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Goodstart Early Learning Child Care Centre Parafield Gardens is tucked in a convenient part of Parafield only 20 minutes from the centre of Adelaide.
Our 70-place centre provides care for three age groups – Nursery, Toddlers and Preschool. We work with our families and partner with organisations throughout our community to develop a curriculum which is based around play, experience and routine, all in line with the Early Years Learning Framework.
We have a major focus on inclusion and supporting every child with a transdisciplinary approach. Our educators enhance the curriculum and ensure that the most appropriate care and education techniques are applied for each child to promote development and growth. We encourage children to have fun and build friendships in a safe, secure and well-supervised learning environment. We outreach to our Goodstart Speech Pathologist, Occupational Therapist, Child, and Family Practitioner and Social Inclusion Consultant internally and advocate and support external referral pathways and supports for children according to need and vulnerability. These close links enable us to provide a socially inclusive environment for all families.
Each of our three rooms are set up to promote stimulating, fun learning and outside we have wooden cubbies, garden beds, rainwater tanks, worm farms and all natural surrounds to help in teaching children about the natural environment and sustainability.
At Goodstart Early Learning Parafield Gardens, our educators are qualified with vast experience in early learning. They are warm, friendly, helpful, nurturing and very approachable. We have our own Reconciliation Action Plan in practice which is supported by Narragunnawali Reconciliation in Schools and Early Learning.
When you enrol at Goodstart Early Learning Parafield Gardens, you can expect:
• High quality learning environments
• Passionate and highly trained teaching staff
• School readiness and transition to school program
• Child-centred, teacher guided learning framework
• Holistic focus on the development of your child
• Secure access with digital sign in and sign out kiosks
• Access to Storypark – your child’s online learning portfolio
• Onsite qualified cook creating fresh and nutritious meals daily, catering for all dietary requirements
• Meals, nappies, wipes, cot linen and sunscreen provided with no extra charge
We look forward to welcoming you and your family to our centre and showing you how we can work together to give your child the best possible start to a journey of lifelong learning.
We invite you to book a tour and take a look around, meet the team and explore how we can support your child’s early learning journey. We look forward to welcoming you and your family! (If the tour times available don’t suit you or your family’s commitments please contact us to organise a different time).
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We would like to thank all the ladies for their professionalism, for teaching, guiding and being there for our son from nursery to kindy graduation. No better care could be given, we will never forget all the things done for us.
Parafield Gardens Goodstart has been such a wonderful, positive place for my son. Fabulous educators with lots of experience who are so welcoming and caring. The service is always clean with a wide range of educational experiences and resources. Keep up the great work ladies!
I can’t thank Goodstart Parafield Gardens enough for the past 4 years. The staff there are amazing and make you feel so welcomed. You can approach them with your concerns openly and not feel judged, they act quickly and according. They truly make you feel like part of a family and it feels so bittersweet for my son to say goodbye to all the staff that he trust and feels so comfortable with! Thank you!
For me, being a Centre Director at Goodstart offers an amazing opportunity to build and support families in our service and also in our wider community. I am very lucky to inspire and lead a team of passionate and enthusiastic educators and teachers. I encourage and empower my team and believe in mentoring them to become more knowledgeable and develop in their roles. I believe relationships are crucial to a child’s development and the connections established within the first years is where I feel I can make the biggest difference. I am extremely passionate about supporting children in their early years and am always looking to upskill and extend my knowledge.
I look forward to meeting all of our new families and building relationships with both you and your children and together can set your child on a pathway for lifelong learning.
Call us on 8285 8011, or click the 'Book a tour' button above to arrange a personalised tour. If you’d like a tour outside of the offered tour times please contact me so that we can organise this for you.
At Parafield Gardens, you and your child can enjoy the best of both worlds. Our centre offers a preschool program and long day care under the one roof. Our preschool teachers are University qualified and provide a play-based learning program that will support your child in learning the skills for school and life.
At Parafield Gardens, you and your child can enjoy the best of both worlds. Our centre offers a preschool program and long day care under the one roof. Our preschool teachers are University qualified and provide a play-based learning program that will support your child in learning the skills for school and life.
6:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Friday
6:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Friday
6:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Friday
6:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Friday