The Brook Early Education and Care

The Brook Early Education and Care4sure2022-08-04T15:07:43+10:00

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The Brook Early Education and Care - Girls playing on the lawn

About

Located in leafy Gordon Park, just 15 minutes from the Brisbane CBD, we offer our services to families predominantly living on Brisbane’s northside.

As an early learning centre, our philosophy at The Brook is that each child is unique, and as such, we cater to their individual personalities and optimal potential through our innovative implementation of ‘learning by playing’. See The Brook’s philosophy here. By doing so, children are better able to understand the world in which they live through our planned early education programs which activate their capacity to participate, communicate, investigate, create and reflect.

We enjoy the benefits of great relationships and partnerships with local schools, businesses, sporting clubs, Emergency Services, Hospitals and the many local charities we gladly support through hosting events and fundraising.

Education

Age Groups

Learning FUNdamentals Program

Kindergarten Program

National Quality Framework

Our Active Early Learning (AEL) Curriculum

The Brook Early Education & Care teaches children the lifelong skills needed to grow and develop through the AEL curriculum. Watch our video to see how the AEL curriculum is implemented at The Brook.

If you wish to discuss and learn more about our AEL Curriculum, please call our lovely team of educators at 07 3357 2332.

Click here to find out more.

Modern Facilities

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Indoor Play Area

Great natural lighting and air flow

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iPad Kiosk Check-In

Check-in your child fast and easily

The Brook Early Education and Care - Outdoor Playground

Extensive Outdoor Play Area

Natural landscaped gardens and sandpits

The Brook Early Education and Care - Modern Facilities - Indoor Play Area

The Brook Early Education and Care - Educator and Toddler Sliding down an indoor slide

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Aug 11

“Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves.” – Stephen Moss. #thebrookway #community #environmentasthirdteacher #connection #excursion

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Aug 5

The Brook Early Education and Care is hiring and we want you! Are you an educator looking for a change and an engaging workplace that values its people?

The Brook offers above-the-award pay rates, causal Friday's, monthly RDO's and discounts for childcare. We are also offering apprenticeships for those looking to enter the sector!

Send us your resume or shoot us a message today!
#wearehiring #thebrookway

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Aug 5

Please see attached upcoming important dates at The Brook!

Next Wednesday the 10th we will be closed for the EKKA public holiday, we wish all our families a lovely day off.

Next Friday the 12th we invite our children to come dressed in their best disco wear as we fundraise for Red Nose Day.

We will end the month celebrating Book Week for 2022. Our dress up day this year is the 24th and our theme is 'Alice in Wonderland', we can't wait to see everyone's costumes!

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Aug 4

The Reggio Emilia philosophy places great importance on incorporating natural materials into the learning space to provide sensory engagement and stimulation for children. Additionally, environments with natural objects often prompt inquiry and lead children to asking questions, deeply diving into exploration, and channeling their curiosity into process art or academic projects.

Natural objects create open-ended opportunities for play and conversation between young learners.

Watch this in action! (2 slides)

Mathematical concepts such as the size and counting.

#thebrookway #earlyeducation #reggioemilia #environmentthirdteacher #younglearners

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Aug 4

Finding Our Way in the Forest

All of this is a great forest. Inside the forest is the child. The forest is beautiful, fascinating, green, and full of hopes; there are no paths. Although it isn’t easy, we have to make our own paths, as teachers and children and families, in the forest.

Sometimes we find ourselves together within the forest, some- times we may get lost from each other, sometimes we’ll greet each other from far away across the forest; but it’s living together in this forest that is important. And this living together is not easy.

We have to find each other in the forest and begin to discuss what the education of the child actually means. The important aspect is not just to promote the education of the child but the health and happiness of the child as well.

Loris Malaguzzi (1994)

Find out more!

https://www.reggioalliance.org/downloads/malaguzzi:ccie:1994.pdf

#thebrookway #earlyeducation #environmentthirdteacher #natureplay #inquirybasedlearning #projectbased

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Aug 3

The Sprout children have been busy exploring volcanos. Asking educators lots of questions about them. This morning it was time for their very own volcano experiment. Combining the different ingredients to make an eruption! #thebrookway #inquirylearning #experimentation

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Aug 1

We are excited to announce that Sammy our Lead Educator in Nest, is July's Educator of the Month!

Sammy has embraced the new changes to Program and Practice with a smile. Embedding meaningful change in Nest, providing purposeful and beautiful learning for the children. It is a joy to work alongside her and see her grow as a Lead Educator.

#thebrookway #educatorofthemonth

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Jul 29

Inquiry in action! The Flourish children have embarked on a collaborative project exploring art from the very beginning, discovering different styles and mediums. With a focus on creating using natural materials, the children’s forward facing documentation is a joy to see. #thebrookway #inquirylearning #environmentasthirdteacher #art

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Jul 27

Today our Kindergarten children enjoyed a visit from Bravehearts, in preparation for Prep next year as well as staying safe on excursions. Ditto’s Keep Safe Adventure Show teaches young children essential personal safety skills and knowledge using age-appropriate language, song, and dance, starring Bravehearts’ lovable lion cub ‘Ditto’! #communitypartnerships #Bravehearts #thebrookway

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Jul 26

Our Primavera children enjoyed an excursion and a driving tour of Brisbane Airport yesterday. We enjoyed hopping off the bus to watch planes land and take off. Then a tour of the plane hangers and different departments from our bus windows. #community #brisbaneairport #thebrookway #excursion

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Jul 21

Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! - NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for The Brook community to engage and reflect on the importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island history, challenges and achievements. At The Brook, we value relationships with families and connecting on a deeper level as we collaboratively share our knowledge and ideas. Through creative and hands-on experiences, the children were inspired to explore their curiosity, discover new parts of the world and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, their history and culture. #thebrookway #naidocweek2022 #getupstandupshowup

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Jul 15

Be sure to join us tomorrow for our open day! We look forward to welcoming you into our community. #thebrookway #openday #communitypartnerships

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Jul 14

Our youngest children were involved with educators this afternoon planting new plants in their garden. Getting in amongst the soil with digging and watering. #environmentasathirdteacher #thebrookway #sustainability #naturalenvironments

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Jul 8

Join our Open Day Saturday 16th July and enjoy a personalised experience to see our amazing early education and care centre first hand, plus receive gifts for all, a coffee on us from a local cafe, sausage sizzle and activities.
Our lovely management team will walk you through our many purpose-built learning areas and inform you of our educational play-based programs, so get excited!

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Jul 6

Happy 5 years of service to Miss Mallory who is a valuable member of the Brook team. Mallory is an amazing Educator that has made a positive impact on the lives of the families and children at the Brook. We would like to thank you for your contribution, dedication, and commitment to the Brook over the last 5 years!

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Jun 28

⭐️Congratulations to Charlie on being awarded June Educator of the Month ⭐️
Charlie provides excellent quality care to the little babies in his care. Charlie’s cool and calming nature draws the children towards him, which in turn creates a great sense of security. Charlie is always attentive to the children’s needs whilst always there to cheer on all the milestones the children reach. Well done Charlie. We are so lucky to have a great educator on our team.

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Jun 27

QAS paramedics joined the kindergarten learning program this week, celebrating, Community Awareness Week throughout The Brook Early Education Centre.

An opportunity for children to become familiar with paramedic’s uniform and equipment, the inside of an ambulance and what it feels like to be transported on the stretcher. Paramedic Sonia, ensured children, paramedics are safe people in the community to run to for help. Children demonstrated their knowledge calling ‘000’ for help. Paramedic Sonia and the children radioed base and were given an urgent bandaging job to attend. Paramedic Sonia demonstrated bandaging technique on the classroom teacher, before all the Kindergarten Paramedics engaged in bandaging each other, teachers and dolls.

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Jun 20

Here at The Brook we love to recognise and reward our dedicated educators for their recent hard work on completing their Diploma’s and Certificates in Children's Services. Congratulations Miss Maricel, Miss Bronte and Miss Mia.

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Jun 16

Today we had had a few inspiring doctors, police officers, a fireman and princesses at The Brook. The children discussed their choice with their educators this morning and the reason why.

This helps children build skills with imagination and curiosity about the world they live in. Imagination fosters creativity for children to explore and act out scenarios of their choosing, which also helps build skills in communication and language.

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Jun 15

On Saturday the 16th of July, The Brook Early Education and Care will open its doors to prospective families for an Open Day. Whether you're simply curious, or you're considering enrolling your child in 2022 or 2023, we invite you to join us on this special day. There will be face painting, a petting zoo, jumping castle, hot and cold refreshments, and a free sausage sizzle. Families will experience a personally guided tour of the centre with one of our lovely managers as they show you what the future of early education and care looks like. We look forward to seeing you there!

Our People

The Brook has a dedicated team of early education professionals who have worked tirelessly since opening in 2016 to create an experience for children and their families which is centred around encouraging a joy of learning.

We operate with dedicated education and support staff at each of our centres, plus a management team overseeing all aspects of operations, recruitment, education programs, enrolments, marketing, nutrition and dietary requirements.

Stephanie

Miss Steph

Babies Space Centre Manager

Kelly

Miss Kelly

Juniors/Seniors Space Centre Manager

Sarah

Miss Sarah

Babies Space Assistant Manager

Rachel

Miss Rachel

Enrolments Manager

Kim

Miss Kim

Compliance Officer

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Miss Preston

Educational Leader

Lukasz

Mr Lukasz

Centre Chef

Sariah

Miss Sariah

Centre Receptionist

Natalie

Miss Nat

Operations Manager

Contact The Brook

The Brook Early Education and Care is a long day care centre open to care for your child 5 days per week, 52 weeks per year to support you and your family. We close for public holidays only.

07 3357 2332

THE BROOK EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE

19 Suez St Gordon Park, QLD 4031

Please direct email enquiries to our Enrolments Manager; enrolments@thebrookchildcare.com.au

OPENING HOURS:

Mon – Fri: 6:30AM – 6:30PM
Sat & Sun: Closed

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