Kindy Cove is located at 48 Phoenix Street, Lane Cove.
It caters for 58 children daily between the ages of 6 weeks and 6 years. It is a Council-sponsored long day care centre which offers a preschool program to children 3-6yrs. The centre directors work in collaboration with a Management Advisory Committee of parents, staff, Council and community representatives.
The centre operates between 7:30am and 6:00pm, Monday to Friday, and is not open on Public Holidays. The centre is open 51 weeks of the year; closing for the week over Christmas and New Year. The centre is also closed for two Staff Development days during the year.
Kindy Cove encompasses the natural surroundings that Lane Cove offers. Each of the rooms have outdoor environments that are spacious and leafy, including landscaped gardens which the children help to maintain as part of their program.
Assessment and Rating under the National Quality Framework
Council’s Kindy Cove Child Care Centre has again achieved a quality
rating of “Meeting” the National Quality
Standards set under the National Quality Framework (NQF). Parents and staff
were pleased to have had a successful outcome of our second Assessment and
Rating process. This was our first under
the 2018 revised NQF. Kindy Cove was
rated as exceeding in Quality Area 6 - Collaborative Partnerships with Families
and Communities, an outcome of which we are very proud.