Greenwood Rowville
Greenwood Rowville Centre overview
Greenwood Rowville Centre highlights
- Our centre proudly offers the VIC Government-approved Kindergarten program as part of our enhanced learning program. Our Kindergarten program supports your child's learning, development and well-being, to help ensure a successful transition to school.
- The quality of our centre is underpinned by the quality of our people. At the core of the center is a diverse team of educators, including some fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.
- Each room joins sustainability projects to educate children about embedding eco-friendly practices in their daily lives, covering recycling, water conservation, food cultivation, and planet care.
About Greenwood Rowville Long Daycare and Kindergarten
Welcome to Greenwood Rowville. We're ideally located for families in Rowville, North, Endeavour Hills, Waterford Park and Scoresby.
Our Long Daycare and Kindergarten Centre provides early education and care for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years.
We provide convenient, full care coverage from 9hr, 10hr or full days, 5 days per week, including school holidays.
Our multicultural and dedicated team of Teachers and Educators provide a safe, nurturing, and inspiring learning environment - where your child can thrive, and be their wonderful self, every day.
Getting school ready? We offer the Government-approved Kindergarten program that helps ensure your child has a successful transition to formal schooling.
We offer a great variety of learning experiences at our Centre including:
- Sustainability Program: Helps children develop and understand the importance of embedding sustainable practices into everyday life. Children learn about recycling, conserving water, growing food and the importance of protecting our planet.
- Community Engagement Program: Encourages children to interact with and discover their local community. We often have visits from community services, and we go out on adventures to teach the children about their local environment.
- 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.
- Sports Program: Allows the children to be active and learn about different sports and movements.
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Kindergarten/Preschool Programs
Kindergarten/Preschool Programs
Our centre offers the VIC Government-approved ‘Best Start, Best Life’ Kindergarten Program.
At Greenwood, your child will benefit from the VIC ‘Best Start, Best Life’ Government-approved program as part of our enhanced learning program. Our program will support your child’s learning, development, and well-being for now, at school and beyond. We tailor our Kindergarten program across:
- Numeracy
- Literacy
- Emotional and Social Development
- Self regulation
- Healthy minds and bodies
The added benefits of our Kindergarten program include:
- VIC ‘Best Start, Best Life’ 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
About the Curriculum
About the Curriculum
“Let the child be the scriptwriter, director and the actor in their own play” - Magda Gerber
Nursery Space: 6 weeks – 2 years
Learning starts from before birth, and our Educators have created a welcoming and nurturing nursery environment where each baby feels safe to explore and discover new things - through their senses, their communication and cues (body language, facial expression and sounds) and by experimenting. On any given day you can see the nursery children engaging in all types of play, water play, music time, story time and more. Every day provides a brand new, exciting adventure for our babies to support their development, learning and wellbeing!
Toddler Space: 2 - 3 years
Our teachers and educators encourage the children to learn through play to help enhance their sensory-motor development. This happens through carefully planned music, dance, games and reading experiences.
On any given day the Toddler children can be seen developing their numeracy by building a tower, sorting objects, pointing and identifying shapes and patterns and participating in counting songs and games.
Children in our toddler space are encouraged to participate in group play. Group play is important as it helps our toddlers develop important social skills such as, turn taking, developing self confidence and emotional self regulation. Our team helps children through talking, planning and role modelling.
Kindergarten Space: 3 – 6 years
Kindergarten is a unique time for learning with peers and developing skills for later learning including confidence and curiosity, important skills for starting school. Our play-based program encourages active engagement in learning and supports a range of positive developmental outcomes including resilience, independence, critical thinking and creativity.
The oral language supports literacy learning. A child’s oral language ability is the best predictor for later success in learning to read and write. Hearing the sounds within a language is the first critical step for all literacy learning. Our team supports our Kindergarten children's development by engaging in rich discussions, introducing new vocabulary as part of everyday conversations, as well as singing, playing games, and reading with the children daily.
Throughout the Kindergarten year,children use their language to share ideas, ask questions, express themselves, and connect with peers and adults in social settings.
Social-emotional skills, including the ability to self-regulate emotions, is supported through group learning environments. Our team supports each child’s social and emotional development by labelling and talking about emotions and supporting appropriate responses as together, they engage in new and challenging situations. Lastly, ensuring that all children are ready for the ‘big school’ by preparing them for all that ‘big school’ has to offer.
Morning
Bianca is 11 months old and enjoys sensory play outside in the sandpit with her friends. She sits near her educator who helps teach her how to scoop the sand into the bucket. Bianca is learning how to dig, carry, and move the sand. She is also exploring texture and learning what happens to the sand when she adds water!
Lunch
Bianca has finished her lunch and is preparing to take a nap. Her educator changes her nappy, prepares a bottle and reads Bianca a story before her afternoon sleep.
Afternoon
Bianca and some of her nursery friends enjoy some story time and songs outside in the shaded garden. They read ‘Peepo’ which is Bianca’s favourite book.
Morning
Hunter is two and a half years old and loves to start his day at the centre outside on the climbing equipment. His friends join him, and together they pretend to be pirates on a ship looking for treasure. Through this exciting dramatic play, Hunter is learning about himself and the world around him. Dramatic play is helping Hunter identify his interests, abilities, likes and dislikes.
Lunch
Hunter is watering the vegetables in the garden. By doing this, Hunter is learning the importance of growing and caring for the veggies in the garden. Hunter picks a tomato from the garden, which the Chef will use to help make Hunter and his friend’s lunch - Spaghetti Bolognese!
Afternoon
Hunter enjoys art, and today he is painting a beach scene from a recent family holiday. He adds the finishing touches and sets the painting aside to dry; so that he can take it home to share with his family.
While painting, Hunter is learning how to express himself creatively and how to convey his ideas and emotions. Painting is also helping develop Hunter’s hand eye coordination, finger, wrist and hand strength. Making marks on paper is important for self expression as well as later learning.
Morning
Gina is almost five years old and can’t wait for today’s carpentry experience - she loves building things! Carpentry experiences allow Gina and her friends to extend their learning through real-life experiences. While participating in carpentry, Gina is learning to problem solve, experiment and predict. She is also improving her hand eye coordination, manipulative skills and muscular strength.
Lunch
Before Gina sits down for lunch with her friends and educators, Gina takes part in the centre’s sports program. Gina loves sports. Sports helps Gina improve her flexibility and strength (perfect for growing bodies!). Sports also allows her to practice different skills in a fun and engaging way.
Afternoon
Gina is off to ‘big school’ next year and she can't wait to start! Gina and her friends will be visiting the local primary school next week. In preparation for the visit, the class is creating a list of questions to ask the Principal and school children.
Health and Nutrition
Health and Nutrition
Our centre chef prepares and cooks healthy and nutritious meals daily, catering to the unique dietary requirements of every child. We believe that by encouraging active participation (such as growing their own fruit and vegetables, preparing, and finally cooking!) children learn to appreciate and understand the importance of healthy eating.
Our centre offers children nutrient-rich, unprocessed, and seasonal whole foods – created to delight the fussiest eaters.
Meet the team
Meet the team
I started my career in early childhood education and care in 2010 and started working at in 2021. I currently hold a Bachelor in Early Childhood Education and have experience within roles such as Room Leader, Early Childhood Teacher, Assistant Manager and Centre Manager.
As I have experienced many roles within my time in early childhood education and care, I always reflect on the importance of providing a safe and calming environment for children and families. Since becoming a centre manager, I am inspired to be able to support families and guide them through the early childhood journey. I also enjoy sharing my knowledge and experience with educators to provide high quality care and education for children.
I believe through the years I have learnt so much about children being individuals and to approach every situation differently with compassion and care. All children need to feel safe and supported in the environment and often this looks differently for all children. Getting to know the child and family is so important to be able to support them and ensure they settle into the service with a positive experience.
All child care centres, including our centre, use the foundation of play-based learning to guide our experiences every day. With access to a range of age-appropriate learning resources, trained educators, and new experiences among friends, we set children up to thrive in an environment that is dedicated to learning.
We have a variety of educators who have been working at ever since the centre opened in 2018. It is nice to have educators who can share our journey with new team members and show how far we have come together as a team. It is great knowing the new team members can now be a part of our next journey into the coming years. The team share passion for children and it is so nice to come to work and be able to laugh with them and enjoy the time spent with the team and the children.
Our team understands just how important your children are to you and we ensure we take our responsibilities seriously. Greenwood Early Education Centres has extensive policy and procedures in place to assist our team in protecting children in our care. You can read more about our commitment to safety here.
As a parent myself and with other parents in our team, we are empathetic and understanding of how a family may be feeling starting out in child care. From orientation, to your child’s first day, and if your child is having difficulty separating from you for the first time – we understand you and we are here to help you. We make time for conversation with families and really try to understand how you and your child are feeling and look at ways we can help your experience at our child care centre. We place a lot of value and time in listening to our community of families so we can build relationship trust and have families feel secure and supported in what they are needing to discuss at any time.
To make our families feel more at home, we have coffee and tea available for our families in our foyer. We celebrate events as the Greenwood community and ensure all family’s needs are met. We communicate with families via our all in one family app which is great to stay up to date on what your child is getting up to during the day and also access information about their health, you can track your payments, make bookings and much more.
We understand the enrolment process in child care can be confusing for families. At we have developed an email for families to follow step by step how to enrol with us. There is information on how to enrol at our centre, set up your Centrelink and ensure you have the information you need on the ). We offer families assistance during orientation to get all the steps set up with us and if they need to use our facilities we are accommodating through this process. We are here to help and support wherever we can.
A fun fact about me is that I love Cold Rock ice-cream, my favourite combination is bubble gum with Nutella.
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In regards to the review written in the last 24 hours by a “Bibi”. I believe this to an outrageous claim, the centres cleaning... In regards to the review written in the last 24 hours by a “Bibi”. I believe this to an outrageous claim, the centres cleaning policy’s are extreme and the children are well cared for. We have had a son in the centre for 3.5 years this year. And even during a sickness outbreak this year the children were well provided for and extreme cleaning measures were brought in by the centre to keep children safe and healthy. I believe this review to be in a negative light to ruin the reputation of the centre. It is a multicultural centre and we have never had a problem and we have another child in the centre and are about to enroll our third. Please I urge you to disregard this review or do a tour for your self. If I could rate this centre higher than 5 I would! Read more
My 2yo attends this centre and has done since she was 9m old. I toured a few centres in the area and we... My 2yo attends this centre and has done since she was 9m old. I toured a few centres in the area and we chose Greenwood because it has a really lovely, relaxed and warm feel to it - we made the right decision! The educators are wonderful - so caring and really flexible to make sure all the children are happy and comfortable in their environment. My daughter loves it there and I would absolutely recommend this centre. Read more
Dear Caroline, thanks for leaving us such a wonderful review. We are thrilled that you loved your experience; our staff will definitely be happy to read what you wrote. We put customer experience and satisfaction as our priority, and your review reaffirms the hard work we put in every day. Kind regards, The Greenwood Team.
Both our children have attended Greenwood Rowville and we couldn't be happier with the service provided. Friendly staff, great facilities and the kids... Both our children have attended Greenwood Rowville and we couldn't be happier with the service provided. Friendly staff, great facilities and the kids always tell us about the fun days they have there! Read more
Dear Luke, thanks for leaving us such a wonderful review. We are thrilled that you loved your experience; our staff will definitely be happy to read what you wrote. We put customer experience and satisfaction as our priority, and your review reaffirms the hard work we put in every day. Kind regards, The Greenwood Team.