Casa Bambini Essendon
Centre Highlights
Secure Drop Off & Pick Up
Family Collaboration
Progress & Wellbeing Updates
Diversity Celebrated
Meals Prepared by In-House Chef
Local Primary School Connections
Transition to School Program
School Readiness Curriculum
Parent Communication App
Outdoor Playground
Kindergarten Program
Incursion Programs & Activities
Local Community Excursions
Nappies & Wipes Supplied
Educational & Developmental Programs
About Casa Bambini Essendon
About Casa Bambini Essendon Long Daycare and Kindergarten
Welcome to Casa Bambini Essendon. We're ideally located for families in Essendon, Essendon West, Moonee Ponds, Brunswick West, Pascoe Vale South and Strathmore.
Our Long Daycare and Kindergarten Centre provides early education and care for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years.
We provide convenient, full care coverage from 9hr, 10hr or full days, 5 days per week, including school holidays.
Our dedicated team of Teachers and Educators provide a safe, nurturing, and inspiring learning environment - where your child can thrive, and be their wonderful self, every day.
Getting school ready? We offer the Government-approved Kindergarten program that helps ensure your child has a successful transition to formal schooling.
We offer a great variety of learning experiences at our Centre including:
- Sustainability Program: Helps children develop and understand the importance of embedding sustainable practices into everyday life. Children learn about recycling, conserving water, growing food and the importance of protecting our planet.
- Community Engagement Program: Encourages children to interact with and discover their local community. We often have visits from community services, and we go out on adventures to teach the children about their local environment.
- Music & Movement Program: Designed to develop fundamental skills that help support childrenās self-regulation, memory, and concentration. Children learn to appreciate and develop an understanding of music - and of course, have fun.
Availability & Fees
Nursery - 0 yrs to 2 yrs
Availability
Fees
$190.50 /day
Toddler - 2 yrs to 3 yrs
Availability
Fees
$190.50 /day
Kindergarten - 3 yrs to 6 yrs
Availability
Fees
$190.50 /day
Fees for Casa Bambini Essendon may vary based childcare subsidy eligibility. You may be eligible to a rebate of up to 85% of your childcare fees.
Calculate your subsidy3 yrs to 6 yrs
Availability
Fees
$190.50 /day
Fees for Casa Bambini Essendon may vary based childcare subsidy eligibility. You may be eligible to a rebate of up to 85% of your childcare fees.
Calculate your subsidyReviews for Casa Bambini Essendon
- Gabrielle S6 days ago
Thank you for taking care of my little one during our short time at CBE. We left due to relocation. We will miss you guys. š
Response from the owner5 days agoHello Gabrielle, Thank you for your fantastic 5-star review! Weāre thrilled to of taken care of your little one. Your positive feedback is invaluable to us and motivates our entire team to keep delivering excellence. Best regards, The Casa Bambini Team
- BEC J7 days ago
This was rated exceeding when I enrolled my 18 month old and it is a nice looking centre. However I often found the required staff ratios to children weren't being followed (i.e. 16 kids under 2 with only 2 staff members present who were more interested looking at their phones then interacting with the kids). It happened too regularly to be a coincidence and I realised this is how the centre saves money- by putting the legally required amount of staff on a shorter shift during the day but not the full day, while at the same time they are charging parents premium. Some mornings there were no staff in my child's room at all and I had to take my 18 month old down to the kinder room and give her to a kinder teacher she didn't even know until the childcare staff arrived. Not legal or appropriate and quite distressing for me heading off to work this way, and I pulled her out for this reason.
- A G3 months ago
My child attended this centre since nursery until I removed them last week in the 4 year old kinder room. I enrolled my child because the centre was highly recommended by two mums in my motherās group who sung the centreās praises. In the beginning, I was very happy with the quality of care my child received and the educators were caring and passionate about their jobs. I received regular updates about my child and formed good relationships with educators and centre management. I knew that my child was happy and well cared for. Over time however I saw many good staff leave and there were multiple management changes. Communication with parents fell off a cliff and we received significant price increases in circumstances where the centre and room resources were seriously out of date, educators were leaving and the food served was terrible. Almost all the children my child started with left as their parents were unhappy with the quality of care they received. I stuck it out because I wanted to give the centre a chance (I gave them multiple!) and I did not want uproot my child to a different centre so close to starting primary school. I should have left earlier. I had to constantly raise even the most basic things with centre management - reinstalling a soap dispenser and replacing rotting timber in the kids bathroom - to requiring that the front desk be attended at peak drop off and pick up times for the overall safety of the children and staff. I personally saw a private courier enter the centre at around 5pm on a weekday due to a fault in the front door which left it unlocked and go from room to room to try to find a staff member to sign off on a package delivery. I had to confront him and ask what he was doing, then had to find a staff member to sign off on the package before he left. The only staff member I could find was a casual who had no idea what to do and was slightly panicked that a man was walking around in the centre (it freaked me out too!). The front door was subsequently fixed and I was assured that the front desk would be attended at peak drop off and pick up times moving forward. And yet, it was still unattended on numerous occasions. The final straw for me was seeing none of my childās regular educators at drop off without any prior explanation or notice, seeing inappropriate child-to-educator ratios and going yet again from room to room to find someone to raise this issue with. I cannot explain how many times I have raise issues with centre management, the area manager and with G8 with minimal improvements to show for it. I personally made two complaints to the Department of Education because I thought it would compel the centre to improve. It did not. This centre had some fantastic educators and staff, but it does not have the ability to retain them. When one or two staff leave, you can put it down to personal circumstances. When there is a revolving door of educators, children and centre managers, then there are serious and deep seated cultural problems all the way to the top with the way this centre is managed that has nothing to do with the shortage of early learning educators in the industry. Save your sanity. Do not leave your children here. There are better options in the area.
- Thomas Plunkett8 months ago
Our kids have been having an amazing time at Casa Bambini! The staff have been incredibly accommodating whenever we've been running late to collect them! Couldn't rate higher
Response from the owner8 months agoDear Thomas, thanks for leaving us such a wonderful review. We are thrilled that you loved your experience; our staff will definitely be happy to read what you wrote. We put customer experience and satisfaction as our priority, and your review reaffirms the hard work we put in every day. Kind regards, The Casa Bambini Team.
Location of Casa Bambini Essendon
Essendon suburb information
Essendon is a suburb located in Victoria. There are approximately 38 child care centres in Essendon.
How much is child care in Essendon? On average, the cost of child care in Essendon is $164 per day. This breaks down to $164 per day for babies, $173 per day for toddlers and $163 per day for kindergarten.
Essendon sits just above the national NQS Rating & the average rating of centres is Ā«Meeting NQSĀ».
Number of centres
Child care centres in Essendon
38
Average cost per day
Baby
0-12 Months
$164
Toddler
13-24 Months
$173
Kindergarten
2-3 Years