Welcome to Orana

We are a not for profit community based preschool based in Wallsend. We believe in an enjoyment of learning through active exploration, child initiated play and experiences, while building strong, positive relationships with others.

We nurture those essential skills required for successful transition to formal education and support children’s unique individual needs and strengths while promoting inclusion for all.

Our commitment to Child Safety

In line with our Philosophy EMPOWER- ‘Orana Community Preschool ensures to embed child safety and wellbeing across all of our decision making, promoting children’s understanding of their rights to feel safe and heard.’

Orana Community Preschool is committed to child safety.

We want children to be safe, happy, and empowered.

We support and respect all children, as well as our staff and volunteers.

We are committed to the safety, participation, and empowerment of all children.

We have zero tolerance of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will be treated very seriously and consistently with our robust policies and procedures.

We have legal and moral obligations to contact authorities when we are worried about a child’s safety, which we follow rigorously.

We are committed to preventing child abuse and identifying risks early, and removing and reducing these risks.

We have robust human resources and recruitment practices for all staff and volunteers.

We are committed to regularly training and educating our staff and volunteers on child abuse risks.

We support and respect all children, as well as our staff and volunteers.

We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children, the cultural safety of children from a culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe environment for children with a disability.

We have specific policies, procedures and training in place that support our leadership team, staff and volunteers to achieve these commitments.

 

Ref- National Principles for child Safe Organisations and the UN-The rights of the Child convention.

 

Learning = Fun

Wait list applications are accepted year round.

ENROLMENTS
If you would like to find out more about Orana, please phone us on 4951 6333 or please see our enrolments page.

Orana is licensed by the Department of Early Childhood Education and Care for 29 children per day, offering full day sessions for children aged three years up to starting school. We are open Monday to Friday, during school terms. The preschool is closed on all public holidays and school holidays.