Happy Times Child Care & Early Learning Centre Mentone

At Happy Times Child Care & Early Learning Centre, we aim to meet the needs of our families through flexibility of service, while providing the best care and education for your child in a warm, secure, safe, caring, loving, nurturing, and anti bias environment.

We believe that parents and guardians are a child’s “first educators” and our emphasis is on those partnerships. We aim to make the bridge between home and centre as close as possible. Children and their families are the core of our wider community, which we bring together as we encourage them to share, their culture, language and home experiences with us. We strive to form the bonds and ties whilst respecting individual lifestyle, value, belief, their rights and opinions. Families are encouraged to participate in the program and share in decision making, with not only their children, but the overall ways in which the centre operates.

We provide an interest based and inclusive program, full of natural resources to stimulating wonder, encourage creativity and exploration. We believe children learn best through play and we aim to provide an environment, full of rich opportunities and intrigue, that fosters uninterrupted and supported play, as the children develop their independence and sense of empowerment through decision making and choice.