Great Beginnings Bunbury
Great Beginnings Bunbury Centre overview
Great Beginnings Bunbury Centre highlights
- Our 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.
- Our expansive outdoor spaces have been thoughtfully designed to offer engaging play areas that are tailored to suit the developmental stages of our children.
- Our dedicated centre chef provides healthy and nutritious meals daily, catering to the unique dietary requirements of every child.
Welcome to Great Beginnings Bunbury. We're ideally located for families in East Bunbury, South Bunbury, Carey Park, College Grove, Gelorup, Dalyellup, Davenport and Usher.
Our Long Daycare and Kindergarten Centre provides early education and care for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years.
At Great Beginnings Bunbury, we provide convenient, full care coverage from 9hr, 10hr or full days, 5 days per week, including school holidays. Our service extends to also offer Before and After school care for children aged 5- 12 years.
Our longstanding 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 4-year-old 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 Great Beginnings Bunbury including:
- 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.
- 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.
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Kindergarten/Preschool Programs
Kindergarten/Preschool Programs
At Great Beginnings, your child will benefit from our enhanced learning program in Kindergarten combined with our play-based learning program. With the added convenience of long daycare hours, run all year-round. Perfect for busy families.
The added benefits of our Kindergarten program include:
- 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
Jesse 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. Jesse 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
Jesse has finished her lunch and is preparing to take a nap. Her educator changes her nappy, prepares a bottle and reads Jesse a story before her afternoon sleep.
Afternoon
Jesse and some of her nursery friends enjoy some story time and songs outside in the shaded garden. They read ‘Peepo’ which is Jesse’s favourite book.
Morning
Nick 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, Nick is learning about himself and the world around him. Dramatic play is helping Nick identify his interests, abilities, likes and dislikes.
Lunch
Nick is watering the vegetables in the garden. By doing this, Nick is learning the importance of growing and caring for the veggies in the garden. Nick picks a tomato from the garden, which the Chef will use to help make Nick and his friend’s lunch - Spaghetti Bolognese!
Afternoon
Nick 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, Nick is learning how to express himself creatively and how to convey his ideas and emotions. Painting is also helping develop Nick’s hand eye coordination, finger, wrist and hand strength. Making marks on paper is important for self expression as well as later learning.
Morning
Daniela is almost five years old and can’t wait for today’s carpentry experience - she loves building things! Carpentry experiences allow Daniela and her friends to extend their learning through real-life experiences. While participating in carpentry, Daniela is learning to problem solve, experiment and predict. She is also improving her hand eye coordination, manipulative skills and muscular strength.
Lunch
Before Daniela sits down for lunch with her friends and educators, Daniela takes part in the centre’s sports program. Daniela loves sports. Sports helps Daniela improve her flexibility and strength (perfect for growing bodies!). Sports also allows her to practice different skills in a fun and engaging way.
Afternoon
Daniela is off to ‘big school’ next year and she can't wait to start! Daniela 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
Hi my name is Amy, and I am the Centre Manager here at Great Beginnings Bunbury.I started working in early childhood education in 2000 and has been working at Great Beginnings Bunbury since 2017. I hold a Diploma in Children’s services. I have worked within all age groups in a variety of services. I have also worked as the Educational Leader within two different services.
I have a passion for guiding children’s development and watching them grow into their own individuals. There is nothing more rewarding then watching a child discover a new skill for the first time. Children have a thirst for knowledge and a desire to learn new skills when they are supported by those that are important to them and those that care for them. It is important to build strong relationships with the children in your care, to value them for their own personalities, and to grow and learn with them.
All childcare 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 cater to the children’s interests and needs. We are a well-resourced centre that can offer a variety of activities to explore and investigate. We have a state-of-the-art programming system that allows you to connect to the centre and programs via Xplor. We have an amazing centre cook on site every day preparing Morning Tea, Lunch and Afternoon Tea. All meals are prepared fresh on the day and we have a 4-week rotating menu.
We have a very dedicated, motivated, and special staff. They are very passionate and love spending time with your children to educate them. Many educators have been here for over 3 years. The team are extremely enthusiastic about creating a child care centre that is truly a home away from home, where all the members are happy to be part of a great experience.
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****EDIT**** I would like to add that since the response of the owner no staff whatsoever from great beginnings have attempted to contact... ****EDIT**** I would like to add that since the response of the owner no staff whatsoever from great beginnings have attempted to contact me at all. I am writing this on the 29th of January 2022.****** After having been informed by staff that I could not apply for holiday care for my son until Friday the 26/11/2021, due to that being the date they email out the necessary forms, I kept an eye on my email all morning. Having not received an email from them I called them 3 times to get them to re-send it to me. It was only when I went in at 2:10pm that they were willing to do it properly and ensure I received it. They then happily told me "four weeks of the holidays are booked out" (which is so useful when going to work depends on holiday child care). The impression I get is that due to the very high demand for child care in the area that there really is no incentive for decent customer service. If ones not happy well there are plenty in line to replace them. Also cheerful staff does not mean they actually care. Read more
Hi Sophie, we appreciate your review and set a high standard for ourselves. We'd like the opportunity to discuss this with you and have requested our team to initiate contact with you. Kind regards, The Great Beginnings Team.
Great daycare, very warm informative staff! Great daycare, very warm informative staff!
Dear Aimee, 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 Great Beginnings Team.