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Latrobe Valley centre makes a huge impact for children, families, and the community.
Welcome to Goodstart Bracken Ridge! We're your local early learning centre with longstanding service to the community.
Our service provides high-quality early childhood education and care for children aged six weeks to school age across our nursery through kindergarten programs.
Conveniently located on Bracken Ridge Road, we’re close to schools, shops, TAFE and public transport links.
Our experienced educators create a safe, nurturing and inclusive environment where every child can learn, play and grow at their own pace.
Learn more about our tailored approach to play-based learning and meet the team. Book a tour today – we'd love to show you around.
At Goodstart Bracken Ridge, we value every child's individuality.
Our educators customise learning programs to support children's interests, strengths and cultural backgrounds, helping them develop confidence, social skills and a lifelong love of learning.
With a focus on play-based education, sustainability and meaningful relationships, we aim to give every child the best possible start in life.
Come in and take a tour – our team would love to meet your family and discuss how we can support your child's learning journey.
At Goodstart Bracken Ridge, our philosophy centres around the belief that every child is a unique individual with their own interests and strengths. We embrace a play-based learning approach that nurtures curiosity and creativity, allowing children to explore their world in meaningful ways. 
We prioritise: 
Through our philosophy, we aim to create a safe, nurturing environment where children can thrive and become confident, capable learners. 
Children need to feel safe and supported to learn and grow, so we promote key educator relationships between our educators and children. Your child will have at least one educator (their key educator) who takes them under their wing and really gets to know them. 
Our Key Educator relationships help children form secure attachments. Educators work closely with smaller groups and individual children to better understand each child. These relationships lead to improved outcomes for children as we foster more communication between families and educators. 
We inform families regularly about their child's progress and welcome family involvement in our centre events and activities.  
At our Bracken Ridge centre, we're proud to inspire your child's love of learning with the support of our passionate and qualified early childhood experts. Teachers with bachelor's degrees run our three and four-year-old kindergarten program, so children can be well on their way to excellent learning outcomes by the time they start school. 
At Goodstart, we believe all children deserve the best possible start in life, which includes access to high-quality early childhood education and care. We offer:  
We work closely with parents to ensure the individual needs, interests and strengths of children are considered, and our learning goals reflect them. Using Storypark, a wonderful communication platform, we stay in close touch with families and ensure you're well informed about your child's development and achievements. 
Click here to book your tour or call our Family Services team to find out more on 1800 222 543. 

I have been in the industry over 10years now, starting as a Casual Educator and progressing my way up to the Centre Director role. I am honoured to be the Centre Director here at Goodstart Bracken Ridge as I have a family with 2 children and understand the everyday processes for families as do all our Educators. Therefore, our main aim is to support our families on this journey and be the second part of your family to help make this transition in life easier and enjoyable.
We strive to achieve a high standard at Goodstart Bracken Ridge so our children can achieve and thrive in a supportive, engaging, and dedicated environment. Children’s voices are the reason we can achieve success and to support and nurture this is our privilege and pleasure.
We welcome you to come and meet our team of passionate Educators at Bracken Ridge and share how we can support your family on this journey.

At Bracken Ridge, 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.

At Bracken Ridge, 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.

6:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Friday

6:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Friday

6:00am to 6:00pm, Monday to Friday