C&K Emerald South Community Childcare Centre

C&K Emerald South Community Childcare Centre

Gayiri

Monday to Friday

6:00am to 6:00pm

emeraldsouth@candk.asn.au

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C&K Emerald South Community Childcare Centre welcomes children aged 6 weeks to 5 years and provides high-quality early childhood education and care services Monday through Friday. We offer flexible booking options that allow families to select hours of care suited to their individual needs.

Our centre features a spacious natural outdoor learning environment where children explore, discover, play, and connect with Country. The nature-based playground promotes challenging and open-ended play, giving children uninterrupted time to explore and engage in meaningful learning experiences. We respect children as powerful learners, thinkers, theorists and active citizens.

Creating a genuine home-away-from-home experience, our welcoming environment offers a safe, secure, and nurturing space for your child. Our experienced, caring, and professionally qualified educators support play-based learning approaches that cultivate each child's lifelong passion for learning.

Children at C&K Emerald South often represent one of several generations within their family who attend the centre. Our committed, long-term staff take genuine pride in growing together with families, sharing in celebratory milestones and providing support during difficult periods.

C&K childcare centres offer high-quality education and care programs. We focus on a unique infant and toddler approach and deliver the approved kindergarten program for 4-year-olds.

C&K Emerald South operates in the rural community of Emerald. The centre is situated on Andrews Road, accessed via the service road adjacent to The Salvation Army Worship and Community Centre.

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C&K has developed an Infant and Toddler Approach, which informs the way we care for and educate our babies and toddlers. Our philosophy for this age is to “slow down” and be in the moment with your child as they learn and explore the world. We focus on developing a deep and trusting relationship with each child.

All C&K childcare centres deliver C&K's quality kindergarten program. Kindergarten, also known as pre-prep or preschool, is a program for children who are turning 4 by June 30 in the year before they attend school. C&K’s kindy programs are government-approved and led by experienced and university qualified teachers. Our program supports children’s curiosity, creativity, problem solving, resilience and real-world knowledge and skills.

At C&K, we know that children do not learn in isolation, so we approach learning as a collaborative relationship between teachers, educators, children and families. We believe children are powerful learners, active citizens, thinkers and theorisers - this is at the heart of our early childhood curriculum. We've designed our indoor and outdoor spaces to ignite imaginations and nurture healthy minds and bodies. Learning through play is an integral part of our education program. Our educators skilfully enrich and extend children's play experiences, creating a learning program that is tailored and meaningful for your child.

Your child’s learning and care journey is shared with you via conversations with your child’s educators, through written documentation and through Storypark (an app and website).

2025	Fees

Enrolment Fee

$100.00

Nursery Room Daily Fee

up to $155.50

Toddler Room Daily Fee

up to $152.90

Pre-kindy Room Daily Fee

up to $149.80

Kindy Room Daily Fee

up to $149.80

Enrolment Fee: The enrolment fee is a one-off, non-refundable fee payable when you confirm your child’s enrolment. Some families may be exempt from paying the enrolment fee.

Child Care Subsidy: The Australian Government helps eligible families with the cost of childcare via the Child Care Subsidy (CCS). For more information, please visit Services Australia.

Queensland Kindergarten Funding: The Queensland Government also provides funding for eligible-aged children (children turning 4 by 30 June, in the year they attend a kindy program), attending a centre delivering a government-approved kindergarten program. If eligible, you could receive up to 15 hours of free kindy per week, for 40 weeks.

Flexible Booking Options: C&K offers flexible booking options, designed to help eligible families access and maximise the CCS, and minimise out-of-pocket fees. Our 9 and 10 hour sessions work in with your schedule and start once your child is signed in, not a set start and finish time.

Please visit our Childcare Fees page for more information.

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