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Collard Family Kindergarten

3 Development Bvd, Mill Park, VIC, 3082 view map
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3 Development Bvd, Mill Park, VIC, 3082

Collard Family Kindergarten Reviews (32)

4.0

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Brittany

Mar, 2026

Red flag - avoid sending your children here. There are much better options for your children to thrive in your local area. This centre is “family run”. Seemed great and person-centred but that’s furthest from the truth. It is so poorly run. Management (the family) are after your money and filling as many spots as possible over the quality of service. I had 2 children at this centre. My eldest left at the end of 3yo kinder. They sell a STEM program - it’s not. It’s just glorified daycare. My daughter did not learn in this environment or thrive. They had 3 staff turn overs within her first year of kindergarten. Speaks volumes about management! My youngest was at daycare. The educators do their best in such poor work conditions. They are overworked and visibly burnt out. There is no professional development. No investment in their staff and in turn the kids. My eldest experienced consistent physical harm by another child - never dealt with and was told “we will seperate boys and girls” and “we will give the child a chew toy”. How is this an appropriate strategy for either party? Zero intervention or training in this area. Several times my kids came home with visible marks or informed me of an incident. These were left unreported and attempted to be minimised. The final straw was a bruise under my son’s eye. He was between 2 rooms that day and either room educators could explain what happened. Instead, they blamed each other and then I was told by the director that “sometimes kids scratch themselves in their sleep” - my son is 15 months old. That’s unlikely and no scratch is appearing as a bruise before pickup. What centre blames the child or attempts to degrade their story? Absolute disgrace! Avoid at all costs!

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Hannah Burgmann

Mar, 2026

Amazing childcare! My son is thriving with the fantastic learning experiences, daily updates, and photos. Swati always shares what they’re working on, and the consistent morning staff make drop‑offs smooth and happy. My son genuinely loves going each day.

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Jess DG

Feb, 2026

When researching childcare’s in my area, Collards stood out to me for many reasons, it’s a family run centre, they take the children to Mill Park library, they take the children to Pitt Gymnastics & the centre itself is so clean and really well looked after. After doing my initial tour and meeting some of the staff, it was a no brainer to sign my son up. Fast forward 5 years, my 4 children have all attended Collards, they absolutely love it there and have formed very strong bonds with their peers and educators. I have also made life long friends with other mums I have met over the years, weather our children introduced us or we have connected at one of the Collard’s events, we especially love attending the family fun night which was on earlier this week, my children loved having their face painted, interacting with their educators in the playground and visiting the cute animals in the animal farm. Thank you for taking such wonderful care of my babies 😊

About Collard Family Kindergarten

Collard Family Kindergarten is an early learning centre located in Mill Park, providing care and education for young children.

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