Isabella Plains Early Childhood Service

Communities at Work’s Isabella Plains Early Childhood Service offers continuity in curriculum and relationships over children’s early years from birth to eight years of age. The community child care component is located within the school and is a critical part of the early childhood school’s foundation.

About the Centre

Communities at Work’s Isabella Plains Early Childhood Service provides care and education for children aged from birth to 8 years. We operate within the Isabella Plains Early Childhood School providing long day care, before and after school care, and school holiday program.

Our educators understand the value of learning through experiences. For instance, they regularly take children to excursions such as visting Isabella Ponds during the warmer months, where children engage in activities such as bird watching, collecting natural resources for their artwork and meditation. Children also learn about caring for the environment through activities such as “clean up our school day” and learn about reconciliation through activities such as “sorry day bridge walk”.

Operational Information

We offer regular bookings for our long day care services at this service.

Our opening hours are 7:30 am to 6 pm, Monday to Friday. We accept children from birth to eight years of age.

The children at our centre are provided with meals: a nutritionally balanced morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. We cater for individual dietary requirements and specific needs.

The fee for our Isabella Plains Early Childhood Service (daily rate) is $157.50.

Fees for Before and After School Care

Before School Care daily rate (permanent) is $27.50
After School Care daily rate (permanent) is $41.50

Casual bookings incur an additional $4 fee per session.

Fees for School Holiday Programs

The daily rate for our school holiday program is:

$91 for in-service days, i.e. days on which educators at the service run activities for the children.
$107 for incursion days, i.e. days on which external providers bring in special activities to the school holiday program.
$127.50 for excursion days, i.e. days on which educators and children visit an external location from the school holiday program location for fun activities.

Effective from 29th July 2024. Please note this rate is before the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) is supplied, if eligible.

You may use the Online Centrelink Calculator to see what payments and services you may be eligible for.

For more information on our Out of School Hours Care program at this service, please visit this page.

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Why Choose Us

At the beginning of 2020, our centre officially became a Community of Practice. A Communities of practice connects people with common goals and interest for the purpose of sharing resources, strategies, innovations and support. It focuses on sharing best practice and creating new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice.

Through collaboration with the Child Development Service, we successfully enrolled 4 children under the community of practice 3 year old preschool program, who have successfully enrolled in our government preschool for 2021. We have been able to support these children to form friendships, improve communication and language skills and become confident involved learners.

At Isabella Plains Early Childhood Service, we understand the significance of community, and strive to reflect community-centric practice while providing high quality education and care to children.

“The service provides such a warm and inviting space. The feel throughout the service is calm and inviting. I feel so comfortable dropping him off especially in the Infants room as all of the educators make an effort to welcome the whole family everyday”.

– Parent, Isabella Plains Early Childhood Service