Environment and location

Community is at the heart of Dianella Street. Families enjoy great connections and friendships. We work hard to ensure everyone feels connected and involved.

Our centre borders a large park and Caringbah North Public School.

Many children at our centre move on to attend primary school at Caringbah North. Families with children at both services appreciate the ease of drop off and pick up.

Our connection with the school is also an important part of our transition to school program.

Spacious outdoors

Children enjoy one of the most innovative and well-resourced childcare playgrounds. Our large and modern outdoor space is a major attraction for families.

Children spend many happy hours learning and playing outdoors. The fairy garden and teepee are popular for imaginative play. A stage allows for impromptu performances. Our bike track is ideal for building gross motor skills.

We offer fun features like slides and large mirror balls, along with quiet areas to relax.

Our team

Families value our team of kind, skilled and experienced Educators. We’re proud of the warm and nurturing environment the children experience every day.

We’re passionate about creating exciting learning experiences to extend children's knowledge. Our play-based curriculum reflects children’s interests and voices.

Being a smaller-scale centre, we focus on meeting each child's specific needs. We collaborate and communicate with families about their child's progress and learning goals.

Preschool program

Our quality preschool program includes a deliberate combination of intentional teaching and spontaneous learning. It also reflects the children’s interests and each child’s learning goals.

We foster every child's love of learning. Children who are inspired to learn will thrive in every aspect of their development.  They will ask questions, process information, try new things, be happy to share and collaborate, develop friendships, join in games, and know they belong to a community of learning.

Our creative early education programs follow the Australian Government's Early Years Learning Framework, the only government-approved learning framework for children under school age.

Our preschool program fosters:

• Language (learning new words, following directions, sharing news and stories etc).
• Cognitive growth (concepts such as time, advanced memory games)
• Pre-literacy
• Pre-numeracy
• STEAM experiences (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths)
• Fine motor skills (pincer grip, cutting, pasting, holding a pencil, drawing, writing name)
• Gross motor skills (hopping, jumping, skipping)

Social and emotional skills are also important for primary school. We focus on children's development in these areas:

• Emotional resilience (self-regulating emotions, expressing emotions in a way that others would expect)
• Self-care skills (e.g. caring for belongings, tying shoelaces, toileting by themselves)
• Making and maintaining friendships
• Starting conversations with others
• Problem solving skills
• Developing resilience
• Sharing and taking turns
• Compromising, cooperating and working in a group with other children.
• Learning to adapt to changes in routines
• Knowing when and how to ask for help
• Empathy and caring for others.

Testimonials

'The teachers are amazing and make all the kids feel so welcome, safe and cared for. The culture at the centre is one of community and care. The team goes above and beyond to cater to individual children's needs and often encourage each child's individual interests.’

‘After all this time you are still going above and beyond and making my child feel safe and cared for. You guys are a dream team. I’m very fortunate and proud to say that you are a part of our family team also.’

‘The kids absolutely adore you all. We feel very lucky that we send them to school with Educators we trust to care for all the kids like they are your own.’