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Newcastle West

St Nicholas Early Education

At St Nicholas our highly-skilled educators aim to help unleash the unlimited creative potential within each child. A child’s curiosity and desire to explore their own interests drives them to participate in creating their own learning paths - and St Nick’s educators help nurture and guide them on this exciting journey.

This understanding of the innateness of curiosity and its role in early learning is at the heart of St Nicholas’ approach to early education.

St Nicholas Newcastle West

The Newcastle West Early Education centre has 52 spaces. In keeping with St Nick’s commitment to providing individualised care and education, St Nick’s Newcastle West maintains a high staff-to-child ratio, allowing all children to receive personalised support and care.

Located on busy Hunter Street, in the heart of Newcastle’s CBD, St Nick’s Newcastle West is one of the few centres in the city’s centre which features a natural, open-air outdoor environment rich in natural and man made play equipment.

Within the 52-place centre, 12 places are dedicated to the nursery for children aged under two years. Our Newcastle West centre provides all nappies and nursery cot linens.

There are also 10 places each for the two-year-old and three-year-old program. St Nick’s Newcastle West also features a 20-place preschool program catering to children aged four to five.

Play-based learning

Our stimulating indoor area extends to a shared outdoor play space which supports your child’s curiosity, social interaction and group play. St Nick’s believes that a connection with nature is a vital part of early education and the development of children. So, with this in mind, we provide wondrous gardens and green spaces for the children to enjoy and explore.

Transition to School Program

At St Nick’s Newcastle West, we understand that the transition from early education to primary school is an incredible step in your child’s journey, making our Transition to School Program a standout feature of the preschool curriculum.

This program provides children with the opportunity to become familiar with primary school life by introducing routines which will continue into their journey to primary school. To help ease the transition, children are given the opportunity to embark on excursions to their local primary school where they attend assemblies and interact with school-aged children.

Enrolling your child at St Nick’s

If you’d like more information about enrolling your child at St Nick’s Newcastle West, please fill out the contact form on this page and select Newcastle West as your centre of choice. A friendly member of our team of educators will get back to you shortly.

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At St Nicholas Early Education, educators work with each child on an individual level to gain an understanding of the child’s wants, needs, interests and strengths.

Once educators have this understanding, they work on designing indoor and outdoor learning spaces that accommodate each child.

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Babies who attend St Nicholas Early Education engage in ‘tummy time’ each day. ‘Tummy time’ is quite simply the act of enabling babies to observe and interact with the world around them whilst they are lying on their tummies. ‘Tummy time’ helps to babies build the strength and coordination needed for rolling over, crawling, reaching, and playing. All babies benefit from tummy time, including newborns.

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Reading and storytelling with children promotes their brain development and their imagination. It also teaches them about language and emotions.

St Nicholas educators engage children with reading and storytelling as a part of each centre’s daily programming.

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DID YOU KNOW:

St Nicholas Early Education is inspired by St Nicholas of Myra, the patron saint of children. Legend has it he secretly left gifts which developed the traditions that we now associate with Santa Claus, or Saint Nick.

However, there is much more to what we do at St Nicholas Early Education than the legend of St Nick. The wellbeing and care for children, family life and the need to provide for a family are key tenets of the St Nicholas philosophy.

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St Nicholas educators are responsive to all children’s strengths, abilities and interests. They base their educational program on the strengths, skills and knowledge of each child to ensure the highest level of motivation and engagement in learning.

We include children’s voices in our program and ensure daily reflection promotes continual self-evaluation of the curriculum. We also provide a stimulating and challenging environment that encourages our children’s curiosity and creativity, building confidence along the way.

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Children use their senses to explore and try to make sense of the world around them. They do this by touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, moving and hearing.

Providing opportunities for children to actively use their senses as they explore their world through ‘sensory play’ is crucial to brain development. Enriched play builds nerve connections in the brain’s pathways.

This enables a child to complete more complex learning tasks and supports the child’s cognitive growth, language development, gross motor skills, social interaction and problem solving skills.

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St Nicholas educators initiate programs based on children’s interests. We engage and inspire our young learners to strive to be the best version of themselves every single day.

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St Nicholas Early Education Cardiff has bright and stimulating classrooms, all opening onto an atrium-style outdoor play area featuring age-appropriate natural and man-made play equipment.

The crown jewel of St Nick’s Cardiff is the large outdoor space featuring a wooden pirate ship, complete with portholes, sails and a crow’s nest - all made from natural, locally-sourced wood and materials.

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St Nicholas Early Education Cardiff features two 12-place nursery rooms for children aged 0-2. Educators relationships with our very young promotes children's well being, their self esteem, their sense of security and of belonging.

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St Nick's Early Education Newcastle West

845 Hunter Street, Newcastle West

P: (02) 4979 1136

E: newcastlewest@stnicholasmn.org.au

Meet the team at St Nick’s Newcastle West

Staff profiles are coming soon! For more information about our St Nicholas Early Education centre at Newcastle West, please contact us here, or request a tour.

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Director, St Nick’s Newcastle West

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Children from St Nicholas Newcastle West look forward to spending time with family over Christmas

Some children from St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West share their thoughts on the Christmas season.

St Nick's Early Education takes a NAIDOC week excursion

The children of Mowane Room at St Nick's at Newcastle West attended the NAIDOC Week community day held at Newcastle foreshore.

St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West recognised as one of the best in Newcastle

Congratulations to St Nicholas Early Education, Newcastle West for being named one of the three best child care centres in Newcastle by the website Three Best Rated.

2017 Year in Review: St Nick’s Newcastle West visits Sacred Heart Cathedral

The children of Mowane Room at St Nick’s, Newcastle West, visited Sacred Heart Cathedral.

Zero waste lunch boxes at St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West

In line with our ‘Quality improvement plan’ we are trying to become a more sustainable centre. We have thought long and hard about what little things we can change in our day to day lives to help the environment.

Gardening at St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West

In the Moane room we’ve been busy tending to our garden and making some improvements by adding planter boxes and planting seedlings and herbs.

Learning about spider danger at St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West

In the Moane Room we have been extremely interested in spiders this past week − especially which are venomous and which are friendly spiders.

Reptilian friends visit St Nicholas Newcastle West

Kids at St Nick’s Newcastle West had some special reptilian visitors from Blackbutt Reserve on Wednesday 7 September 2017.

St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West visit Sacred Heart Cathedral

On Monday 11 September, 2017, the children of Mowane room went on an excursion to the Sacred Heart Cathedral on Hunter Street in Newcastle West.

NSW Fire & Rescue visits St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West

Cooks Hill NSW Fire and Rescue visited St Nicholas Early Education, Newcastle West, on Tuesday 29 August.

Careful, it’s an emergency!

St Nicholas Early Education centre at Newcastle West received a very special visit on Wednesday.

St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West: bath time for Josie

Many of our Yunung families have welcomed baby brothers and sisters into their families this year and over the past few months most of the Yunung children have shown interest in caring for the dolls in the room.

A celebration of NAIDOC week at St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West

The 2017 theme ‘Our Languages matter’ aims to celebrate the essential role that Indigenous languages play in both cultural identity, linking people to their land and water, and in the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, spirituality and rites, through story and song.

Exceedingly good result for St Nicholas Early Education

St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West has recently undertaken its first quality Assessment and Rating review by the Department of Education.

The cow tripped over the moon: St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West participates in National Simultaneous Storytime

St Nicholas Newcastle West participated in National Simultaneous Storytime.

Professional development at St Nicholas Early Education: learning the hundred languages

On Wednesday 3 May, Teachers and Educators from St Nicholas Newcastle West and Singleton had our annual professional development day.

Reflecting on the image of the child

For the educators of St Nicholas Early Education, a day to come together at the Crowne Plaza in the Hunter Valley as an entire agency to think, share, question and explore new ideas was too good an opportunity to pass up.

Dinosaur Roar!

Following the children’s interest in the Henny Penny Hatchlings, the Yunung room continued to investigate animals that hatch from eggs.

Hatching excitement at St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West

This week at Newcastle West, we excitedly welcomed three new fuzzy friends, and some precious ‘soon to be friends’ into Moane too.

Harmony Day: Everyone belongs at St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West

On Tuesday, the children of St Nicholas celebrated Harmony Day. The theme this year was ‘Everyone belongs’.

Taking an active role in caring for our environment at St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West

Children in the Moane Room have been exploring an interest in cars, garbage trucks and recycling.

A fresh perspective on child care

Emily Skehan is an Early Childhood Educator in the Yunung Room where she cares for children aged 20 months to 2.5 years at St Nicholas Newcastle West.

St Nicholas Busy Builders

The children in the Yunung room have been investigating an interest in construction and vehicles over the past week.

New fundamental movement program at St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West

The children in the Moane Room at St Nicholas Newcastle West have been excited to begin a new fundamental movement program.

Introducing Kate Bailey

Hello, my name is Kate Berry and I am the new Educational Leader and Class Teacher of the preschool room at St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West.