Trusted child care professionals
Family-owned child care in Ballarat
Personalised care for every child
Cherish Early Learning Centre has extensive experience in providing support to children and their families in Ballarat through quality child care, child development and early childhood education.
We are locally owned and operated and run on strong family values that we believe are the lifeblood to our centre and the surrounding community.
We have created a strong support network of agencies for struggling families who may need additional help outside of basic child care.
When you choose to entrust us with your precious children, you can rest assured that our centre is sponsored by the government and, therefore, meets all government standards.
Our philosophy
Our philosophy is composed of several components. The first is that children must first feel safe and have their temporal needs met before they can develop cognitively and as individuals. Once children feel that their physical needs are met, we then work on the second component of our philosophy: building positive relationships between the children and their educators and peers by helping them feel respected as individuals.
The third component to our philosophy is that children must be involved in their own learning and that they must explore and interact with their own environments to gain the best understanding of the world. Lastly, we believe in embracing diversity.
We provide nutritious, government-approved meals to children—taking into account food
allergies— and ensure the child has had adequate sleep before starting them on their development activities. We also make sure that they are adequately clothed and have a healthy environment in which to learn and grow.
We acknowledge that the family is the first educator for a child, so we also aim to create a strong partnership with the families of the children to best promote growth.
Our educators are here to offer support and engage in experience while allowing children to freely develop their own ideas. We believe that when children do this, they achieve self-actualization by developing the confidence to see their own accomplishments.
Our open door policy invites families from all walks of life to contribute to all aspects of education and care of their children.