Articles tagged: Kindergarten

Kids to kickstart healthy eats
More than 600 kindergarten children across the shire are set to benefit from a renowned cooking and gardening program.

Plans lodged for Bay’s hub
Plans for an Apollo Bay community hub at the site of the town’s former kindergarten have reached Colac Otway Shire Council planning officers’ desks.

Apollo Bay officially owns town’s former kinder
Apollo Bay’s community is rejoicing in multiple wins this week, with the former kindergarten officially transferring into the hands of a community trust and a $50,000 grant awarded to the group to upgrade the building.

Top mark for kinders
Corangamite Shire’s kindergartens have passed a benchmark for keeping youngsters physically active.

Regional community services join forces
Colac’s kindergarten provider has a new name following a merger.

Pre-Prep program coming to region
Colac and district four-year-olds will double their time at kindergarten in the next five years.

Families save on kinder cost
Colac families with kids in kindergarten will save more than $1700 a year thanks to a new state funding program.

PHOTO SLIDESHOW: Colac firefighters delight kinder kids
Colac’s Winifred Nance Kindergarten had an exciting visit from members of the Colac Fire Brigade.

Bush education adventures
Millville Kindergarten kids have enjoyed getting close to nature with Bush Kinder sessions.

Wydinia Kindergarten kids have enjoyed a fun-filled first week of term two, after returning from a two-week break for the school holidays.

Big hopes for kinder, childcare
A plan to make three-year-old kinder a priority and to tackle a childcare shortage has gained Surf Coast Shire Council’s approval.

State win for kinder program
A Colac kindergarten provider is celebrating after one of its programs won a national award.

Boost for kindergarten kids
A host of Colac and district kindergartens have received boosts from a round of state funding.

Vital funds for Colac schools
Colac and district schools will share in $1 million worth of upgrades this year under recent State Government funding rounds.

Work begins on new Apollo Bay kinder
Apollo Bay parents will have access to a new kindergarten as early as next year, thanks to a State Government roll-out.

Forrest kinder funding boost
Forrest families will soon have an improved early learning centre for the town’s growing pre-school cohort.

Kinder gets $689,000 for centre expansion
Cobden Kindergarten will have a $689,000 expansion thanks to the State Government.

Registration now open for three-year-old kinder
Colac Otway parents and guardians can now register their children for Victoria’s first-ever round of three-year-old kindergarten programs.

Surf Coast’s kindergartens shut
Surf Coast Shire Council closed its kindergartens for holidays early this week to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Three Colac kinders shut, another still open
Three kindergartens in Colac have closed their doors for early holidays but centres in the Surf Coast and Corangamite shires remain open at this stage.

