Vaucluse Kinder Haven
Vaucluse Kinder Haven Centre overview
Phone
(02) 9072 0445About Vaucluse Kinder Haven Long Daycare and Preschool
Welcome to Vaucluse Kinder Haven. We're ideally located for families in Vaucluse, Watsons Bay, Vaucluse, Rose Bay, Dover Heights, North Bondi, Bondi Beach and Junction.
Our Long Daycare and Preschool Centre provides early education and care for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years.
At Vaucluse Kinder Haven, we provide convenient, full care coverage from 9hr, 10hr or full days, 5 days per week, including school holidays.
Our longstanding, multicultural, dedicated team of Teachers and Educators provide a safe, nurturing, and inspiring learning environment - where your child can thrive, and be their wonderful self, every day.
Getting school ready? We offer the 3 and 4-year-old Government-approved Preschool program that helps ensure your child has a successful transition to formal schooling.
We offer a variety of learning experiences including.
- Sustainability Program: Helps children develop and understand the importance of embedding sustainable practices into everyday life. Children learn about recycling, conserving water, growing food and the importance of protecting our planet.
- Community Engagement Program: Encourages children to interact with and discover their local community. We often have visits from community services, and we go out on adventures to teach the children about their local environment.
- Sports Program: Allows the children to be active and learn about different sports and movements.
- Music & Movement Program: Designed to develop fundamental skills that help support children’s self-regulation, memory, and concentration. Children learn to appreciate and develop an understanding of music.
- Real life Experiences: Children participate in fun and exciting experiences such as woodworking, harvesting the veggie garden, caring for our worm farm and early cooking skills.
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Health and Nutrition
Health and Nutrition
Our caterer Kids Gourmet Food prepares and cooks healthy and nutritious meals, catering to the unique dietary requirements of every child. Our menu is a 6 week rotating seasonal and international menu that the children and team love. We regularly seek feedback from families to share their thoughts about the food we serve by letting them join us for meals or provide them the opportunity to take some of the food home.
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: Jacaranda 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: Gumnuts 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: Waratah Room (3 years - 4 years) Lillypilly 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 Vaucluse Kinder Haven including;
- Sustainability Program: We have a veggie garden that is tended to by a current family that we harvest and add to our daily activities and meals. We have a free range centre rabbit and we also partner with OzHarvest annually for a food drive incorporating this in our kindness project.
- Sports Program: This program is designed to encourage activity and movement, while also building the children’s motor skills.
- Incursions & Excursion Program : Our programs encourage children to interact with and discover their local Community. We often have visits from community services such as the local dentist. We also go on adventures to the local parks, school, aged care residences and shops.
- Yoga Program: The children enjoy regular yoga sessions at the centre, where they learn about posture, strength and mindfulness.
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 practice 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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5 Billong AvenueVaucluse, NSW, 2030
Centre Reviews
The centre is beautiful and you get a sense of belonging as you walk in. The centre manager Sharifa is fantastic and leads... Read more
Beautiful, small and caring environment. Sharifa and her staff are so lovely. So nice to transition into daycare with a small, super clean centre like...
Dear Jade, 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 Kinder Haven Team.
My daughter has been going to kinder haven for the last 2 years and we couldn’t be happier with the educators and experience we’ve had... Read more
Dear Cassi, 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 Kinder Haven Team.