Cooinda Cottage Early Childhood Centre

Cooinda Cottage is an 80 place centre offering full time, part time and casual care for children birth to five years of age with an infant learning space, two toddler learning spaces and two preschool learning spaces. These spaces are flexible in their use to accommodate different ages of children and availability of places. To assist vulnerable children and families, under the Children’s Services Program (CSP) funded by the Community Services Directorate (CSD), a number of places are specifically allocated to assist vulnerable children and families in accessing short-term early childhood education.

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At Cooinda Cottage, we believe life learning begins from birth and each child will experience their own unique childhood, as part of a community on Ngunnawal land, acknowledging everyone has rights and the world can be a fairer place. Our menus are based on guidelines from Nutrition Australia. Each month we celebrate Bush Tucker experiences as part of our commitment to embed Indigenous perspectives into our curriculum and community.

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Children attending Cooinda Cottage have professional educators and teachers who take responsibility for articulating professional values, knowledge and practice. We proudly provide inclusive high quality education and care through the implementation of the National Quality Framework, UN Rights of the Child and the Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics.

Cooinda Cottage is open for 50 weeks per year, closing for approximately two weeks over the Christmas/New Year period, as well as closing on all ACT public holidays.

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What we provide