Our Langwarrin Child Care Centre is equipped with 4 age appropriate rooms, 2 separate yards each incorporating natural play spaces, free standing play equipment, soft fall areas, grass and footpaths. We also have 2 sand pits and veggie patches.
Bandicoots
In our Bandicoots room we provide your child with all the love and care that they need. We work together with families to promote consistency between the home environment and our centre, to ensure that the children feel secure and happy. We offer a wide range of activities and experiences that further your child’s development. Many of these experiences are accessible for the children so that they may explore their interest and expand on their world in their own time.
We like to keep the Nursery as calm as possible and get to know each baby and family. With this age group each child has their own routine and as they develop and progress this changes throughout the year. We work closely with each child and family to provide something unique and personal.
Echidnas
The Echidna room is the next stage for the babies leaving Bandicoots. The children become slightly more independent in the Echidnahs room as we provide an environment that allows our children to discover new and exciting experiences.
We have lots of fun and learning. We have special story, singing and group times. We enjoy art and craft and lots of new and exciting learning activities indoors and out. Again, we have our own routine for sleeping, eating and bottles but we start to eat together when we are ready, and meal times are times for learning.
We try to feed ourselves, and often even though this can be a messy experience we enjoy the challenge and learning new skills. Echidnas has their own natural outdoor environment where they can release their energy through age appropriate gross motor activities, and enjoy the fresh air in a protected environment.
Koalas
This Room focuses on encouraging a love of learning that will prepare children for life. The Koalas room is programmed to meet the ever expanding interest and abilities of the children. Using the Early Years Framework (EYLF) we focus on a number of areas of interest throughout the year, these are based on child’s interests, and ways of extending their development.
We also prepare children for school through a variety of experiences including name recognition, number and alphabet recognition and social skills development. All staff support and encourage the children developing independence and communication skills at every opportunity.
We have a great natural outdoor environment that we use to expand and develop our gross motor skills and hand/ eye coordination. We also enjoy finding out about the weather, growing plants and seeds and caring for the environment.
Wallabies (Kinder)
Our Wallabies room provides kindergarten for children who turn four prior to the 30th of April. The kindergarten program runs between 9:30am – 2:30pm each day and is implemented by a qualified kindergarten teacher. The kindergarten program incorporates a variety of curriculum areas such as social sciences, art, maths, music, science, movement and language. Each curriculum area focuses on developing and fostering specific concepts. Each area is incorporated into the program through relevant activities with specific objectives which relate to a child’s development. The program also facilitates children’s interests through a project approach, emergent curriculum and program inclusion.