Seeds Early Learning Ballina

Hello, here’s some centre info.

Service Manager: Christine
Phone: (02) 6681 1122
Email: ballina@seedsearlylearning.com.au
Hours: Monday to Friday – 6.30am to 6.30pm
Ages: 0 to 5 years
Address: 58-62 Westland Drive, Ballina

Nursery

Our nursery program supports individual and group relationships, face to face interactions increasing your child’s trust in a secure learning environment.

Our nursery room mostly caters for children up to two years. The early learning program in the nursery room provides stimulation through the following examples:

Development of senses such as sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing
Development of one on one relationships, face to face interactions increasing child’s trust in a secure learning environment
Singing, talking and reading

Toddler Program

Our toddler program will help your child with self-help routines, language, social and emotional awareness.

Our toddler room mostly caters for children 15 months to two and half years. The early learning program in the toddler room provides activities and fun experiences aiming to provide:

A balance between indoor and outdoor, quiet and active, individual and group, child initiated and adult initiated activities
Support to toddlers whilst playing so that their play becomes more complex, improving from simple awareness of an object to more complicated play
Toilet training through positive encouragement
Improve in their ability to perceive patterns and discriminate various forms
Water and sand play
Exploration and routines

Junior Kindy Program

Our junior kindy program will support your child through activities that develop numeracy, literacy, language, self-help and social emotional awareness.

Our junior kindy room mostly caters for children two to three years old. The early learning program in the room provides activities and fun experiences aiming to:

Encourage your child’s fine motor skills from activities that develop their hand muscles such as drawing and painting, working with play dough or constructing blocks
Healthy eating and body attitudes
Further develop children’s awareness of self
Increase children’s control over expressing emotions

Kindy & Pre-Kindy

Our Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten programs are licensed and comply with the latest Childcare Regulations and Government Approved Kindergarten programs to prepare your child for school.

Our Kindergarten & Pre-Prep classrooms caters for children four to five years old. The program in the room provides activities and fun experiences aiming to:

Develop your child’s ability to represent their experiences through, thinking, reasoning and problem solving
Familiarise your child with the learning and education experience they will undertake at school
Improve gross motor development through increased functional use of limbs, running, jumping, climbing and balancing activities
Encourage your child’s fine motor skills from activities that develop their hand muscles such as drawing and painting, working with play dough or constructing blocks

A day at our place

We provide all meals, drinks and educational resources and programs including a selection of interesting, educational and fun shows throughout the year.

When your child arrives, they will put their bags away in a designated place. They can then choose what they would like to do, there are many activities for them to choose from:

Outside there is a grass and play area where the children love to run around, play on the fort, and test their skills on obstacle courses. There are swings, bikes, scooters and ball games for the children to enjoy
Inside there are a variety of activities like building blocks, puzzles, writing area, book corner, home corner and board games. There is an art area where the children get creative with lots of painting, sculpting with clay and play dough and craft available
There are many other activities the children can enjoy such as dancing, drama and playing in a sandpit to dig, drive dump trucks, cook yummy mud pies or build huge volcanoes!
There is group time where the children can engage in fun and educational games, stories and songs
The children are encouraged to eat healthy food and make healthy choices, such as yummy fruit for morning tea, and sandwiches for lunch and afternoon tea
After lunch many children enjoy quiet activities or rest
Most of the children after afternoon tea are ready for more play inside or outside before being collected by parents/guardians

What’s included

All food
Aged appropriate toys and resources
Extra activities – fun shows, sports and other languages
Sunscreen
Hat & T-Shirt

What to bring

Bag to hold belongings
Two or three changes of clothes
Nappies (as required)
Small sheet or blanket for rest time
Drink bottle
Wide brimmed hat (use your free one!)

Let us show you around

We would love to show you around our child care centre, introduce you to our educators and experience our early learning programs first hand.

Book a tour