Rise & Shine Kindergarten Summer Hill 15 Smith Street, Summer Hill, New South Wales 2130

"Both our children go here and have done so from nursery. The educators are wonderful and it’s a relief to have such caring people looking after out children - they’ve created real, lasting bonds which is comforting! The support staff are amazing and the floor managers and 2IC are super helpful and friendly! Since the pandemic they’ve implemented Covid safe practices which gave us an immense amount of comfort in sending our children there. The practices are reflective of the peaks and troughs of the pandemic and we are so grateful that the health and safety of our children and the staff has been at the forefront of all the decisions. Thanks team!"

"Our experience with Rise and Shine was quite positive. Our daughter attended rise and shine for about 9 months. She loved coming to the center every day. Her educators were really caring and and really lovely. We saw her going from being really shy to outgoing in that time. We were really skeptical when we had to move out of Summer hill about how will our daughter adjust to the new place because she loved her educators so much. We would recommend Rise and Shine to anyone in Summer hill and surrounds."

"My little ones had spent 2 lovely years with this outstanding child care. Great staffs, and the educators are so loving and caring, they understand each kid is different and are able to focus on their varies interests. There are always amazing learning projects going on in the preschool room too. What I personally appreciate the most is the engagement of group time here, it really makes a difference in developing kids social and people skills."

"My daughter always has good time here. They offer caring good educators, nice and clean facility, lots of activities which is not easy to do at home. Since it’s not easy to get help from our family, it’s been great having a spot for my daughter here. Now she got friends and looks forward to going to this centre. It’s true that they’ve been changing director several times, we had to say goodbye to some nice educators. But educators here are making so much effort on children to provide warm environment. We’re just so thankful."

"We found this kindergarten to be unsafe and unsupervised. We have had to remove our daughter due to safety issues & lack of attention. When the daycare was assessed this year, it was noted that the doors were unsafe and needed to be adjusted. This was completely ignored resulting in my daughter having a serious accident that required surgery. Still, nothing was done on the doors. I kept asking them to fix it and minor adjustments were made after 2 months of constantly asking. Often I would pick up my daughter and staff ratios were not right. When I asked the teacher about it they told me they had too many children. Often my daughter would come home saying she was called names. When I brought this up I was brushed off, saying that they never heard anything said and that my daughter is happy. Finally after giving them multiple chances for 1.5 years and being lied to about multiple other issues, we had enough and pulled her out. Our precious children need much better than this!!"