Great Beginnings Mt Clear

Great Beginnings Mt Clear is designed to be a home away from home that encourages every child’s exploration. Each learning space extends onto our beautiful outdoor environment, which encourages endless ways and opportunities for play! Our spacious outdoor environments has an abundance of shaded areas, natural trees, grass and a lovely veggie garden. Our playgrounds give children the ability to use their imagination and curiosity alongside educators to create a vast array of engaging activities. Children will safely develop their strength, balance, and self-confidence through play.

We are a big, bright centre with 6 spacious rooms filled with natural light, catering to children from nursery age through to school age. Our educators utilise natural materials to create open-ended learning experiences based on children's interests. We have a large screen for interactive learning. You will see displays all over the centre that celebrate our lovely families and their different cultures. 

Our team of passionate early childhood educators make up the heart of our Mount Clear child care centre. We know each child has unique talents and interests. Our experienced educators are passionate about helping every child succeed in discovering their identity and become confident, happy and resilient learners. We are a multicultural early learning centre with several languages being spoken across our team including Japanese, Hindi, and Indonesian. 

Play is essential to every child's learning and development. It enables children to make decisions, learn, take risks, and have fun. At our Mount Clear child care centre, our experienced team plan play-based learning activities in line with national standards. The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) is designed to engage in your child’s interests and allow them to experience each day in a new way, supporting their learning in the lead-up to primary school.  

Our Early Learning Curriculum also provides children with:

• Real Life experiences: Children participate in fun and exciting experiences such as learning about importance of healthy eating, cooking basics, and a large variety of other activities that stem from children’s interests.
• Sustainability Program: Each age group participates in a sustainability project that link to all 3 types of sustainability, these projects help children embed sustainable practices into everyday life. Children learn about recycling, conserving water, growing food, and the importance of looking after and protecting our planet.
• Community engagement activities: We have six seater prams that we use to take our nursery and toddler children for nature walks along our beautiful country tracks. We take our children to feed the ducks at the creek. We also have an oval close by where we take the children for ball sports.
• Sports program: We engage in Little Sports Heroes every week to help children develop their motor skills.
• Cultural exchange: We engage with a classroom in Japan once a month with the kinder children on our big screen. We share our curriculum with our Japanese friends and send letter, artwork and gifts to them. 
• Bush Kinder: We have our bush kinder program once every week. Being outdoors in the natural environment supports children's physical and mental health, as well as their personal and social development.

We provide children with nutrient-rich, fresh and seasonal foods created to please even the fussiest of eaters. For variety, our menu rotates every four weeks and changes every season, with our cook catering to the unique dietary, religious requirements, and allergies of every child.  

Here at our Mount Clear early learning centre, we believe that by encouraging active participation in food preparation, such as growing & harvesting the fruit and vegetables, preparing, and helping cook the meal, children learn to appreciate and understand the importance of healthy eating.