Mother Duck Childcare and Kindergarten Manly

• Environments Carefully Created for Children

• Care and Attention for Each Individual Child

• Play-Based Learning to Prepare Each Child for Success

• Strong Relationships With Families to Create Communities

• Welcoming Centres Where Diversity is Celebrated

• Caring Educators Who Love Coming to Work

All of the centre’s programs are included in the daily fee.

• Sports program

• Gymnastics program

• Mindfulness program 

• Community engagement program

• Queensland government approved Kindergarten program

At Mother Duck Manly, the focus of the educators is on reflective practice to ensure they understand all they can about children and their development; finding new and innovative ways to solve problems, engage in challenging tasks, and using information technology and print-based texts to find things out; giving children the gift of time to listen to their ideas and incorporate these into the curriculum; sustainable practices to teach the children how to be a valuable member of society; and teaching children skills beyond academics such as compassion, collaboration, empathy, kindness, grace and honesty.

Life is complicated, messy and at times very confusing. But it is also wonderful in so many ways. Our job as the adults in our children’s world is to not only support them in developing the skills needed to ‘handle’ this life, but to equip them with the tools needed to flourish in it. Our role is to walk alongside them, hand in hand, as we learn together to embrace life in full, in all its good and all its bad. 

Hannah Fearne - Centre Franchisee/Educational Leader, Mother Duck Manly

As a mum and an early childhood educator my passion is to help all children and families feel included no matter what their abilities, background or history is. I aim to be an advocate for all children including those with additional needs, mental health challenges and cultural differences, endeavoring to provide them with the best quality care and education possible.

Kate Crossan - Nominated Supervisor, Mother Duck Manly 

The most important thing that I hold onto each day as I go to work, is that I need to slow down and be in the moment with the children to truly understand and support them in their learning.

Katherine Fitzgerald - Kindergarten Teacher, Mother Duck Manly

Mother Duck’s own dietitian, Fiona Hinton, prepares the menus for the centre and has over 20 years of experience. Fiona specialises in real-life strategies and practical suggestions to convert nutrition advice into food kids will eat. Fiona has collaborated on several books, including one with best-selling children’s food writer Annabel Karmel, as well as training childcare staff in children’s nutrition.

The centre has a spacious outdoor café where the children come together to eat with their peers, siblings, and educators. The menu provides healthy, nutritious meals daily to children. This includes morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and fresh fruit throughout the day.