Guardian Early Learning - South Melbourne

We are delighted with our daughter's experience at Guardian Childcare South Melbourne. Coco, and the team, thank you for your exceptional care and attention!

Very friendly team that looks after my kids. My kids learn new things and how to be social. Beautiful location and fun rooftop with a cool playground

Excellent centre with genuinely caring director Coco and all educators and staff! We love it:)

I recommend The Guardian South Melbourne to every single family! All the educators (Naz, Tara, Stella, Anna and many more), the centre manager Coco, and Mariam, Carissa and the chef Sergio are so professional, super attentive and fantastic in every single aspect of their job.
They’re so passionate and they’re like our second family! Always with a smile on their face and always ready to share a moment of our son while at the centre.
The guardian is without doubt the best daycare in South Melbourne and surroundings!:)

Overall, I would highly recommend this daycare center to anyone looking for a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment for their child. What really sets this daycare apart, though, is the sense of community that they foster. The staff are always willing to answer questions and provide updates on my child's progress, and they encourage parents to get involved in the daycare's activities and events. It's clear that they truly care about the well-being of the children in their care, and that makes all the difference.

I cannot recommend Guardian South Melbourne more highly. My son started in July at 2 years old having never gone to a daycare before. The staff are so caring, high energy, trustworthy and lovely. My son settled so fast as every educator really gave him that special attention and extra love. My son always came home happy, well fed, changed, and most of all had had a great time and was safe. Thank you so much Guardian!

Our child is the first who joined to Guardian. At the beginning it was good. A couple months later we started seeing some issues: centre managers keep changing, often understaffed and teachers were leaving. However when Coco has joined as the centre manager, we started seeing transformation of child centre. Way less teachers were leaving and our child is happy now to go to child centre 5 days a week. It's also worth to mention that Child centre organised an excursion to South Melbourne market with kids. It was just wow.

My daughter was one of the first 5 kids joined Guardian South Melbourne back in April 2019. The center managers since then were changing so frequent I sometimes even started forgetting their names. Teacher turnover was very high, the overall vibe of the center was disaggregated, not like a family feeling.

However, everything has changed since Coco joined the center. Let me point out the main improvements:
- Staff turnover decreased significantly.
- Less kids were crying at the drop off
- The overall presentation of the Centre has been changed. For every occasion (Halloween, Christmas and etc.) decorations were provided.
- Organized excursions, breakfast with families (for example for father's day), photo sessions, trick and treat parties and etc.were taken a place.
- Communication between center manager and parents improved significantly via frequent posts on Storypark in regards to updates, fortnightly emails and verbal conversations
- The overall center vibe is improved and I can see its reflection in my daughter's behavior. Now, she enjoys going to the center and treats Coco as her best friend.
- Overall teacher's mood improved as well, as I can see a board with the awards provided to them encouraging and valuing their work.

Thank you for your passionate work Coco!

Regards,
Darina Assylbek

My nephew wakes up every day excited and looking forward to going to school, great environment and teaching staff

We love Guardian South Melbourne. We have been attending for the last 6 months and very impressed with the quality of education and care provided to our child. We are also super impressed with the new Centre Manager Coco, she is very friendly and knowledgeable and always up for a chat. We recommend the centre to everyone!

- The Educators are super nice, supportive and professional.
- The Management Team is super nice, very responsive and supportive.
- I like a lot weekly topics that learnings is based on.
- Meals are very delicious.
- My daughter has learned so much since starting her childcare.
- Storypark app is the highlight of the day:)

The centre just got good vibes! Educators there are super friendly and knowledgeable! The kinder program is just fabulous and the integrated kinder (long day care hours) works really well for parents like us (both working full times).
I will recommend Guardian to everyone I know!

My daughter LOVES going to guardian every day. She has formed really close bonds with the educators, Naz, Tara, Stella, Jade, Nat, Anna etc.most of whom have been at the centre for the 2+ years she has been there. She talks about them all the time at home! She is constantly learning and developing through the wide variety of activities they participate in, i think their weekly cooking session is her favourite! Our family around the world love the daily storypark updates. Guardian South Melbourne is an amazing centre for our requirements and would recommend to others.

We moved both of our daughters over to Guardian from another center in the area a couple of years ago and couldn't be happier with the decision. The staff are all warm and friendly and quality of care is amazing. I could not recommend highly enough - we love being a Guardian family.

We have had a great experience with them so far. The staff who looks after our daughter is extremely professional, helpful and friendly. Management has been great too.

Our family struggled with this child care. The staff was constantly changing and quite unresponsive to many of our queries and requests. They would listen to our request but no action followed or were inconsistent in thier responses. Quite understaffed most of the time and didnt follow proper hygenie standards with regards to toiletting.dont think our child received proper attention. Overall, the experience was not good.

The staff are so warm and caring. They are sensitive to not only my son's needs but mine.

The facilities are amazing, with loads of natural light and outdoor play space perfect for city apartment kids.

The staff are so warm and caring. They are sensitive to not only my son's needs but mine.

The facilities are amazing, with loads of natural light and outdoor play space perfect for city apartment kids.