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Welcoming all children 0-6 years from all backgrounds and all abilities
Growing Early Minds provides free supported playgroups across the Blacktown local government area. These free supported playgroups are run by our Growing Early Minds allied health therapists and Familylinks service.
Playgroups run during school terms and operate from five Mount Druitt primary schools or at the designated mobile locations. Please continue to check back to this page as we continue to add new locations to meets the needs of all our families. If you’re an organisation or school interested in our mobile playgroup service, including attending bespoke events, please contact us.
Helping children learn through play
Our facilitators are early childhood trained and our programs are designed to promote inclusion. Children’s skills are developed through a range of play-based activities, where children are encouraged to explore, investigate and problem solve. Most importantly we encourage children and parents to have fun together.
Supporting parents and carers
We provide a friendly and relaxed environment for parents and carers to spend quality time with their children, share ideas, socialise, ask questions or seek extra support. With the support from our early intervention team, we can help identify areas that children might be having difficulty in and provide tips and resources to help them learn, develop, and reach their full potential.
FAMILYLINKS
Mondays 9:00am-10:00am
Playgroup including Parent-Child Mother Goose
Madang Avenue Public School
18 Mimika Avenue, Mount Druitt
Cost: FREE
Tuesdays 9:00am-11:00am
Playgroup including Parent-Child Mother Goose
Whalan Public School
Karangi Road, Whalan
Cost: FREE
Wednesdays 9:15am-11:00am
Playgroup
Hebersham Public School
Andover Cresent, Hebersham
Cost: FREE
Thursdays 9:00am-11:00am
Playgroup including Parent-Child Mother Goose
Blackett Public School
47-59 Boldrewood Road, Blackett
Cost: FREE
Fridays 9:00am-11:00am
Playgroup including Parent-Child Mother Goose
Shalvey Public School
Laver Street, Shalvey
Cost: FREE
Contact
Familylinks
02 9625 0422
0434 086 887
GROWING EARLY MINDS
Thursdays 9:45am –11:15am
Ngallu Wal School Readiness Program
***For children starting Kindy in 2020***
Ngallu Wal (Aboriginal Child & Family Centre)
259 Kildare Road
Doonside
Cost: FREE
For more information click here.
NB: The Ngallu Wal Support Playgroup facilitated by Growing Early Minds has now finished. Ngallu Wal is looking to continue to run supported playgroup and will announce new dates and times on the Ngallu Wal Facebook page.
What do I bring?
- A bottle of water
- A healthy morning tea (please avoid bringing food containing egg and nut products)
What do I wear?
- Comfortable play clothes that can get dirty during messy play
- A hat for outdoor play
Our routine
Our routines are flexible, but a general guideline is outlined below. We encourage parents and carers to join in with all the activities, to have fun, play and learn with their children.
- Free play
- Story time
- Music time
- Morning tea
- Free play
- Home time
