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C&K Mackay Children and Family Centre
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.
C&K Emerald South Community Childcare Centre
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.
C&K Clinton Community Childcare Centre
C&K Clinton 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.
Set among natural bushland and located high on the hill away from busy traffic, we take pride in our expansive outdoor learning space. This includes a large community yard where siblings, cousins, and friends can interact with each other in a relaxed environment. Our nature-based playground inspires challenging and open-ended play where children are provided with uninterrupted time to explore and engage in learning. We recognise children as capable learners, creative thinkers, natural researchers, and engaged community members.
As a home away from home, our warm and welcoming environment provides a safe, secure and supportive space for your child. Our dedicated, nurturing, and qualified staff nurture play-based learning, fostering a lifelong love of learning. Our team is established and consistent, with most staff members having worked at the centre for more than 5 years.
C&K childcare centres offer 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 Clinton sits on Hervey Road in Clinton, just off the Dawson Highway. Our centre is located next to Clinton State School, and we maintain an active partnership that includes a school transition program, music and physical education classes, and involvement in school events.
C&K Blackwater Community Childcare Centre
At C&K Blackwater Community Childcare Centre, we welcome children from 6 weeks of age to 5 years old and provide care and early learning Monday to Friday, with flexible booking options.
We are proud of our spacious natural outdoor learning environment, which has real trees, grass, dirt, leaves, and wildlife such as native birds and possums nesting in the trees. Our nature-based playground inspires challenging and open-ended play where children are provided with uninterrupted time to explore and engage in learning. We respect children as powerful learners, thinkers, theorisers and active citizens.
As a home away from home, our environment provides a safe, secure and supported space for your child. Our dedicated, friendly and qualified staff nurture play-based learning, fostering a lifelong love of learning. Our families love our large natural outdoor area, where we encourage children to explore, discover, play and engage in nature.
We have a wide range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds with our families and staff. This provides us the opportunity to incorporate these cultures and languages throughout the centre. Our approach to inclusion and diversity ensures that every child, family and staff member feels safe, welcomed and important.
C&K childcare centres offer quality education and care programs. We focus on a unique infant and toddler approach and deliver the approved kindergarten program for 4-year-olds. Best of all, we provide flexible options, so you can choose the hours of care to suit your family.
We are located in Central Queensland, approximately 2 hours inland from Rockhampton.
C&K Biloela Community Childcare Centre
C&K Biloela 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.
The centre operates as a home away from home, providing a safe, secure, and supportive environment where children can thrive in a loving, educational setting. The dedicated, friendly, and qualified team nurtures play-based learning approaches, helping to develop a lifelong passion for learning in each child.
The centre’s spacious, nature-based playground encourages challenging and open-ended play experiences where children are provided with uninterrupted time to explore and engage in learning. Our approach respects children as powerful learners, thinkers, theorists, and active citizens. Our open-ended resources will spark your child’s imagination and are perfectly designed for their age and stage of development.
C&K Biloela operates as a small-town centre through and through. Children in our care often represent one of several generations within their family who attend the centre. Our staff take pride in growing alongside our families, celebrating positive moments and providing support during challenging times.
C&K Biloela is located in the rural town of Biloela, situated 1.5 hours west of Gladstone. The centre is positioned on the corner of Grevillea Street and Prairie Street.
C&K Magnetic Island Early Childhood Centre
Welcome to C&K Magnetic Island, where your child will feel safe, make friends and belong. We have an open natural learning environment where the children explore and investigate, and extend their learning. Our teachers and educators focus on nurturing your child's curiosity, building their resilience and developing their confidence - all through the joy of learning through play.
At C&K Magnetic Island Childhood Centre we operate a kindy group 5 days a fortnight and limited hours care for 2 days. Our kindy group is led by an experienced and qualified early childhood teacher. We operate during QLD school terms and are closed for school holidays, public holidays and some pupil free days.
C&K Capella Early Childhood Centre
Welcome to C&K Capella, where your child will feel safe, make friends and belong. We have an open natural learning environment where the children explore and investigate, and extend their learning. Our teachers and educators focus on nurturing your child's curiosity, building their resilience and developing their confidence - all through the joy of learning through play.
At C&K Capella Early Childhood Centre we operate a kindy group 5 days a fortnight and limited hours care for 2 days. Our kindy group is led by an experienced and qualified early childhood teacher. We operate during QLD school terms and are closed for school holidays, public holidays and some pupil free days.
C&K Parkhurst Childcare Centre
C&K Parkhurst 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 creates a home-like atmosphere that is welcoming, warm, and inclusive. We focus on individualised learning approaches and modify our physical spaces to support learning and development for all children. Our qualified educators build strong relationships with each child, maintaining a safe, secure, and supportive environment.
Our centre has a combination of both age-based rooms and communal learning spaces where siblings and children of all ages can come together to learn and play. The large outdoor area is designed to take advantage of the natural environment and encourages children to explore, discover, play, and connect with nature.
Our staff are one big family, coming from a diverse range of ages, career stages, and cultures. This diversity creates valuable opportunities to integrate different perspectives, cultures, and languages into our educational programming. The centre's comprehensive approach to inclusion and diversity ensures that every child, family member, and staff member feels safe, genuinely welcomed, and valued as an important contributor.
C&K childcare centres offer quality education and care programs where we focus on a unique infant and toddler approach, as well as delivering the approved kindergarten program for 4 year olds.
C&K Parkhurst sits just outside Rockhampton, providing convenient town access while preserving the benefits of an outdoor space designed for children to run, take risks, and learn in a purposefully designed environment. The centre is located on Yaamba Road with entry via 4 Mason Avenue, directly across from Parkhurst State School. Our close relationship with the school facilitates smooth transitions to prep and participation in events such as sports days.
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