The Next Steps
1. Enquire Online
Submit your enquiry online and we will send information about fees, bonds, booking a tour and enrolling online
2. Book A Tour
Book your tour online, or over the phone, and come and meet the team and see our centre.
3. Enrol Online
Submit an online enrolment form and pay the bond & first week of fees to secure your spot.
Why You'll Love
Cherry Bridge Station?
1. Great Location
Located on Blaxland Rd with dedicated underground parking with easy ramp and lift access. #pramfriendly
2. Designed for Kids
Built-in fun, safe and secure – why don’t you do a virtual tour whilst you’re here?
6. Awesome Educators
Dedicated, passionate and qualified educators with who love to work with young minds.
7. All-inclusive & transparent pricing
Nappies, incursions & extra curricular activities are included, and we don’t charge for public holidays.
8. Get the App & Keep in touch
Get real-time notifications straight to your phone throughout the day.
1. Great Location
Our location is 71 Blaxland Road in Rhodes. The quick drop-off and pick-up is possible for all commuting through Rhodes via Concord Rd, however, we’re also only 500m down the street from Rhodes Train Station for everyone on foot.
Cherry Bridge Station values community connections, and you’ll find the centre’s centrality and convenience to Rhodes a big plus in getting errands done, heading to the gym, taking bigger kids to nearby play and leisure centres, or even getting to the dentist.
We love Club Lime Rhodes, just around the corner, and visiting Sydney Olympic Park is always a fun activity after picking up the kids in the afternoon. You’ll find quality local health and medical services nearby too.
2. Designed for Kids
It’s great to know, when you walk into Cherry Bridge Station Rhodes, that every element of the Centre’s design has been made with your child in mind. It’s modern, comfy – and loads of fun! Warm, tactile, bright and homely, light-filled indoor spaces are furnished with natural textures and elements that appeal to the imagination. We created a cosy vibe, with a range of textiles and textures, like funky rugs and throw cushions, which helps your child make the transition between child care and home.
3. Age Stage Learning
Cherry Bridge Station Rhodes has specialised educational programs to suit ages 12 months – 5 years:
Toddlers - The Kookaburras (1-3 years)
We’re walking and talking now! With more mobility and communication, peer engagement forms a big part of social growth at this age. Activity is encouraged as gross motor skills and curiosity collide! Cherry Bridge Station educators find days in the Kookaburras room are filled with talking . . . lots and lots of talking. Your child’s language development is likely to be skyrocketing right about now. Our educators look for different ways to extend their language skills every day, both in learning and play sessions, encouraging your child to use this strong foundation as a tool for navigating those new experiences. Play activities are created with education goals and independence in mind, while sparking their imaginations with peer-related games such as pretend play. Education programs are activity-based and cover mathematics concepts, self-help skills, negotiating socially, dealing with challenges and making choices.
Preschool - The Wallabies (3-4 years)
Level up! At this stage, we focus on preparing children for the preschool program, at 4-5 years age stage. Our Wallabies love socialising and learning to interact with new friends. This stage is about expanding social skills and learning different ways of being social, in groups and independently. Educators engage those expanding language skills with increasingly complex vernacular. This important social stage in the learning journey is where a growing awareness of rules and boundaries are balanced with curiosity and exploration. Educators focus on encouraging co-operation with others, enhanced prosocial skills, taking care of friends and making and following simple rules. We actively encourage kindness towards each other, as part of building solid foundations for personal growth and self-reflection.
Preschool - The Emus (4-5 years)
The Emus are really-nearly ready for school! It’s all about Kindergarten preparedness, in our education programming. Our preschoolers are learning skills that will help them feel more confident and settled at primary school – including familiarity with education technology and structured learning environments. The program is a fun, comprehensive approach to letter and number recognition, sight words, basic science concepts, reflective thinking and applied strategies for solving problems. Whether it’s counting backwards, tying a shoelace or telling a story, school-readiness learning takes place alongside self-awareness, structured play and individual interests. Our Emus get ready to take the leap, with small and large group story sharing, drawing and writing, learning about colours, shapes and numbers, developing personal and communal responsibilities and caring for their own belongings, problem-solving, self-help skills and social interaction with their peers.
4. Room to Run
Wonder-filled days are made from exploration and imagination – and great playgrounds! Our outdoor play areas stimulate the senses, as well as offering spaces for quiet play, with separate playgrounds for our 0-2 years and 2-5 years age groups.
Cubbies! Trike tracks! Sandpits! …Craft zone? Whichever way you play, Cherry Bridge Station Rhodes is set up for fun and outdoor play. Each day, your child will engage in structured and free play sessions, which form part of the daily routine.
Outdoor play looks different at different age levels. Holistically-designed play spaces incorporate soft landings and curved structures that make adventurous play accessible and more risk-averse – with fun as the main focus.
5. Eating Right - Al Meals Included
Growing healthy habits for life!
Your child’s meals are created onsite every day in our commercial kitchen by our Centre Cook. We don’t use preprepared meals or outside catering – we cook good, fresh food every day and often bake our own bread.
As we freshly prepare all meals in our own kitchen, every child’s dietary and religious food requirements are catered for:
6. Dedicated Educators
We're so proud of our team
We know that educators need to be passionate about what they do. Our exceptional staff work with us because we know that educators who care for children, as opposed to just doing a job, provide a much better quality and consistency of care.
This means your child’s daily experience is supported by caring professionals who provide quality childcare and help our centre to lift the bar in achieving great educational outcomes in our early learners.
The best thing about this framework is that the goals of Cherry Bridge Station are aligned with what our parents want.
7. All-inclusive & transparent pricing
At Cherry Bridge Station, we know it’s important for families to stay on top of the household budget. We are committed to all-inclusive transparent pricing encompassing all the day-to-day and week-to-week essentials:
8. Get the app & Keep in touch
We know that as parents, you are keen to know all about your child’s experiences throughout the day. The Cherry Bridge Station App enables parents and carers to access real-time notifications about their child’s daily eating, sleeping and play routines, every day. You know your child is in the best possible care, with the option to access and receive relevant notes and images throughout a care session so that you don’t miss a thing. Centre news, daily menus, the educational curriculum and lots more is right at your fingertips with the Cherry Bridge Station App.
