Location
24 Parkway, Crawley 6009
Western Australia
Our hours
7:30 AM – 6:15 PM
Monday – Friday
Contact us
Phone: +61 8 9389 8111
Email: admin@unicare.net.au
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Our Rooms
The Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standards are key to our quality approach, and to our curriculum planning and documentation of children’s learning.
Our desire to strive for excellence in everything we do motivates us to critically reflect on and evaluate our practices to ensure the best learning outcomes for our children.
You can find more information on the Early Years Learning Framework (also available in 20 other languages) here.
Our “flow” environment and curriculum is created to support play based learning. It empowers children to have the freedom to determine their own learning, with support of our teams. Children are given the opportunity to form relationships with children and Educators through the centre. All children are welcome to explore and play in any of the rooms.
We use a variety of techniques to show the learning and joy at Unicare including floorbooks to document children’s voices and experiences.
Each child has their own folio and this information is used to scaffold and extend children’s learning. Families input is highly valued as part of the curriculum planning cycle.
Our younger rooms – Koobidja, Bindi-Bindi, Djoongong, Wonnil and Wardong are designed to stimulate and support children’s emerging independence and making sense of their worlds. Older rooms are designed to support children’s enquiry, exploration and agency. Kulbardi and Maali provide opportunities for children to be immersed in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths and Literacy. Social and emotional wellbeing and children’s rights are at the heart of everything we do in every area.
Koobidja ( The smallest child) Birth - 15 months
Artist: Aaron Sutton
The New-born room.
The word Koobidja is defined as ‘smallest child’ in the traditional Noongar language. The image shows that it takes a village and the love and nurturing involved in our koobidja’s, is passed on and shared by many in their journey.
Our main focus in Koobidja, is to form secure and loving relationships with our littlest babies. We take pride in the staffing levels, skills & knowledge that support our one on one interactions we can provide to these children to create these relationships, which we hope will last for their whole journey at Unicare.
Bindi Bindi (Butterfly) 12 months - 24 months
Artist: Aaron Sutton
The Bindi Bindi are beautiful and joyful, representing the spirit of the babies in this room.
The imagery shows the Bindi Bindi with its wings spread open wide ready for adventure.
All room’s are set up with exciting and inspiring environments to encourage children’s sense of wonder. Our children embark on their journey where they start to build their own identities, independence and awareness of the world they live in. They also form meaningful relationships with their educators and develop a sense of belonging to their room and Unicare as a whole.
Djoongong (Honeyeater) 18 months - 3 years
Artist: Aaron Sutton
Djoongong is a happy bird that loves to eat and play. You will see them around the area shooing the other birds away because they don’t want them to eat all their food.
The imagery shows their favourite food, the red wattle.
All rooms are set up with exciting and inspiring environments to encourage children’s sense of wonder. Our children embark on their journey where they start to build their own identities, independence and awareness of the world they live in. They also form meaningful relationships with their educators and develop a sense of belonging to their room and Unicare as a whole.
Wonnil (Peppermint Tree) 18 months - 3 years
Artist: Aaron Sutton
The Wonnil is a great tree with many uses. The imagery shows the Wonnil standing proud and providing for the environment around it.
All rooms are set up with exciting and inspiring environments to encourage children’s sense of wonder. Our children embark on their journey where they start to build their own identities, independence and awareness of the world they live in. They also form meaningful relationships with their educators and develop a sense of belonging to their room and Unicare as a whole.
Wardong (Crow) 18 months - 3 years
Artist: Aaron Sutton
The Wardong is a clever bird that loves to help and be useful.
The imagery shows a feather from the Wardong that was given to help another bird.
All rooms are set up with exciting and inspiring environments to encourage children’s sense of wonder. Our children embark on their journey where they start to build their own identities, independence and awareness of the world they live in. They also form meaningful relationships with their educators and develop a sense of belonging to their room and Unicare as a whole.
Kuldardi ( Magpie) 3 - 5 years
Artist: Aaron Sutton
Kulbardi is a very vocal bird that loves to sing and play. (Learn)
The imagery shows symbolism from the story of why the Magpie sings at dawn and dusk.
Kulbardi while a home room to the children grouped in it, is the centres S.T.E.A.M. room
Kulbardi is a Science and Discovery room, with learning areas created to further aid our children and their ongoing development and growth. We expose our children to basic scientific equipment, experiments and we encourage discussion and reflection of our experiments and discoveries.
Technology is woven into all that we do and has become an integral component to life long learning. By introducing technology into the children’s learning schemas we aim to support a wholistic learning environment.
In Kulbardi, our focus is also on, but not limited to, construction and other aspects related to building, maths and engineering . We incorporate these concepts and a hands-on approach to our curriculum, connecting our activities to knowledge about structures and the children’s specific interests as a way to guide our planning.
In Kulbardi the children learn through activities based around art, drama and music, but not only limited to these areas. The children are engaged in painting, drawing, exploring the garden and experimenting on the cultures of their peers.
Maali ( Black Swan) Kindergarten - 3.5 to 5 years
Artist: Aaron Sutton
The Maali was humbled in its story and has learned from its experiences.
The Imagery shows the Derbarl Yerrigan (swan river) – The only place in the world you will naturally find the Maali – and the Maali body with symbolism from the story.
Our kindergarten offers the children homed to Maali the unique opportunities of play based learning and the Western Australian Kindergarten Curriculum woven together.
It is our belief that children’s sense of belonging, being and becoming is best served when they experience a sense of security and consistency with their place of learning and educators. This room and its curriculum provides families with a choice to have their children get the best of “kindy” and play based, enquiry based learning in one place, Unicare.
