GREAT START KINDERGARTEN & EARLY LEARNING
Programs
Sessional Kinder
Integrated Kinder
Integrated Kinder
Sessional kindergarten is great for families who have flexible work arrangements and don’t require care outside of regular hours.
Integrated Kinder
Integrated Kinder
Integrated Kinder
Integrated kindergarten is perfect for families with busy lives and commitments who need care for their children for longer hours.
Long Daycare
Integrated Kinder
Long Daycare
Long Daycare is for families with children younger than 3 years of age who need some time and flexibility in their lives.
Sessional Kindergarten Program
Integrated kindergarten program
Integrated kindergarten program
We offer sessional funded kindergarten programs for 3-years-old and 4-years-old children. This program is fully funded by state government. For more details, please contact the office at 03 7023 5623 / 0411 483 073 or email at admin@greatstartkinder.com.au
3-years-old program
Monday and Wednesday
9:00am to 4:30pm
During school terms only
4-years-old program
Tuesday and Thursday
9:00am to 4:30pm
During school terms only
Integrated kindergarten program
Integrated kindergarten program
Integrated kindergarten program
Our integrated kindergarten program is designed to provide funded kindergarten education for 3-years-old and 4-years-old children with extended hours of care. For more details, please contact the office at 03 7023 5623 / 0411 483 073 or email at admin@greatstartkinder.com.au
3-years-old program
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
8:00am to 6:00pm
Except Public holidays
4-years-old program
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
8:00am to 6:00pm
Except Public holidays
long daycare
long daycare
long daycare
Our Long daycare program offers hands on experience for children age 2 and 3 years. We focus on self-help skills, independence, and agency. We promote opportunities for small and large group experiences for children and
help develop fine/gross motor skill via physical activities.
Social skills and emotional resilience is a big part of our program. We offer this program on the following days:
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
8:00am to 6:00pm
Except Public holidays
ENROLMENTS
long daycare
long daycare
To enrol your child, please book a visit at the service during office hours. After the visit, you will receive a link to the enrolment form via email.
With the enrolment form, please submit your child's immunisation statement from the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR), you can access this through your myGov/Medicare account. And child's birth certificate for the proof of age.
Contact us at: Phone: 03 7023 5623 / 0411 483 073 or an email at admin@greatstartkinder.com.au
Our office hours are
Monday to Friday
10:00 am to 3:00pm
Except Public Holidays
Curriculum
Early Years Learning Framework
We follow the Early Years Learning Framework. This is Australia’s first national Early Years Learning Framework. The aim of this is to extend and enrich children’s learning from birth to five years and through the transition to school.
The Framework draws on conclusive international evidence that early childhood is a vital period in children’s learning and development. It has been developed with considerable input from the early childhood sector, early childhood academics and the Australian and State and Territory Governments.
Learning Areas
Fundamental to the framework is a view of children’s lives as characterised by belonging, being and becoming. From before birth, children are connected to family, community, culture, and place. Their earliest development and learning takes place through these relationships, particularly within families, who are children’s first and most influential educators. As children participate in everyday life, they develop interests and construct their own identities and understandings of the world.
BELONGING
Experiencing belonging—knowing where and with whom you belong—is integral to human existence. Children belong first to a family, a cultural group, a neighbourhood, and a wider community. Belonging acknowledges children’s interdependence with others and the basis of relationships in defining identities. In early childhood and throughout life, relationships are crucial to a sense of belonging. Belonging is central to being and becoming, in that it shapes who children are and who they can become
BEING
Childhood is a time to be, to seek, and to make meaning of the world. Being recognises the significance of the here and now in children’s lives. It is about the present and them knowing themselves, building and maintaining relationships with others, engaging with life’s joys and complexities, and meeting challenges in everyday life. The early childhood years are not solely preparation for the future but also about the present.
BECOMING
Children’s identities, knowledge, understandings, capacities, skills, and relationships change during childhood. They are shaped by many different events and circumstances. Becoming reflects this process of rapid and significant change that occurs in the early years as young children learn and grow. It emphasises learning to participate fully and actively in society.