Child Health, Education & Care – Parental Support & Advice. We are not a day-care centre!
Early Years Centres are 'one-stop-shops' where children and their families can access integrated early childhood education and care and parenting and family support services in one convenient location. The centre provides a range of services for children, from pre-birth to eight years, and their families to give children the flying start they deserve.
Our Cairns Early Years Kindergarten provides high quality education and care for children aged 3 ½ to 4 ½ years of age.
Our kindergarten opening hours are 8.45am - 2.45pm. Our Early Years Centre office is open daily from 8.30am until 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Enrolled children attend Kindergarten 5 days every fortnight for 40 weeks each year during school term. This usually works out at two days one week, and three the following week.
Group A attends Mondays, Tuesdays and alternate Wednesdays
Group B attends Thursdays, Fridays and alternate Wednesdays
Prices for 2012 are $110 per fortnight or $50 per fortnight if you are health care card holder. Contact Karina on 07 4045 0003 for more information on how to enroll your child for 2012 or express your interest for enrolling for the years 2013-2015.
What makes us different?
Apart from the kindergarten, we will offer a range of services for young families all under the one roof.
At the Cairns Early Years Centre there are child nurses, family support workers, early childhood educators, a psychologist, a speech pathologist, playgroup coordinators. We will offer parenting programs, a toy library, programs to enhance children's literacy and attention skills.
We believe that all children and their families should be treated with equality and inclusively. By connecting with your child and family before school starts, we can help Kindergarten be a fun and exciting experience for everyone.
Answers to frequently asked questions:
We are not a child care centre.
We are operated by non profit organisation called The Benevolent Society. You can click on the link to the left to find out more about them.
The Cairns Early Years Centre offers free services to families with young children from pre-birth to 8 years old.
Our service area covers from Balaclava south to Gordonvale and activities are held in our centre, as well as many other venues from Earlville to Gordonvale.
Some activities we are running include:
Drop-in Child Health Clinics
Play & Grow playgroups—at the centre and at a number of parks.
Infant Massage
Singing and Rhyming
Come Yarn and Play—activities for indigenous families.
Parenting Programs
A free adult education program to build money management skills and reward savings
- Tags:
- NGO, Nonprofit, Organization
- Category:
- Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)