Fantastic centre. FANTASTIC!! Best in the area. We had to move my daughter from another local centre due to supervision concerns. Thankfully, Star Kids had a vacancy come up at just the right time! The area was large and spacious and the rooms and playground area well set up and maintained. The admin and educators were wonderful, open to my concerns and happy to answer any questions. I left reassured that this was a kind, caring environment for my kindy-aged daughter with lots of available activities and opportunity to explore and for free play.
Since enrolling, we've seen a huge difference in our daughter, not only in her abilities in writing and recognising letters and numbers, but also in coming out of her shell and being less shy around new people. Relatives have commented that she's like a different kid! She's talking about her emotions a lot and working on naming them and associating them with colours and body feelings thanks to planned activities with the educators and Coach Hayden.
In the old centre we were at, the employees always seemed, tired, burned out, even injured, and they had a high staff turnover. Now, we walk in, all the staff are happy and ready to engage with the kids. We love the activities that Miss Chloe sets up in the Kindy room, and we've had nothing but wonderful experiences with Mr Todd, Ms Kirra, and Ms Grace in the kindy room, and Steph (Happy Feet) and Coach Hayden with sports. Even being sent home with markers and laminated sheets for the kids to practice writing their names and seeing staff walking in with new toys and equipment for the rooms - something we'd never experienced before outside of small special-occasion gifts. Having resources sent home had me tearing up and nearly having a "Dobby has a sock" moment. And the event you put on for Mothers Day - holy schmoly! Was the best day for me and Abby.
Communication through the Storypark app is astounding - I always know what is happening, and the staff are always counting the kids and carrying a clipboard to record numbers, so I can rest assured there won't be any instances in this centre of my daughter being forgotten. I wish I had found this centre sooner, as I didn't know just what we were missing and quite how bad the other centre really was (wonderful staff but not looked after) until now. Wish Abby had come here from the start. Thank you so much Star Kids Yamanto for looking after your people, thank you to the owners and management team for providing the resources and support the educators need, and thank you to the wonderful educators and staff for looking after our kids!! The benefits my daughter has received since moving there seriously can't be measured.
Sincerely, a very grateful mum!