Kinder Haven Vaucluse

Our Early Learning Environments

Vaucluse Kinder Haven provides a nurturing and enriching early learning environment that fosters exploration and curiosity.

The outdoor environments at our Vaucluse child care centre include two large outdoor areas filled with natural elements, hosting a sandpit, a bike track, vegetable patches, cubby houses and tee pees. We have a beloved centre pet bunny Spice. Our outdoor learning program focuses on the development of your child’s strength, balance, and self-confidence.

We value indoor and outdoor progressive play. Children always have a choice on where to be at any time of the day. Our indoor learning spaces offer a variety of engaging resources for children to learn and grow. Our experienced educators and teachers use these to design various age-appropriate play-based experiences. Our Vaucluse child care centre also incorporates indigenous resources and play, embedding indigenous practices such acknowledgment of country daily.

Dedicated team of Educators and Teachers

At the heart of our child care centre in Vaucluse is our longstanding team of early childhood educators and teachers with some team members at the centre for over 7 years.

We are a multicultural early learning centre with educators proficient in multiple languages, including Italian, Filipino, Mandarin, Mongolian, and Vietnamese.

Our team of passionate and qualified early childhood teachers and educators are dedicated to ensuring every child feels safe, nurtured, and inspired throughout their early education journey.

Health and Nutrition

Our Vaucluse child care centre provides children with nutritious, unprocessed, and seasonal whole foods. Our menu rotates every six weeks to cater to diverse dietary requirements including Halal. We actively involve children in food preparation to promote healthy eating.

At Vaucluse Kinder Haven early learning centre, we recognise the importance of play in a child’s learning and development journey. Our team tailors play-based learning activities in line with national standards, specifically the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), helping prepare them for kindergarten and school readiness.

We also offer the following enriching learning experiences:

• Sustainability Program: Helps children develop and understand the importance of embedding sustainable practices into everyday life. We also partner with Oz Harvest annually for a food drive and incorporating this in our kindness project.
• Community Engagement Program: Encourages children to interact with and discover their local community. We often have visits from community services, and we regularly visit our nearby aged care facility as part of our intergenerational program.
• Yoga and Sports Program: Allows the children to be active and learn about different sports and movements.
• Music & Movement Program: Designed to develop fundamental skills that help support children’s self-regulation, memory, and concentration. Children learn to appreciate and develop an understanding of music – and of course, have fun.
• Real life experiences: Children participate in fun and exciting experiences such as woodworking, harvesting the veggie garden, caring for our worm farm and early cooking skills. 

At Vaucluse Kinder Haven early learning centre, your child will benefit from the NSW Start Strong program as part of our enhanced learning program. Our Preschool program will support your child’s learning, development, and well-being for now, at school and beyond. We tailor our Preschool program across:

• Numeracy
• Literacy
• Emotional and Social Development
• Self regulation
• Healthy minds and bodies

The added benefits of our Preschool program include:

• NSW’s ‘Start Strong’, Government-approved program
• Extended opening hours
• Open all year round (excl public holidays)
• Programs developed and delivered by our Early Childhood Teachers
• Exclusive music and movement program for self-regulation

Rooms

Our centre provides care for the following age groups:

Facilities

Our service provides the following facilities:

• Morning Tea
• Lunch
• Afternoon Tea
• Other meals
• Fully catered centre
• Sustainability program
• Veggie garden
• SMART Interactive Whiteboard
• Fully air-conditioned
• Large, natural play environments
• Early Childhood Teacher
• Flexible programs based on children’s interest 
• Small and Intimate – home style centre
• Large indoor space, sunny with ocean views
• Newly renovated indoor and outdoor areas

A centre tour is a convenient way to experience the centre of your choice and meet with our qualified educators at a time suitable to your family schedule. Kinder Haven also offers the virtual tour option in all our centres. Click here to book a tour online.

On the day of the tour, you’ll have the opportunity to observe practices and interactions within the centre environment. You’ll be able to see all the rooms and playgrounds, ask the team members any questions you have in mind, and get all the information you need to make the best decision for your child.

Kinder Haven’s Family Support team will add your child’s name to our waitlist if one of our centres is currently full in your child’s age group. We will then contact you as soon as a place becomes available.

We also do monthly check-ins to review the availability, and you will receive a text message confirming if you’re still happy to remain on the waitlist each month. If you would like to get an update at any point, you’re welcome to reach out on our Web Chat or give us a call.

Our Family Support team can also help you find more G8 early learning centres near you, with the same offerings at the Kinder Haven centre you are interested in that have immediate availability.

It’s common for a child to experience separation anxiety when they first start child care. When you’re getting ready to start child care, you can help your child overcome anxieties by visiting the child care centre together for a Stay and Play session, and easing into new routines at home.

Click here to read more tips about how to make the transition easier for your child.

Most of our Kinder Haven child care and early education centres offer the following:

• Nappies and wipes
• Sunscreen and hats
• Nutritious meals prepared by our in-house cook

Some centres also provide sheets and formula, so you may not need to remember to pack them.

For nursery children, be sure to bring: nappy rash cream, dummies, bottles and teats, comfort toys or blankets, three spare outfits, spare socks and a plastic bag for wet clothes.

For toddlers and preschool or kindergarten-aged children, it’s best to bring: spare underwear, water bottle or sippy cup, sun hat, closed-toe shoes, two spare outfits, spare socks and a plastic bag for wet clothes.

Plus anything else your individual child may need, such as breast milk, a sleeping bag, a comforter or medication.

It’s best to speak to your centre of choice for a full list of everything included.

Kinder Haven uses Xplor Home as our family communication app. It is the best and easiest way to keep track of your child’s day. After you enrol your child with the centre, you can utilise Xplor Home to book child care days, manage your account, receive the photographs that capture your child’s learning, learn about your child’s progress, as well as keep up-to-date with upcoming centre events and important information.

If your child shows signs of an infectious illness when they arrive at the centre or becomes sick during the day, you may be notified that you need to make alternative arrangements or pick up your child from the centre, and keep them home until they are no longer infectious. While we understand that this can be inconvenient, Kinder Haven is committed to maintaining a healthy environment and reducing the risk of infection for all children.

Under the Child Care Subsidy (CCS), families are allowed 42 absence days per child, per financial year. These can be taken for any reason, including public holidays and when children are sick, without the need for families to provide documentation.