Casa Bambini Coburg

Spacious and resource rich environments

Casa Bambini Coburg is designed to be a home away from home that encourages every child’s exploration. The resource-rich early learning environments at our child care centre have been carefully designed to immerse your child into a world of exploration, curiosity, and learning.

Each learning space extends onto our beautiful outdoor environment, which encourages endless ways and opportunities for play! Our three spacious outdoor environments include a large slide, shaded sandpits and play equipment for children to safely develop their strength, balance, and self-confidence through play. Our purpose-built indoor spaces including interactive whiteboards and natural resources that are designed to encourage open-ended discovery through play-based learning experiences.

Dedicated and passionate team of educators

Our team of passionate educators make up the heart of our Coburg child care centre. We know each child has unique talents and interests. Our experienced early childhood educators are passionate about helping every child succeed in discovering their identity and become confident, happy and resilient learners. We are a multicultural early learning centre with several languages being spoken across our team including Mandarin, French, Bengali, Urdu and Hindi.

Delicious, healthy meals provided daily

Our Coburg child care centre provides children with nutrient-rich, fresh and seasonal whole foods created to please even the fussiest of eaters. We cater to the unique dietary requirements of every child.

We look forward to partnering with you and your family to provide information, support, and high-quality early education and care in your child’s formative years. Contact our Family Support Team to start your journey today.

Play is essential to every child’s learning and development. It enables children to make decisions, learn, take risks, and have fun. At our Coburg child care centre, our experienced team plan play-based learning activities in line with national standards. The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) is designed to engage in your child’s interests and allow them to experience each day in a new way, supporting their learning in the lead-up to primary school.

Our Early Learning Curriculum also provides children with:

• Real Life experiences: Children participate in fun and exciting experiences such as woodworking, harvesting the veggie garden, caring for our worm farm and basic cooking skills.
• Sustainability Program: Each age group participates in a sustainability project that help children embed sustainable practices into everyday life. Children learn about recycling, conserving water, growing food and the importance of looking after and protecting our planet.
• Community engagement activities: We often have visits from local community librarians, local police, and other community services in Coburg to help familiarise the children with their local community. We also have excursions to our local park Moomba Park and St Marks Catholic Parish Primary School to assist our Kindergarten children with their transition to ‘big school’.
• Sports Program: This weekly program is designed to encourage activity and movement, while helping children develop their motor skills.

Tahira

I began my career in early childhood education in 2011, and I started at Casa Bambini Coburg in 2021. I hold a Diploma in Children’s Services and an Advanced Diploma in Community Sector Management.

There’s nothing more rewarding than watching a child learn with passion and wonder. I believe children are confident and capable learners, and we need to facilitate their learning by providing activities and experiences that are engaging and extend their interests. I am keen to make a positive impact in every child’s life at our child care centre.

I believe that a child will learn most effectively when they are interested, inspired, curious and supported. Our educators encourage questions and assist children in finding the answers they seek.

My team at Casa Bambini Coburg are professional and nurturing. We support and build a good relationship with our families through meaningful daily conversations, providing regular updates on their child’s progress, listening to their feedback and actioning it.

Book a tour today to experience the Casa Bambini difference. We can’t wait to meet you and embark on this exciting journey with your family.

Rooms

Nursery room (0 – 15 months)

Our Nursery room provides:

• A safe and secure environment that feels like a home away from home
• Highly qualified and nurturing educators who care deeply about children’s wellbeing and growth
• Activities designed to enhance physical and cognitive development, including tummy time, sensory play, music, singing, rhymes and reading

Senior Nursery room (15 months – 20 months)

Our Senior Nursery room provides:

• A safe and secure environment that feels like a home away from home
• Highly qualified and nurturing educators who care deeply about children’s wellbeing and growth
• Activities designed to enhance physical and cognitive development, including tummy time, sensory play, music, singing, rhymes and reading
• Opportunities for children to explore literacy and numeracy through real-life experiences

Junior Toddler room (21 months – 26 months)

Our Junior Toddler room offers:

• The development of self-help skills to encourage independence
• Play-based activities including music, movement, memory and construction games that are designed to support sensory-motor and cognitive development
• Enhanced social skills and self-confidence through group play
• The development of language skills through reading, music and social activities

Senior Toddler room (26 months – 3 years)

Our Senior Toddler room offers:

• Play-based activities including music, movement, memory and construction games that are designed to support sensory-motor and cognitive development
• Enhanced social skills and self-confidence through group play
• The development of language skills through reading and open-ended questions
• Real-life and play-based experiences that allow children to explore basic literacy and numeracy concepts

Pre Kinder and Kinder room (3 years – 4 years and 4 years – 5 years)

Our Pre Kinder and Kinder room offers:

• A school-readiness program with a comprehensive curriculum focused on acquiring literacy, numeracy and social skills
• Interest-based learning that places children at the helm of their early education experience
• Play-based opportunities to enhance social skills and emotional development
• Enhanced self-awareness and respect for others

A centre tour is a convenient way to experience the centre of your choice and meet with our qualified educators at a time suitable to your family schedule. Casa Bambini also offers the virtual tour option in all our centres in South Australia and Victoria. Click here to book a tour online.

On the day of the tour, you’ll have the opportunity to observe practices and interactions within the centre environment. You’ll be able to see all the rooms and playgrounds, ask the team members any questions you have in mind, and get all the information you need to make the best decision for your child. 

Casa Bambini’s Family Support team will add your child’s name on our waitlist if one of our centres is currently full in your child’s age group. We will then contact you as soon as a place become available.

We also do monthly check-ins to review the availability, and you will receive a text message confirming if you’re still happy to remain on the waitlist each month. If you would like to get an update at any point, you’re welcome to reach out on our Web Chat or give us a call.

Our Family Support team can also help you find more G8 early learning centres near you, with the same offerings at the Casa Bambini centre you are interested in that have immediate availability.

It’s common for a child to experience separation anxiety when they first start child care. When you’re getting ready to start child care, you can help your child overcome anxieties by visiting the child care service together for a Stay and Play session, and easing into new routines at home.

Click here to read more tips about how to make the transition easier for your child.

Most of our Casa Bambini child care and early education centres offers the following:

• Nappies and wipes
• Sunscreen and hats
• Nutritious meals prepared by our in-house cook

Some centres also provide sheets and formula, so you may not need to remember to pack them.

For nursery children, be sure to bring: nappy rash cream, dummies, bottles and teats, comfort toy or blanket, three spare outfits, spare socks and a plastic bag for wet clothes.

For toddlers and preschool or kindergarten aged children, it’s best to bring: spare underwear, water bottle or sippy cup, sun hat, closed-toe shoes, two spare outfits, spare socks and a plastic bag for wet clothes.

Plus anything else your individual child may need, such as breast milk, a sleeping bag, comforter or medication.

It’s best to speak to your centre of choice for a full list of everything included.

Casa Bambini uses Xplor Home as our family communication app. It is the best and easiest way to keep track of your child’s day. After you enrol your child with the centre, you can utilise Xplor Home to book child care days, manage your account, receive the photographs that capture your child’s learning, learn about your child’s progress, as well as keep up-to-date with upcoming centre events and important information.

If your child shows signs of an infectious illness when they arrive at the centre or becomes sick during the day, you may be notified that you need to make alternative arrangements or pick up your child from the centre, and keep them home until they are no longer infectious. While we understand that this can be inconvenient, Casa Bambini is committed to maintaining a healthy environment and reducing the risk of infection for all children.

Under the Child Care Subsidy (CCS), families are allowed 42 absence days per child, per financial year. These can be taken for any reason, including public holidays and when children are sick, without the need for families to provide documentation.