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Children aged 0 – 6 years
Summer Hill has that village feel – local, connected, and community-minded. Rise & Shine fits right in.
Our Summer Hill childcare centre serves families across Summer Hill, Haberfield, Ashfield, Lewisham, and Petersham. After government subsidies, fees start from $20 per day.
Most families don’t want just supervision. They want their child to come home happy and safe and having learned something, made a friend, and tried something new.
That’s what Rise & Shine is built around.
The Shine Advantage™ curriculum gives every child at our Summer Hill daycare access to a structured, research-backed learning framework, Smart Start for literacy and STEM, Fit for physical development, Inspired for creativity, and Unite and Crew for the social-emotional skills that matter just as much as academics.
Rise & Shine is 100% Australian family-owned and operated. It is recognised with the 2025 Teachers’ Guild of NSW Excellence Award, built on the philosophy that premium early education should feel warm, not corporate.
Our youngest children benefit from the Care+ approach, a dedicated primary educator, low ratios, and a predictable routine that helps babies and young toddlers settle and thrive. Preschoolers access the Orbit STEM Hub located next door for hands-on science and discovery.
For many inner west families who’ve toured a few centres and walked away underwhelmed, our Summer Hill preschool feels noticeably different. Our rooms are purposeful, the educators are engaged, and the program we follow has a clear rationale behind it.
It’s the result of a family-owned business that takes the quality of every single centre personally, because the founders’ names are on the door.
Every stage of early childhood is covered at Rise & Shine Summer Hill:
We’ve created a holistic, play-based early-learning curriculum designed to support your child’s whole development academically, socially, emotionally, and creatively. Known across the sector for our award-winning STEM program, we lead the way in innovative early childhood education.
Our approach is called the Shine Advantage™ curriculum, a research-driven program that goes beyond teaching letters and numbers. While early literacy and numeracy are essential, true school readiness is built through problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, and emotional intelligence.
The Shine Advantage™ Program is structured around five core learning elements, ensuring every child develops the skills, confidence, and curiosity they need to thrive in school and beyond.
Smart Start 
Inspired 
Unite 
Fit 
Crew We are happy and honoured to share some of the many testimonials from the hundreds of happy parents of children enrolled at Rise & Shine Kindergarten.
We are incredibly fortunate that Zoe is able to attend Rise & Shine. From the moment she enters the door I have a sense of security knowing she is being looked after by such friendly, nurturing, caring educators. The genuine affection and enthusiasm the staff show the children at the centre truly makes Rise and Shine a child’s “home away from home”. The cleanliness and educational facilities are amazing and are moving in line with today’s technology.
We would like to thank the staff at Rise and Shine Kindergarten for their professionalism. Even though my daughter has just started in the Centre, she fell in love with the place the moment she stepped in. We know that our daughter is well taken care of in the Centre. Each day she comes home with a new story to tell us and you can see the excitement in her eyes. We would highly recommend Rise & Shine Kindergarten and we know our daughter definitely enjoys her days there!
Federal CCS and NSW Start Strong preschool funding work together to reduce what families pay. For many Summer Hill families, that means $20 per day or less for a full preschool program.
Looking outside Summer Hill? Rise & Shine also operates centres in:
Ready to take the next step? Book a tour at Rise & Shine Summer Hill daycare and give yourself the chance to see what a great early learning centre actually looks like up close. Our team will take care of the rest, from availability, subsidies, waitlist, all of it.
Fees include all Shine Advantage™ curriculum’s educational programs,
on premises freshly cooked meals, nappies, sunscreen and enrolment pack.
We welcome children from 6 weeks to 6 years across our Nursery, Toddler, and Preschool/Kindergarten rooms.
Yes, we operate Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 6:00 pm, all year, excluding public holidays. No changes during NSW school holiday periods.
Eligible families pay from $20 per day with CCS and NSW Start Strong combined. Check your entitlement here or speak to our team.
Yes, our Summer Hill Preschool/Kindergarten room is for children aged 3–6, with a dedicated program for 4-year-olds eligible for NSW Start Strong funding.
Rise & Shine Kindergarten would acknowledge the Traditional Custodians across Australia and recognise First Nations peoples’ continued cultural connection to the land, sky and waterways that surround us. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
Rise & Shine Kindergarten would acknowledge the Traditional Custodians across Australia and recognise First Nations peoples’ continued cultural connection to the land, sky and waterways that surround us. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
