C&K Paddington Community Kindergarten & Preschool

Brisbane Child Care lists C&K Paddington Community Kindergarten & Preschool in Paddington, who continued to provide excellent Vacation Care care, education and support for the children and their families of Paddington Australia.

C & K Paddington Community Kindergarten, a branch centre of C&K, is one of Brisbane’s best kept secrets. Tucked away in tranquil, leafy, Charlotte Street, in the heart of Paddington, as a result of the hard work of community parents, it opened it’s doors in 1916 as a crèche and kindergarten. In 2011, C & K Paddington will celebrate 95 years of service to the Paddington community.

During the last 95 years the kindergarten has responded to changing community needs. An example of it’s community response was in 1919 when Brisbane was in the grips of the flu epidemic, when it cared for children as a child care service, 24 hours per day for three months as parents stricken by the flu, were unable to care for their own children. In the 70’s and 80’s, it also operated a bus service to collect and return home it’s young kindergartners and preschoolers, when the service provided an educational program for our local indigenous population.