1800 517 042
1800 517 042Address:
199 Newbury Boulevard, Craigieburn, VIC, 3064
Care Type:
Long Day Care, Pre-school
Hours:
6:30AM to 6:30PM
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0-1 years
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$186.50 /day
Your enquiry will be sent directly to the Pelican Childcare Newbury Boulevard.
Address:
199 Newbury Boulevard, Craigieburn, VIC, 3064
Rating Score
We are incredibly grateful to have our son at such a wonderful childcare service. From the moment he started, we have felt so welcomed and reassured knowing he is surrounded by such caring, dedicated and fabulous educators.<br>The educators do an amazing job of making learning fun, engaging and educational. They encourage curiosity, creativity and confidence while giving the children opportunities to explore, discover and learn at their own pace. We especially love the focus on learning through play, which makes every day exciting while helping our son develop important skills, build confidence and discover new interests naturally.
- Steph M
About Pelican Newbury Boulevard Long Daycare and Kindergarten
Welcome to Pelican Newbury Boulevard. We're ideally located for families in Craigieburn, Mickleham, Roxburgh Park and Donnybrook.
Our Long Daycare and Kindergarten Centre provides early education and care for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years.
We provide convenient, full care coverage from 9hr, 10hr or full days, 5 days per week, including school holidays.
Our dedicated, multicultural and longstanding team of Teachers and Educators provide a safe, nurturing, and inspiring learning environment - where your child can thrive, and be their wonderful self, every day.
Getting school ready? We offer the Government-approved Kindergarten program that helps ensure your child has a successful transition to formal schooling.
We offer a great variety of learning experiences at our Centre including:
- Sustainability Program: Helps children develop and understand the importance of embedding sustainable practices into everyday life. Children learn about recycling, conserving water, growing food and the importance of protecting our planet.
- Community Engagement Program: Encourages children to interact with and discover their local community. We often have visits from community services, and we go out on adventures to teach the children about their local environment.
- Music & Movement Program: Designed to develop fundamental skills that help support children’s self-regulation, memory, and concentration. Children learn to appreciate and develop an understanding of music - and of course, have fun.
About Pelican Newbury Boulevard Long Daycare and Kindergarten
Welcome to Pelican Newbury Boulevard. We're ideally located for families in Craigieburn, Mickleham, Roxburgh Park and Donnybrook.
Our Long Daycare and Kindergarten Centre provides early education and care for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years.
We provide convenient, full care coverage from 9hr, 10hr or full days, 5 days per week, including school holidays.
Our dedicated, multicultural and longstanding team of Teachers and Educators provide a safe, nurturing, and inspiring learning environment - where your child can thrive, and be their wonderful self, every day.
Getting school ready? We offer the Government-approved Kindergarten program that helps ensure your child has a successful transition to formal schooling.
We offer a great variety of learning experiences at our Centre including:
- Sustainability Program: Helps children develop and understand the importance of embedding sustainable practices into everyday life. Children learn about recycling, conserving water, growing food and the importance of protecting our planet.
- Community Engagement Program: Encourages children to interact with and discover their local community. We often have visits from community services, and we go out on adventures to teach the children about their local environment.
- Music & Movement Program: Designed to develop fundamental skills that help support children’s self-regulation, memory, and concentration. Children learn to appreciate and develop an understanding of music - and of course, have fun.
State Government Approved Programs
Our Kindergarten program supports children’s learning, development, and well-being, ensuring a confident transition to school.
Our music program supports children’s self-regulation, memory, and concentration while fostering a love and appreciation of music.
Children explore their local community through excursions and visits, helping them build connections and learn about their environment.
Our centre offers the VIC Government-approved ‘Best Start, Best Life’ Kindergarten Program.
At Pelican, your child will benefit from the VIC ‘Best Start, Best Life’ Government-approved program as part of our enhanced learning program. Our program will support your child’s learning, development, and well-being for now, at school and beyond. We tailor our Kindergarten program across:
- Numeracy
- Literacy
- Emotional and Social Development
- Self regulation
- Healthy minds and bodies
The added benefits of our Kindergarten program include:
- VIC ‘Best Start, Best Life’ Government-approved program
- Extended opening hours
- Open all year round (excl public holidays)
- Programs developed and delivered by our Early Childhood Teachers
- Exclusive music and movement program for self-regulation
“Let the child be the scriptwriter, director and the actor in their own play” - Magda Gerber
Nursery Space: 6 weeks – 2 years
Learning starts from before birth, and our Educators have created a welcoming and nurturing nursery environment where each baby feels safe to explore and discover new things - through their senses, their communication and cues (body language, facial expression and sounds) and by experimenting. On any given day you can see the nursery children engaging in all types of play, water play, music time, story time and more. Every day provides a brand new, exciting adventure for our babies to support their development, learning and wellbeing!
Toddler Space: 2 - 3 years
Our teachers and educators encourage the children to learn through play to help enhance their sensory-motor development. This happens through carefully planned music, dance, games and reading experiences.
On any given day the Toddler children can be seen developing their numeracy by building a tower, sorting objects, pointing and identifying shapes and patterns and participating in counting songs and games.
Children in our toddler space are encouraged to participate in group play. Group play is important as it helps our toddlers develop important social skills such as, turn taking, developing self confidence and emotional self regulation. Our team helps children through talking, planning and role modelling.
Kindergarten Space: 3 – 6 years
Kindergarten is a unique time for learning with peers and developing skills for later learning including confidence and curiosity, important skills for starting school. Our play-based program encourages active engagement in learning and supports a range of positive developmental outcomes including resilience, independence, critical thinking and creativity.
The oral language supports literacy learning. A child’s oral language ability is the best predictor for later success in learning to read and write. Hearing the sounds within a language is the first critical step for all literacy learning. Our team supports our Kindergarten children's development by engaging in rich discussions, introducing new vocabulary as part of everyday conversations, as well as singing, playing games, and reading with the children daily.
Throughout the Kindergarten year,children use their language to share ideas, ask questions, express themselves, and connect with peers and adults in social settings.
Social-emotional skills, including the ability to self-regulate emotions, is supported through group learning environments. Our team supports each child’s social and emotional development by labelling and talking about emotions and supporting appropriate responses as together, they engage in new and challenging situations. Lastly, ensuring that all children are ready for the ‘big school’ by preparing them for all that ‘big school’ has to offer.
Morning
Imogen is 11 months old and enjoys sensory play outside in the sandpit with her friends. She sits near her educator who helps teach her how to scoop the sand into the bucket. Imogen is learning how to dig, carry, and move the sand. She is also exploring texture and learning what happens to the sand when she adds water!
Lunch
Imogen has finished her lunch and is preparing to take a nap. Her educator changes her nappy, prepares a bottle and reads Imogen a story before her afternoon sleep.
Afternoon
Imogen and some of her nursery friends enjoy some story time and songs outside in the shaded garden. They read ‘Peepo’ which is Imogen’s favourite book.
Morning
Lazurus is two and a half years old and loves to start his day at the centre outside on the climbing equipment. His friends join him, and together they pretend to be pirates on a ship looking for treasure. Through this exciting dramatic play, Lazurus is learning about himself and the world around him. Dramatic play is helping Lazurus identify his interests, abilities, likes and dislikes.
Lunch
Lazurus is watering the vegetables in the garden. By doing this, Lazurus is learning the importance of growing and caring for the veggies in the garden. Lazurus picks a tomato from the garden, which the Chef will use to help make Lazurus and his friend’s lunch - Spaghetti Bolognese!
Afternoon
Lazurus enjoys art, and today he is painting a beach scene from a recent family holiday. He adds the finishing touches and sets the painting aside to dry; so that he can take it home to share with his family.
While painting, Lazurus is learning how to express himself creatively and how to convey his ideas and emotions. Painting is also helping develop Lazurus’s hand eye coordination, finger, wrist and hand strength. Making marks on paper is important for self expression as well as later learning.
Morning
Indiana is almost five years old and can’t wait for today’s carpentry experience - she loves building things! Carpentry experiences allow Indiana and her friends to extend their learning through real-life experiences. While participating in carpentry, Indiana is learning to problem solve, experiment and predict. She is also improving her hand eye coordination, manipulative skills and muscular strength.
Lunch
Before Indiana sits down for lunch with her friends and educators, Indiana takes part in the centre’s sports program. Indiana loves sports. Sports helps Indiana improve her flexibility and strength (perfect for growing bodies!). Sports also allows her to practice different skills in a fun and engaging way.
Afternoon
Indiana is off to ‘big school’ next year and she can't wait to start! Indiana and her friends will be visiting the local primary school next week. In preparation for the visit, the class is creating a list of questions to ask the Principal and school children.
Our centre chef prepares and cooks healthy and nutritious meals daily, catering to the unique dietary requirements of every child. We believe that by encouraging active participation (such as growing their own fruit and vegetables, preparing, and finally cooking!) children learn to appreciate and understand the importance of healthy eating.
Our centre offers children nutrient-rich, unprocessed, and seasonal whole foods – created to delight the fussiest eaters.
Hi, my name is Sarah, and I am the Centre Manager here at Pelican Newbury Boulevard. My passion is creating a safe, nurturing environment where children can grow, learn, and reach their fullest potential.
I have worked in the early childhood sector since 2002 and joined the Newbury Boulevard centre in 2025. My career began in before and after school care before I joined our sister centre – Pelican Craigieburn in 2006 as a Lead Educator, later progressing into Assistant Centre Manager roles and, in 2025, Centre Manager. Throughout my career, I have developed a strong passion for children’s learning and wellbeing, and I believe every child’s learning journey is unique. Building strong, respectful partnerships between families and educators is central to my approach, as children thrive when they feel supported, understood, and secure.
My passion is creating a safe, nurturing environment where children can grow, learn, and reach their fullest potential. I enjoy sharing with families the social, emotional, and learning benefits of early childhood education, including independence, self-regulation, language development, and peer relationships, and the lifelong foundations these early experiences provide.
I am proud to work alongside a dedicated and long-standing team of educators, many of whom have worked in early childhood education for many years. Our team reflects the diversity of the local community, with a strong range of languages and cultural backgrounds represented, which enriches our learning environment.
Supporting families begins from the very first tour. I take the time to understand each family’s needs and what they are looking for in early childhood education and care, provide guidance on how the Child Care Subsidy works, and explain what their child’s learning journey will look like. Families are encouraged to participate in settling-in sessions before their child’s start date to support a positive and confident transition into care. We continue to build open, respectful relationships with families through regular face-to-face conversations and our family communication app, working in partnership to support each child and family.
I look forward to welcoming your family to Pelican Newbury Boulevard Early Education Centre in Craigieburn.
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Based on 27 Reviews
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Steph M
We are incredibly grateful to have our son at such a wonderful childcare service. From the moment he started, we have felt so welcomed and reassured knowing he is surrounded by such caring, dedicated and fabulous educators.<br>The educators do an amazing job of making learning fun, engaging and educational. They encourage curiosity, creativity and confidence while giving the children opportunities to explore, discover and learn at their own pace. We especially love the focus on learning through play, which makes every day exciting while helping our son develop important skills, build confidence and discover new interests naturally.
Bhawana Rai
We are very happy with our experience at Pelican Childcare Newbury. The educators are caring, supportive and genuinely take the time to make the children feel safe, happy and welcomed.<br><br>My child enjoys going to childcare and has developed so much since starting here. I really appreciate the love, care and dedication the educators show every day.<br><br>Thank you to the whole team for creating such a wonderful and welcoming environment. Highly recommended! ⭐️
Francesca888 8
My son has been coming to this centre for almost 4 years. I highly recommend. The educators have always made difficult morning drop offs so easy with the extra love and care shown to my son who is clingy to me. I have seen a complete transformation with my son. The love, care and nurture from the educators and centre management has been so wonderful. My son absolutely loves going to kinder. I completely trust all the staff here that my beautiful boy is in the best care. Great communication always and I just need to say a huge thankyou for all the patience you have had with us and all the time and extra care you have shown to my son as he is a very active and bubbly little boy and you all have had a positive influence in his growth, his learning skills and empathy toward other children. This will be his last year and honestly we will be so sad to leave as this wonderful centre has been like our second family, but we are so happy and confident that our little boy will be ready for primary school. I'll be sure to pop in and say hi from time to time. Best wishes Pelican Newbury. You all are amazing individuals. 💕
Mawa Kamara
We absolutely love Pelican Childcare Newbury. I have one child in the 4-year-old kinder room and another in nursery, and the care they receive has been amazing. My four-year-old has truly come out of his shell since starting kinder. His confidence, social skills, and overall development have grown so much, and it’s clear how much effort the educators put into supporting him as an individual. My one-year-old has been attending since he was 9 months old, and the transition was made exceptionally easy. He has eczema, and the team go above and beyond to follow his care procedures and ensure he’s comfortable and well looked after at all times. As a parent, that level of care and attention gives me so much peace of mind. A special thank you to both Sarahs, Chelsey, and Deepika — you are all truly incredible and make such a difference to our children’s lives. We’re so grateful to be part of this centre and couldn’t recommend Pelican Childcare Newbury more highly.
Gagandeep Singh
Amazing staff members, very respectful and informative. My little one loves to go there and has developed skillsets very quickly. Thanks to engaging staff who make education fun for children. Highly recommend the centre and staff.
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