Genius Childcare Ashwood
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Genius Childcare Ashwood Centre overview
Phone
(03) 9116 9041Welcome to Genius Childcare Ashwood!
Our long day care and early education centre provides child care in Ashwood that is perfect for families living or commuting through nearby suburbs Ashwood, Burwood, Chadstone and Ashburton.
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’.
Our spacious outdoor areas provide plenty of opportunities for children to learn and play. This includes a bike track, sandpit and climbing equipment.
WIthin our indoor spaces, we have spacious play areas for the children, as every program is designed around children's interests. Our Educators create a variety of experiences to stimulate the children’s unique interests such as dramatic play, arts and crafts, and the use of multicultural resources and toys.
Children and teachers grow and learn together with our resource rich learning environments. These spaces are specifically designed to ignite curiosity and encourage exploration.
Our team
The quality of our centre is underpinned by the quality of our people. The centre has a long-standing team with two kinder teachers. We are a proudly multicultural centre with Educators from all over the world, including India, Thailand, Greece, Sri Lanka, Colombia, China and Afghanistan. Majority of the team have a Diploma in Children's Services. All Educators have completed child protection training and stay updated on their skills and knowledge to provide the best care for our children.
Our philosophy as Educators aims to provide an environment that is nurturing, secure and filled with opportunities for children to explore, engage and be empowered through a combination of structured and free play.
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 nursing homes, ambulance services and the local school to help expand the children’s learning. We also have excursions to our 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
We provide healthy, fresh meals cooked every day at the centre with an in-house cook, who caters for all dietary requirements, cultural or religious beliefs. Our menu rotates on a four-week rotation and we celebrate cuisines from all over the world!
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: Caterpillars Room (6 weeks - 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: Bumble Bees Room (2 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: Beetles Room (3 years - 4 years) Kinder Room (4 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 The Learning Sanctuary Ashwood, including;
- Incursions: Each month we organise for someone from the community to visit and speak to the children. Some of the special visits we have had the librarian, dentist, emergency services, council discussing waste, and teachers from the local schools.
- Movement Programs: Every week, we take the children out on a community walk to enjoy and explore their environments. Fortnightly, we also have the Hey Dee Ho movement and music program.
A day in the life of
A day in the life of
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.
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 wellness program - yoga! Charlotte loves yoga. Yoga helps Charlotte improve her flexibility and strength (perfect for growing bodies!). Yoga also allows her to practise controlled breathing in a fun and engaging way.
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.
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66-70 High Street RoadAshwood, VIC, 3147
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