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Yea Uniting Early Learning
23 The Semi Circle, Yea VIC
Early Learning Centre
Early learning in Yea.
Located in The Semi Circle, our service offers kindergarten and childcare services to the Yea community.
You can rely on us for long day care to support your busy schedule, while we provide fun and creative early learning experiences for your child.
Your child will explore, discover and learn through hands–on activities guided by our experienced educators.
We offer activities tailored to your child’s interests and needs in an environment that will build their sense of belonging, resilience, kindness and teamwork.
Our educators are experienced in supporting children who live with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities.
Program hours and fees
Our centre
Our large outdoor spaces will allow your child to learn from our wealth of natural resources. Our
early learning service features:
- Planned indoor spaces
- Large outdoor spaces
- Sand and mud pits
- Vegetable and herb gardens
- Recycling area
- Hand water pump, which runs down a rocky riverbed
- Water tank
- Play equipment for activities such as climbing, skipping, throwing and catching
- Trees and natural shade
- Pergola
- Shade sail
- Swings
- Bike track
- A boat in our outdoor space.
Our centre
Our large outdoor spaces will allow your child to learn from our wealth of natural resources. Our
early learning service features:
- Play equipment for activities such as climbing, skipping, throwing and catching
- Planned indoor spaces
- Large outdoor spaces
- Sand and mud pits
- Vegetable and herb gardens
- Recycling area
- Hand water pump, which runs down a rocky riverbed
- Water tank
- Trees and natural shade
- Pergola
- Shade sail
- Swings
- Bike track
- A boat in our outdoor space.
The parents say
“Thank you for bringing such joy into our family during what has been a challenging period”
- Early learning parent.
Learning experiences
Our early learning activities will support your child to learn about art, different cultures, nature and careers through excursions and visits from local organisations and programs.
Caring for the environment
We include lessons on sustainability and environmental awareness in many of our activities to strengthen your child’s connection to the environment and our community. Some of our activities include:
- Recycling materials and water
- Teaching sustainable living habits
- Participation in the local community garden project.
Excursions
We love excursions. We often enjoy outings including:
- ELF Day (children walk to local venues dressed as their favourite book character and are read to by community members)
- Supermarkets
- Healsville Sanctuary
- Local police station
- Fire brigade
- Post office
Incursions
We also welcome entertaining and informative visitors including:
- Black Snake Productions
- Dinosaur Museum
- A Dentist
- Goulburn Valley Water
- Responsible Pet Program
- Bravehearts
- Tingle Toodle
- Special Person's Day - Carp Production
- A First Nations Elder.
Family and community connections
We encourage you to participate in your child’s early learning experience in whatever ways you can. We invite you to:
- Join us on excursions
- Help with fundraising events
- Talk to the children about your job or hobbies
- Celebrate culturally significant events.
To build your child’s community connections, we regularly engage with local groups, members and programs, including:
- Local primary schools to assist with the transition to school
- The local children’s network meeting
- Emergency services
- A dentist
- The maternal and child health nurse
- A speech therapist
- Farmers and vets.
Program hours and fees
4 Year Old Kindergarten Teacher
Fiona
Hi, I’m Fiona, the Acting Centre Director and 4-year-old Kindergarten Teacher at Yea Uniting Early Learning. I’ve worked in early learning for 25 years and have been the 4-year-old teacher at Yea for 10 years. During this time, I have seen our service grow and develop into the thriving hub it is today.
I have a Bachelor of Early Childhood Studies and am currently studying my Graduate Diploma of Psychological Science.
I love knowing that I am making a positive difference in the lives of the children and families that I support.
At Yea, we value community and build strong relationships with our children and families. We provide children and families with a service that we would be happy to send our own children to, and work hard to ensure that we are continually evolving the program so that we can continue to grow and develop while meeting changing community needs.
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
Helping children to make healthy food choices is an important part of our daily activities. We offer lessons on food safety and cooking using the produce from our garden. This allows children to apply what they have learnt about nutrition and environmental sustainability. At our early learning centre, we:
- Grow our own fruit, vegetables and herbs
- Work with families from a range of cultural backgrounds to ensure cultural foods meet requirements
- Offer progressive snack and lunchtime to empower children to ask for what they want and when
- Participate in the Healthy Together Victoria Achievement Program
- Work with the Smiles 4 Miles program to teach good oral health and healthy eating habits
Safe environment
As a child safe organisation, our educators undergo regular working with children’s and police checks. We are focused on delivering learning and development in a safe and supportive environment, so you can trust that your child is in good hands.
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