Community Kids Montebello Early Education Centre

Our Montebello child care centre in Mount Gambier is designed to be a home away from home that encourages every child’s exploration. Our resource-rich early learning environments have been carefully designed to immerse your child into a world of exploration, curiosity, and learning.  

Our four learning spaces extends onto our three beautiful and sustainable outdoor environments, which encourages endless opportunities for play! Our outdoor environments include climbing equipment, rock ponds, mud kitchens, sandpits and sheltered tabletop experiences for outdoor eating and small group play. This is to benefit our children to safely develop their strength, balance, and self-confidence through play.  

Our team of passionate and longstanding educators make up the heart of our Mount Gambier Montebello 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 have a talented team of educators, including artists and food enthusiasts who proudly engage in painting and cooking activities with the children. 

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 Gambier 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 harvesting the veggie garden, caring for our pet fish and turtle and basic cooking skills and creating art with our very own art teacher.  
• Sustainability program: Each age group participates in a sustainability project that 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 often have visits from local community local police, and other community services in Mount Gambier to help familiarise the children with their local community. We also have excursions to our local park in Montebello drive area and when children have an interest in a particular area, we strive to extend on this and have an excursion to a place of their choice. For example, last year we had children interested in transport, so we visited our local airport. If children are interested in the farm animals, we are then taking them to a farm.
• Movement programs: Our programs have been designed to help develop fundamental skills that help support children’s self-regulation, memory and concentration.  
• Sporting program: we currently have a weekly sporting program that supports children in further refining their gross and fine motor skills as part of their overall physical development. 

We provide children with nutrient-rich, fresh and seasonal whole foods created to please even the fussiest of eaters. For variety, our menu rotates every four weeks, catering to the unique dietary requirements of every child. We also offer a cooking class each week for the children.