Babinda Community Kindergarten

07/08/2026

Today we harvested our sweet potatoes that have been growing all year. We have had such a wet year, we thought we better harvest them now the sun was out.

Our educators learnt about community food harvesting through their time with Connecting the Dots through Culture and time spent in the Torres Strait. The way we harvested our vegetables today and shared them with our kindy community is something we have been looking forward to all year.

We are super proud of our produce haul and can't wait to cook with them next week. We are planning to make sweet potato chips and sop sop (a Torres Strait Islander vegetable dish). There were plenty of sweet potatoes to go around. The children all took some home for their families, and the small ones will be replanted into our garden.

06/08/2026

Are you looking for something to do tonight?
The Babinda Harvest Festival Royalty Quest is having a movie night.
WONDERPARK
Starts at 6pm.
Popcorn, drinks, fairy floss for sale.
$2 entry
Just turn up to Babinda CWA tonight at Bill Wakeham Park.

🎬🍿 Looking for something fun to do this weekend?

Our Princess Quest Movie Night is just around the corner, and we'd love to see you there!

Bring the family, meet our wonderful 2026 Harvest Festival Princesses, enjoy some tasty movie snacks and don't forget to dress up as your favourite book or movie character for your chance to win a prize.

We can't wait to welcome you for a fun-filled evening of movies, laughter and community spirit! Get your tickets at the door!
See the event flyer for all the details. 💛🌾

31/07/2026

Babinda Community Kindergarten are now taking expressions of interest and enrolments for 2027 and beyond.
If you have a child that is due for Kindy either next year or in future years, please register through our online Kidsoft portal here:
babindacommunitykindergarten - https://parent-portal.kidsoft.com.au/find-a-place...
Or you can email us at [email protected]
Expressions of interest for Early Entry to kindy is also welcomed.

18/06/2026

Babinda Community Kindergarten are now taking expressions of interest and enrolments for 2027 and beyond.
If you have a child that is due for Kindy either next year or in future years, please register through our online Kidsoft portal here:
babindacommunitykindergarten - https://parent-portal.kidsoft.com.au/find-a-place?URLCode=babindacommunitykindergarten
Or you can email us at [email protected]

Expressions of interest for Early Entry to kindy is also welcomed.

31/05/2026

Sea of Hearts Movement

Our kindy children have been busy painting and decorating over 170 ceramic hanging hearts that are going to be shared with our community. We already shared 30 hearts with educators to inspire them to join the Sea of Hearts Movement for National Reconciliation Week.

We have put little packs together and are excited for our community to be involved in our Kindy’s commitment to Reconciliation.

The first 20 hearts have been placed around Babinda. We encourage you to keep an eye out for a little pink bag. You may look in the garden, on a fence, next to a footpath, and a few extra places in town.

The plan is to hide more each day across our town and region, and encourage people to find the hearts.

You may choose to take it with you or re-hide it for someone else to find. Whatever you choose, we hope you enjoy seeing these hearts around.

22/05/2026

The first of our hearts for National Reconciliation Week are ready to be delivered.

Our children have joined the Connecting the Dots through Culture Sea of Hearts Movement and have been very busy decorating ceramic hanging hearts to put in our community.

On Saturday our educators are in Cairns for a conference. These hearts will be shared with educators from across FNQ, in the hopes to inspire all services and communities to join the journey toward Reconciliation and the Sea of Hearts Movement.

Next week our children will continue to create their hearts and those will be shared with the local Babinda Community, hidden around town for people to find. Keep your eye out for our next post with the updates for heart hiding day.

21/05/2026

Are you wanting to know more about our Kindy for next year or future years?

Come along to our Open Day event on Thursday 5th June, between 9am-10am. Chat with our educators, allow your child time to play in our kindy environment, and explore what our kindy has to offer.

https://www.candk.asn.au/early-learning/family-resources/event/babinda-community-kindergarten-open-day

14/05/2026

Innisfail Tigers and looking for 5-7 year old kids to join the Babinda 6/7 Team

30/04/2026

Today we make a plea to Cairns Regional Council on the closure of the consultation period for the Cairns Aquatic Strategy.

We strongly hope that Council consider our plea, and the impact that closing our pool would have on the local community.

Join us and share our post, tag a local councillor, have your say. Help us to SAVE OUR POOL!

19/02/2026

Our children are our best advocates.

The past two weeks our Kindy Community Warriors have been working hard to create signs to help ‘SAVE our POOL’.

We are extremely proud of their commitment, enthusiasm and efforts to design and create their own messages to tell Cairns Regional Council.

Each sign was created by the children, with the wording written by Miss Carly.

We share a fence with the local swimming pool - Babinda Awuatic Centre - that Cairns Regional Council is proposing to close.

Help us spread the word that ‘Future Olympians NEED a Pool!’

We hope that our message transcends beyond our little kindy.