Babinda Community Kindergarten

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.

12/02/2026

Did you know that Babinda Library has a weekly “Make and Create” session.

Every Tuesday at 10am.

What a great place and FREE program to take your little ones to.

Let’s support all our communtiy assets and show Cairns Regional Council just how strong this community can be!!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14Xxoy6EvwH/?mibextid=wwXIfr

We’ve got your week all planned out for 0–5 year olds — join us next week for a FREE First 5 Forever session and make your mornings extra special! 🎉

🕙 All morning sessions start at 10am:
⭐ Mon – Dancing Storytime (QLD Ballet) | Manunda Library
⭐ Tue – Make & Create Storytime | Babinda Library
⭐ Wed – Special “Where is the Green Sheep?” storytime | City Library
⭐ Thu – Storytime | Earlville Library
⭐ Fri – Giggle and Glue | Stratford Library
🎶 Afternoon fun: Sing & Create with Mr Nate 📍 Manunda Library | 🕝 2:30pm

👫 Bring a friend and join the fun! Talk • Read • Sing • Play 💛

08/02/2026

This is the response to the Cairns Regional Council Aquatic Strategy by Carly Francis our local Kindy Teacher here at Babinda Kindy.

Please check out the Babinda Taskforce page for the links to their own local survey and the Cairns Regional Council survey.

Babinda Pool is a much loved community asset that is extremely important for the patrons that utilise the pool. I was the last long-term swimming teacher, taught for 8 years and finished in April 2022 when I then took on the Kindy teacher role next door. The swim school had over 100 students and was sought after by Babinda and regional families, and a number of Innisfail families. They would travel to attend swimming lessons at Babinda. The pool has the opportunity to thrive again, and if Management is able to advertise for, recruit and train staff, then the possibilities are high for it to be well utilised again.

I also believe that the facilities have not been maintained in the past 12 years since commencing work there. There have been ongoing maintenance issues that were never addressed in a timely manner or at all, including multiple requests to fix tiles inside the pool, fix leaks, and make repairs. It is now evident that fixes that could have prolonged the life of the facility are not possible now. I believe this is neglect on the council part, as well as the council officers that manage the facilities infrastructure.

I love the boulders, but even I struggle to enter and exit the water (49 years of age with osteoarthritis) and cannot use it for exercising. Only for recreation to cool off on a hot day. I value my time being able to access the Babinda pool for the purpose of rehabilitation, exercise and recreation with my family. My daughter has the chance at thriving by swimming and it is incredibly important for her with her ongoing mobility and emotional needs. The non weight bearing exercise and freedom that the water brings for someone with restricted muscle movement is extremely important. We do access Innisfail swimming pool currently for swimming lessons once per week, and also attend Babinda Pool weekly for further training and recreation. Ideally I would love to access on a weekend, as it's local and a key opportunity for me around my working hours (work full time in Edmonton and Babinda) and accessing the pool during the week can sometimes mean I am needing to make up additional hours of my work on the weekends.

I feel that removing the pool altogether will severely inhibit many community members to exercise as this facility is such a vital resource. The wellbeing of our community is extremely important, and just like the pool, we too are aging.

The Local Kindy (our kindy - Babinda Community Kindergarten) currently has the highest numbers ever attending kindy. We have 26 children attending kindy, from the very start of school this year. This shows that we have increasing numbers of families with young children moving to the region. The services attract more families to our area, and I want to see our community thrive, not die. These children could be our future leaders, future heroes, future olympians, future academics, future scientists, future farmers, the possibilities are endless. But in order to achieve this status, our children need to have the chance to be kids and enjoy life. Learning to swim in a safe and supportive environment is highly important to our children, families, schools, and community.
I urge the Cairns Regional Council to dig deep, put the community first, and lead with your heart. There is not a question of do we have the funds to keep the pool open in Babinda, but we need to FIND the funds to keep the pool open in Babinda!

Please have your say in both links below. One is for Babinda Taskforce and the other is directly to Cairns Regional Council. Please ensure everyone completes the Cairns regional council survey.

It is 2 questions plus one comment.
Just comment - Don't close Babinda pool. It is vital for the local community to maintain health and wellbeing in all ages.

✨ SAVE OUR POOL, SAVE OUR COMMUNITY ✨

📣 Babinda and Surrounds - We Need YOU 🫵

📍 1. Please provide feedback to the recently endorsed Cairns Regional Council Draft Aquatic Facilities Strategy (which proposes the decommissioning of Babinda Swimming Pool) by completing the Babinda Taskforce Babinda Swimming Pool Survey here 👉 https://shorturl.at/tLeSc

We need your questions and solutions to ensure the Babinda Taskforce submission to Cairns Regional Council accurately reflects community needs and interests.

📍 2. You can also give feedback via Cairns Regional Council’s “Cairns Aquatic Facilities Strategy” Have Your Say page here 👉 https://shorturl.at/YDMLY

✨ SAVE OUR POOL, SAVE OUR COMMUNITY ✨

04/02/2026

Does anyone have any core flute they no longer want/need?

I’d love the kindy children to commence a new learning project and prepare some signs to help
‘SAVE OUR POOL’

Our little people can often be our best advocates!

All donations welcome. Happy to collect or you can drop off to kindy.

06/12/2025

Can you make it to this important Babinda meeting.

Register your attendance directly with Babinda taskforce via the QR code.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17fhKnfjXD/?mibextid=wwXIfr

27/11/2025

Orientation Day today for all our 2026 enrolments!!
9:30 - 10:30am
Don't forget to bring -
* Hat
* Water bottle or cup
* Morning tea

30/10/2025

WOW! What an amazing time we all had today on our Community Bank Babinda sponsored excursion. We headed off this morning to Sugarworld Gardens playground, where we enjoyed some delicious food and a play at the playground. Following this, we went for our gymnastics class at Cairns South Gymnastics.

We explored, played, laughed, tested our abilities, learnt new skills, practiced and developed skills we already had, and most of all, we had FUN!

We are so grateful to Community Bank Babinda for the generous sponsorship they provided, which covered all costs for the excursion, including our food for the day.

Thanks also goes to the families and helpers that were able to come along today, and to Kevin Ganly for keeping the bus nice and cool on this extremely warm day.

17/10/2025

WOW! Check out our new fence.

We are extremely grateful to have quality, modern, and SAFE fencing for our kindy children and families.

A huge thank you to Cr Brett Moller - Cairns Regional Council Discretionary Funding, and Capital Works Funding (C&K, Queensland Government) for the co-contribution toward our new fencing.

10/10/2025

Just wondering if anyone has any school shirts for our local schools they are willing to donate to our kindy dress ups. We only needing 2 or 3 from each school in sizes 4,6 or 8.

21/08/2025

Babinda Community Kindergarten offers Kindy for eligible aged children in the year before they attend school. We operate on Thursdays and Fridays, 8.15am - 4.00pm.

We have a fully qualified and registered early childhood teacher with the Queensland College of Teachers, as well as qualified early childhood educators. We operate a concurrent program where the children can move freely between the indoor and outdoor environment.

Renovations to our outdoor playground are now complete and the children are absolutely loving their time in the environment, where they can explore and create their own play ideas.

We are now taking enrolments for the 2026 Kindy year and future years (2026, 2027, 2028, 2029). Please register your interest via the link below.

https://parent-portal.kidsoft.com.au/find-a-place?URLCode=babindacommunitykindergarten

07/08/2025

Today is the day!!!
There is so much excitement here not only with the kids but with the staff and the parents as this morning we opened up our new back yard to the kids. We have kids busy making music in the music centre, making rivers and catching crocodiles in the new river bead and mud pit, baking sand cakes in their new café and having some wild adventures on the new rope swing. A HUGE thank you to LEAP Innovations Pty Ltd for bring all our dreams and envisions to real life and giving our Kindy kids the best gift in life a space for pure happiness and lots of adventures. We just love our new space.

Thank you to Community Bank Babinda, C&K - The Creche & Kindergarten Association Limited Capital Works Grant & Queensland Government Gambling Community Benefit Fund, with out these grants this amazing space would not have been possible.

01/08/2025

Week 2 Progress - THE EXCITEMENT IS HIGH
After having 5 days of beautiful weather a lot of progress has been made with a bit less mud (pity the weather couldn't stay that way for a bit longer). We are getting so excited seeing the progress each day and we can't wait to see the faces of our Kindy kids when we get to open up the gates for them to go and explore the AMAZING play space that LEAP Innovations Pty Ltd are creating for us. WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!