Kindy Patch West Ipswich Centre overview
Phone
(07) 3469 5014Our Long Daycare and Kindergarten Centre provides early education and care for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years.
We provide convenient, full care coverage from 9hr, 10hr or full days, 5 days per week, including school holidays.
Our 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 Government-approved Kindergarten program that helps ensure your child has a successful transition to formal schooling.
We offer a great variety of learning experiences at our Centre 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.
- 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 - and of course, have fun.
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Get to know us
Meet the team
Meet the team
The quality of our centre is underpinned by the quality of our people. We are a longstanding and diverse team with most of our lead educators having been here for 10+ years. The educators work very hard to create safe and secure relationships with the families and children and always go the extra mile to support everyone in our 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.
Health and Nutrition
Health and Nutrition
Our centre chef prepares and cooks healthy and nutritious meals daily, catering to the unique dietary 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 chef also incorporates different cultural foods and encourages input from parents around different foods that she should make for the children.
At our centre we enjoy restaurant quality food daily with lots of hidden fruit and veg designed to temp even the fussiest of eaters.
About the curriculum
About the curriculum
“Let the child be the scriptwriter, director and the actor in their own play” - Magda Gerber
Nursery Space: 6 weeks - 12 months (1:4 Child Educator Ratio)
Learning starts from before birth, and Miss Hannah, Miss Courtney and Miss Liz 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! At the centre we pride ourselves on making the transition as easy as possible for both the families and the children.
Toddler Space: 12 months - 2 years (1:4 Child Educator Ratio)
Miss Erin and Miss Sue 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. Our educators also place a large emphasis on encouraging the children to explore and help their emerging personalities slowly start to come out.
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:
- Jr Kindy 1.5 - 3 years (1:4 Child Educator Ratio)
- Snr Kindy 2-3 years (1:5 Child Educator Ratio)
- Kindergarten 4-5 years (1:10 Child Educator Ratio)
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.
Miss Sarah, Miss Lauren and Miss Mel’s goal is to have the children ready to go to the kindergarten room which focuses on independence, self-regulation, taking responsibility for their actions and their belongings.
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.
Miss Rochelle and Miss Lisa are both qualified teachers, and their goal is to have the children ready for big school, so the children are ready for their transition.
A day in the life of
A day in the life of
Morning
Florence 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. Florence 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
Florence has finished her lunch and is preparing to take a nap. Her educator changes her nappy, prepares a bottle and reads Florence a story before her afternoon sleep.
Afternoon
Florence and some of her nursery friends enjoy some story time and songs outside in the shaded garden. They read ‘Peepo’ which is Florence’s favourite book.
Morning
Frederick 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, Frederick is learning about himself and the world around him. Dramatic play is helping Frederick identify his interests, abilities, likes and dislikes.
Lunchtime
Frederick is watering the vegetables in the garden. By doing this, Frederick is learning the importance of growing and caring for the veggies in the garden. Frederick picks a tomato from the garden, which the Chef will use to help make Frederick and his friends lunch - spaghetti bolognese!
Afternoon
Frederick 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, Frederick is learning how to express himself creatively and how to convey his ideas and emotions. Painting is also helping develop Frederick’s hand eye coordination, finger, wrist and hand strength. Making marks on paper is important for self expression as well as later learning.
Morning
Penelope is almost five years old and can’t wait for today’s carpentry experience - she loves building things! Carpentry experiences allow Penelope and her friends to extend their learning through real-life experiences. While participating in carpentry, Penelope is learning to problem solve, experiment and predict. She is also improving her hand eye coordination, manipulative skills and muscular strength.
Lunch
Before Penelope sits down for lunch with her friends and educators, Penelope takes part in the centre’s wellness program - yoga! Penelope loves yoga. Yoga helps Penelope improve her flexibility and strength (perfect for growing bodies!). Yoga also allows her to practice controlled breathing in a fun and engaging way.
Afternoon
Penelope is off to ‘big school’ next year and she can't wait to start! Penelope 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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17-19 Clay StreetWest Ipswich, QLD, 4305
Centre Reviews
10/10 all staff are friendly and supportive. My boy has been enrolled since he was quite small, The care and learning packages that the... Read more
My little one attends Jr Kindy. He loves going and loves his little friends. He has a great time. All the ladies are lovely. Kindy...
Dear Evie, 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 Kindy Patch Team.
My child has been going to Kindy Patch for the last 4 years and has loved every minute of it. He has made amazing connections... Read more
Dear Toni, 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 Kindy Patch Team.