Your children will love coming to Friends Childcare Centre
Situated on the St Vincent’s Hospital campus, the centre provides education and care for children aged six months to school-aged in a warm, friendly homelike environment reminiscent of Grandma's house. Established in May 1992, the centre opened primarily for children of working parents at St Vincent’s but soon welcomed children and families from all over Lismore and surrounding villages. Today, the Friends community is as diverse as our beautiful rainbow region. Currently, there are no available places at the centre but you can join our waiting list now.
Our Childcare Centre nurtures early childhood development and growth
Your child will explore, play, and learn within three rooms and an indoor and outdoor learning environment. When your child enters our centre, we welcome you, the family, because you are instrumental to your child’s education. All the educators are committed to empowering families to be partners in the early childhood journey because we know that magic happens when little kids, educators and families work together.
Meet our team
Prajna King
Director/Teacher
Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (0-5 years)
25 years industry experience, 19 years at Friends Childcare.
Always had a passion for working with children…living the dream!
Trisha Kempt
Trainee - Studying Cert III in Early Childhood & Education
Rani Sporne-Hogan
Little People Room Leader
Diploma of Early Childhood & Education
Lea Walters
Cert III Educator
Early childhood is an amazing time in a child’s life. A time when the world is magical, where every day has the potential to be a wondrous experience
We believe it is every family’s right to access the highest quality care and education for their children; that’s why we are committed to:
- inclusion for all
- viewing family as the first and foremost influential teachers
- seeing children as insightful and competent beings
- using our environments as a third teacher
- being committed to a continuous learning journey.
The centre’s learning programs are based on the emergent curriculum and view relationships as success’s starting point. Children are viewed as competent and capable human beings who engage in holistic learning, and we value the importance of play-based learning.