Chadstone Early Learning Centre Love Kids - Our Centre
Victoria - Centre Manager
Victoria Wightman is the centre manager at Love Kids Chadstone. Victoria has worked within the Childcare industry for over fifteen years. She holds a Diploma of Children’s Services and Diploma in Community Welfare .Victoria has current Anaphylaxis, Asthma and Level 3 First Aid Certificates.
Victoria made the decision from a young age that Childcare was to be her chosen career path, fortunately for her she has been given the opportunity to build on her skills, knowledge and experience through a diverse working background. During her career she has held managerial position and has had the opportunity to have worked with all age groups.
Victoria believes that providing high quality care is very important, and Love Kids Chadstone has given her the opportunity to promote this by providing a warm, fun and loving centre that all families are welcome in to. She aims to provide the best for all the staff, families and children in the centre and is a vital support for all who attend Love Kids Chadstone.
Joeys Room
6 weeks - 15 months
We provide a caring, loving environment which is designed with large carpeted areas for babies to safely explore their surroundings with a lovely outdoor area including a sandpit, climbing equipment and much more to explore. In the babies' room we focus on making the transition into childcare to be as smooth as possible for the parent and child. We strive to provide High quality care at all times, Qualified, professional and energetic staff. We encourage open communication with all our parents as this will create a bond between the Parents, Staff and Child. We work together to meet each Child’s individual needs for religion, routines, allergies and family backgrounds.
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Koalas Room
15 months - 2 years
The Toddler room is beautifully presented with a range of challenging and interesting experiences to meet the needs of our busy little toddlers. Our daily group time in the toddler room is very popular with staff and children engaging in song and story time together. We aim to encourage all Toddler children to do things for themselves. They are busy energetic and want to explore everything. Toddler age children move from one type of play to another and spread a great deal of time watching and coping. In our Toddler room we give all children the opportunity to try different ways of solving problems, we focus a lot on self help skills, toilet training, dressing/undressing, helping to pack away, scraping dishes after lunch and washing our own hands. Our dedicated team really enjoy observing development of this age group and we recommend children at this age should be in care at least 2 days per week. We welcome and encourage all Parent and Family input into our Centre.
Wallabies Room
2 - 3 years
In the Wallabies room one of the areas we focus on is the children's interests, from the children's interests we can link this into the centres programming. This information is obtained through observations which are taken on a weekly basis and supplemented into our program .We encourage language and self help skills, as this is the time in a child's life where they are really starting to develop language and independence. We encourage lots of messy play (under supervision as well as using art smocks), A wide range of multicultural Music and Free Dance and we always welcome and encourage all Parent and Family input into our Centre, input is how we continue to move forward together.
Bilbies Room
2 1/2 - 3 1/2 years
In The Bilbies room we like to work on further encouraging listening skills, self help and patience along with further developing our language skills. We enjoy doing lots of messy play, painting, pasting drawing and making things to help further develop our coordination. We really enjoy Music and Dance giving the children the opportunity to move freely to all different kinds of music, this is a great way to express our feelings through music. We start to learn about the different letters in our alphabet through an amazing computer program 'Letter Land'. This teaches the children the different sounds to each letter, how they are pronounced, upper a lower case and much much more.
Preschool Room
3 - 5 years
Preschool is a very important few years in a child's life as this is their last step before they graduate off to school. Our room consists of children aged between 3 yrs and 5 yrs, we feel that this work very well as the older children become role models for the younger children. In the Preschool room we focus on Self Help Skills, Developing all developmental areas which include: cognitive for example, concepts like letters, numbers, shapes, maths and science, Fine and gross motor skills, Social and Emotional skills and much more. The Kindy room children are always on the go, whether it is that they are engaged in whole group experience, individual play or room experiences. The children are offered a large range of experiences to help them be prepared for school. We have an amazing computer program that is offered 'Letter Land'. This teaches the children the different sounds to each letter, how they are pronounced, upper a lower case and much much more. We also encourage a lot of building, messy play and Gross Motor Skills. We always welcome and encourage all Parent and Family input into our Centre, input is how we continue to move forward together.
