Mother Duck Child Care and Preschool Centre - Carindale

• Environments Carefully Created for Children

• Care and Attention for Each Individual Child

• Play-Based Learning to Prepare Each Child for Success

• Strong Relationships With Families to Create Communities

• Welcoming Centres Where Diversity is Celebrated

• Caring Educators Who Love Coming to Work

• Yoga program

• Sports program

• School readiness program

• Excursions to visit aged care residents

At Mother Duck Carindale, the focus of the educators is on reflective practice to ensure they understand all they can about children and their development; finding new and innovative ways to solve problems, engage in challenging tasks, and using information technology and print-based texts to find things out; giving children the gift of time to listen to their ideas and incorporate these into the curriculum; sustainable practices to teach the children how to be a valuable member of society; and teaching children skills beyond academics such as compassion, collaboration, empathy, kindness, grace and honesty.

Mother Duck Carindale is renowned for their staff retention - in fact many of their educators have been with the centre for 10 years, with some even 16 years plus.  

I began my journey with the Mother Duck Family, at the Cannon Hill Centre staying there for 5 years.  When Mr. Hinton purchased the Carindale site in 1998 I moved across and am to this day still loving every minute of managing my centre with an amazing team and an absolutely wonderful supportive family consisting of the management teams across all the Mother Duck Centers, Mr. Hinton and Miss Karen our CEO. 

Louise - Centre Manager, Mother Duck Carindale

Mother Duck’s own dietitian, Fiona Hinton, prepares the menus for the centre and has over 20 years of experience. Fiona specialises in real-life strategies and practical suggestions to convert nutrition advice into food kids will eat. Fiona has collaborated on several books, including one with best-selling children’s food writer Annabel Karmel, as well as training childcare staff in children’s nutrition.

At Mother Duck Carindale, the qualified chef Kamla works full time preparing fresh meals every day for the children. The centre promotes flexible mealtimes and rest times, so that the children can understand when their bodies tell them they are hungry or tired.