We hope your child's time at our service will be an enjoyable one.
Your child's early year's development is a very important stage and we hope to promote independence and a feeling of greater confidence in your child.
We hope all parents and families will become involved in our centres activities and make this a very successful and memorable time for all.
Video Tours
In light of the current COVID-19 Restrictions we are unable to have our usual on site tours.
As such we have put together these video tours of both sites.
Cooraminta - Altona Meadows Site:
Cooraminta - Laverton North Site:
Our Philosophy.
We believe that childhood is a precious and unique time and that children should be valued and encouraged to thrive.
We believe that home, family, community and our children's centre are all important elements in the education of the child.
We promote cultural awareness amongst the children, families, staffand the wider community.
We believe that our centre promotes respect and tolerance towards each other, the families and the children.
We ensure that all staff interactions at the service with both children and adults are respectful, honest, courteous, sensitive, tactful and considerate.
We believe in actively promoting gender, racial and cultural equity, and sustainable practices in all the activities we provide and the resources' we utilize at the centre.
We believe our program should include activities that encourage an appreciation of the arts, music and literacy. With the children we explore the concepts of science, technology, engineering, and numeracy. We advocate for the right of every child in our centre to learn through play and offer the children opportunities to develop the physical, social and emotional skills needed for the transition to school.
(In accordance with the National Early Years Learning Framework and /or the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework.)
We understand that every child will take a unique path towards achieving their learning outcomes and we will provide a variety of activities and experiences that cater for their individual learning goals
We understand the importance of providing a safe and secure environment whilst also understanding that learning requires taking risks and new challenges.
Your child's time at our centre will be spent exploring freely, satisfying their curiosity and learning at the same time.
We believe our children are competent and will achieve an awareness of themselves, their community and their world.
We believe Cooraminta Children’s Centre should be a fun, inviting and secure place to be!
MISSION STATEMENT FOR COORAMINTA CHILDREN'S CENTRE Inc.
Our mission is to create and deliver the best quality educational experience possible for all of the children in our service, while the children have fun and develop a love of learning in a secure, safe and loving atmosphere.
VISION STATEMENT FOR COORAMINTA CHILDREN'S CENTRE Inc.
Our vision is to maintain a children's service where all children can learn and develop as happy and healthy individuals, who will have empathy, consideration and concern for each other, their families, their community and all other beings. Children who will care for their environment and their world, for themselves and all future individuals.
CHILD SAFETY COMMITMENT STATEMENT COORAMINTA CHILDREN'S CENTRE Inc.
Cooraminta Children’s Centre is committed to child safety.
We want children to be safe, happy and empowered. We support and respect all
children, as well as our staff and volunteers.
We are committed to the safety, participation and empowerment of all children.
We have zero tolerance of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will
be treated very seriously and consistently with our robust policies and procedures.
We have legal and moral obligations to contact authorities when we are worried
about a child’s safety, which we follow rigorously.
Our organisation is committed to preventing child abuse and identifying risks early,
and removing and reducing these risks.
Our organisation has robust human resources and recruitment practices for all staff
and volunteers.
Our organisation is committed to regularly training and educating our staff and
volunteers on child abuse risks.
We support and respect all children, as well as our staff and volunteers. We are
committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children, the cultural safety of children
from a culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe
environment for children with a disability.
We have specific policies, procedures and training in place that support our
leadership team, staff and volunteers to achieve these commitments.
We involve children when making decisions, especially about matters that directly
affect them. We listen to their views and respect what they have to say.
We promote diversity and tolerance in our organisation, and people from all walks of
life and cultural backgrounds are welcome. In particular we:
• promote the cultural safety, participation and empowerment of Aboriginal children
• promote the cultural safety, participation and empowerment of children from
culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds
• ensure that children with a disability are safe and can participate equally.
All of our staff, volunteers and families must agree to abide by our code of conduct
which specifies the standards of conduct required when working with children.
Training and education is important to ensure that everyone in our organisation
understands that child safety is everyone’s responsibility.
WE HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE TO CHILD ABUSE
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and pay respect to the ongoing living cultures of First Peoples.
