{"id":616,"date":"2026-06-10T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/?page_id=616"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:12:22","slug":"early-learning-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/?page_id=616","title":{"rendered":"Early Learning & Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCatholic Early Learning and Care services in the Diocese of Cairns cater for children aged from 6 weeks to 13 years and include Early Learning, Kindergarten and Outside School Hours Care (Before School, After School and Vacation Care).\n\nIt is fundamental that educational and care service provision be authentic, developmentally sensitive, community centred, relevant and responsive.\n\nOur services are founded upon the the significance of relationships, developmental excellence and quality learning.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Infants and Toddlers
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSchool-aged care programs offer safe and productive activities during the hours outside of the school day. Recreational programs of general supervision and individual attention are provided by our staff for before and after school care programs and during school vacation periods.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Early Learning & Care Nurturing every stage of their journey Catholic Early Learning and Care services in the Diocese of Cairns cater for children aged from 6 weeks to 13 years and include Early Learning, Kindergarten and Outside School Hours Care (Before School, After School and Vacation Care). It is fundamental that educational and care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-616","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centracare.mustard.design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}