SDN Lois Barker, Waterloo Long Day Care and Preschool

SDN Lois Barker is a 44-place centre in Waterloo, offering early childhood education and child care for children from 6 weeks to school age. 

The centre is part of SDN Children's Services, which is a not for profit organisation.

It's a small and calm centre which families call their "oasis in the city." The centre has a vibrant outdoor area and well-resourced classrooms, to support the interests and needs of each child. 

SDN Lois Barker also runs an autism specific program to support children with autism to transition to school. The SDN Lois Barker program is based on the successful program run at SDN Beranga Autism Specific Preschool, which has successfully supported autistic children and their families to meet their goals for more than ten years.

At SDN, your child is supported by our village.

The SDN village is a caring, inclusive, and supportive community, where your child is the centre of everything we do. We give them the freedom to invent, create, explore, and express their true selves, every day. A place where they can use their voices. And when they do, we listen.

We see the whole child and know that children thrive when we support them to grow caring hearts, healthy bodies, and curious minds.

SDN is committed to being a child safe organisation.