Our Vision

***To support and nurture children to become life-long learners.***
Our centre is operated by a team educators and education professionals who shares the passion to provide a safe and enjoyable learning environment for your child. At Sunshine Buddies, your child will receive head start to excel in life. We are not a centre only looking after your children when you work.
Every child is an individual, with unique personality, intellectual and physical qualities. Our focus is to provide a stimulating early learning and childcare experience to promote each child’s social/emotional, physical and cognitive development. Our goal is to support and nurture the children’s and our own natural desire to be life-long learners.

Our values

Health and Safety

Children’s health, comfort and wellbeing strongly impact on their learning, confidence and self-growth. Adequate supervision and effective management of incidents and emergencies are paramount at all times to support children’s safety and engagement in the educational program. At Sunshine Buddies, we encourage our staff to participate in continuous training programs such as health, safety and injury management programs to be prepared for unexpected situations at the centre. There are checklists and procedures in place to ensure reasonable precautions and adequate supervision are in practice at all times, ensuring children are protected from harm and hazard.

Cognitive Development

Children’s thinking is different from the thinking of adults. Over time, children move through distinct stages of thinking as they develop more complex ways of understanding the world. In the first eight months of the child’s life, the brain matures. Connections are made for wiring the brain. Children’s play involves repeated interactions and explorations that strengthens the connections in the brain.

Play is one of the most essential ways children develop their thinking skills. Sunshine Buddies educational programs encourages play based learning. We supply children with a variety of new materials, expose them to new experiences, and encourage them to explore and experiment.

Building cognitive skills is an active process that requires hands-on learning. Choose activities that are just difficult enough so that children can learn a new skill or move toward a different way of thinking.

Respect

Our Sunshine Buddies educators are trained to work with and respect each child’s unique qualities and abilities. Furthermore, we live in a multicultural and multilingual society. We encourage our children to learn and respect each other as our children are from different cultural and religious backgrounds.

“Helping kids grow and learn is one of the most rewarding parts of life.”

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Our Team

Centre Management

Sunshine Buddies is governed by the Board of Directors with over 30 years of education and healthcare experiences. The board of directors oversee the quality of services provided by Sunshine Buddies. The board oversees the centre’s operational frameworks to ensure our services adhere to the highest standards defined in the National Quality Framework set by the Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority.

Continuous Improvements

Sunshine Buddies are committed to the children and parents we serve. All of our educators have gone through a rigorous recruitment and on boarding process to provide parents with the assurance that their child is safe and cared for by qualified professionals. We are committed to providing ongoing professional learning and training opportunities for our staff.

Promoting Healthy Nutrition

At Sunshine Buddies, we believe that children should be introduced to fresh, wholesome and healthy foods. Our goal is to promote the development of healthy food habits and to provide nutritious meals and snacks at all times. Our centre cooks have been trained and certified in safe food handling courses. All meals provided will offer varying food choices that meet Nutrition Australia’s standards.