Welcome to Giggles Early Learning Centre.

Our Centre is open from 7.00am to 6.00pm, caters for children aged 0-6 years of age. The centre is open 52 weeks per year and closes on public holidays.

Fee for 0-2yrs are $75.00 per day,  2-5yrs are $63.00 per day.  Child Care Rebate is available.

All meals including a cooked lunch is provided daily in accordance to 50% of the children's RDI.
 
The owner of Giggles Early Learning Centre also owns The Little Cottage at Carlton.

Giggles was nominated by the families and the community as a finalist in the 2008 St George Business Awards.

We know parents may feel anxious about leaving their children in a new environment, so we invite parents to contact us via telephone or email to check on their children

We look forward to welcome you and your child to our centre.

• One piece of fruit daily
• A yoghurt (optional)
• Breakfast (optional)
• Bedding a pillow and sheet placed inside the pillow case. This needs to come weekly on the first day your child attends each week and needs to be taken home and washed on the last day your child attends each week.
• Nappies (if applicable) these need to be place in the nappy room and clearly labelled with your child's name. If your child requires a nappy for rest time please ensure these are brought in (you will be charged for spare nappies if you do not supply them)
• Milk Bottle - if you child requires a bottle throughout the day for 0-2yrs, formula and bottles are to be brought in and taken home daily. 2-3yrs rest time bottle please supply, place it on the top level of the fridge
• Child's Bag - filled with spare clothes, hat - spare underwear and pants for toilet trainers, all of these items need to be labelled with your child's name. Your child's bag needs to be taken home on a daily basis as other children use the lockers
• A hat needs to be brought in daily - if your child does not bring in a hat they will not be able to join the children outside due to sun safety requirements
• Each child will need to bring in their own drink bottle. Staff will wash these out daily and refill for the next day your child attends, drink bottles are to be taken home at on the last day of the child's attendance in the week.

Giggles provides a comprehensive preschool program that prepares the children for Kindergarten. This preschool program is ran on a daily basis by a qualified Early Childhood Teacher in the 3-5yrs pre-school room. The program focuses on each child's self help skills, literacy/ language learning, social, emotional and academic development to prepare them for Kindergarten and future education.

The staff at Giggles have collaborated with private and public schools in the area to establish a suitable program that provides positive guidance and meets the expectations of parents and teachers of young learners. The daily learning curriculum in this room enables the children to learn through their play experiences and enhances their knowledge by introducing children to investigations and further developmental activities based on their current interests.

The teachers in the pre-school room exposes the children to Phonics, fine motor development such as writing and cutting experiences, cognitive and mathematical challenges, independence, turn taking skills and much more.

• School Preparation program – this starts in Feb each year (Beg 2011)
• Daily recognition of PHONICS A- Z, singing the phonics song and recognising each letters unique sounds.
• Exploring the upper and lower case format of each letter in the alphabet, by teaching the children letter of the week – starts Feb each year. Activities, art/craft, food, experiences that start with each specific letter are introduced.
• Two library visits scheduled (at beginning & end of year) annually from the local librarian at HURSTVILLE CITY LIBRARY
• Annual participating in NATIONAL BOOK WEEK – children participate in art/craft experience and have their creative pieces displayed at BEXLEY LIBRARY- august each year.
• School visits to the local primary school- HURSTVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL – Giggles has a close connection with this school, which allows many opportunities for the children to become exposed and familiar with the school environments and boundaries.
• Lunch Box week – November each year, allows opportunities for the children that will be attending school the following year to become more independent and responsible for their own belongings and food intake. 
• School readiness meeting – hosted by the Early Childhood Teacher/s ( Simone & Rachel) this introduces parents to their child is expected to know before they enter Kindergarten. The requirements of the child and the parents. 
• This is held on an evening in AUGUST each year – all parents from the Butterfly room are invited to attend the information evening.
• Graduation day – December each year, Giggles hosts a special graduation day to say congratulations and good luck to the children that will be leaving for Kindergarten next year. Each child has a cape and graduation hat – and is awarded with a graduation certificate.