Kiera Blum

Highly recommend Only About Children Williamstown. Great communication by director, Monique with updated newsletters about children's development, new activities and weekly staffing. Consistency of staffing. All educators are attentive and nurturing. They do a wonderful job in creating a safe and positive environment for our little ones. Michelle and Sashka go above and beyond in helping my son feel welcome and settle in when we first started attending there 2 years ago. Thank you!

My son has been attending Only About Children Williamstown since the start of 2024, and we have been very happy with the care and support from his teachers. Natasha and Michelle have been with him from the beginning and have made a world of difference in his learning and confidence. Michelle, his kindergarten teacher this year, has provided many gardening experiences, which my son especially enjoys, as we love gardening together at home. Monique, the centre director, always greets us with a warm smile and is approachable and supportive whenever we have questions or concerns. Ange, the chef, takes special care to cater to my son’s dietary needs — even going out of her way to buy his favourite blueberry yoghurt. My son feels comfortable attending each day, has formed strong friendships in the Kinder room, and has developed wonderful connections with his teachers.

We were going to enrol our baby here, but backed out after a very unsettling orientation. The environment felt off — unwelcoming, poorly run, and not somewhere we felt comfortable leaving our child. Now, hearing that someone who worked here has been charged with horrific offences against children is absolutely horrifying. It makes me wonder how many red flags were missed or ignored. Families put their trust in centres like this — and that trust has been completely broken

I never bothered to review at the time we were at this center. I simply voted with my feet. I had a standing reminder in my calendar to call other centres in the area every Monday for any new vacancies due to the poor care I observed in the baby and toddler room. In light of the recent allegations I feel other parents need to know how woeful this profit driven company is ahead of considering as a place to send their children. The happy photos they give you on their slick ap are just a facade.

Took me a while to finally write a review as I was trying to forget the trauma. I had to pull my son out of here and change daycare centres about 10 months ago. He was in the nursery room. When we first started with OAC, the educators were amazing but something changed higher up and everyone started dropping like flies over the course of the last 6 months he was there. There was probably 1-2 educators who left per month on average across the 6 months, some we weren’t even notified about at all until we asked what had happened to them… it was hard to talk to the staff as it felt everyone was secretive and walking on eggshells or were not allowed to tell the truth to the families. All these educators were replaced with daily, different casuals who were rude, distant and uninterested in the children. Often there would be only 1-2 educators with the room full of more than 10 children. There was no consistency or familiarity for the children for months as everyone kept coming and going. Even the director and assistant director at the time eventually left and in-fact, there was only 1 original educator left by the end. There was no transparency or comms from the centre and there was a lot of concerned and upset parents. You could tell the last one left was over worked and burnt out and it was obvious there was some huge lack of support from their head office, but everything felt so hush, hush and shady and the lack of upfront transparency and comms was a horrible feeling for us dropping our 1-2yro son into the unknown each day. My son was never truly settled when there for 1 year (it got worse towards the end with all the turbulence) and we always felt that knot in our stomach, trying to convince ourselves it was normal for it to take time (he’s our first) until we pulled the plug and changed his daycare and noticed a change in him almost immediately at his new daycare. During his time there, when tensions were high and there was so much daily unfamiliarity and inconsistency with educators (which was the worst part for us as we know how harmful that is to very young children who need it to feel safe and feel trust and we could feel it everyday in the unsettled and unease of our son), the centre also offered prizes to those who would leave good reviews on google (some of which were actually staff themselves…) which if you scroll back, you can see reviews all written around the same time. It just felt so wrong. I hope OAC HO have built a better support network to those still left at the time and become better at being transparent and honest with families. And I hope for the childrens sake, consistency, familiarity and a routined environment have been implemented as priority. It’s not normal for your babies to be unsettled for months let alone after 1yr so follow what your gut tells you.

OAC Williamstown have really stepped it up lately! My 3 children have all come here over the past 6 years and whilst the carers have always shown so much love, care and warmth toward the children, I feel in 2024 they have really improved and made a big effort on extra curricular activities such as excursions, incursions and regular visits from Happy Feet. Well done OAC on expanding your curriculum to make the days at childcare interesting!

Such attentive and caring educators, the learning happening for the children is evident, inclusive and families are welcomed to provide input. Leadership team have extensive knowledge and provide excellence for the Campus.

Karina and Mel, Ange and the staff in the toddler room are so supportive of the children. They really work hard at creating a safe and supportive environment which is both engaging and fun for the children.

Oac Williamstown an amazing daycare and kindergarten. All the educators are fantastic. My daughter learned a-lot. I’m so happy my daughter is going in such an amazing Childcare. From Karina, Melissa at the front, Ange in the kitchen through to Jasmine and Natasha in the pre- kinder room, the staff are incredible. They are all so personable, professional and knowledgeable.