Goodstart Early Learning Flemington in Flemington, Victoria | Childcare service

Goodstart Early Learning Flemington

Locality: Flemington, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9376 5500

Address: 442 Racecourse Road 3031 Flemington, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.goodstart.org.au/centres/flemington

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25.01.2022 We would like to wish all of our families, children and our community a wonderful Ramadan 2021!

25.01.2022 The children were so happy to have a special visitor in our center this week! Santa came in on a special visit to say a quick hello and no one could contain their excitement! Even though we could not host a big Christmas party for our families and children, each room celebrated in their own way with fun activities like reading books about the spirit of Christmas, a Christmas afternoon tea and face painting!

23.01.2022 Lest we forget... Remembering our Nation's servicemen who gave their lives for our Nation. We thank and remember them and their selflessness...

22.01.2022 Thank you to all of our families who attended our Kinder Information Night! We had a wonderful evening where our families had the opportunity to learn more about the program that we run as well as getting to know the kinder teachers in our centre. Did you know that we have a Kinder Funded Program running in the Kinder 1 & Kinder 2? The Kinder 1 is specifically tailored for children between the ages, 3-4 years and the Kinder 2 is specifically tailored for children between the ...ages, 4-5 years with qualified Early Childhood Teachers in each room! As our program is unique and supports each child on their individual learning journey, our program is one of a kind and in high demand. we have limited positions available. Want to learn more about our program? How about scheduling a centre tour? Call 03 93765500 !

21.01.2022 Goodstart Flemington is proud to announce our new Baby Bounce program! This program will see us host a 45minute ‘play session’ for children aged 6 months -2 years and their guardians. These sessions will be FREE, delivered by our qualified educators and held within a fully resourced early childhood education setting. Our aim is to provide fun, interactive sessions full of stories, songs, rhymes, movement and play experiences, as well as connecting member of our local communi...ty. These sessions will run weekly during Term 2 (19th April 25th June) please see below for times: Tuesdays 10.00am 10.45am Wednesdays - 2.00pm - 2.45pm Thursdays 10.00am 10.45am For more information or to book please contact us: [email protected] or call us on 93765500 **Bookings are essential as places are limited. Additional sessions may be added if demand is high so follow us on Facebook for updates.

20.01.2022 We are so excited! Our FREE Baby Bounce Program starts tomorrow! Have you reserved a spot yet? Call us on 03 93765500 or email us at [email protected] to reserve a spot! Hurry limited spots available!

18.01.2022 One of families brought in some Kafir limes from their backyard and our Chef Tommy incorporated them into our lunch today, preparing a delicious meal of Salmon and Pea Pasta with a beautiful hint of Kafir Lime! We are so blessed to have strong connections with our families and any contributions, big or small is valued and compliments all we do for children! #CommunityConnections

17.01.2022 Helping children reach their full potential through secure attachments and individual care and education is at the heart of Goodstart’s key educator relationships. Key educators give families and children one or two people in the centre who are deeply connected to the child, their development, their rituals and their specific needs. Our educators work towards creating strong relationships with each family, developing a deep knowledge and understanding around each individual child’s rituals in the home and family context and building shared understandings into daily practices and meaningful learning experiences.

15.01.2022 Looking for some Friday Inspiration? What not make Spanish Saffron Lamb with Lemon Couscous for dinner tonight? Tommy, our in house Chef, believes that children should share the delight in having exciting meals from across the globe. Children should experience a variety of flavors and ingredients and have a lifelong love for cooking and eating healthily.

15.01.2022 The Kinder Children have been so busy exploring the different planets in our solar system. Check out the interactive board that they helped created with the educators! The children learn a number of STEM concepts including the different planets, positions and ordinality, concepts of numeracy, size of planets, rotation and revolution of planets.

14.01.2022 At our centre we support children to practice a range of skills. Scissor Cutting is a really important skills which support children to strengthen the muscles in their hands as well as supports hand eye coordination. This also supports children to build the strength in their hand muscles to hold a pencil/marker and support early literacy and writing skills. In our Toddler Room, (2-3 yrs) we provide children with child safe scissors to practice this with educators supervising them. In doing so, children are supported to learn how to manipulate the scissor safely and become confident with this skill.

13.01.2022 We would like to Congratulate Nisha Bhatt as she commences her role as the Assistant Director at our centre. Having worked at our centre for over 10 years, Nisha has worked across a range of roles and with a number of educators. Nisha has developed strong relationships with families and children and with her colleagues in the process. We welcome her expertise and her leadership in our centre.

13.01.2022 We always put safety as a priority and even though we are experiencing Covid 19 restrictions, we continue to practice mock Emergency Drills at our center. Keeping our children safe is our number 1 priority and knowing how to do this is so important!

13.01.2022 During Stage 4 Lockdown, we have conducted zoom learning sessions for our children to support them with ongoing learning and development. In addition to this, we also held Zoom sessions for our families to engage with our cook Tommy, who supported families to make wonderful budget friendly, family meals. While our children have returned back to the center, we have continued holding Tommy's Cooking Masterclasses. Here are some pictures of our families and educators and Tommy's Nasi Goreng!

11.01.2022 We recently received a wonderful gift of books from one of our families to share with our Kinder children. Thank you to all our families who support us every day to enable our children to have a love for learning. It takes a village to raise our children and we are very grateful for our community of families.

11.01.2022 Congratulations to all of our Kinder Graduates of 2020! Even though we have had an unprecedented year, we are so excited for our confident kinders who will be embarking on a new learning journey in school in 2021!

10.01.2022 A wonderful invitation to explore! Our children are always encouraged to imagine, create, coonect with Country and dream. Check out the new imaginative play space in the kinders!

10.01.2022 At our center, we don't need to sneak in vegetables! Our meals are so delicious that our children can't resist... We support children to try our meals and then there is no looking back! Have a look at our Sweet Potato and Chickpea Curry. Wholesome and packed with veggies!

10.01.2022 Nutritional and healthy meals are so important for young bodies and developing minds. You can't go past our Brazillian Mix Bean Stew with Rice! As one of the children's favourite lunch meals, we receive very few complaints from our little ones. Infact many of our parents ask us for recipes for our fabulous meals!

10.01.2022 Welcome to our Nursery Room! Our learning spaces are rich and inviting and support children's emerging and developing skills.

09.01.2022 INDIGENOUS TRAINEE EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE Proud Aboriginal Woman, Tina Payne, took on a traineeship at Goodstart Early Learning Flemingt...on with hopes to start a career in childhood education. After completing, she was offered full-time employment at the centre and has had a significant impact on the children and staff, bringing to her role a wealth of knowledge about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, customs and stories. Her supervisor and centre manager, Priyanka Minhas, said, Taking on Tina has influenced our RAP plan and influenced our philosophy as an organisation. We have taken on cultural awareness training and have now moved into this phase of awareness with a much deeper understanding." Read the full story here: https://tinyurl.com/y2oocu7l Learn more about our work in the Indigenous space: https://tinyurl.com/y3eamg4c #Aboriginalculture #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #childhoodeducation

09.01.2022 Happy Halloween Everybody! Check out what we got up to this week! The children had so much fun getting spooked out this week with this fun experience! Happy trick or treating!

08.01.2022 What a wonderful week we have had at the center! We not only honour and acknowledge First Nations People, our Service personnel but also celebrate other cultures and traditions! Check out the different experiences we had at our center to celebrate Diwali, the festival of Lights!... The children and educators dressed up in traditional clothes, made lanterns and diyas and explored the floor art of rangoli. Many of our educators also learnt new skills while supporting our children in these experiences!

08.01.2022 Wishing all of our families and children a very Happy Holi Celebration! The children and educators enjoyed exploring different colours in this celebration, making patterns and sharing the happiness of being together during this celebration!

07.01.2022 Families with children enrolled in kinder programs at Victorian Goodstart centres will benefit from a saving of up to $2000 in 2021. Talk to us to understand how to use this subsidy to give your child the best outcomes. Call us at #03 93765500 or email us at [email protected]

05.01.2022 Having a strong connection and relationship with Country is very important for every child's sense of identity and belonging. As we are on Woiwurung Country, we continue to acknowledge and respect First Nations People for their enduring traditions and culture. Celebrating NAIDOC week. Always was, always will be!

02.01.2022 We would like to thank the Department of Education and the Victorian State Government for recognizing the importance of children learning a language other than English. Having funded our Hindi Language Program, the Department of Education also sent us a great resource pack full of wonderful teaching tools to compliment out program. Nishu, our Early Childhood and Language Teacher conducts weekly sessions with the children in both small and whole group settings. Here are some of the children's creations!

01.01.2022 We are so excited to announce that this year our centre will be participating in the Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge. Reading helps children build important literacy skills that will be with them for life and reading is a fun way of instilling a life long love of learning!