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Erina Kindergarten

Erina Kindergarten

361 Terrigal Drive, Erina, NSW, 2250 view map
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5.0
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(02) 4367 7285

Care Type:

Long Day Care

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7am to 6pm

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361 Terrigal Drive, Erina, NSW, 2250

5.0

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Staff have been amazing with my 3 year old lots of animals to engage with and a beautiful gardens with herbs and veg. Great experiences absolutely love it

- beckii zarb

About Erina Kindergarten

Erina kindergarten offers long day care for children from 6 weeks to 5 years, providing a nuturing environment that has been part of the Central coast community for over 60 years. Our service has an exceeding rating of care. We are a family owned privately owned provider who has owned and operated the service for the past 30 years. Our exceeding program emphasises early childhood development through play based learning, fostering social, emotional, cognitive skills, & a school readiness program. Parents can expect a focus on individual attentition and a supportive atmosphere, aimed at preparing children for their transition to school. Our experienced team ensure a safe and engaging space for young learners.

Early experiences and environment shape and influence your children and prepare them for their futures. By providing an exceeding level care and a nurturing environment we build on your children’s home experiences and work closely with our families to provide a fun learning environment with a holistic approach to reading, writing, numeracy, environmental awareness and sustainability.

Nurturing - Your children will enjoy a happy and caring environment set in a beautiful bushland setting. Our staff love the journey they undertake with each child

Development - Your children can play and learn in a safe, caring environment where they are nurtured and encouraged to explore many different activities

Early Learning - We have a thorough program of play based early learning activities in literacy and numeracy that helps prepare your children for their transition to 'Big School' with confidence

Awareness - Our holistic learning approach incorporates healthy eating plans and various interactive gardening activities. Your children will learn real life skills about self sufficiency.

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Services Provided by Erina Kindergarten

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Exceeding rating of education and care

Our Erina service is rated by our governing body as exceeding the rating of care in both education and care. Our care is committed to providing high-quality, engaging experiences that foster learning, creativity, and social development. We continue to exceed our practices by constantly seeking feedback from our children, our families, our team and our community to continue to improve and exceed the seven standards of care and practice. We are proud to share that our center is committed to exceeding the standards set by the department of education. We strive to provide the best for your children, and your feedback is crucial in our journey.

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Our service has extensive outdoor and individual play areas according to age group

Our beautiful service at Erina is located on over an one acre of land and we have individual age grouped rooms and play yards for each age group including our babies room - 6 weeks to 5 years, our two toddler rooms 2-3 years, and we have our 4 preschool rooms for our older children aged 3-5 years. All our rooms are designed and created according to each age group and have their own individual large play yards as well as extensive gardens, chickens, parrots and sustainability areas for our worm farms. We offer a sustainability program that allows the children to learn about sustainability practices, care for animals and learn about plants and gardening as well as insects and the importance of bees! We even have our own native bee hive! We teach the children how to care for our environment through our learning program and through regular incursions and excursions to our local community.

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Family owned and operated for over 60 years

Our service has been family owned and operated for over 60 years. Erina kindergarten was the first childcare to be established on the coast and has been family owned and operated for over 60 years. We pride ourselves on being family owned and operated and we take great care in providing our community with a family atmosphere that is both welcoming, inclusive and engaging. We engage in lots of local community events and work with many local community organisations and we enjoy playing a very active role in our local community as a long standing community based long day care service at Erina. Our management team has been with our community for a long period of time and we are committed to continuing to be actively involved in our local community and continuing to strengthen our local community relationships with our families, children and local community.

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Exceeding program

Our service has a comprehensive indoor and outdoor program. Our educational curriculum is packed with activities linked to school sustainability, wellness, science, art, physical activity, mathematics and literacy. We offer a comprehensive monthly school readiness program. The children participate in regularly incursions and excursions to the local community including excursions to local aged care services, the library, at to local businesses including play gyms, recycling facilities and also to local shops. These outings encourage curiosity about the importance of our local community.

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$125 /day

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$125 /day

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$125 /day

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$120 /day

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Erina Kindergarten Reviews (26)

5.0

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Maddie Smith

Sep, 2024

The best centre on the coast! The educators are always so attentive to our families needs. Mel is a great director always helpful nothing is ever bother. The grounds are beautiful lots of outdoor space including gardens & even animals! Highly recommend!!

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beckii zarb

Aug, 2024

Staff have been amazing with my 3 year old lots of animals to engage with and a beautiful gardens with herbs and veg. Great experiences absolutely love it

Response from the owner 22 Mar 2026

Thank you, so much for your review. We appreciate your feedback & support. We will pass onto our amazing team at Erina Kindergarten. We really enjoy engaging in the beautiful gardens with our students. Thank you so much for providing your kind words.

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Evie Brown

Jul, 2024

Truely amazing childcare centre with caring, great wonderful staff. We have two children who attend the kindy. and communication to families is brilliant & we always feel we are well informed about both our children’s day. I cannot recommend this centre enough, care is outstanding. The facilities are truly outstanding.<br>The amount of events that are held throughout the year are just so great especially Easter, Halloween & Christmas celebrations. We are so glad that the annual centre Christmas party has recommenced at EV church it was wonderful to meet all the families. We have made many friends at Erina kindergarten.

Response from the owner 22 Mar 2026

Thank you, Evie for your wonderful feedback much appreciated!

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Enrol in until the end of April and receive $100 credited to your account

Enrol from now until the end of April 2026 and receive $100 credited to your childs account to go towards your childcare fees! Min booking of 2 days per week and must include a Monday or a Friday each week. Terms and conditions apply please speak to our team at Erina kindergarten for more 

How Erina Kindergarten Compares

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Price

Erina Kindergarten

$123

Suburb Average

$137

NQS

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Erina Kindergarten

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Suburb Average

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NQS Rating Breakdown

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Exceeding

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Educational Program and Practice Exceeding
Children's Health and Safety Meeting
Physical environment Exceeding
Staffing Arrangements Meeting
Relationships with children Exceeding
Collaborative partnerships with families and communities Meeting
Governance and leadership Exceeding

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