Kradle 2 Krayons Long Day Care Centre - Penrith

Kradle 2 Krayons Penrith is proud to have a culturally diverse team of qualified, dedicated and long-standing early childhood professionals. The multicultural team ensures that all children feel welcomed and valued.

Educators aim to instil a love of lifelong learning and to make a difference in the life of each child, their families, and communities. The team works closely with families so that programs meet the needs of children, and that all children feel safe and secure. 

The centre’s educators also focus on teamwork and collaboration, building positive and respectful relationships with one another, and modelling these to the children and families.

The centre acknowledges that the families are children’s first teachers. Educators understand the importance of families within a child’s life and strive to create secure, respectful, and reciprocal relationships with all family members.

Educators are committed to working with families to create high quality learning environments for every child. The team encourages and welcomes family involvement and feedback. Families are welcome to drop into the centre and take part in centre events.

The centre’s primary focus is to develop children’s natural enthusiasm for learning. Educators foster confidence and positive self-esteem, which can provide a great foundation for future success.

The centre curriculum is fun and stimulating, and includes age-specific learning to nurture a sense of achievement.

Burumin Room: Babies

The Burumin room provides a loving, homelike and calm environment. Educators recognise the importance of building secure attachments through individualised care routines in an environment that is responsive to each child’s interests, strengths, and abilities.

The babies room follows a play-based emergent curriculum. Babies have uninterrupted play with lots of support, and opportunities to build on their physical strength and motor coordination, fine and gross motor skills, hand/eye and eye/foot coordination and full body movement.1

Burraga Room: Toddlers

The centre provides a safe environment for toddlers to express themselves. At this stage, educators focus on the children’s self-help skills, sense of agency, communication, resilience, understanding and emotional regulation. The children also learn about respect for their belongings, each other, nature, animals, and the environment.

The space is designed to engage the toddler’s keen sense of curiosity. They learn through sensory play experiences, energetic music, fun physical activities for gross and fine motor development, plus quiet play and shared reading times.

Buru Room: Preschool

At preschool age, a child’s sense of agency and resilience is developed. Educators support this with experiences that encourage them to be responsible for themselves and their belongings, helping them manage considered risks and understanding their range of emotions.

Following a play-based, emergent curriculum, preschoolers have a flexible routine that includes progressive meals, indoor/outdoor play and decision making. They develop skills in relationship building and communication, and early learning with numbers, letters, sounds and STEM activities.