(08) 9509 9142
(08) 9509 9142Address:
24 Clarkshill Road, Secret Harbour, WA, 6173
Care Type:
Long Day Care, Pre-school
Hours:
6:30AM to 6:30PM
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Address:
24 Clarkshill Road, Secret Harbour, WA, 6173
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We are conveniently located for families in or commuting through Secret Harbour, Golden Bay, Karnup, Singleton and Lakelands area. Many of our Children go on to attend local schools such as Secret Harbour Primary School, supporting a smooth transition to school.
We offer nurturing care and quality early education for children from 6 weeks to 6 years, with flexible hours (9, 10, 11, and 12-hour sessions) to suit busy families.
Our Learning Environments
Our children benefit from familiar faces as they grow, creating a sense of continuity:
We’re proud to have qualified teachers and educators, supported by a team of national education experts, ensuring the highest quality childcare and early education.
Innovative Early Learning Programs
Our teachers deliver the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF or the national curriculum) through play-based learning that covers language, literacy, numeracy, STEM, social, and emotional development. Our program also includes:
We focus on strong family partnerships through regular learning and development conversations with your child’s lead educator, learning showcases, and in-centre family events. Our Xplor app provides real-time updates and learning summaries daily to keep you informed on your child’s journey.
We are conveniently located for families in or commuting through Secret Harbour, Golden Bay, Karnup, Singleton and Lakelands area. Many of our Children go on to attend local schools such as Secret Harbour Primary School, supporting a smooth transition to school.
We offer nurturing care and quality early education for children from 6 weeks to 6 years, with flexible hours (9, 10, 11, and 12-hour sessions) to suit busy families.
Our Learning Environments
Our children benefit from familiar faces as they grow, creating a sense of continuity:
We’re proud to have qualified teachers and educators, supported by a team of national education experts, ensuring the highest quality childcare and early education.
Innovative Early Learning Programs
Our teachers deliver the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF or the national curriculum) through play-based learning that covers language, literacy, numeracy, STEM, social, and emotional development. Our program also includes:
We focus on strong family partnerships through regular learning and development conversations with your child’s lead educator, learning showcases, and in-centre family events. Our Xplor app provides real-time updates and learning summaries daily to keep you informed on your child’s journey.
At our centre, your child will benefit from our enhanced learning program in Kindergarten, combined with our play-based learning approach. Our program supports your child’s development, emotional wellbeing, and in turn, school readiness
If your child turns 4 years old by June 30, they can attend Kindergarten at our centre. Our program offers the convenience of extended hours year-round, making it easy for families to access quality early education.
Our Enhanced Learning Program for Kindergarten children focuses on:
With extended hours and a year-round program (excluding public holidays), our Kindergarten program is delivered by qualified Early Childhood Teachers committed to supporting your child’s individual development.
Additional Benefits Include:
We also engage with local schools and provide transition statements, ensuring your child feels confident and prepared for the next steps in their education journey. Stay connected with your child’s progress via our Xplor platform, which offers regular updates on their learning and development.
“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 through experimentation. On any given day you can see the nursery children engaging in all types of play including sensory 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, role playing and reading experiences.
On any given day the Toddlers 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 skilled 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 has school readiness at its core, encouraging active engagement in learning and supporting a range of positive developmental outcomes including resilience, independence, critical thinking and creativity.
The oral language supports literacy learning and 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 literacy development by engaging in rich discussions, reading, storytelling, dramatic play and experimentation all of which introduce new vocabulary as part of everyday conversations.
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, are supported through group learning experiences. 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. Our goal in the Kindergarten year is to prepare children and families for a smooth transition to primary school.
Morning
Jesse 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. Jesse 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
Jesse has finished her lunch and is preparing to take a nap. Her educator changes her nappy, prepares a bottle and reads Jesse a story before her afternoon sleep.
Afternoon
Jesse and some of her nursery friends enjoy some story time and songs outside in the shaded garden. They read ‘Peepo’ which is Jesse’s favourite book.
Morning
Nick 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, Nick is learning about himself and the world around him. Dramatic play is helping Nick identify his interests, abilities, likes and dislikes.
Lunch
Nick is watering the vegetables in the garden. By doing this, Nick is learning the importance of growing and caring for the veggies in the garden. Nick picks a tomato from the garden, which the Chef will use to help make Nick and his friend’s lunch - Spaghetti Bolognese!
Afternoon
Nick 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, Nick is learning how to express himself creatively and how to convey his ideas and emotions. Painting is also helping develop Nick’s hand eye coordination, finger, wrist and hand strength. Making marks on paper is important for self expression as well as later learning.
Morning
Daniela is almost five years old and can’t wait for today’s carpentry experience - she loves building things! Carpentry experiences allow Daniela and her friends to extend their learning through real-life experiences. While participating in carpentry, Daniela is learning to problem solve, experiment and predict. She is also improving her hand eye coordination, manipulative skills and muscular strength.
Lunch
Before Daniela sits down for lunch with her friends and educators, Daniela takes part in the centre’s sports program. Daniela loves sports. Sports helps Daniela improve her flexibility and strength (perfect for growing bodies!). Sports also allows her to practice different skills in a fun and engaging way.
Afternoon
Daniela is off to ‘big school’ next year and she can't wait to start! Daniela 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 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 across a wide variety of food.
Our centre offers seasonal whole food-based menus – created to delight the fussiest eaters.
Want to see the centre first hand? Book a tour with Great Beginnings Secret Harbour below.
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Tayla Weymouth
First I just want to say a huge THANK YOU to the educators and new management at GBSH I just wanted to share my appreciation and experience with GBSH. I enrolled my kids just over a year ago one into the toddler room and 1 into kindy room. This was our first experience with daycare after returning to work. We did a walkthrough to check the centre out before we started, we had a wonderful experience with the educator giving us a run down of how it all works and making us feel super comfortable with our decision. The first few months were a mixture of good and bad experiences it was more for me todo with the high turn around with staff but ultimately I never felt that my children’s education was affected by this. My son was very shy prior to his enrolment, he has made wonderful friends with the kids and has really come out of his shell. I found since the centre has come under new management Jess has made a HUGEEE impact to the centre and has really turned it around. They are super accommodating to our kids needs and have been wonderful with allowing day changes when needed due to changes in work. I recently went through the process of ending care for my son as he started kindy this year and it was such a simple process, but he was really sad to go he loves going in and dropping his sister off and seeing everyone still at pick up time. My daughter continues to go to GBSH, she loves it and I couldn’t thank the educators at this centre enough, my daughter absolutely loves going to “school” here and I feel like she is thriving from it! I also really love the daily updates, especially with toilet training we’ve been able to continue our toilet training from home and it’s followed into the centre which has been a really positive impact for her. The level of care the educators really show towards my kids has been nothing short of amazing I couldn’t recommend themenough and I am so glad we have been apart of the centre journey as it has really improved in the most recent months. Thank you again for all you do 🫶🏻
Ruby Rose
I had a really terrible experience with staff here. A majority of the staff are very rude and I caught the team leader yelling at a child one day when I came to pick my son up early. The staff made little to no effort to action any care requests for my son who is autistic, they never made the effort to include him in activities or update daily photos of him like they did with the other kids. I felt like my son was like left to play by himself mostly, he never came home having learnt anything new. My son actually developed alot of anxiety over attending daycare, to the point where I couldn't take him anywhere without him crying "no school, no school!" I had typed up a huge review detailing all my terrible experiences here and what ultimately led me to cancelling my sons care here but it literally exceeded the character limit. I tried to talk to management about my concerns before and after I cancelled my sons care here, I also called the area manager and left a voice message but they never got back to me. They are not really interested in taking on feedback from parents to improve the service and experience, they just deny and deflect. My son and I are still recovering from our terrible ordeal at this Centre. Read the reviews, and don't send your kids here!
Tai Ramdohr
Unfortunately can’t recommend this centre to others. My 2 sons attended for roughly a year and a half, there were new centre managers every few months while we were there (one lasting barely a month). The high staff turn over is ridiculous and my children were in hysterics at drop off every morning (while staff stood and stared at me until I asked for help.) Only to find out that staff were shouting at my 1.5 year old, which explains the distress at drop off. Overall, majority of staff were unfriendly and the care was not great at all. My children have been at a new centre for 4 months now and have no issues with drop off whatsoever and always come home happy. A few of the staff were friendly but a lot showed little to no enthusiasm for their job. Among other issues, I was not happy with the overall care given at this centre.
Hi Tai, at Great Beginnings our family and community members feedback is very important to us. We would like to address your concerns further and have passed on your feedback to our team, who will endeavour to contact you. Kind regards, The Great Beginnings Team.
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