing, exploring, and getting messy.
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