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131 Suakin DriveMosman, NSW, 2088
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The Lookout Early Education Centre is a family centre, owned by two childhood friends who are committed to providing a happy, safe, fun, educational environment for your child to learn and grow.
We are proud of our highly qualified teachers and staff who love bringing out the best in every child, encouraging and embracing individual personalities and talents.
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The most incredible centre ever. Words cannot express how much we loved our time at The Lookout, and only left because we relocated. Putting... The most incredible centre ever. Words cannot express how much we loved our time at The Lookout, and only left because we relocated. Putting my kids in elsewhere has been extremely difficult because nowhere measures up! The Director, Victoria was attentive, caring and always open to discussing our needs, and the room leaders we had during our time there (Maricar in the nursery and Erin in the toddler room) were the absolute best. There was always a collaborative approach with great communication, and I was always aware of what my son was up to and how his days were. They also do daily incursions and activities including Spanish, sport and a weekly trip to the local fresh food market. In a nutshell, The Lookout is the perfect environment to foster your child’s learning, development and emotional needs and they really did feel like an extension of our family. We are hoping to move back to the area at some point purely for our kids to attend The Lookout again. We miss you all and we hope to be back soon! Read more
We enrolled our two kids at The Lookout after touring the nice facilities and meeting the mostly warm and friendly staff. Six weeks in... We enrolled our two kids at The Lookout after touring the nice facilities and meeting the mostly warm and friendly staff. Six weeks in and our 3.5 yr old daughter was still having a hard time settling after drop off. She’d cry for hours, stomp her feet, kick at the classroom door and forcefully deflect hugs from teachers. The accumulated feelings (only presenting the night before and day of preschool) were a result of recently moving house and changing early education centres twice. Prior to the move, our daughter loved going to day care. After a handful of ‘aggressive’ tantrums the director called us into a meeting to discuss potential solutions. The senior preschool teacher suggested they get an occupational therapist into the classroom to observe the tantrums, which we wholeheartedly agreed to. Midst meeting we were notified that our daughter was having a tantrum that had resulted in a broken drink bottle. I walked into the classroom to find my daughter crying uncontrollably. All kids and staff were in the room watching on, which felt distressing. Apparently a teacher couldn’t take a child outside to express all their emotions “due to staff to pupil ratios”. There was no attempt to reconvene the meeting. Nor was there a follow up call to check in on our daughter and discuss next steps. Instead we received an email notifying us that our daughter’s enrolment had been paused until she had sought external occupational therapy. The email claimed that the staff had tried “all of our strategies plus their own” unsuccessfully and therefore had no other choice. I found this interesting given that one of her teachers the day prior had expressed her willingness for the team to try tactics that work for us at home that they hadn’t yet explored. Whilst I liked the center, I was shocked by how quick the director was to catastophize, label and move on a toddler who had big feelings around going to pre-school. I unenrolled both kids on the spot and haven’t looked back. It was clear that our daughter didn’t feel safe and connected in her new classroom environment. What she needed was loving support to overcome the emotions that are a very normal part of growing up. Sadly she didn’t receive it at The Lookout. Read more
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3. Enrol at the same participating long day care service that you enquired to through www.careforkids.com.au by 11.59 PM AEDT Friday 22 November 2024.
4. Email georga@careforkids.com.au by 11.59 PM AEDT Friday 22 November 2024 to advise of your enrolment, to enter the promotion.
5. There are a maximum of thirty (30) vouchers in the promotion, each up to the maximum value of $150 for use on long day childcare costs for thirty (30) children only.
6. The voucher goes towards each winner’s parent co-payment contribution for the period of one (1) week for one (1) child only and is payable directly to the childcare centre.
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In January 2012 the National Quality Framework (NQF) came into effect across Australia.
The purpose of the NQF is to improve and standardise the quality of child care through a
range of measures including better staff to child ratios, higher staff qualifications
and an assessment and rating system designed to promote continuous improvement.
Under the NQF child care services are assessed and rated against the National Quality Standards (NQS).
The NQS measures the quality of early childhood education and care in Australia. It will cover
most long day care, family day care, preschool/kindergarten and outside school hours care services.
Under these standards child care services will be assessed and rated against the
seven quality areas, 18 standards and 58 elements that make up the NQS.