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Genius Childcare Altona North Centre overview
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(03) 9071 4431Welcome to Genius Childcare Alton North!
We are conveniently located for families living in Altona North, Altona, Seaholme, Laverton North, Sunshine West, Brookly and Tottenham.
Genius Childcare Alton North is a homely early learning centre that offers early education and care for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years old. We have an amazing team of passionate teachers and educators. Our team is dedicated to ensuring every child feels safe, nurtured and inspired throughout their education journey. From planning adventure-filled experiences to building children’s self-confidence and resilience, right up until a child’s transition to ‘ big school’.
Children and teachers grow and learn together, in our resource-rich learning environments. Our centre boasts engaging outdoor spaces including three separate play spaces consisting of bike tracks, sandpits, cubby houses, slides, climbing wall, garden beds and lots of native plants. Our outdoor play experiences provide children an opportunity to explore, discover and appreciate the natural world, as well as be active, strengthen fine and gross motor movement skills, test physical limits and get messy.
Our team
The quality of our centre is underpinned by the quality of our people. We invest in our valued educators, teachers and leaders so they can nurture, empower and support each child on their individual learning journey. We have a culturally diverse team of educators. Some of the languages that are spoken amongst the educators include Indian, Italian, Vietnamese and Lebanese. We have a longstanding team of educators with the team having between 6 - 15 years of experience in the centre collaborating and establishing positive relationships with all children and families at the centre.
We know each child is an individual with unique talents and interests. Our team is passionate about their profession and truly wants your child to succeed in discovering their identity as confident, happy and resilient learners. Parents receive daily updates and photos detailing their child's learning and development from our easy-to-use parent App.
Partnering with families
Relationships are key to delivering the best possible learning opportunities for your child. Our Educators and teachers develop strong bonds with the children and their families. We view a child's early education as an extension of the learning occurring at home. Therefore, we believe a successful early learning journey needs a good partnership. We pride ourselves on working together with our families to achieve the best possible outcomes for their child. We welcome your involvement and that Involvement will look different for different families.
Exploring the community
We offer a range of experiences to help children learn about their local community. We often have visits from community services to help expand the children’s learning. We also have excursions to the local coffee shop, local sporting complex, local park and local primary school to assist our Kindergarten/ Preschool children with their transition to ‘big school’.
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Health and Nutrition
Health and Nutrition
Our centre chef prepares and cooks healthy and nutritious meals daily that aligns to the Nutrition Australia guidelines and caters to all allergies, intolerances, dietary and cultural requirements of every child. We believe that by encouraging active participation (such as growing their own fruit and vegetables, preparing, and finally cooking!) children learn to appreciate and understand the importance of healthy eating. Our menu is a four week rotating menu that consists of a variety of cuisines including Italian and Indian.
Our centre offers children simple, nutrient-rich, unprocessed, and seasonal whole foods - designed to tempt even the fussiest of eaters.
About the curriculum
About the curriculum
Our Educational Programs:
“Let the child be the scriptwriter, director and the actor in their own play” - Magda Gerber
Nursery Space: Honey Ants Room (6 weeks - 18 months) Possums Room ( 1 year - 2 years)
Learning starts from before birth, and our Educators have created a welcoming and nurturing nursery environment where each baby feels safe to explore and discover new things - through their senses, their communication and cues (body language, facial expression and sounds) and by experimenting. On any given day you can see the nursery children engaging in all types of play, water play, music time and story time and more. Every day provides a brand new, exciting adventure for our babies to support their development, learning and wellbeing!
Toddler Space: Goannas Room (2 years - 2.5 years) Emu’s Room (2.5 years - 3 years)
Our teachers and educators encourage the children to learn through play to help enhance their sensory-motor development. This happens through carefully planned music, dance, games and reading experiences.
On any given day the Toddler children can be seen developing their numeracy by building a tower, sorting objects, pointing and identifying shapes and patterns and participating in counting songs and games.
Children in our toddler space are encouraged to participate in group play. Group play is important as it helps our toddlers develop important social skills such as, turn taking, developing self confidence and emotional self regulation. Our team helps children through talking, planning and role modelling.
Kindergarten/ Preschool Space: Rainbow Serpents Room (3 years - 4 years) Dingos Room (3 years - 5 years)
Kindergarten is a unique time for learning with peers and developing skills for later learning including confidence and curiosity, important skills for starting school. Our play-based program encourages active engagement in learning and supports a range of positive developmental outcomes including resilience, independence, critical thinking and creativity.
Oral language supports literacy learning. A child’s oral language ability is the best predictor for later success in learning to read and write. Hearing the sounds within a language is the first critical step for all literacy learning. Our team supports our kinder/ preschool children's development by engaging in rich discussions, introducing new vocabulary as part of everyday conversations, as well as singing, playing games, and reading with the children daily.
Throughout the kindergarten/preschool year, children use their language to share ideas, ask questions, express themselves, and connect with peers and adults in social settings.
Social-emotional skills, including the ability to self-regulate emotions is supported through group learning environments. Our team supports each child’s social and emotional development by labelling and talking about emotions and supporting appropriate responses as together, they engage in new and challenging situations.
We offer a great variety of learning experiences at Headstart Early Learning Centre Altona North including;
- Sustainability Program: The current sustainable practices involved at the centre include having many natural plants and garden beds where we grow a variety of vegetables and herbs for use in our kitchen and to teach the children about caring for plants by collecting rainfall for them and watering them with water that is conserved in the rooms.
- Incursions & Excursion Program : Our programs encourage children to interact with and discover their local Community. We often have visits from community services. We also go on adventures to the local parks, school, coffee shop and sporting complex.
- Music and movement programs: Our music programs have been designed to help develop fundamental skills that help support children’s self regulation, memory and concentration. Children learn to appreciate and develop an understanding of music - and of course have fun while doing so!
- Community Involvement: The Life Education program covers a wide range of topics including health and safety as well as mental and physical wellbeing for the children in our care.
A day in the life of
A day in the life of
Morning
Charlotte is almost five years old and can’t wait for today’s carpentry experience - she loves building things! Carpentry experiences allow Charlotte and her friends to extend their learning through real-life experiences. While participating in carpentry, Charlotte is learning to problem solve, experiment and predict. She is also improving her hand eye coordination, manipulative skills and muscular strength.
Lunch
Before Charlotte sits down for lunch with her friends and educators, Charlotte takes part in the centre’s music program - music! Charlotte loves music. Music helps Charlotte improve her singing and dancing and allows her to be active with friends.
Afternoon
Charlotte is off to ‘big school’ next year and she can't wait to start! Charlotte and her friends will be visiting the local primary school next week. In preparation for the visit the class is creating a list of questions to ask the Principal and school children.
Morning
Ellie is 11 months old and enjoys sensory play outside in the sandpit with her friends. She sits near her educator who helps teach her how to scoop the sand into the bucket. Ellie is learning how to dig, carry, and move the sand. She is also exploring texture and learning what happens to the sand when she adds water!
Lunch
Ellie has finished her lunch and is preparing to take a nap. Her educator changes her nappy, prepares a bottle and reads Ellie a story before her afternoon sleep.
Afternoon
Ellie and some of her nursery friends enjoy some story time and songs outside in the shaded garden. They read ‘Peepo’ which is Ellie’s favourite book.
Morning
Josh is two and a half years old and loves to start his day at the centre outside on the climbing equipment. His friends join him, and together they pretend to be pirates on a ship looking for treasure. Through this exciting dramatic play, Josh is learning about himself and the world around him. Dramatic play is helping Josh identify his interests, abilities, likes and dislikes.
Lunchtime
Josh is watering the vegetables in the garden. By doing this, Josh is learning the importance of growing and caring for the veggies in the garden. Josh picks a tomato from the garden, which the Chef will use to help make Josh and his friends lunch - spaghetti bolognese!
Afternoon
Josh enjoys art, and today he is painting a beach scene from a recent family holiday. He adds the finishing touches and sets the painting aside to dry; so that he can take it home to share with his family.
While painting, Josh is learning how to express himself creatively and how to convey his ideas and emotions. Painting is also helping develop Josh’s hand eye coordination, finger, wrist and hand strength. Making marks on paper is important for self expression as well as later learning.
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61-69 Dohertys Road (Cnr Grieve Parade)Altona North, VIC, 3025
Centre Reviews
Absolutely love this centre, the educators are kind and caring and the children have a lot of fun each day being involved in... Read more
The staff at Headstart are amazing. They have helped my daughter transition into childcare seamlessly. I am very impressed by their caring and supportive nature. I... Read more
Dear Catherine, thanks for leaving us such a wonderful review. We are thrilled that you loved your experience; our staff will definitely be happy to read what you wrote. We put customer experience and satisfaction as our priority, and your review reaffirms the hard work we put in every day. Kind regards, The Headstart Early Learning Team.
Preeti and the team are wonderful and always very helpful. They treat the children as their own and my children are always happy to go...
Dear Antonia, thanks for leaving us such a wonderful review. We are thrilled that you loved your experience; our staff will definitely be happy to read what you wrote. We put customer experience and satisfaction as our priority, and your review reaffirms the hard work we put in every day. Kind regards, The Headstart Early Learning Team.