
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.
Newcastle West Price List
0-2 Years $125
2 Years$120
3 Years $120
4-5 Years $110
St Nick's Early Education Newcastle West
845 Hunter Street, Newcastle West
P: (02) 4979 1136

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.
Meet Emma
Director, St Nick’s Newcastle West
Director information coming soon.
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Latest news & information | St Nicholas Early Education
The children of Mowane Room at St Nick's at Newcastle West attended the NAIDOC Week community day held at Newcastle foreshore.
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.
The children of Mowane Room at St Nick’s, Newcastle West, visited Sacred Heart Cathedral.
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.
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.
In the Moane Room we have been extremely interested in spiders this past week − especially which are venomous and which are friendly spiders.
Kids at St Nick’s Newcastle West had some special reptilian visitors from Blackbutt Reserve on Wednesday 7 September 2017.
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.
Cooks Hill NSW Fire and Rescue visited St Nicholas Early Education, Newcastle West, on Tuesday 29 August.
St Nicholas Early Education centre at Newcastle West received a very special visit on Wednesday.
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.
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.
St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West has recently undertaken its first quality Assessment and Rating review by the Department of Education.
On Wednesday 3 May, Teachers and Educators from St Nicholas Newcastle West and Singleton had our annual professional development day.
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.
Following the children’s interest in the Henny Penny Hatchlings, the Yunung room continued to investigate animals that hatch from eggs.
This week at Newcastle West, we excitedly welcomed three new fuzzy friends, and some precious ‘soon to be friends’ into Moane too.
On Tuesday, the children of St Nicholas celebrated Harmony Day. The theme this year was ‘Everyone belongs’.
Children in the Moane Room have been exploring an interest in cars, garbage trucks and recycling.
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.
The children in the Yunung room have been investigating an interest in construction and vehicles over the past week.
The children in the Moane Room at St Nicholas Newcastle West have been excited to begin a new fundamental movement program.
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.
This week, children from the Moane room at St Nicholas Newcastle West have all been celebrating and learning about Chinese New Year.
St Nicholas Newcastle West families and staff gathered last Tuesday night to celebrate Christmas.
At St Nicholas, Newcastle West, we have a dedicated school readiness program in the Moane Room to help the children transitioning to school.
Some children from St Nicholas Early Education Newcastle West share their thoughts on the Christmas season.