Open 7:00am to 6:00pm
Monday to Friday
HOURS
Mon to Fri 7:00am to 6:00pm
ADDRESS
60 Margaret Street Sydney, NSW, 2000
SPACES AVAILABLE NOW ACROSS ROOMS
Welcome to our Centre
Guardian Childcare & Education Margaret Street is conveniently located in the heart of the Sydney CBD, meaning our families can access the highest quality education and care in close proximity to work.
- Quality learning programs such as Joy of Reading, Cooking and Sustainability
- Engaging indoor learning spaces full of quality educational resources
- Exciting outdoor play spaces the children love! Including a fort, craft shed, vegetable patches and sandpit
- On-site Chef providing fresh snacks and meals daily
- Highly experienced Educators and degree-qualified Teachers
- Nappies, SPF 50+ sunscreen, high-quality formula and bed linen provided
- Extended hours of care each weekday from 7am to 6pm
Meet our Centre Manager
Angel
'Each day, I'm inspired by the laughter, curiosity, and potential of children in our care. Creating nurturing environments where they can flourish is a privilege, and witnessing the transformative impact of the early years education and play is truly rewarding.'
Where children are supported to be brave, curious, and bold in their learning, for the best possible start to life.
Rhythm of the Day
With endless possibilities, there’s never a dull moment at Guardian and no two days are the same. Here’s what a day at Guardian might look like.
With endless possibilities, there’s never a dull moment and no two days are the same.
Handover time with children, families and our friendly Educators. There's a chance for conversation to share what's important for the day/what's happened the night before at home.
Breakfast time where families are welcome to stay and enjoy breakfast with the children.
As children are arriving and families are coming and going, there's an opportunity for play as well as family grouping, open-plan play and multi-age grouping.
There's an opportunity for children to come together and enjoy morning tea.
Following morning tea, the planned experiences continue. This includes both indoor and outdoor programs.
There's an opportunity for children to come together for lunch. With an open-door policy, families are able to join the centre for meals and excursion if they wish.
For children who want to, or need to, there's an opportunity to sleep, rest or relax. For children who don't need to rest, there are planned experiences, which are more likely to be outdoors.
Children come together for afternoon tea in small groups or with siblings (they can also rest and play together, too). This time also presents an opportunity to reflect on the day.
As families arrive to pick up children, there's an opportunity to speak to Educators and share information about the day.
Some centres offer early tea or light snack at the end of the day, which they can grab as they leave the centre. We’re mindful of how routines vary at home, so if throughout the day, we notice children look tired, food will be provided.
What's included in the Guardian Experience
From nutritious meals and engaging learning programs —it’s all covered in your daily rate. No hidden extras, just peace of mind for you and a great day for your child.
Hat, wetbag and sunscreen
5 meals per day
All incursions and excursions
Nappies and wipes
Storypark parenting app
Long day care hours year around
Helpful Information
Opening Hours
What to Bring
What we Provide
- Nappies and wipes
- Bed linen
- Guardian hat
- SPF 50+ sunscreen
- All nutritious meals and snacks
What to Bring
- Water bottle
- Spare change of clothing, labelled
- Soft toy or comfort blanket for nap time
- Baby's bottles for formula or breastmilk
Our Educators
Our team of Educators are committed and passionate about ensuring your child will be safe, nurtured and cared for every day. At Guardian, children are encouraged to engage in interest-led play that creates learning and meaningful experiences.
Our Educators seek to optimise diverse learning opportunities and implement the Curriculum as framed by the Early Years Learning Framework.
You and Your Child
All Guardian Centres provide a Centre-to-Family communication platform so families can maintain contact with their children’s experiences through photos, stories and learning outcomes.
Our Centres use Storypark and each family is provided with a secure login to access on their computers, mobiles or apps.
More about Guardian Margaret Street
Guardian Childcare Margaret Street is an early learning centre that services the Sydney CBD and is rated as exceeding the National Quality Standard for childcare, delivering excellent outcomes for children and families.
Guardian Childcare & Education Margaret Street is a cosy home away from home, with three rooms that cater for children from six weeks to six years old. Our partially covered outdoor space enables children to engage with their environment through all seasons—even the wettest of days. The space features a bark garden (add and) vegetable (remove herb) garden (remove and worm farm) as well as a mini rain water tank from which they can access water to care for the gardens. All play spaces are interactive to encourage experimentation and exploration, with a range of tools available to help challenge their thinking.
Children can also look out onto the street to observe the ‘real world’ in action and love to watch (remove the buses and taxis speeding past,) (add the new light rail along George Street, traffic buzzing past) changing traffic lights, busy people rushing to work, and the occasional fire trucks that rush by!
Our childcare centre menu provides balanced and nutritious meals that are prepared fresh using high quality, seasonal ingredients. They adhere to dietary and cultural requirements, and are on a four-week rotating menu that changes to suit the season. Meal times are very social and we use this time to discuss the topic of healthy eating with the children.
If you are thinking of enrolling your child, we offer tours and an orientation program at all of our early learning centres in NSW to help you become more familiar with our team and how we work. We always welcome feedback on how we can improve our service and how we can make life easier for you.
Guardian Margaret Street is rated exceeding in the National Quality Standard, and it’s not hard to see why. Being in the CBD doesn’t mean we’ve compromised on space or outdoor access. In fact, the Centre boasts a range of exciting, resource-rich environments, including an undercover outdoor space, a fort, craft shed, vegetable patches and a range of age-specific play areas, where our exciting programs come to life.
Children at Guardian Margaret Street also get out and about on regular excursions, so we have a great connection with the local community. In addition to visiting our local parks and florist, the children love hosting fundraisers in our building to raise money for the Starlight Foundation, which is a wonderful learning experience for all.
The first five years of your child’s life are incredibly important when it comes to social and emotional development, and setting them up with a love of learning that lasts a lifetime. That’s why at Guardian Margaret Street we’re focused on teaching children how to learn versus just ticking a box.
Read this blog on the benefits of CBD based childcare to understand the many benefits in enrolling your child in a childcare and early learning centre close to your workplace. Some of those benefits include: more time with your child, convenience, unique community excursions, room to move and explore and giving your child the chance to explore the big world around them!
We’re confident our unique approach to combining education, play and care will be the difference you’re looking for.
Centre Highlights
Our Margaret Street childcare centre offers:
- Quality learning programs such as Joy of Reading, Cooking and Sustainability
- Engaging indoor learning spaces full of quality educational resources
- Exciting outdoor play spaces the children love! Including a fort, craft shed, vegetable patches and sandpit
- On-site Chef providing fresh snacks and meals daily
- Highly experienced Educators and degree-qualified Teachers
- Nappies, SPF 50+ sunscreen, high-quality formula and bed linen provided
- Extended hours of care each weekday from 7am to 6pm
Our Learning Programs
Learning should be fun! Learning through play encourages children to explore and understand their world at their own pace. It helps build their knowledge, develop confidence, and embrace curiosity.
Learning should be fun! Learning through play allows children to build their knowledge, develop confidence, and embrace curiosity.
Kindergarten/Preschool Program
Our specialist two-year kindergarten/preschool program is led by degree qualified Teachers in a long day care setting. Children explore and understand their world in an environment of safety and security. It’s where they develop the foundational literacy and numeracy skills to thrive.
Our Centre is a recipient of funding as part of the NSW Government’s Start Strong Program. Families can receive fee relief of up to $2110 per child aged 4 and above, and up to $500 per year for children aged 3. Ask for more details when you tour the centre.
Out and about
Through excursions, children are supported to expand their world, to get to know their community, and have a sense of belonging. Their learning thrives when they feel safe, welcome, and that they belong.
STEM
Children discover the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through age-appropriate activities that are designed to foster curiosity and develop foundational skills like problem-solving and creativity.
Cooking
Cooking experiences teach numeracy by counting ingredients, and weighing and measuring quantities and volume, while managing these tasks supports independence and confidence.
Ella Language
Learning languages through Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) supports brain development and social skills and creates opportunities to celebrate cultural diversity.
Joy of Reading
Reading aloud to children each day inspires imagination and supports thinking. Books with rhythm, rhyme and word patterns make stories more playful and memorable.
Sustainability
From growing veggies and foraging in the garden for that day’s meal ingredients to learning about recycling, children learn about being part of a community, connecting to their environment and understanding their impact on the world.
Anne-Emilie P.
18:15 15 Jan 24
Amazing facilities and staff members, very competent.
Genny M.
01:29 23 May 23
There is simply no other centre or team like the one at Margaret Street. I cannot find the words that are anywhere good enough to describe how amazing the Margaret Street educators are. The families are treated as family by all educators, and I can say (hand on heart) that there is absolutely no chance that I would send my child elsewhere. The support, love and guidance that we as a family receives from the educators at Margaret Street is hands down second to absolute none. Knowing that my child is so attached to her educators makes me so overjoyed and warms my heart knowing that all the children are loved in return. Angeliqe and Donna manage the centre outstandingly and I can assure you that they are worth so much more than you would ever determine. The team at Margaret Street are simply irreplaceable. It is thanks to this wonderful team of educators that my daughter is happy, always hitting new milestones, has found independence every single day and most importantly, my daughter is loved and respected by all of the educators and her friends. This team is worth more than its weight in gold. I am a Guardian Margaret Street Mum and nothing makes me prouder. Thank you team for all that you do, words will never be enough to describe what you all mean to Alessandra and of course ti us. We love you all so much. Endless blessings to you all ❤️
M B
04:47 23 Aug 22
Such a wonderful Centre. Highly recommend!
erika S.
00:53 29 Jun 22
My little one loves going to Margaret Street, she is building great relationships with her educators and drop off in the mornings are so easy. We love the Storypark updates and seeing the fun experiences she gets up to.
Grace K.
03:58 24 Sep 21
We have been with Margaret Street for over 3 fantastic years , and will stay till moving to Kindergarten. Convenient location for CBD workers , they are flexible and accommodating to parents with a variety of experienced educators. Hidden in the concrete jungle, they have gardens , sandpits, forts, play equipment and sunshine.Would highly recommend for parents working in the city!
Nikki F.
10:03 19 Sep 21
I inspected a few daycare centres before settling upon Guardian Margaret Street. No other centres were flexible when it came to meeting my requests in terms of foods offered to my child. Giselle the centre manager was more than happy to adjust things at meal times for us and I am so thankful to her, the cook and all the staff for goign above and beyond!
G-Man
23:15 26 May 21
Truly outstanding centre, I have 3 kids that have attended here. First had been to other centres in the city before ending up here, and the level of personal relationship and care between parents/careers/kids and managers at Margaret St is heartwarming. My older two still like coming back to say hi! Very grateful to the team, thanks! ☺️
Taras D
05:23 01 May 21
Anna M.
12:01 30 Apr 21
A happy place. We love it.
L B
07:01 17 Dec 20
Our daughter has attended Margaret St ELC for two years and absolutely loved it. The best centre in the CBD by far, Giselle and the team are warm, capable and passionate about what they do. Thank you for taking such great care of us and our girl!
Dawei Y.
01:24 23 Nov 20
This is a great and reliable place I'd love to send my son and recommend to my friends too. When my son's previous centre closed suddenly, we were so worried and did not know if he could settle in this new place. However, that was a surprise that after the first week been here, my son said, "This is the best school ever." This means a huge relief to us. All the educators in Margaret Street are professional and friendly. They would put the child's need at the first priority and always have fun and educational activities. The management is excellent here as well. Whenever we had any request, Giselle would help us as soon as possible. Now my son has been here for nearly a year, he had built close relationship with the educators and is happy everyday. Here is a big "Thank you" from all my family to the educators.
Josh M.
09:56 26 Oct 20
Our little one has been going to Margaret St for over a year now, she always looks forward to her day there and has created some amazing bonds with people there.During our little one's attendance, we have found the staff to be welcoming, caring and feel that they always put your child's best interests first. They are always accommodating and pleasant to talk to. I have found them to be open and honest about a range of topics to ensure our little one is catered for.It's a smaller centre and for us that has been perfect, ensuring a warm environment and know that our little one is enjoying quality time there. It saddens me that we have moved away from the city and now need to change centres, I really wish it was possible to bring Giselle and her fantastic team along with us!I'm sure our little one will miss Margaret St and know that my wife & will too!Thank you to all of you 👍🏼
elisabeth W.
02:01 08 Sep 20
Since my daughter has been with the educators at this space she has flourished. She is supported and gets to explore amazing concepts, ideas and experiences daily. I feel safe leaving my child in this centre and the manager is very easy to talk to and always takes my daughters care with the utmost importance
Jayta N.
10:15 11 Oct 19
Even though I was prepared to leave my child at a day care centre, it was hard to finalise one given a huge number of considerations. However, in my heart I knew that I would go by my gut feeling and I knew Margaret street early learning centre was the place I would choose for my daughter the minute I walked in there. It’s a relatively small centre, but the staff is so friendly, warm and caring. The place makes you feel safe and cozy instantly, the kind of place I was happy to leave my child at while I was at work. I remember telling Larissa, that every transition a child goes through, a mother goes through as well. So, a big thank you to all the wonderful women at the centre who helped my daughter and me go through this huge transition. They were like second mothers to my baby and I knew she was safe with them while I could go to work, enjoy a coffee or just relax at home sometimes. I was in tears when I had to move my baby to another centre because we recently moved places and I wanted my daughter to be closer home. Thanks in particular to Larissa, Anna, Mariana, Jess B and Jessica
Hannah M.
02:38 26 Aug 19
I was originally dreading the thought of sending my daughter to daycare -- but the educators at Margaret Street are so wonderful. They clearly love the kids, their communication with parents is great, the centre is small and cosy, the kids have a fabulous time learning new things and building friendships. I'm so glad we found this centre. Highly recommend!