Here at Kidz Retreat our standards are set very high and we understand the most important factor in caring for your child is their sense of feeling secure and safe within their environment as well as offering the highest Education we can provided to each individual child within our care. We therefore go to great lengths to attract and retain the best Early Childhood Educators your child deserves. Our Educators hold a range of Early Childhood Teaching degrees, diplomas and Certificates.
All Educators must be 19 years plus and agree at employment to undergo random drug and alcohol testing before they commence working alongside children and during their employment.
All Educators must hold;
Provide a first aid response in an education and care setting (HLTAID004), Child Protection Certificate, Anaphylaxis Certificate, Asthma Certificate, Food Safety Certificate and Safe Sleeping Certificate.
Daneale Buckley
Centre Owner
The wider the possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences!!
Qualifications: Diploma of Children’s Services, Working towards Bachelor in Early Childhood Education, Type 1 Child Car Restraint Fitter, Protective Behaviours Trainer
Courtney Gould
Centre Manager
Together may we give our children the roots to GROW and the wings to FLY!
Qualifications: Diploma of Children’s Services and Type 1 Child Car Restraint Fitter
Jo-Anna Breen
Assistant Centre Manager and Educational Leader
Children are the future, Believe in the beauty of DREAMS.
Qualifications: Diploma of Community Services (Children's Services) and Type 1 Child Car Restraint Fitter
Wayan Horner
Food Coordinator
Train a child in the way they should go, and when they are older they will not depart from it.
Qualifications: Certificate II in Food Preparation
Nella Canaveera
Early Childhood Team Leader
Each child is unique with different interests, cultural backgrounds and developmental stages. Children need the assurance of being, loved and cared for them to building good relationships.
Qualifications: Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care
Maea Cater
Early Childhood Team Leader
While we try to teach our children all about life our children teach us what life is all about.
Qualifications: Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care
Claire Mooney
Early Childhood Team Leader, Kitchen Garden Teacher and Sustainability Officer
It doesn’t matter how slowly a child learns, as long as we are encouraging them not to stop.
Qualifications: Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care
Belinda MacDonald
Early Childhood Team Leader
New beginning, hope for the future, support for their individuality and uniqueness.
Qualifications: Diploma of Children’s Services
Sammy Carter
Early Childhood Team Leader and OH&S Representative
Please excuse the chaos, noise and mess, we are busy learning and making memories.
Qualifications: Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care
Kylie Latham
Early Childhood Team Leader
I believe in building strong, trusting relationships with the children in my care. This ensures they have a strong foundation for their learning in an environment they feel safe, secure and supported in.
Qualifications: Advanced Diploma of Children's Services
Cassandra Cohen
Early Childhood Teacher
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Education (Foundation and Early Childhood Development)
Leonie Trenaman
Early Childhood Teacher
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. Childhood is a small window of time to learn and develop at a pace right for each individual child.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Learning Management (Early Childhood) and Type 1 Child Car Restraint Fitter
Maddi Blakeney
Early Childhood Teacher and RAP Representative
I believe that children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Qualifications: Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care and studying Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
Maddi Jones
Primary Teacher
Childhood is about playing, discovering and believing in dreams. The imagination and possibilities are endless.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Education (Primary)
Nikita Biancuzzo
Early Childhood Educator
All children need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
Qualifications: Traineeship Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care
Darrien Nightingale
Early Childhood Educator
Children are the living messages we sent to a time we will not see.
Qualifications: Studying Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care
Melissa Urquhart
Early Childhood Educator