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Moonee Ponds Kinder Haven Centre overview
About Moonee Ponds Kinder Haven Long Daycare and Kindergarten
Welcome to Moonee Ponds Kinder Haven. We're ideally located for families in Moonee Ponds, Flemington, Brunswick West, Brunswick, Carlton North, Essendon and Essendon West.
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 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.
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Moonee Ponds Kinder Haven Service features
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Kindergarten/Preschool Programs
Kindergarten/Preschool Programs
Our centre offers the VIC Government-approved ‘Best Start, Best Life’ Kindergarten Program.
At Kinder Haven, 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
Tina 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. Tina 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
Tina has finished her lunch and is preparing to take a nap. Her educator changes her nappy, prepares a bottle and reads Tina a story before her afternoon sleep.
Afternoon
Tina and some of her nursery friends enjoy some story time and songs outside in the shaded garden. They read ‘Peepo’ which is Tina’s favourite book.
Morning
Lennox 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, Lennox is learning about himself and the world around him. Dramatic play is helping Lennox identify his interests, abilities, likes and dislikes.
Lunch
Lennox is watering the vegetables in the garden. By doing this, Lennox is learning the importance of growing and caring for the veggies in the garden. Lennox picks a tomato from the garden, which the Chef will use to help make Lennox and his friend’s lunch - Spaghetti Bolognese!
Afternoon
Lennox 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, Lennox is learning how to express himself creatively and how to convey his ideas and emotions. Painting is also helping develop Lennox’s hand eye coordination, finger, wrist and hand strength. Making marks on paper is important for self expression as well as later learning.
Morning
Lana is almost five years old and can’t wait for today’s carpentry experience - she loves building things! Carpentry experiences allow Lana and her friends to extend their learning through real-life experiences. While participating in carpentry, Lana is learning to problem solve, experiment and predict. She is also improving her hand eye coordination, manipulative skills and muscular strength.
Lunch
Before Lana sits down for lunch with her friends and educators, Lana takes part in the centre’s sports program. Lana loves sports. Sports helps Lana improve her flexibility and strength (perfect for growing bodies!). Sports also allows her to practice different skills in a fun and engaging way.
Afternoon
Lana is off to ‘big school’ next year and she can't wait to start! Lana 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 began my career in early childhood education and care in 2012 and started working at Moonee Ponds Kinder Haven in early 2021. I hold a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care; I’m trained in Child Protection and First Aid.
During my time in the early childhood industry, I have undertaken most roles including student, assistant educator, lead educator, cook, assistant centre manager, educational leader and now centre manager. These roles have given me a strong understanding of how a service runs and what is needed to provide children with the best quality of care.
Growing up I have always been around children, my aunty and uncle have been foster parents since well before I was born, caring for over 550 children. Each time I would visit, I was so excited to meet the new child. The transition period was always difficult but being there to help settle, make them feel safe and secure has always been rewarding. Which has given me a great understanding of the transition period into care.
To make the transition into our service as smooth as possible, we offer the family to come in to have as many orientations as they need to feel comfortable and to ensure their child is feeling safe, secure and supported for their first day starting with us.
Moonee Ponds Kinder Haven have a long-servicing team with some educators being here for 15 years who truly believe this is their home. Our team are multicultural which gives our centre a large understanding of cultural needs children have and being involved with celebrating special cultural events with great knowledge.
Our beautiful heritage building foundation stone being laid on the 18th of September 1920, The War Memorial Hall and Club Room were built as a memorial to those who served during the Great War. Which was converted into our service back in 2006.
Community involvement is such a big influence with us at Moonee Ponds Kinder Haven as we are located in the heart of Moonee Ponds. Using our 6-seater pram we love to go on local excursions to Queens Park, Moonee Ponds Central, our local library and much more.
With many of our team having children of their own, we have all been or are going through the process of child care and early learning – we are proud to offer support where possible – from helping our families to enrol, applying for the Child Care Subsidy or even tips to help with fussy eaters. We are here to help!
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Centre Reviews
So so glad we found this centre. For once (in his short 3 years of life) my little boy J looks forward to... So so glad we found this centre. For once (in his short 3 years of life) my little boy J looks forward to going to daycare. Class sizes are small and the staff are familiar and friendly. Centre manager Lisa goes above and beyond to help her families and nothing is too much trouble. My sons educator is Jodie and she is wonderfully warm and you can tell has build great relationshios with the children in her room. Thanks so much to the team and Kinder Haven Moonee Ponds 💕 Read more
Our son has attended Moonee Ponds Kinder Haven since he was 4 months old, and it has been 6 months since he started.... Our son has attended Moonee Ponds Kinder Haven since he was 4 months old, and it has been 6 months since he started. He goes here 5 days a week. We are incredibly happy with the centre. The staff here is incredibly caring, friendly, and attentive. Everyone from the manager, the chef, educators in my children's room and in other rooms always go above and beyond. I can confidently say they care deeply about the children in their care. When he has stayed home due to illness the staff would call us up to check on him. Educators keep us up to date on whatever issues he may be dealing with, how he is developing. And we get pictures of what he is up to almost every day through the app. My wife and I feel great peace of mind knowing how well our child is taken care of. The centre has everything for him to develop, explore and play safely. And the staff is always organising fun activities for the children, like bringing in chicks so they can learn about them. Read more
Dear Jose, 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 Kinder Haven Team.