What is Family Day Care

Family Day Care is a unique, flexible home-based education and care service that offers a warm, safe, secure and stimulating home environment catering for children from 6 weeks to primary school age. Every child deserves a great start in life. Give your little one the chance to thrive and enrol them now with our education and care service.

Our Philosophy

Newton Family Day Care aims to provide a high quality, flexible and professional children's service, offering a range of education and care options and positive experiences for children and their families. This encompasses the ideals of family day care and encourages all children to develop to their fullest potential.

Newton FDC would like to promote good will, collaboration and trust between the government, parents and the wider community for maximum benefit of the children under our care. We are committed to simplifying processes, finding solutions and continuous improvement.

We encourage our educators to use high quality pedagogy in their early childhood education and care services to ensure it meets the mission statement of our scheme and that our values are embedded in everyday practices with children.

We also follow different child development theories which provide in-depth explanations on how children learn, Grow and develop. Educators are encouraged to follow Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory that mentions parents, caregivers, peers and the culture at large are responsible for developing the child’s growth and it’s through these interactions that learning becomes integrated into an individual’s understanding of the world. Therefore, it is vital for educators to be good role models so they can provide better opportunities for the children in becoming successful adults.

We also believe that the environment plays a major role in the success of an early childhood program. It should enhance the children’s interests in all developmental areas. We believe learning in an early childhood environment is done most successfully through places that can be visited, explored, and revisited again and again. The environment should take into consideration the social skills, communication skills, physical abilities or challenges, and learning styles of the children being looked after.

Newton Family Day Care continuously seeks to further improve the skills and knowledge of their staff and educators through constant monitoring, meetings and via various communication methods. This is to ensure that high standards of care are available to the children and families that attend our service. Give your little one the chance to thrive and enrol them now with our education and care service.