THE CUTTING of the ribbon at the brand new Karmai Childrens Community Centre Kinder was followed by cheers and clapping from the team who’ve spent the past twelve months working on the project.
The new, purpose designed and built facility has been constructed on the corner of the Korumburra Primary school grounds.
Two separate, large, light filled playrooms with adjoining meeting rooms, kitchen, landscaped gardens, and a playground with all abilities access, complete the kinder.
The KCCC Kinder program caters to four and five year olds and has been operating from an old building on the Korumburra Primary school grounds for the last few years.
The new site will allow provision for greater numbers of children to attend, holding up to two groups of 33 children each, creating an additional twenty places.
The final touches are being added to the site including furniture, a gazebo, playground, and landscaping, readying it for the first day of kinder on Monday, February 5.
The KCCC team commented that having the new centre so close to other Korumburra schools and childcare centres has helped to form an education like precinct for
Korumburra and makes it easier for families.
“Just having it on the site of the school, is obviously a massive advantage for parents that have got kids at the primary school, they’ll just drive through, drop the kinder kids off, drop the school kids. It’s just seamless,” said Peewee Lewis, Secretary of KCCC.
“It’s also fantastic for the little ones that have got older siblings. They can literally watch their siblings playing out in the school grounds.”
Despite being a difficult site to build and landscape due to its sloping nature, Jamie Hutchison President of KCCC said the team, which included the primary school, builders, landscapers and SGSC, met fortnightly for over a year and worked together extremely well, making it a smooth process.
“The school gave up their netball court for our car park and they’ve been so accommodating for the construction work. They’ve been amazing to deal with and even the builder commented that this has been one of the simplest sites, because of how well everyone’s worked together,” she said.
The KCCC team commented that the new kinder heralds a positive and vibrant start to 2024 and the educators are excited to welcome children to the new site for the year ahead.
