FUNDED KINDERGARTEN

As a long day care centre, we offer a full day of education and care to children from birth to school age, and we offer a funded kindergarten program for 3 and 4 year olds as part of the service. We are proud to display the Kinder tick at Heidelberg location.

The teacher-led kindergarten programs delivered in a long day care setting provide flexibility for parents and carers by offering childcare before and after the kindergarten program.

When you see the Kinder Tick, you can be confident:

• the program will be led by a qualified teacher
• children will benefit from play-based learning
• the kindergarten program is funded and approved by the Victorian Government
• the program complies with government guidelines and the National Quality Framework.
   

If your child attends a kindergarten program, they’ll be learning through play with an early childhood teacher. Research shows that play-based learning is the best way to help young children learn, develop well and prepare to thrive at school.

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The benefits of keeping your child/ren enrolled at Innova Academy for their Kinder year:

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• children stay in the environment they are comfortable, with the friendships and connections they have already built with the peers and educators

• transition statements written by a qualified teacher who has seen the child develop over their years at the service
   
• the kinder program runs 51 weeks a year, we do not shut over school holidays
   
• flexible attendance hours, open 7:00am - 6:00pm
   
• incursions/excursions, including bush kinder
   
• indoor/outdoor program everyday
   
• meals provided with progressive meal times
   
• childcare subsidy applied ​

Your children will be required to attend the Kindergarten program for a minimum of 15 hours per week (two booked days)