Welcome to Bullfrog Children's Centre.   We look forward to you joining the Bullfrog family, full of exploration and learning.

Bullfrog Children's Centre is a privately run centre, owned and operated by Kimberly and Cameron Wheatley. Kimberly is an Early Childhood Teacher, Special Educator, wife and mother of 3.   At Bullfrog we believe that all children have the right to the Highest Quality Care and Education.

As an accredited centre we pride ourselves on providing quality education and care. We are currently licensed for 25 2-5 year old children.

Our Hours
Monday to Friday 7.30am - 5.30pm. We are open 50 weeks per year, closing for 2 weeks at Christmas and public holidays throughout the year.

Fees and Rebates
We are a licensed and accredited centre therefore we offer all families’ access to Child Care Benefit and Child Care Rebate. For updated fee structure please contact us on 8521 6005. 

Open Door
We welcome parents to view our centre any time of the day. Although this is the case the best time to see our program in action is between 9.30 – 11.30 or 3.30 – 4.30.

Waitlist
We encourage all families to visit our centre prior to placing your child’s name on our waitlist. This ensures that families have experience Bullfrogs and are comfortable in it being a place that they would entrust their children. 

Waitlist forms can be found under our waitlist section.

Bullfrog Children's Centre is motivated to provide quality Early Childhood Education.   Providing a safe, supportive and demonstrative family centered environment is our highest priority.

At Bullfrog Children's Centre we believe in a family centred environment that is safe, caring and inspiring. All children have the right to a safe and secure setting. A setting that provides for the educational needs of all children and a centre that provides a high level of hygiene, health and safety.

We believe that the needs of children and families are at the heart of what we strive to achieve. All children and families come to our centre with their own individual experiences, cultures, developmental needs and strengths. All of which will be welcomed and valued.

The early childhood stage is the foundation for a child's future. Family backgrounds are the key to knowing and providing for each child. We believe that staff and families need to collaborate to ensure the best start for every child. Together children's development, independence and self esteem can be enriched.

At Bullfrog Children's Centre we believe in interest based learning. Through the interest of each child, our child care professionals will provide a developmentally appropriate play orientated program that caters to the individual needs of each child. Our curriculum will make provisions to meet the following developmental areas; physical, social, emotional, language and cognitive.

We believe an environment that facilitates children to be self thinkers is paramount in assisting children to be long term, independent learners. Children have the right to feel valued. We believe that when children are given opportunity to contribute they are more confident and feel a valued part of our centre community.
We will meet all regulatory and accreditation requirements set by all related organisations.

Our education team is directed by Kimberly, who has a Bachelor of Education (Special Education) and Jenine who has a Diploma and currently studying a Bachelor of Education (0-12years). Between both directors there is over 40 years’ experience. 
 
Our Educator team consists of Early Childhood Teacher’s, Diploma’s, a Trainee who has a Certificate III in Children’s Services and is studying her Diploma and experienced untrained workers.

We continue to ensure that our team has above the required trained educators and above required child/ educator ratios.

Our educators continue to seek and embark on up to date training. Additionally, we currently have educators trained in the implementation of Special Education and Gifted Education programs.

At Bullfrog Children’s Centre we believe that all children have their own unique learning style. To meet the learning styles of all children we have developed a flexible program with specific strategies.

The staff at Bullfrog Children's Centre complete regular observations on each child. Every child has a journal that contains observations, work samples and photos of their experiences. 


Early Learning Years Framework (ELYF) and Bullfrogs

ELYF is part of the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) reform agenda for early childhood education and care and is a key component of the Australian Government’s National Quality Framework for early childhood education and care. http://www.deewr.gov.au/earlychildhood/policy_agenda/quality/page/earlyyearslearningframework.aspx.

All our educators are trained in implementing the ELYF. We believe in a partnership with families, respect for diversity and a need for ongoing learning and reflective practice.

ELYF Child Outcomes are
•    Children have strong sense of identity
•    Children are connected with and contribute to their world
•    Children have s strong sense of wellbeing
•    Children are confident and involved learners
•    Children are effective communicators

Our educators facilitate these outcomes by
•    A holistic approach
•    Our educators being responsive to children
•    A learning environment that is play based
•    Intentional and spontaneous teaching
•    Continuity of learning and transitions