Goodstart Watsonia

Join our happy little community!

Our beautiful centre on Devonshire road is now OPEN!

The best way to see our facilities, meet the team and explore how we can support your child’s early learning journey, is to book a tour. Please email enrolments@goodstart.org.au to express your interest.

Our purpose-built centre provides much-needed care for local families. Featuring six large and spacious learning spaces all on a single level and leading directly off to the playground.

All age-based learning spaces have direct access to our outdoor nature-based designed play space, with sensory gardens, mud kitchen, earth pits, dry creek beds leading to two large sandpits. Our beautiful outdoor dining hub provides a dedicated space for meals with our onsite kitchen with child-height servery allows our cook to serve and engage our children in cooking and preparing meals.

Our early learning programs cater to each child's stage of development, from six weeks of age to Kindergarten-aged children. Curriculum is based on the Early Years Learning Framework and is tailored to your child's individual interests. 

Our family lounge is also available for our families to access during our opening hours - we welcome our families to take a moment to enjoy a complimentary tea or coffee.

Meals are cooked onsite in our commercial kitchen by our qualified chef and prepared fresh each day - meals include a light breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and a late snack.

We invite you to book a tour and take a look around, meet the team and explore how we can support your child’s early learning journey. We look forward to welcoming you and your family! 

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Learning: 
Our centre has eight separate and spacious age-based learning spaces, including a nursery, a toddler learning space, three-year-old and four-year-old and kindergarten. 

In all our rooms, from Nursery to Kindergarten, our educational program and practices are set-up in line with the Victorian Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standards.

Through sensory and play-based learning we offer your child the highest level of early education, while supporting and promoting their individual needs, interests, and strengths.

The Team: 
Our Team is passionate, caring, qualified and participate in professional development programs.

Additional Activities

Your child will get to participate in extracurricular activities throughout the year. 

We use the Storypark app to send you updates, photos, videos, and messages while your child is at our centre.

To foster our relationship with our local community, we participate in community events and celebrations which also enrich the learning experience. 

At Goodstart your child will receive a hat, t-shirt, meals, and snacks (we supply nappies for your baby too.)

We look forward to meeting you soon!