il nido Children’s Centre

Sole Room

This is our baby room for children aged from birth up to 2 years. The first couple of years in a child’s life is crucial as they lay the foundations for future learning and development. During this time, the brain is growing and developing rapidly. This period is marked by achieving multiple milestones, including rolling, crawling, sitting, walking, eating, and developing speech and communication skills.

Strong Bonds & Secure Attachments

Our key focus for children in the Sole room is the development of secure attachments and strong relationships. When children establish a strong bond with our educators, they start to feel safe and secure, which helps to build their confidence to explore the environment around them and promotes a sense of belonging.

Stella Room

The Stella room is our toddler room for children aged from 18 months up to 3 years. In their second year, toddlers begin to develop oral language skills, learn new words and phrases and start understanding basic concepts such as shape and size, colours and numbers. It’s also when children begin to express emotions and develop a sense of identity and personality.

Social & Emotional Skills

Our key focus for children in the Stella room is to support them in developing their social, emotional and language skills. We provide plenty of physical development and exploration activities through loose parts play and tailor programs to suit the child’s interests and abilities. We encourage group play and provide plenty of opportunities for children to interact, work as a team and form friendships.

Luna Room

The Luna room is our pre-kindy room for children aged from 2.5 up to 4 years. Children at this age are often learning independence and self-regulation, starting to engage in conversations and begin to understand more advanced vocabulary. Children also develop a strong sense of coordination and order and many love running, jumping, climbing, playing with balls etc.

Numeracy & Problem Solving

Our key focus for children in the Luna room is numeracy, problem-solving, independent thinking and creating a strong sense of self. Our educators will observe the children’s interests and develop an engaging program designed to enhance numeracy, literacy and language skills.

Notte Room

Our Notte room is our preschool/kindy room, where we run our Department of Education Preschool and provide childcare for children aged 3.5 to 6 years. All children in the Notte room will follow the preschool curriculum between the hours of 8.45 am to 3.15 pm.

Literacy and Numeracy

The Notte room has a strong focus on literacy and numeracy. We offer children diverse structured play-based experiences to foster their curiosity and help them develop cognitive, literacy, numeracy, emotional, social, and physical skills to become confident and capable learners.

Preschool

il nido offers a government-funded preschool that provides quality education and care for children. Our preschool program is based on the Early Years Learning Framework, which delivers a comprehensive curriculum to support children’s cognitive, physical, social and emotional growth.

Universal Access

At il nido preschool, we’re proud to offer children 12 months of preschool education, consisting of five sessions (15 hours) per week over four terms.

If your child turns four before 1st May, they can start their preschool journey with us on the first day of term 1 that year. If your child’s birthday falls on the 1^st May to 31^st October, they start preschool at the mid-year intake at the start of term 3 that year. If you child turn 4 after 31^st October they will be eligible to start preschool on first day of term 1 the following year.

Aboriginal children and children under the guardianship of the minister are welcome to join us and start their preschool journey from 3 years of age.

Qualified & Experienced Teachers

il nido preschool operates from the Notte room, which offers an enjoyable, nurturing, and stimulating environment for children to learn and grow. Our highly qualified and experienced teachers are passionate about helping children reach their full potential and are committed to working closely with families to meet each child’s individual needs.

Wrap-Around Care

Our preschool program operates from 8.45 am to 3.15 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and from 8.45 am to 12.45 pm on Wednesdays during school terms. Our preschool families can access our ‘wrap-around’ childcare service before and after preschool hours for seamless continuity of care.

Preschool Session Times

il nido offers two different preschool sessions. Group 1 runs on Mondays, Tuesdays and alternate Wednesdays and Group 2 runs on alternate Wednesdays and every Thursday and Friday.

Playgroups