Goodstart Secret Harbour - Childcare Centre

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About Goodstart Secret Harbour

Goodstart Secret Harbour is conveniently located on Bluestone Parkway, close to a local school and just five minutes drive from the Kwinana Freeway.

Our centre caters for children aged from six weeks to five years. Children and families at our centre come from a diverse range of nationalities including Spanish, English, Irish, Vietnamese, Chinese, and many others. We maintain strong relationships with local schools, businesses, public services and assist families at our centre to make connections with these services and with one another.

Our educators are professional and experienced, and the majority have been with the centre for over five years. We include the children’s interests in our curriculum and our learning program includes arts, drama, music, and culture.

We communicate with our families via fortnightly catch up emails, notices, and Story Park. Through Story Park the centre captures the children’s learning and development and showcases their play, environment, interests, abilities and achievements. The sharing of learning through words, images, video’s and audio allows families to be more actively involved in their child’s development. Story Park helps educator’s children and families improve their understanding of each child’s interests and abilities so they better receive support deepening relationships and strengthening communication.

We provide quality programs based on an understanding of current brain development and early years research.
Brain development is most active during the early years. At this time, all children’s experiences - physical, cognitive, linguistic, social and emotional are critical, as they impact on learning and later outcomes in life.

We organise frequent community events at the centre for families to attend, in addition to holding open days and other centre events.

We invite you to book a tour of our centre today to see our wonderful facilities and meet our friendly and dedicated team.

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We provide early learning & care to these groups:

Alison Burnett Centre Director

Hello, my name is Alison Burnett and I am the Centre Director at Goodstart Secret Harbour.

I have over 24 years’ experience in the Early Childhood and Education Sector. I've worked in all areas of the business ensuring the safety, health and wellbeing of children. After 10 years working for a privately-owned centre in NSW I made the move to Western Australia and I have lived in Secret Harbour for the last 14 years. I worked for Goodstart previously for 9 years as a Centre Manager and Area Manager and moved onto the Department of Human Services. My most recent position was with Child Australia where I worked with Childcare Services providing Consultancy, Professional Development and on the floor coaching.

I am passionate about ensuring children have the learning, development and wellbeing capabilities they need for life; I enjoy working in this diverse sector and building a positive culture and professional learning community.

Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health and Graduate School of Education, Dr Jack Shonkoff (2002) indicates “We have some amazingly compelling neuroscience that shows us how the quality of the relationships that children have with the important people in their lives, the interactions and the feelings that go with those relationships, actually influence the emerging architecture of the brain”.

I am very excited to be the centre Direcor at Secret Harbour and have many ideas that I am looking forward to implementing with the team.

Book a tour today and we can show you around our beautiful centre.

Testimonials

Cherry

27/10/2017

"My son has been going to this centre since he was 7 months old. The staff are wonderful and caring and I know that he gets looked after. He is a fussy eater and they always read more ensured he ate something. They always advised me of how his day went and his end of year books with photos and artwork are great. I have and wouldn't hesitate to recommend this centre."
Dianne

27/10/2017

"My child loves being there at the centre,"
Belinda

26/10/2017

"My daughter has been going to Secret Harbour since August last year and I am so happy with the care and love that is shown to her, she is adored by all of the staff there and read more I can see that she is learning and developing everyday. She has made some little friends along the way and I look forward to her growing and moving into the toddler room next week. "
Bel

26/10/2017

"I love Goodstart Secret Harbour! The teachers are amazing and my daughter loves going there and she has learnt so much from them."
Cliff

26/10/2017

"I truly value the effort the team at Secret Harbout give. The director and her team have made wonderful changes and it shoes in from the front door to the room to outside... a read more great centre that needs to be spoken about more in the community!"
Carolina

"Such a caring, clean and friendly environment. I am so impressed with the level of knowledge and care factor that this centre has. The staff are always there to lend a helping read more hand in my child's development. The feedback I get through their app with my child's weekly activities and pics are amazing. I love seeing how happy he is. I truly recommend this amazing centre with their wonderful staff. 5 stars xxxxx"
Kristy

"I was extremely skeptical about choosing daycare for my son as he has always been with me, after a few weeks of adjustment he was very happy to walk in with no tears. He now read more loves daycare and I have 100% trust in his carers, love the centre and the ladies and believe we made a great choice in choosing this centre."

Childcare Benefit & Rebate

Child Care Benefit (CCB) is a payment to help eligible families who use approved and registered child care, such as all Goodstart Early Learning centres. CCB payments help eligible families reduce their weekly payments. CCB together with the Child Care Rebate can also help make child care more affordable for Goodstart Early Learning families. To find out more information about CCB or the Child Care Rebate and if you are eligible, please contact the Family Assistance Office on 13 61 50.

Structured Kindergarten Program

At Goodstart Secret Harbour, you and your child can enjoy the best of both worlds. Our centre offers a kindergarten program and long day care under the one roof. Our kindergarten teachers are University qualified and provide a play-based learning program that will support your child in learning the skills for school and life.

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Goodstart Secret Harbour - Childcare Centre

About Goodstart Secret Harbour

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We provide early learning & care to these groups:

Nursery

Nursery

Toddler

Toddler

Kindergarten

Kindergarten

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Alison Burnett Centre Director

Cherry

Dianne

Belinda

Bel

Cliff

Carolina

Kristy

Child Care Subsidy (CCS)

Structured Kindergarten Program

Cockburn Central community garden blossoms

Community connections forging strong ties

Budding footy players learning their skills in W.A

Using routines to help children learn

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