Our Centre
Welcome to the Mill Park Heights Child Care Centre and Kindergarten. The Child Care Centre was
established in 1993 to serve the needs of the children in the City of Whittlesea. The building is owned
and partly maintained by the City of Whittlesea. The YMCA took over the operation of the
Centre in January 1998.

The Centre is registered as a Long Day Care Centre with the capacity to cater for 72 children at any
one time. We cater for children 8 weeks to 6 Years. Care is offered on a full time, part-time or
sessional basis. A sessional day consists of either a morning or afternoon session (morning: 7.00am-
12.00 pm or afternoon: 1.00 pm 6.00 pm.) The centre also conducts a 3 Year Old and 4 Year Old
Kindergarten on a sessional basis and a Crčche & Occasional Care facility.

The Centre Philosophy
We believe that children learn through their play. Our philosophy is to provide a quality Child

Care service which is clean, safe, stimulating and develops the 'whole' child.

An environment that provides children with choices.
To foster the social, emotional, physical, intellectual and language development of each individual child.
For the children to develop respect for others, equipment and their environment.
To provide high quality care which meets the standards that are accredited nationally.
To involve parents and staff with appropriate and continuing interaction.
To provide the continuing training of staff.
To provide a sociable and educational pre-school program within the Centre.
To maintain a high quality level of professional staff

Hours of Operation
The Centre is open from 7.00 am to 6.00 pm, Monday to Friday for 50 weeks of the year, closing for
2 weeks in December/ January. The Centre will be closed for all public holidays.

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Centres Philosophy

We believe that children learn through their play.

Our aim  is to provide a quality kindergarten which is clean, safe, stimulating and develops the “whole child”. To provide quality care and development opportunities for children's needs and interests.

 

The educational program is designed and based on what is important in your child's life, according to their age and stage of development. Individual records are maintained for facilitating optimum development of each child.

 

Aims

Our broad aims for the Three Year Old Kinder is for each child to show progress in the following areas:

Building relationships with adults which give security and confidence

Learning behaviour expected in the group

Making happy and satisfying relationships with other children

Developing the ability to be creative and think imaginatively

Maintain health and develop physical skills

Gain understanding of the world around them.

 

Weekly themes or topics of interest are used to organise and consolidate children's learning. The themes in conjunction with observations of the children are used to provide a focus of interest around which to enhance language, music and manipulative, creative and physical activities.

 

Individual and small group activities in all areas are encouraged. Strong emphasis is placed on providing a wide variety of language, cultural and music orientated activities to facilitate learning.

 

Our aim is to help each child fit happily into the Kindergarten group. This means learning to share the teachers time, share equipment, wait for turns, learn new routines and make new friends.

 

What do children do, and what do they learn?

Firstly, children enjoy Kindergarten.  There are so many things to do - messy things, wet things, quiet things, noisy things, things to do with friends, things to do alone.

 

Many of the activities that the teacher plans and prepares are, perhaps not suitable for you to provide in your own home, or perhaps you do not have the facilities, or the time for them, (or cleaning them up!).  This is what kindergarten is all about. 

 

The teacher prepares activities for the children, with specific learning opportunities in mind, the mess doesn't matter.  What does matter is that the children learn as they play, make new friends, and enjoy a whole new social world!  Of course not all the things children do are as messy as  finger painting, water play, clay and sand play.

 

There are books to read, puzzles to fit, construction kits and  blocks to build & a home corner for dramatic play.  Bridges and railways to build, roads to construct & water to play with.  Cards to sort and match, beads to thread, cutting out and pasting & puppets to make.  We have songs to sing, music to dance to, stories and poetry to hear & tell, as well as instruments to play, swings, tunnels to crawl through, carts to push, insects to collect, magnets, prams, play-dough, games to play......a seemingly endless number of activities to stimulate the children's interest and to provide them with many happy hours of educational experiences.

 

Perhaps even more important is the social aspect of Kindergarten.  The children learn to care for each other, share and to take turns.  They begin to understand about rights of other people, to respect the feelings of others and to express their own feelings, in a manner which is totally acceptable to others.

 

 

Centres Philosophy

We believe that children learn through their play.

Our aim  is to provide a quality kindergarten which is clean, safe, stimulating and develops the “whole child”. To provide quality care and development opportunities for children's needs and interests.

The educational program is designed and based on what is important in your child's life, according to their age and stage of development. Individual records are maintained for facilitating optimum development of each child.

 

Aims

Our broad aims for the Four Year Old Kinder is for each child to show progress in the following areas:

Building relationships with adults which give security and confidence

Learning behaviour expected in the group

Making happy and satisfying relationships with other children

Developing the ability to be creative and think imaginatively

Maintain health and develop physical skills

Gain understanding of the world around them.

 

Weekly themes or topics of interest are used to organise and consolidate children's learning. The themes in conjunction with observations of the children are used to provide a focus of interest around which to enhance language, music and manipulative, creative and physical activities.

 

Individual and small group activities in all areas are encouraged. Strong emphasis is placed on providing a wide variety of language, cultural and music orientated activities to facilitate learning.

 

Our aim is to help each child fit happily into the Kindergarten group. This means learning to share the teachers time, share equipment, wait for turns, learn new routines and make new friends.

 

What do children do, and what do they learn?

Firstly, children enjoy Kindergarten.  There are so many things to do - messy things, wet things, quiet things, noisy things, things to do with friends, things to do alone.

 

Many of the activities that the teacher plans and prepares are, perhaps not suitable for you to provide in your own home, or perhaps you do not have the facilities, or the time for them, (or cleaning them up!).  This is what kindergarten is all about. 

 

The teacher prepares activities for the children, with specific learning opportunities in mind, the mess doesn't matter.  What does matter is that the children learn as they play, make new friends, and enjoy a whole new social world!  Of course not all the things children do are as messy as  finger painting, water play, clay and sand play.

 

There are books to read, puzzles to fit, construction kits and  blocks to build & a home corner for dramatic play.  Bridges and railways to build, roads to construct & water to play with.  Cards to sort and match, beads to thread, cutting out and pasting & puppets to make.  We have songs to sing, music to dance to, stories and poetry to hear & tell, as well as instruments to play, swings, tunnels to crawl through, carts to push, insects to collect, magnets, prams, play-dough, games to play......a seemingly endless number of activities to stimulate the children's interest and to provide them with many happy hours of educational experiences.

 

Perhaps even more important is the social aspect of Kindergarten.  The children learn to care for each other, share and to take turns.  They begin to understand about rights of other people, to respect the feelings of others and to express their own feelings, in a manner that is totally acceptable to others.

 

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