Koala Bear Daycare
A fully licensed daycare on Terrace Drive in Coldstream, serving families across Vernon, Lumby, Lavington and Coldstream.
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Maven Lane Lavington
About Maven Lane Lavington
A non-profit early childhood learning centre in Lavington: childcare and preschool from about nine months to twelve years, running since 1994.
Maven Lane is a non-profit early childhood learning centre on School Road in Lavington, running childcare and preschool for children from about nine months old through to roughly twelve. It has done that since 1994, long enough in a community this size that more than one generation of local children has passed through the same rooms. Lavington is the village heart of Coldstream, with a school, a store and an identity quite separate from Vernon down the road, and a centre that has held its place there for that long tends to be known by name rather than by sign.
The program is play-based. Literacy and numeracy are worked into ordinary play and the routines of the day rather than taught at a desk, and there is a deliberate focus on self-help skills and on children learning to name and manage how they feel. Bus service is offered, which counts for more here than it would in town, since Coldstream is a scattered district of acreages and farm roads rather than a street grid, and Lavington sits off the main school routes. For plenty of families, transport is the difference between a spot being usable and being merely available.
Parents comparing options are best served by the questions a website cannot answer for them: which age groupings currently have room, how the day is shaped for the youngest children, what the ratio looks like at different points in it, and how the bus route runs relative to your own road. Ages, programs and current spaces are kept up to date at mavenlane.org, and that is the place to start, since childcare availability moves with each term and a waiting list in a district this small can turn over faster than you expect.
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