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Journey Early Learning Ocean Grove Centre overview
Journey Early Learning Ocean Grove is where your child’s journey begins. We provide a nurturing environment filled with curiosity, wonder and joy. It’s a place where children aged from six weeks to six years of age can make a positive start to a life of learning, development, growth and opportunity.
We are passionate about guiding developmental outcomes and providing a creative environment for children which supports and inspires a lifelong love of learning.
Our Facilities
- Spacious Rooms: Bathed in natural light to create an inviting atmosphere for exploration.
- Parent Amenities: Enjoy complimentary coffee and snacks while engaging with our community.
- Natural Resources: Encouraging an appreciation for the world around us.
- Tiered Play Space: Designed to enhance gross motor skills and physical development.
As food is so much more than just nutrition, we have created Future Foodies: A holistic food program at the heart of our Centre with menus specially developed by an experienced nutritionist. On this base, our qualified, onsite Chef provides fresh, nutritious meals throughout the day, catering for all special dietary needs and requirements.
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Programs

Programs
- Bush Kinder program
- Incursions & excursions
- Story Time
- Inspire Program
- Pen Pal Project
- Nature-based play
About the curriculum

About the curriculum
The Nursery is a calm, quiet and, above all, safe space where young children can enjoy one-on-one moments with educators, develop their connections, build trust and have all their daily care needs met. Nursery Room children love to explore their immediate environment. The educators encourage them to use their senses to discover and build their knowledge.
Opportunities are provided for children to explore their emerging recognition of self, with mirrors, photos and educator reinforcement.
Routines are developed to ensure consistency between the centre and the child’s home. The team recognises and embraces the primary role parents play in their child’s life, and works collaboratively with families to ensure proper routines are developed. This allows them to create a feeling of predictability and security for the children, and with that comes a sense of belonging and connection.
Here, the identity of each child is beginning to emerge and they are starting to see themselves as independent beings. They begin to explore through touch, to see what they like and how things work around them.
This environment is designed around the toddler’s emerging sense of identity. It’s a space where they can feel safe and supported. Educators provide a variety of interesting resources that are familiar to the children, so they can experiment and make sense of their immediate world.
Routines are important for developing independence, so educators provide opportunities to support each child’s individual needs. They encourage children to tackle routine tasks themselves, but still have educators on-hand for one-on-one time to provide comfort and reassurance.
Pre-Kinder children are emerging from their individual bubble and venturing into the world, socialising with others and wanting to develop more meaningful friendships. The Pre-Kinder spaces ensure there are opportunities for children to interact and work together, as well as encouraging their own independent learning.
Educators provide many familiar activities and spaces for children to explore, as well as introducing fresh and exciting problem-solving activities that will expand their knowledge through experiential play. Interacting with adults and other children exposes children to different ideas, opinions, interests and skills. As a result, their curiosity and knowledge grows.
Educators provide a variety of different opportunities for children to work alone, in small groups and together, with an educator always nearby to support and guide them.
Pre-Kinder children are getting stronger and more capable with their self-help skills. The opportunities to practice and care for their own needs is promoted, which encourages confident behaviour and builds independence.
The Kinder Room is taught by an experienced and bachelor-qualified, Early Childhood Teacher. In the Kinder Room, children see themselves as part of the wider world, resulting in a deeper exploration of challenging and imaginative topics. All of the play spaces encourage this by providing varied and interesting resources and materials for children to experiment and explore.
Often, small moments of play lead to big moments of discovery. That’s why the team provides a play-based program. The centre’s play spaces encourage this by providing diverse and interesting environments for children to explore. Kinder children are extremely competent in guiding their own play and constructing their own knowledge. Educators help and support children in discovering new information with books, technology and excursions. Familiar elements are included in the Kinder Room to ensure children feel safe and secure while developing new skills and knowledge. School transition is a focus of the program and educators work hard to ensure children are developed enough and have the knowledge to make this a smooth process.
Health & nutrition

Health & nutrition
At Journey Early Learning Ocean Grove, educators believe that a wholesome child is a happy child. This is why they partnered with Wholesome Child, who has a simple philosophy: “Train children’s taste buds to enjoy nourishing, nutritionally beneficial foods as early as possible to ensure optimal development and establish lifelong healthy eating behaviours.”
The centre offers fresh, seasonal menus, to ensure each of the children receive nutritious meals every day. For the team, it’s not simply about nutrition, it’s also about discovering new things. Nothing beats tasting something new for the very first time, and the educators want the children to experience that for themselves.
Meet the team
Meet the team
Hello, my name is Angela Martinez I have been in the childcare sector for more than 10 years; I am an Early Childhood and Primary Teacher back in my country (Colombia), completed a Diploma and Advance Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care, and Leadership and Management in Australia.
What I love about my job is that I can be part of your child's journey of discovering and learning new experiences, supporting each family and guiding the educators by sharing my knowledge and expertise to grow together.
I look forward to getting to know all of you.

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Centre Reviews
My children have been attending the service for almost three years. Journey Ocean Grove has gone above and beyond for our family. They... My children have been attending the service for almost three years. Journey Ocean Grove has gone above and beyond for our family. They have given there all through each and every wave and I couldn’t be more appreciative. A great Management team and very friendly staff whom take such beautiful care of each and every child. Read more
We have had a great experience with Journey OG. The management team are hands on the ball, the staff were lovely and engaging... We have had a great experience with Journey OG. The management team are hands on the ball, the staff were lovely and engaging with the kids and all around great center (new as and clean) we only chose to change centers for conviencne to a center closer to home :) Read more
The educators are welcoming and friendly with all the families and allow the children to feel safe and secure from the first day... The educators are welcoming and friendly with all the families and allow the children to feel safe and secure from the first day by providing nurturing interactions. I am very happy with the care that my daughter is receiving. Read more
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Bravehearts Incursion - Learning how to be safe with Ditto 🙂 Such a good experience for our kinder children to learn about the warning signs and who are the trusted adults that they can approach for help. #careforkids
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🎄Merry Christmas from Journey OG 🎄 💫 Our Christmas party 💫 So much fun with the farm animals, the children enjoyed patting and cuddling them. And of course who doesn’t love a surprise visit from Santa 🎅 who has got a huge bag full of gifts for everyone 😀 #careforkids
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Library visit in the Journey bus 🚌 The children were super excited to hop on the bus and we could hear the excitement in their voice as they were singing all the way to the library. Once at the library, Nikki read some amazing Christmas stories to the children following with some fun dancing. The children engaged in some arts and crafts, they coloured elves pictures and then cut them out to make masks 🎭 They also had fun with some dress ups and games. It was such a fun and chrismassy visit for our kinders. #libraryvisit #oceangrovelibrary #journeybus #christmasvibes #christmasseason #christmasstories #careforkids
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Yoga session with Rachel 🧘♀️ Our babies love their weekly pamper session with soothing & relaxing oil massages 💆♀️ #careforkids
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Our Kinder learning spaces have been set up according to the Journey standards as well as keeping in mind children’s interests and learning development! Making sure the spaces allow for small group interactions as well as larger group experiences. #careforkids
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🌸 THEN & NOW 🌸 Look at these flashbacks from 2022 when our young Journey Delacombe Kinder students first began their journey! A big congratulations to all our Kinder Graduates across Journey this month, we are so excited for you to head on your next big adventure. #careforkids
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The Journey Whittlesea pre-kinder class went on an adventure to collect flowers for their families and stopped for a quick babychino on the way back 🥰 YUM! #careforkids
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The Kinder children at Journey Echuca recently went for a tour of the kitchen at their local Dominos! They were showed how to make dough and the children got to make their own mini pizza. What an exciting excursion!🍕🍕🍕🍕 #careforkids
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Last week the team at Journey Sebastopol celebrate 'Thank a First responder Day' by inviting some of the first responders in their community to the centre. They did a great job at showing appreciation for the first responders in their community, for the work that they do to keep everyone safe. #careforkids
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National Simultaneous Storytime 2024. 📚 Our kindergarten children headed to the Indooroopilly Library at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre to listen to the story, Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker. 🐦 This lyrical story follows the journey of a bowerbird on his quest for all things blue, all the while feeling that something is amiss in his life. The bowerbird's collection dominated by plastic caps, straws and tags invites reflection on environmental pollution and its challenges. #careforkids