Family Information
Family-run childcare Northern Beaches
Welcoming new families into our supportive community.
At Mi Kids, we believe in strong partnerships with families, working together to support each child’s growth, wellbeing, and success. We take a solution-focused approach, always aiming to find the best ways to help your child thrive.
Our educators maintain ongoing records of children’s learning and development, and we regularly discuss observations with families to set short- and long-term goals together.
Connecting With Families
- Formal parent-teacher interviews at the beginning and middle of the year, providing dedicated time to discuss your child’s progress, goals, and development.
- Informal chats during drop-off and pick-up, ensuring open communication and partnership each day.
- Sneak Peeks, our weekly program preview shared with families, highlighting upcoming learning experiences and ways your child can contribute, ensuring continuity between home and Mi Kids.
- Invitations to centre events, including Occupation Week, Book Week, and other celebrations throughout the year, fostering community connections and shared experiences.
Wellbeing and Inclusion Support
Our Wellbeing Support Educator and partnership with Care Connect for Inclusion Support plays a vital role in supporting families, educators, and children by:
- Providing additional information, guidance, and strategies tailored to each child’s individual needs.
- Connecting families with appropriate external services and therapists to ensure holistic support.
- Facilitating the Triple P Parenting program, empowering families with practical strategies to strengthen relationships, build confidence, and support their child’s social and emotional development.
At Mi Kids, we live by the philosophy that “it takes a village to raise a child.” Our Inclusion Support and Educational Team work in partnership with families, ensuring each child is surrounded by a strong, caring community that uplifts and empowers them to thrive.
Educational summaries and milestone reports are shared throughout the year, highlighting your child’s growth, strengths, and next steps. We also use Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences to understand and nurture each child’s unique learning style and potential.
Settling In
We always put the child’s needs first and to ensure children settle in, we actively encourage consecutive day attendance, with a minimum of 2 consecutive days preferred. We find that having consecutive days assists with the children seeing familiar faces each day, which greatly assists with the settling in process. However, we understand the individual needs of each family and always take this into consideration when dealing with attendances.
Mi Kids has an orientation process which enables children to visit our centre for short periods of time, before their actual first day in their room, to assist them meeting their educators and new friends. We strongly suggest that each child has at least two orientation sessions before they commence. We welcome you to phone in and check on how your child is settling into Mi Kids and we fully understand that you may need to call for re-assurance at anytime.
Ongoing Support and Involvement
Our early childhood teachers provide an ongoing record of children’s learning and development and families are encouraged to access this information. After a month we will invite new families to have one on one session with the educator to discuss their observations and together with families set out short-term and long term goals for their child’s growth and development. Also in this meeting educators will discuss the learning styles that their child is strong in using Gardner’s theory. Throughout the year there will be progress reports on how their child is meeting the goals set and possibly resetting new goals and milestones.
We encourage families to participate in our curriculum offering their skills and knowledge that will enrich the program. Also, we love families to participate in our garden and working bee sessions, information sessions and fundraising events will be on the events calendar linked to you when you have enrolled.
Families are welcome and encourage to attend our information sessions and seminars relating to children’s development and to other areas of interest to families, early childhood students and educators.
Each Term, Mi Kids emails all the special event dates such as mothers’ day and father’s day, open days, celebrations and end of year show case where children can show their families the projects they have been involved in, art pieces and performances. The opening and closing dates for the school will be on this calendar as well.
Important Information for Families
- All meals are included in our rates, lovingly prepared on-site by our cook and co-owner, Isara. Meals are filled with wholesome goodness, ensuring your child receives nutritious, balanced food each day. Our menu is also reviewed by the Munch & Move nutritionist, ensuring it meets best practice guidelines for healthy eating in early childhood.
- All programs and services are included, giving every child full access to our enriching curriculum and specialist experiences. This includes all excursions, Bush to Bowl visits, Happy Feet sessions, and orientation time, which are covered by Mi Kids.
- Sunscreen, nappies, and wipes are provided for all children. However, we do not provide any nappy creams, so please pack these if required for your child.
- Linen: Please provide your own linen for children in the Preschool and Toddler Rooms. Linen is provided for children in the cot rooms (Nursery).
- Bottles and comforters: Please provide all bottles and comforters for children attending the Nursery and Toddler Rooms. We keep cloth and disposable nappies on hand for emergency situations if needed.
Thank you for partnering with us to ensure your child’s comfort, health, and wellbeing each day at Mi Kids.
MORE INFORMATION
If you have a question or would like more information about our child care centre and pre-school, please don’t hesitate to contact our friendly team. We’re here to help.
OPERATING HOURS
Monday – Friday
7.00am to 6pm
We operate 50 weeks of the year and closed on public holidays. The Centre shuts down for 2 weeks during the Christmas/ New Years Holiday so that educators can recharge their batteries and families don’t have to pay during the festive period and have more time with their children.
ATTENDANCE
To maintain consistency and help settle our children, we have a consecutive day policy :
- Minimum 2 consecutive days: Monday and Tuesday or Thursday and Friday
- Any bookings of 3 days or more must include either a Monday or Friday
- 5 days
Family-run childcare centre and preschool Northern Beaches.
Mi Kids is a family-owned long daycare, childcare centre and preschool that aims for excellence in early childhood education and care, nurturing and embracing curious minds.
We serve families in the Northern Beaches community and beyond. Our educators provide a nurturing, happy and stimulating learning environment for children from six weeks old to when they start school. Our centre provides children and families quality care and education within a warm, welcoming, nurturing and enjoyable environment. We celebrate all types of learners – ensuring each child feels valued and encouraged to develop to their full potential.
We offer and are committed to thoughtful and meaningful programs that are based on the diversity of learners in our school and work together with community groups and families to pursue excellence through collaborative and reflective teaching practices. Through a nurturing environment we put children’s rights first and give each child a sense of belonging, being and becoming. Celebrating diversity, culturally and intellectually within the child, the family and the community.