Children's services directory

Childcare centres and kindergartens

  • Our childcare centres cater for children from 0-6 years of age. They usually operate for eight hours a day and may offer a kindergarten program. 
  • Children attend kindergarten in the year before school, usually when they are four years old. Some services offer programs for three-year-olds. Kindergartens offer a few hours or full-day sessions.

Our education and care programs are created around the developmental needs and interests of each child.

For waiting list applications, to enrol or for information about childcare centres and kindergartens, please contact the individual services.

Centre Address Telephone Children’s service type

Armadale Early Learning Centre

3 Fulton Street, Armadale

03 9509 3187

Kindergarten

Brookville Kindergarten

53 Canterbury Road, Toorak

03 9827 2091

Kindergarten

Bubbles Preschool

168 Waverley Road, Malvern East

03 9572 1995

Kindergarten

Caulfield Grammer School - Early Learning Centre

5 Willoby Avenue, Glen Iris

03 9885 5995

Kindergarten

Central Park Childcare Centre

116 Burke Road, Malvern East

03 9885 7138

Long day care

Chabad House of Malvern 316 Glenferrie Road, Malvern 03 9822 4985 Long day care and kindergarten

Early Years at Phoenix Park

25 Quentin Road, Malvern East

03 9569 9500

Long day care and kindergarten

East Malvern Early Learning Centre

11 Illowa Street, Malvern East

03 9886 9142

Long day care and kindergarten


Ewing Memorial Kindergarten

32a Manning Road, Malvern East

03 9571 3955

Kindergarten

Explorers Early Learning

21 - 23 Munro Street, Armadale

03 9248 3030

Long day care and kindergarten

Gardiner Pre-school

10 St Andrews Lane, Glen Iris

03 9885 4040

Kindergarten

Geelong Grammar School - Early Learning Centre

14 Douglas Street, Toorak

03 9829 1444

Kindergarten

Goodstart Early Learning Chadstone

Batesford Road (rear of Holmesglen TAFE), Chadstone

03 9569 7114

Long day care and kindergarten

Guardian Childcare and Education Prahran

349 High Street, Prahran

13 82 30

Long day care

Guardian Childcare and Education South Yarra Level 1/670 Chapel Street, South Yarra 13 82 30 Long day care and kindergarten
Glen Education Serrell Street Kindergarten 54 Serrell Street, Malvern East  03 9571 8607  Kindergarten

Hornbrook Children's Centre

47 Earl Street, Windsor

03 8290 7171

Temporarily closed

John Mackenzie Kindergarten

603 Toorak Road, Toorak

03 9827 1855

Kindergarten

Korowa Anglican Girls School - Early Learning Centre

Ranfurlie Crescent, Glen Iris

03 9811 0200

Kindergarten

Lauriston Kindergarten

38 Huntingtower Road, Armadale

03 9864 7549

Kindergarten

Little Paddington Early Learning Centre

412 Waverley Road, Malvern East

03 9572 3838

Long day care and kindergarten

Little St Margarets

29 Mayfield Avenue, Malvern

03 9822 7106

Kindergarten

Malvern Day Nursery

101 Tooronga Road, Glen Iris

03 9509 1896

Long day care and kindergarten

Malvern Early Learning & Child Care Centre

9 Llaneast Street, Armadale

03 9509 0739

Long day care and kindergarten

Malvern Memorial Kindergarten

15 Orchard Street, Armadale

03 9822 7106

Kindergarten

Montessori Beginnings Malvern  14 Spring Road, Malvern 03 9880 2033 Long day care and kindergarten

 

Nido Early School

 

2 Donald Street, Prahran

 

03 8592 8088

 

Long day care and kindergarten

 

Nino Early Learning Adventures Malvern East

11 - 15 Chadstone Road, Malvern East

03 9086 4800

Long day care and kindergarten

Only About Children 30 Kooyong Road, Armadale, 3143  138 622 Long day care and kindergarten

Prahran Community Learning Centre

40 Grattan Street, Prahran 3181

03 9510 7052

Occasional care

Princes Close Early Years' Service

17 Princes Close, Prahran

03 8290 3247

Council operated long day care

Renown Kindergarten

20 Cliff Street, South Yarra

03 9827 4747

Kindergarten

Samantha's Childcare and Kindergarten

190 Burke Road, Glen Iris

03 9885 6474

Long day care and kindergarten

South Yarra Preschool Horace Petty Housing Estate, Rear of 259 Malvern Road, South Yarra  03 9804 7569  Kindergarten 

St Catherine’s Early Learning Centre

27 Heyington Place, Toorak

03 9828 3075

Kindergarten

St. Peters Early Learning Centre

581 Toorak Road, Toorak 3142

03 9822 0911

Kindergarten

Stonnington Children's Centre

110 Union Street, Windsor

03 9510 1500

Long day care and kindergarten

Sunnyside Kindergarten

5 Cooinda Place, Malvern East 3145

03 9571 5349

Kindergarten

Sutherland House

1076 Malvern Road, Armadale

03 9824 8317

Long day care


The King David School

373 Dandenong Road, Armadale

03 9998 2954

Kindergarten

Wattletree Early Childhood Centre

256 Wattletree Road, Malvern

03 9509 5112

Long day care and kindergarten

Windsor Community Children’s Centre

131-133 Union Street, Prahran

03 9521 4653

Long day care and kindergarten

Winter Street Early Years' Services

5 Winter Street, Malvern

03 8290 6060

Council operated long day care and sessional care