Sandringham Children’s Centre is a family owned Early Learning Centre and Kindergarten conveniently located in Bay Road Sandringham.
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A passionate and experienced team of learning professionals and a dedicated, family-centred management team have assembled to provide an exceptional learning and nurturing environment for your child.
Sandringham Children’s Centre is the newest, state-of-the-art centre from a family and management team with over twenty years of experience operating exceptional early learning centres across metropolitan Melbourne.
Our mission is threefold:
1. To provide an enriching environment and a community for children that sees that they are healthy, happy and secure to develop important emotional, social and intellectual life skills.
2. To provide a service and a community that parents love and trust.
3. To provide an exceptional and stimulating workplace of choice for our Centre’s educators and staff.
At Sandringham Children’s Centre, we believe the program needs to:
- Be developmentally appropriate and caring.
- Be concerned with every aspect of each child’s development.
- Reflect the multicultural nature of our Australian society.
- Be challenging, interesting, and varied, providing lots of choices.
- Involve parents in its planning, implementation and evaluation.
The programs encourages children to:
- Makes choices
- Develop creative abilities
- Problem solve
- Negotiate and cooperate with others
Children learn best through a play based program focusing on their individual interests, strengths and needs. While establishing routine is important for children to develop independence and self esteem, the program acknowledges that all children are unique individuals and need to be nurtured within a flexible environment. There are known ages and stages of child development; but not all children go through these at the same age, time or rate.
Fostering creativity is important part of your child's social, emotional and cognitive development. Most importantly, children feel good when they are creating and art inspires a greater self confidence in children.
We have created a dedicated Art Program and Studio to inspire creativity and all of its benefits in your child. Run as an extension to curriculum, our Art Program will encourage your child to express themselves and experiment with different materials and mediums. Learning skills that will help them prosper well beyond the Art Studio.
We have a Creative Movement, Music and Dance Programme specifically designed for children aged 1-5 years who attend Sandringham Children’s Centre.
Each week different subjects and themes are presented in multi sensory experience which engages children's natural curiosity and nurtures their cognitive development, fine and gross motor skills, creativity and well being. But importantly they will have FUN!
In partnership with the ‘Australian Institute of Music and Childhood Development’ and in alignment with the ‘Early Years Learning Framework' we have set up a curriculum to ensure that our program is presented to maximise learning outcomes.
At Sandringham Children's Centre we run a health and physical education program designed for children aged 3-5 years and catering for children from all backgrounds and abilities. The program is educational as well as being LOADS OF FUN! Our coaches will provide all the required equipment.
The program uses the The Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework and is structured to achieve five learning outcomes:
- Children have a strong sense of identity
- Children are connected with and contribute to their world
- Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
- Children are confident and involved learners
- Children are effective communicators
In working towards achieving these learning outcomes, the program integrates three major components: physical education, health and social development.
Physical Education
- Developing fine and gross motor skills
- Stretching techniques and warming up
- Gaining knowledge of a variety of sports and games
- Familiarising children with a wide variety of sports equipment
- Complex body movements
- Developing a passion for exercise and sport
Social Development
- Achieving goals & encouraging others
- Teamwork and interacting with peers
- Preparing children for primary school life
- Fair play - Sportsmanship and sharing
- Learning to play safely & in a non-competitive environment
- Developing self confidence & learning through play
- Tying in with events and happenings of the wider community
Health
- Healthy eating choices
- Personal hygiene
- Hydration & Nutrition
- Discovering ways to be active
Wellbeing is a huge part of the program at Sandringham Children's Centre. Our menu is balanced and nutritious which gives the children the opportunity to begin understanding how to make healthy choices. All fresh, delicious meals are prepared in our purpose-built kitchen by a qualified chef. We can also cater for any special dietary requirements and allergies.
We have a passion for games and activities to keep the children active, develop their gross motor skills and body awareness. We run special Music & Movement programs to introduce concepts of focused breathing and provide an outlet for self expression.
This healthy, active approach will encourage your child to chose a healthy lifestyle in their present and future life.
