Babies
6 wks to 11 mths
Nursery
11 mths to 14 mths
Toddler
2 yrs to 3 yrs
Pre-Kindy
3 yrs to 5 yrs
Kindergarten
3 yrs to 5 yrs
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All the staff are lovely, I know I’m leaving my children in capable hands when I drop them to their rooms. The Educators have great connections with all the children in the centre and make them feel safe and secure when in their care.
– A parent
Cooking program - the cucinas (kitchens) are the heart of Nido Early Schools. Learning where food comes from, how to measure ingredients and make healthy choices is an integral part of what is offered to the children.
Wellbeing program - a wide range of activities are offered to ensure the children are healthy and happy. The “Feeling Fairies” encourage children to express their feelings. Meditation, mindfulness, yoga, teaching of self-regulation strategies, and creative arts also promote wellbeing.
Incursions and excursions - Excursions to the post office or reading at the local aged care facility as well as visits from community members, promote connection with the local community to teach collaboration, diversity and empathy.
Sustainability program - Nido strives to raise global citizens who have an awareness of their planet and how precious resources are. To support an understanding of sustainable living, Nido centres encourage recycling, reduction of single use plastic, water conservation, composting, vegetable and tree planting, use of biodegradable cleaning products where possible and the use of natural light to reduce energy consumption.
Nido creates their curriculum around the Reggio Emilia philosophy, that is, the child, parent, community and environment are all integral components of a child’s early development.
In addition, every Nido Early School follows the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and the National Quality Standard.
The Framework describes the principles and outcomes that support and enhance young children’s learning from birth to five years of age, as well as their transition to school.
All the nursery Educators are carefully chosen, not just for their qualifications, but because of their nurturing personalities.
The Nursery program is carefully developed to centre around your baby’s unique patterns of play, feeding and sleeping. This is used as a guide to introduce daily experiences that will spark their interest, support healthy brain development and promote social skills.
Toddlers are encouraged to develop friendships so that they gain confidence, as well as learn cooperation and sharing.
Each child’s interests are observed and a program is developed to promote key learning areas such as language, maths, investigation, creative pursuits, fine and gross motor skills, sensory experiences, cultural experiences, and environmental understanding.
Nido Early School’s Kindergarten helps prepare your child as lifelong learners. Your child will be empowered to use their own unique learning style to explore maths, language, investigation, creative pursuits, fine and gross motor skills, sensory experiences, their cultural identity and the environment.
The Kindergarten educators provide positive learning experiences so that children develop a healthy relationship with learning that extends beyond their school life.
Our philosophy is simple:
Each child has the right to make choices in regard to their learning and should feel a strong sense of well-being.
The environment should reflect our love of nature and views on sustainability.
As the environment is the ‘third teacher’, it is essential that we set up our physical spaces to encourages engagement and exploration.
Building relationships with families and encouraging a high degree of involvement is key.
Learning is ongoing and we constantly seek to develop our own knowledge to offer richer experiences to our children.
- The Nido Early School team
Nido Early Schools believe that your child needs food to connect, socialise, feel joy and be inspired.
The menus, all being of the highest quality whole foods and not containing any processed sugars, are developed by Nourished Beginnings. Feedback from families is welcomed in terms of favourite foods. Children also regularly provide feedback as to what they like from the kitchen.
All allergies, as well as cultural and dietary preferences are catered for. Every member of the team knows exactly what every child is able to eat and information about a child’s dietary, allergenic, cultural and medical needs are available in every room.
All meals are prepared in accordance with Food Safety Standards. The chefs and cooks go through an induction when they start and have ongoing training to ensure all food standards are adhered to.
Morning
Ari has just turned one, and is starting to explore more. She loves using various aides around the room to help her stand and move about. She sure is getting strong!
Lunchtime
Ari is starting to recognise other babies, and loves sitting next to others and sharing toys. Ari loves the rattles and drums because of the fun noises they make.
Afternoon
Ari loves stories and starts clapping and smiling when she sees her favourite educator bring out Possum Magic to read to the class. Ari loves the colours and the possum’s big bushy tail.
Morning
Freddy loves the arts and crafts room and is practicing his painting skills. Freddy asks the educator if he can finger-paint this morning, and she agrees it would be a great idea!
Lunchtime
Freddy is practicing his numeracy skills through play-based learning with his friend Tamiko. They are playing mud-pie kitchen. Freddy counts how many pies they’ve made on his hands.
Afternoon
Freddy gets to settle down to yoga this afternoon. He loves being able to do all the hard poses, including tree pose. His balance is getting better every week.
Morning
This morning Rohan is outside in the vegetable garden, helping the educators put compost on to the tomatoes to make sure they grow big and strong, just like Rohan. Rohan loves picking the fresh ripe tomatoes off the vine and popping them into his mouth.
Lunchtime
Rohan loves that he can choose indoor or outdoor play. Today he is excited to play hide and seek across the centre with his friends and educators. Rohan loves hiding behind the bookshelves – the educators know exactly where to find him.
Afternoon
Rohan has been doing exceptionally well at reading, and loves practising with the educators at the end of the day. Rohan picks up his favourite book, and has nearly memorised it.
Care for children under school age, on premises especially built or adapted for early childhood education and care services. Private operators, local councils, community organisations, employers and non-profit organisations may run long day care centres.
Occasional, Casual or Flexible CareOccasional, Flexible or Casual Care Services provide short periods of care for children under school age. Families can access Occasional, Flexible or Casual Care on either a regular or casual basis a variety of reasons including, shift or part-time work, respite care, crisis and emergency care, shopping or attending appointments.
Pre-school / Kindergarten / PrepPre-school is a planned educational program for children in the years before a child commences school. Children are usually aged between 3 and 5 years of age. Pre-school may take place in a range of settings including a purpose built building, in a community setting, a school, as part of a long day care centre or a mobile or visiting service.
In January 2012 the National Quality Framework (NQF) came into effect across Australia.
The purpose of the NQF is to improve and standardise the quality of child care through a
range of measures including better staff to child ratios, higher staff qualifications
and an assessment and rating system designed to promote continuous improvement.
Under the NQF child care services are assessed and rated against the National Quality Standards (NQS).
The NQS measures the quality of early childhood education and care in Australia. It will cover
most long day care, family day care, preschool/kindergarten and outside school hours care services.
Under these standards child care services will be assessed and rated against the
seven quality areas, 18 standards and 58 elements that make up the NQS.