Gaven Early Learning Centre

The most friendliest daycare! As soon as you walk in, you are greeted at the door by the lovely Karen, And all the staff make you feel so welcome! You know your child is in the best hands. We have tried three day cares in the area and this centre is by far the best! If I could rate 10 stars I would! All the staff are kind and caring, There are wonderful New facilities, including water play outdoor on a hot day which our little Boy loves! If you have Bigger Kids, like we do, our Preppy can be taken safely from the centre to the school and back, they also do amazing vacation care activities For the school Kids. They have wonderfull healthy food-so I know our son is eating well! Great play areas, lots of space, and smiles all around! By far the Best in the maudsland/pacific pines/Oxenford/Gaven area! Couldn’t recommend highly enough.

I can highly recommend Gaven Early Learning centre my son has been there for a year now and has had the most amazing educators, they are kind,caring and supportive. Lots of excursions a favourite of his is swimming. A bonus they do healthy meals everyday so i know he eats well.

Gaven ELC is well-marketed and beautifully renovated but poorly resourced and poorly represented. An honest tagline might be: "A crying child is an inconvenience to ignore, silence, or shame. Parents will be lied to, and their requests ignored." If you want your child’s needs, health history, and wellbeing overlooked - or to have the same conversations daily without resolution - this is the place for you. Educators urgently need professional development in emotional regulation strategies, age-appropriate practices, and effective communication. The attitudes and values we experienced are decades out of touch. Several principles of the Early Years Learning Framework failed to be met for my children, particularly elements of Outcomes 1, 2 and 3. For children to feel safe, secure, supported, and have a strong sense of wellbeing, staff must first display empathy and respect themselves. Children deserve grace, love, and support; ours did not receive that here. We moved to Gaven ELC intending to stay for the next 8/9 years but left within three months, deeply disappointed. I highly recommend families keep all communication in writing for a record of contact. I have never left a negative review in my life, but families deserve this insight—we could have saved so much trouble. We’ve returned to a more caring centre further away and while they don’t offer outside school hours care, my children (2 & 4) are once again happy and thriving.