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Heyfield Uniting Kindergarten
3 Gordon St, Heyfield Victoria
Early Learning Centre
Early learning in Heyfield.
Located on Gordon Street in Heyfield, our kindergarten offers an environment for your child to learn, play and thrive, with flexible session times to support the needs of local families.
We offer a creative kinder program, led by educators who are focussed on nurturing your child’s strengths, interests and social connections.
We teach values that reflect our small local community, including kindness, resilience and teamwork.
Our educators offer an inclusive environment and support children who live with physical and intellectual disabilities.
Program hours and fees
Our centre
Our play areas encourage children to be physically and socially active. Our kindergarten features:
- Planned indoor spaces
- Large outdoor spaces
- Sand pit
- Mud pit
- Trees and natural shade
- Vegetable and herb gardening beds
- Pergola.
- Shade sail
- Play area with climbing equipment and swings
- Cubby house
- Worm farm
- Water tank
Our centre
Our play areas encourage children to be physically and socially active. Our kindergarten features:
- Planned indoor spaces
- Large outdoor spaces
- Sand pit
- Mud pit
- Trees and natural shade
- Vegetable and herb gardening beds
- Pergola
- Shade sail
- Play area with climbing equipment and swings
- Cubby house
- Worm farm
- Water tank.
Learning experiences
Your child will learn and have fun through our hands-on, nature-based outdoor and creative indoor activities.
Caring for the environment
Your child will learn valuable skills by getting involved with their natural surroundings. We encourage children to care for the environment by:
- Recycling rainwater and materials
- Tending to our worm farm
- Composting
- Craft and construction using recycled materials
- Maintaining the vegetable garden
- Cooking and eating our garden’s produce.
Excursions
Excursions offer new adventures and learning opportunities. Some of the places we visit include:
- Maffra Gymnastics Centre
- Maffra River Park Excursion
- Gippsland Art Gallery
- Fauna Park
- Morwell Traffic School.
Incursions
We invite visitors and guest speakers to our kindergarten. These include:
- Museum Victoria Discovery Program
- Gippsland Art Gallery
- Flying Bookworm Performance
- David the Music Man
- Dog Safety Program
- Wellington Shire Sustainability Officer.
Family and community connections
We welcome all families and carers to participate in our activities. You are invited to participate in:
- Celebrating significant cultural festivals and days
- Talking to the children about your job, hobbies or other interesting topics
- Volunteering your time support our programs
- Fundraising activities
- Our parent advisory committee.
Local groups, members and programs we partner with to help your child discover and learn more about our community include:
- Primary schools
- Library
- Emergency services
- Wellbeing practitioners
- Indigenous community groups or members
- Animal trainers and handlers
- Farmers
- Heyfield Men’s Shed
- Maffra Rotary Club
- Heyfield Lions Club
- Heyfield Resource Centre
- Smiles 4 Miles
- Sun Smart.
Program hours and fees
Director and Kindergarten Teacher
Josephine
Hi, my name is Josephine, I am the Director and Teacher at Heyfield Uniting Kindergarten. The children know me as Miss Jo. Throughout my years as a teacher, there have been many changes, but my goal of encouraging each child to reach their full potential still drives my programming and my personal teaching philosophy. I value inclusion for all children and families, and I believe it is our differences that make us strong as a community.
I completed my Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood/Primary) in 1998. Since then, I have worked in several rural Kindergartens. During maternity leave, I worked casual hours in both Kindergartens and Child Care, and I have kept busy volunteering. My volunteer work included coaching at Little Athletics, Children’s liturgy, taking a music program, and being part of fundraising committees. My volunteer work has helped me to understand the importance of communication, transparency and working as a team.
Health and wellbeing
Mental health
Our educators are trained in various programs to support the mental health of your child and are skilled in working with children who have experienced challenges and trauma. We also offer mental health support for families if you find yourself in need of assistance.
Nutrition
We are passionate about teaching children the importance of making healthy food choices. Your child will learn about basic nutrition, cooking, food safety and the importance of exercise through fun and practical activities, including:
- Growing our own produce in our garden
- Family cooking classes using home-grown produce
- Food safety classes
- Play-based exercise.
Safe environment
As a child safe organisation, our educators undergo regular working with children’s and police checks. We are focussed on delivering learning and development in a safe and supportive environment, so you can trust that your child is in good hands.
Policies and downloads
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