Oakleigh Early Learning Journey

Our Educators are fully-qualified leaders in the early childhood sector, ensuring your child receives learning opportunities that extends their learning and development. Our educational programs are based on the Early Years Framework for Australia and the Victorian Early Years Learning and Developmental Framework.Through the delivery of our play-based educational programs, our educators strive to support your child to be ready for the real world and to instil a lifelong love for learning.

Our curriculum promotes learning across all key areas in a holistic manner – children are provided with the opportunity engage in experience that develop their literacy, numeracy, science, music, art, sensory play, cultural competence and technology, wellbeing and sustainability.

Our approach to curriculum planning is supported by research that has established that from birth children are born ready to learn and begin to discriminate between language sounds within the first months of life. Given this basis, Our educators place your child at the heart of the learning and each children’s strengths and interests are utilised as stimulus for learning. All of the rooms in our service devise holistic educational programs that follow the children’s emerging interests and provide children with the opportunity to engage in a range of experiences that stimulates their learning.

We believe healthy meals, drinks and eating habits contributes to children’s growth and development. Establishing healthy eating habits from an early age sets the tone for lifelong health and wellbeing. At Oakleigh Early Learning Journey children enjoy wholesome breakfasts, morning teas, lunch, afternoon tea and late snacks.

All our menus are designed to meet the recommended criteria of the Australian Dietary Guidelines & the National Quality Standards. Providing a minimum of 50% of the RDI of all nutrients required for each day in care.

Our delicious, nutritionally balanced menu is prepared and cooked by an experienced chef. Every day fresh, nutritious homemade meals are prepared to support children’s wellbeing. Our chef focuses on smells, textures, and flavours, appropriate to the developmental stages of each age group. Creating a wonderful, delicious range of meals and learning opportunities.

Catering for Individual Requirements

We understand that children may have very specific food requirements due to various factors; for example, allergies, food intolerances, cultural background, or other family preferences. As part of our menu planning process, we work in collaboration with all of our families to ensure that their individual child’s dietary requirements are met whilst attending our service.