Service manager

Mia is the service manager at Oakleigh Early Learning Journey and has had extensive experience in the early childhood education and care sector. Mia’s passion for early childhood education and care stemmed from recognising the impact of the early years through her initial teacher education degree. Mia has managed services for privately owned operators, corporate operators. Mia has obtained a range of qualifications in the field and undertaken empirical research in early childhood education and care. This strong background has provided Mia with the opportunity to operate this service with the vision to provide your child with the best start to their early childhood years. Mia is a strong advocate for upholding young children’s rights and ensuring that each child is safe, happy and active learner who deserves optimal learning experiences to thrive and develop a strong sense of self and overall wellbeing.

Our Educators

Our dedicated educators have obtained the required qualifications to deliver valuable teaching and learning experiences through the most effective approaches to practice stemming from current empirical and theoretical knowledge in the field.

Our Educators take part in professional development programs to ensure they keep well-informed with current developments and research in the field of early childhood education and care. They hold current CPR and First Aid certificates, and adhere to the Education and Care Services National Law and the Education and Care Services National Regulations to maintain high quality practices and compliance.

Our Educators are fully-qualified leaders in the early childhood sector, ensuring your child receives learning opportunities that extends their learning and development. Our educational programs are based on the Early Years Framework for Australia and the Victorian Early Years Learning and Developmental Framework.Through the delivery of our play-based educational programs, our educators strive to support your child to be ready for the real world and to instil a lifelong love for learning.

Our curriculum promotes learning across all key areas in a holistic manner – children are provided with the opportunity engage in experience that develop their literacy, numeracy, science, music, art, sensory play, cultural competence and technology, wellbeing and sustainability.

Our approach to curriculum planning is supported by research that has established that from birth children are born ready to learn and begin to discriminate between language sounds within the first months of life. Given this basis, Our educators place your child at the heart of the learning and each children’s strengths and interests are utilised as stimulus for learning. All of the rooms in our service devise holistic educational programs that follow the children’s emerging interests and provide children with the opportunity to engage in a range of experiences that stimulates their learning.

We believe healthy meals, drinks and eating habits contributes to children’s growth and development. Establishing healthy eating habits from an early age sets the tone for lifelong health and wellbeing. At Oakleigh Early Learning Journey children enjoy wholesome breakfasts, morning teas, lunch, afternoon tea and late snacks.

All our menus are designed to meet the recommended criteria of the Australian Dietary Guidelines & the National Quality Standards. Providing a minimum of 50% of the RDI of all nutrients required for each day in care.

Our delicious, nutritionally balanced menu is prepared and cooked by an experienced chef. Every day fresh, nutritious homemade meals are prepared to support children’s wellbeing. Our chef focuses on smells, textures, and flavours, appropriate to the developmental stages of each age group. Creating a wonderful, delicious range of meals and learning opportunities.

Catering for Individual Requirements

We understand that children may have very specific food requirements due to various factors; for example, allergies, food intolerances, cultural background, or other family preferences. As part of our menu planning process, we work in collaboration with all of our families to ensure that their individual child’s dietary requirements are met whilst attending our service.