We are so happy with the care our children receive here. Both of our young kids attend, and it gives us real peace of mind knowing they are safe, happy, and genuinely cared for every day. The educators are wonderful — kind, attentive, and always coming up with engaging, creative activities that our kids love. It’s clear how much thought and effort goes into creating a nurturing and stimulating environment. We feel very lucky to be part of this community and highly recommend this childcare to other families.
Magda

I am extremely pleased with the exceptional standard of care provided by The Family Tree Atwell Childcare Centre. From the beginning, the team has demonstrated professionalism, warmth, and genuine dedication to each child's well-being. The educators are consistently supportive, attentive, and understanding, which has made a significant and positive impact on our family’s experience.
My son, Lucas, has been attending the centre since the age of one, and over the past year, he has truly thrived. He truly enjoys the daily meals, the planned activities, and the nurturing interactions he receives from all the educators. It is evident that the staff take great pride in creating a safe, engaging, and welcoming environment.
The centre’s strong family oriented approach has made every transition smooth and reassuring. Knowing that Lucas is cared for by such a dedicated and compassionate team gives me complete peace of mind.
I highly recommend The Family Tree Atwell Childcare Centre to any family seeking a caring, supportive, and enriching early learning environment.
Catherine

Centre Philosophy
Our Vision
To provide quality care and education in a warm, nurturing and safe environment.
Our Mission
To create a friendly home away from home atmosphere.
We value
Our Individual children, families and team voice and cultural diversity.
Our Goals
To provide reflective programs centred on the Early Years of Learning through play.
Our objectives
To provide an environment where each child feels they belong, where they will develop in all areas and be equipped with the necessary skills for life.
The Child
We believe that each child is a wonderfully unique and capable learner.
As an advocate for children, we will be guided by the child ensuring that each child is loved, nurtured, encouraged and given choices.
Children will be supported in a safe, secure, warm and welcoming environment, where each child can be happy, flourish and grow at their own pace.
Children will be provided with consistency and structure through routines and interactions, promoting self-help skills, giving emotional guidance and supporting them to self-regulate their emotions.
The Curriculum
Will be based on learning through play, it will be child-centred, engaging, stimulating, challenging and inclusive.
We will support and extend on the children’s interest and knowledge relevant to their development and abilities.
We will provide safe and secure environments where children can have fun, express themselves and grow to their full potential.
We will maintain a standard of excellence through our educational program, principles and practices embedding the Early Years Learning Framework and National Quality Standards.
Through critical reflection, we will foster a sense of belonging, being and becoming into our everyday practices, whilst ensuring that cultural responsiveness is embedded as part of our curriculum.
Our Educators
We recognise that our team is the foundation for providing high quality education and care for children.
We value our team, our team is based on respect, together we are friendly, committed, enthusiastic and professional educators.
We believe that everyone is important regardless of their job title, role and cultural diversity.
We have a heart of compassion and empathy, working holistically to deliver best practice and quality education and care.
We value supporting and learning from each other, being respectful, open, and honest, complementing each other's strengths and supporting areas of growth.
Through interactions, feedback and professional development opportunities we will refine our skills and continuously strive for improvement.
Partnership with families
We value and believe that our children and families come first.
We will create a caring, respectful environment that treats everyone equitably.
We will strive to build strong and meaningful relationships, recognising families as children’s first teachers, ensuring respectful communication and collaboration between educators, children and families.
Community
We believe it takes a village to raise a child our practices are shaped by meaningful engagement with families and the community.
We will partner with professionals from local support agencies collaborating to strengthen our knowledge and capabilities to support our children and families further.
We would love to embrace our community through everyday practices to include and celebrate cultural responsiveness, therefore we will participate in local, national, and global events that are inclusive of all cultures and families enhancing strong connections.
We will incorporate incursions into our curriculum and provide information and workshops to support parenting and family well-being.
We will promote our partnerships verbally, visually and through the use of social media.
Sustainability
We will respect our environment and the land on which the centre is built on.
We will encourage our children to respect our resources, plants and gardens.
We will implement sustainable practices with our team, children, and families by encouraging the use of recyclable and reusable resources.
We will encourage our families to participate in donating resources and we will use these resources / loose parts in our everyday educational practice, advocating in not wasting resources and giving things a second use.
We will ensure that our environment remains safe, secure and clean.
Reflection and Development
We have a passion and drive for continuous improvement, where our service will consistently critically reflect as individuals and as part of our team on centre policies procedures and practices.
We believe that having a cycle of reflection will allow us to continuously evolve and grow as individuals, as a team and as a family.
This will enable us to nurture children with love, care and respect in accordance with the National quality standards, centre policies and procedures and our embedded Centre Philosophy.