Pleae call 0410384651 or admin@smartstarteducation.com.au if you are interested in a tour or enrolment. We have a Wednesday and Thursday spot coming available. 

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Our Shenton Park centre was the first Smart Start center and has been running since 2004. As we approach two decades in Shenton Park we feel like we have firmly established ourselves as a part of the community! We love the community feel of Shenton Park and feel so lucky to have been able to share these wonderful facilities with the Onslow Park Tennis Club for so long as well as having been able to enjoy the company of the friendly locals! For our students who go on to Rosalie Primary School, it has been so nice for us to be just next door and to have been welcomed into that part of the community. Being able to go and visit the chickens at Rosalie or seeing their lovely kitchen garden has been a really nice way to start talking about starting 'big school' and getting them excited about the next step of their learning journey. 

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Staff

We have a team of highly qualified and experienced educators. We always strive to keep educators very stable and have the same educators present for as much of the week as possible. This enables children to make secure connections with the educators and makes it easier to settle in if they haven't had a lot of experience being left before.

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Aku:

Aku has a Diploma in Early Childhood as well as a Diploma in Montessori education. She is a passionate and experienced educator with a lot of experience working with preschool aged children. Aku moved across from our West Perth centre last year and is enjoying the challenge of running the Shenton Park centre.

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Dipti:

Dipti started working in our Shenton Park centre in 2004 and has a wealth of experience teaching as well as a Montessori Diploma in early childhood education. 

 

Sarah:

Sarah is a Quailfied Early Childhood Teacher who has specialised in Montessori. Sarah also has a bachelors degree in Communications and Anthropology. She obtained a high school scholarship to play the violin, has enjoyed playing lots of amateur orchestras here in Perth. Sarah has worked with Smart Start since 2004 and is the Educational Leader. Sarah completed her younger years in a Montessori preschool and is passionate about this type of learning in early childhood education.

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Dilki:

Dilki is from Sri Lanka. She moved to Australia in 2018 and initially was in Melbourne until she moved to Perth in early 2022. Dilki completed her Advanced Diploma in ICT while she was in Sri Lanka. Currently, she is doing Cert. III in Early Childhood and will start the Diploma in Early Childhood Education this year. 

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Location:

We are located within the grounds of the Onslow Park Tennis Club, right next to the Rosalie Primary School. At the top of Onslow Road, within walking distance, is the Shenton Park Train Station.

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Fees/ hours:

At Shenton Park, we are an approved provider, so parents can get the CCB and Childcare rebate for this centre. The fee for the full day, 8am to 4 pm, without the childcare benefit or rebate is $125 per day.

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Our Shenton Park centre is open 5 days per week : Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. It runs from 8am to 4pm.

 

Special Extra Activites that are incorporated in our program:

Music

Dance

Yoga

Brain Gym

Full Montessori program provided by Montessori qualified staff

 

Physical Environment:

We are so lucky in Shenton Park to have endless space for the children to play outside, I think it would be safe to say no other childcare centre in Perth would have anywhere near the amount of space to child ratio that we have! Our grass is preened every few days with the utmost care by the tennis club gardeners and makes a wonderful playing surface for the children. We do lots of ball skills with the children, set up obstacle courses and have small climbing structures for them to play on and climb. Our lovely open classroom provides for easy supervision of all the children and has lots of natural light and a view that extends beyond the greenery of the courts, to the surrounding Onslow Park and Kings Park beyond.