Yea and District Children’s Centre

Our spacious and engaging outdoor spaces provide boundless opportunities for play-based activities that encourage the physical and social development of children. An array of natural features allow them to interact with the surrounding environment and learn the importance of sustainable living.

Our early learning centre features:

• Planned and intentional indoor spaces
• Large outdoor space
• Sandpit
• Mud pit
• Trees and natural shade
• Gardening beds for herbs and vegetables
• Pergola
• Shade sail
• Play area with climbing equipment
• Swings
• Bicycle track
• Recycling area to encourage sustainability and caring for the environment
• Gross motor play equipment for activities such as climbing, skipping, throwing and catching
• Water tank
• Hand water pump which runs down a rocky river bed
• Boat inset into our outdoor space

We strive to include lessons on sustainability and environmental awareness in all our activities, strengthening your child’s connection to their surroundings and community. Children have fun learning about art, different cultures, nature, and careers through excursions and visits from local organisations and programs.

Some of our activities include:

• Recycling of materials and water
• Promoting sustainable living and encouraging children to develop everyday sustainable practises
• Participation in the local community garden project

We love excursions such as:

• ELF Day (children walk to local venues dressed as their favourite book character, and are read to by community members)
• Local police station, Fire Brigade, Post Office, Supermarket
• Healesville Sanctuary

We also love having a variety of entertaining and informative visitors and guest speakers:

• Black Snake Productions
• Dinosaur Museum
• Tingle Toodle
• Dentist
• Goulburn Valley Water
• Bravehearts
• Responsible Pet Program
• Special Person's Day - Carp production
• An indigenous Elder

Preparing children to make healthy choices and discover sustainable living practices is an important part of our daily activities. We offer lessons on food safety and cooking using the home-grown produce from our garden, allowing children to practically apply what they have learnt about nutrition and environmental sustainability.

Our health and wellbeing program includes:

• Growing our own produce in our garden (e.g. herbs, vegetables, fruit)
• Working sensitively with parents and families from a range of cultural backgrounds to ensure cultural foods meet food standard requirements
• Offering progressive snack and lunchtime to empower children to ask for what they want and when

We also participate in community programs such as:

• Healthy Together Victoria Achievement Program
• Smiles 4 Miles, encouraging and promoting good oral health habits and healthy eating among children in our care

Join in, get involved! All families are welcome at our early learning centre. We encourage you to participate in your child’s early learning experience in whatever ways you can. We invite parents to come along on excursions, help with fundraising events, give talks, and celebrate culturally significant events together.

We regularly engage with our community members and programs, including:

• Local primary schools to assist with the transition to school
• The local Children’s Network meeting
• Local police, paramedics, fire brigade, and dentists, through excursions to their workplaces and visits to the centre
• The Maternal and Child Health Nurse
• A Speech Therapist
• A local indigenous elder
• Responsible Pet Ownership and Black Snake Productions programs
• Dinosaur Museum Farm
• Farmers and Vets

4 year old kindergarten

$332.00 per term

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9am - 2pm

3 year old kindergarten

$49.00 per day for 8 hour session

Monday and Friday 9am -1pm

Long day care

$98.00 for full day 7am - 6pm

$49 for half day 7am - 12.30pm or 12.30pm - 6pm

$15 per day for before kindergarten 7am - 9am