Leylands Learning Centre

🌈 EXCITING NEWS for Families! 🌈
From January 2026, the Australian Government will introduce the 72 Hours Guaranteed Child Care — giving every family access to at least 3 days of subsidised care each week (around 72 hours per fortnight), no matter your work or study situation. 🙌

💡 What this means for you:
✅ 3 days of subsidised care guaranteed for all families
💰 Lower out-of-pocket costs
🕓 Flexible options — mix long and short days
🧸 More stability and learning for your child
👩‍👧 Support for stay-at-home and part-time working parents

This is a fantastic step towards making early learning more affordable, flexible, and accessible for every family.

If you’d like to find out how this will work for your family in 2026, get in touch with us today — we can provide a personal fee estimate under the new system.

What a fun week the children have had for the start of book week and our book fair!

Lots of stories shared and books read, lots of literacy based experiences, characters explored and dress ups galore!

We can’t wait to see what excitement this week brings 😁

We have had lots of events over the past month and lots of special guests.

We hosted an incursion from School Performance Tours “Budding Little Scientists”, the children had so much fun and laughed so hard! School Performance Tours

We hosted Ms Kelly Pisani, Principal of St Joseph’s Primary school to talk to our parents about getting ready for Primary in 2026! St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Belmore

We had a visit from Ms Jude from Koori Kinnections sharing lots of information and artefacts about Australian Indigenous history and culture. Koori Kinnections

And last week we had a visit from the firies at Campsie Fire & Rescue stop by to teach the children about fire safety. Campsie Fire Station

We’re Hiring: Office Admin Superstar!

Looking for a flexible, part-time role in a friendly and supportive team?

We’re seeking an Office Administrator to join our childcare centre team 2–3 days a week (10–15 hours total).
⏰ Late start, early finish – perfect for parents juggling school drop-offs and pickups!

✅ Light admin work
✅ Great team environment
✅ Must be computer literate
✅ WWCC required

📍Apply now and enjoy work-life balance while supporting a great local service!

Call 02 97873110 or email: [email protected]

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This week it was ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime – all across Australia between 12-1pm schools and child care centres were all reading “The Truck Cat” by Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell.
As by 12pm most of our children are sleeping, we read the book earlier at LLC. All of our children loved listening to the story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found.
Everyone loved meeting Yacoub and his cat Tinka, we think this story will become a favourite at LLC!

In Leena the children have been enjoying lots of circle time, listening to stories and singing songs. They have also enjoyed lots of indoor physical play due to being stuck inside on a long wet week. But their favourite activity this week was painting with bottlebrush leaves! The Bottle Brush is a very common plant that you can see around Australia. In Indigenous Australian culture, the bottlebrush plant holds spiritual significance, representing resilience, abundance, and the connection to the land. It's a symbol of endurance, found in Dreamtime narratives and contemporary art. The flowers, with their bright colors, are also associated with celebrating birth and new beginnings.

Lowan children engaged with lots of creative experiences this week. They loved drawing underneath the table, creating with peg boards, painting with firetrucks, exploring books about letters, birthdays and a truck cat!
Being a long wet week we had fun riding trikes inside and dancing to music to ensure we kept fit and healthy!

Our Paraweena friends were lucky enough to get in a few runs this week during the breaks in rain, it was great to be able to be active for small amounts of time when it was raining so much! The children have been excited to be seeing and using so many umbrellas this week and many of our friends shared stories of jumping in puddles on their way to and from LLC! Being active inside on our wet days, Paraweena went on a number hunt, played a ball game and had a music and movement maze! The children also got creative with playdough, letter ‘O’ themed crafts and lots of construction.

We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and we look forward to learning together again next week!