Goodstart Early Learning Keilor Village

🌟 Meet the Face Behind the Meals! 🌟

Every day, our children enjoy fresh, nutritious, and delicious meals prepared with care by Michelle.

From warm winter lunches to healthy snacks and special celebration treats, Michelle plays an important role in supporting children's wellbeing and development.

Be sure to say hello when you see them around the Centre! 👋👩‍🍳

Learning Experience – Water Cycle Exploration (Kinder 4)

During Term 1, Kinder 4 children learnt about planting through their excursion experience. While exploring how plants grow, children became curious and began asking questions about where water comes from and how plants receive water. To extend their curiosity and build on their existing knowledge, educators planned a hands-on Water Cycle learning experience.

Through this experience, children will learn about:

The stages of the water cycle – evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.
How water moves through the environment and supports plant growth.
The importance of water for living things.
Observing and predicting changes during simple science experiments.
Developing inquiry skills by asking questions, sharing ideas, and making connections between planting and natural processes.

Children will engage in interactive activities and discussions to deepen their understanding through meaningful, hands-on exploration and investigation.

This month’s staff meeting focused on the March 2026 Family and Team Voice Survey. During the meeting, we reviewed and celebrated the positive feedback and compliments provided by both families and team members. We also discussed the key areas identified for improvement and reflected on how we can strengthen our practices and relationships.

As a team, we collaboratively selected three priority goals based on the feedback from families and staff. These goals will guide our actions and continuous improvement efforts over the coming months. We discussed practical strategies to achieve these goals, assigned responsibilities, and agreed to regularly review our progress to ensure positive outcomes for children, families, and educators.

This process supports a culture of continuous improvement, open communication, and shared responsibility, ensuring that family and team voices are valued and embedded in our daily practice.

Our Nursery Room children enjoyed a community excursion, exploring the world around them. During the walk, the children observed trees, plants, building, cars and people, while experiencing different sounds, sights and weather conditions. These experiences support children's curiosity and help them develop an understanding of the community they belong to.

🍂 Introducing a new autumn warmer to our menu! 🍂

For the colder days ahead, our children will be enjoying a delicious homemade chicken soup served with warm garlic bread. 🥣🥖

We asked the children for their feedback… and they gave it a big thumbs up! 👍😊

To the mums, grandmothers and special carers-thank you for your love, strength, and everything you do every day. Today is all about appreciating you and the beautiful impact you have on your children's lives🩷

Kindergarten Information Session
Dear families,
We would like to invite you to attend our Funded Kindergarten Information Session for 3 & 4 yrs (if your child will turn 3 from April 2027) on the 25/05/2026 from 5.00 pm-6.00 pm. During this session we will discuss the benefits of the Program at Goodstart Keilor Village:

 Play-based learning
 Sessional Kinder vs Keilor Village
 Our curriculum and commitment
 Kindergarten outcomes
 Kindergarten uniform
 Kindergarten funding, eligibility and enrolment
 School readiness