We help children engage their bodies and minds through fun and educational activities.

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Bellarine

About Us

The Management Committee consists of two Co-operative members elected by members of the Co-operative to take responsibility on their behalf for management decisions relating to the Centre. We always have passionate dreams about owning our own childcare one day and we have been searching for a long time until we came upon these beautiful childcare centres in the dynamic suburbs of Pakenham and Moolap. Since then, we have put in a tremendous amount of effort in building up the environment and making these centres where families can feel safe and secure to bring their precious children to.

Meet

our wonderful team of childhood educators.

Pakenham Twinklekids Early Learning Centre

Carly Webster

Centre Director

Hi, my name is Carly and I am the Centre Director here at Pakenham Twinklekids Early Learning Centre. I hold my Diploma in Early Childhood Education and have been working at the Centre since 2018. Since working at this Centre, I have loved developing relationships with all the families and children. I have a strong passion for educating and guiding the young minds of our future. It is extremely rewarding to see all the children grow and develop to reach their full potential. During my time here at Pakenham Twinklekids Early Learning Centre, I offer support and guidance to all educators and help them grow and develop. I am also strongly passionate about ensuring that the Centre is providing an educational program to the children that reflects upon their interests and their individual stage of development.

Bellarine Twinklekids Early Learning Centre

Tarrah Turner

Centre Director
Hi, my name is Tarrah, I am the Centre Director here at Bellarine Twinklekids Early Learning Centre. I have been at Bellarine Twinklekids since 2016 and in my time here I have worked in many roles within the Service. I am very proud to be a part of such an amazing team of educators that share my passion in providing our children with the best possible start in life! Over my time here, I’ve had the chance to build many positive relationships with children and their families while working together to construct a positive and nurturing environment for each individual child. I believe there is no better feeling than knowing that you are playing such an important part in a child’s development while watching them grow and reach milestones within their life. In my role and also in everyday life, I strive to be someone that our Children, Families and Co-educators can turn to at any time.
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Our Educators

Twinklekids Early Learning Centre has been successful in creating a positive workplace culture which reflects a high level of respect and regard for the skills and professionalism of educators. As a result, children benefit from a highly skilled, qualified, motivated and consistent team of educators comprising both full-time and part-time educators and including permanent staff who are rostered to cover planned and unplanned educator absences (thus maintaining consistency for children, educators and families and minimising the use of agency staff).

Ongoing professional learning is encouraged and supported, resulting in educator qualifications well in excess of those required under the National Quality Standards.

 

There is a culture of mutual, professional respect and many opportunities for individual educators to take on leadership roles. For example, as well as room leader positions, individual educators have taken the lead role as OH&S representative, sustainability leader, representatives at professional forums and facilitators of specific learning experiences.

Childcare Chef

The Centre employs a part-time Chef who plans and prepares healthy and nutritious meals for the children each day. In addition, the Chef plans and displays the weekly menu, is responsible for purchasing all food supplies and works closely with the Centre Director to ensure that food safety standards are consistently maintained. The Chef is recognised as a member of the Centre’s educator team and, in collaboration with others, ensures that children have many opportunities to be actively involved in aspects of menu planning, shopping and meal preparation.

Why Choose Us

Here at Twinklekids Early Learning Centre, our programming is individualised and designed upon the children’s interests and individual stages of development. We believe that each child and family is unique and work collaboratively with them in partnership. In our weekly programs we love gathering parent input and extending on this with the children.  We use Storypark which is an online platform to record each child’s individual and group observations. This is also a great tool for communicating between parents and educators. Our environments use a variety of natural resources and we have large play spaces both indoors and outdoors, we offer both indoor and outdoor programs which run throughout the day.

We also offer both incursions and excursions weekly at our service. The kinder children will do bush kinder every week, where they go out into our local community and explore our natural environment. We also offer swimming lessons at a local swimming centre where the children travel by our centre bus and have swimming lessons with up to 5 children in one group. At Pakenham Twinklekids Early Learning Centre, we have a weekly music incursion that comes out to the centre and provides the children with music educational programs.