Beresfield Community Children's Education Centre

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Check out the dinosaurs at Newcastle Museum 🦖🦕

Big learning happens with simple blocks 🧱✨

Block play is much more than building towers. For preschool children, it’s a powerful way to explore ideas, test theories, and work together.
As children plan, stack, balance and rebuild, they are developing early maths concepts like size, shape, symmetry and problem solving. They use language to explain their ideas, negotiate roles with friends, and describe what they are creating. Persistence, creativity and teamwork naturally unfold as structures grow (and sometimes fall!).
Block play also strengthens fine and gross motor skills, spatial awareness, and confidence as children bring their ideas to life.
At our centre, we value block play as a rich learning experience where imagination meets important foundational skills for future learning.

Inviting creativity through beautiful spaces.

A thoughtfully prepared environment can inspire children before they even begin to play.
Set-ups like this are more than just materials on a table, they are invitations to explore, create, imagine and engage. The natural textures, soft colours and carefully chosen resources create a calm, welcoming space where children feel curious and motivated to participate.
Aesthetic environments support creativity, concentration and a sense of respect for materials. When children are drawn to a space, their learning becomes deeper, more meaningful and led by their own ideas.
At our centre, we value the environment as the “third teacher”, knowing that beautiful, intentional spaces encourage children to explore, create and learn with confidence.

Got no plans for the weekend? Why not visit the Newcastle Regional Show!

One of regional Australia’s most iconic agricultural and horticultural events, The Newcastle Show, returns to Newcastle Showground from 28 February - 2 March. Read more: https://bit.ly/NewcastleShow2026

Newcastle Art Gallery is back and more iconic than ever! And they are celebrating with a free street party. Click on the link below to find out all of the details!

📣 Free Street Party Tonight 📣

Celebrate the official reopening of Newcastle Art Gallery with live music, sculpture park, roving performers, tattooing and more.

📅: Tonight 5-9pm
📍: 1 Laman Street, Newcastle.

📸: Maitland siblings Kinder will bring their Afro-electronic house rhythms to the main stage at 7:30pm!

Celebrating Lunar New Year 🐲

At our service, we love celebrating cultural events that help children learn about the diverse world around them. Lunar New Year is a special time for many families, symbolising new beginnings, good fortune, and the importance of family and community.

Looking for something to keep the kids entertained this weekend …

🎆 MAITLAND SHOW - NEXT WEEKEND! 🎆

The iconic Maitland show is back, next weekend!

It’s always a brilliant celebration of our region, with something for everyone. If you’ve got the time, I highly encourage you to head along and enjoy the weekend.

What looks like play is actually powerful learning in action.

When children build, dig, explore, pour, create and imagine, they are developing problem-solving skills, language, coordination, and social skills.

Play is how children make sense of their world. At BCCEC we make sure every play experience has purpose and opportunity for growth.

All our Educators are busy training and getting the rooms all prepared for the children’s return tomorrow. Please keep an eye on your emails for any correspondence regarding accounts.

Come and join our beautiful centre. All of our permanent room educators are Diploma trained, and we don't charge for public holidays!