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C&K Mackay Children and Family Centre
07 4842 0610
mackaycfc@candk.asn.au
C&K Mackay Children and Family Centre welcomes children from 6 weeks to 5 years old. We provide care and early learning five days a week with flexible booking options to suit your family's needs.
C&K Mackay Children and Family Centre is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service. We offer integrated early childhood education and care, parenting and family support, and child maternal health services. Our facility includes both a Long Day Care Centre and a Hub, designed to work together as a seamless, integrated unit.
Our centre is a welcoming space where the whole community belongs, and all cultures are celebrated and respected. Our vision is to be a trusted children and family centre that empowers all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to grow, learn and build on strengths with connection to land, sea and cultures.
We have a dedicated, quality teaching team and excellent indoor and outdoor facilities. Our environment is built on a foundation of trust and respect, creating a safe space where children can express themselves freely. Through play and hands-on experiences, children are supported to learn, grow, and develop at their own unique pace.
Partnership with families and community is at the heart of everything we do. We believe you are an integral part of our centre's success. We warmly welcome visitors at any time to meet our educators, explore our facilities, and discover how our centre works closely with the Hub to provide holistic services to families.
Our centre features a beautiful kitchen facility that enables us to provide all meals, including breakfast. We also supply nappies and offer a bus service when transport is needed.
The C&K Mackay Children and Family Hub provides a large number of programs and services to support the wider community. These include:
Specialist health and allied health services by referral:
C&K Mackay Children and Family Centre is located on Celeber Drive in Andergrove, opposite Village Shopping Centre and next to Pioneer State High School.
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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).
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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Food provided
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Insect Repellent
Nappies and wipes
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