The Top 3 Childcare Centres in Wollert, VIC (3750)

Future Leaders Academy is a family-run Montessori centre on Saltlake Boulevard, open 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays. It takes children from six weeks to five years across four rooms, from a baby room through to a kindergarten room for the year before school. Its 80 approved places also cover outside school hours care and vacation care, so the figure is not a long day care count. The current operator took over the service approval in February 2026.

Montessori shapes the day: children choose work from prepared shelves during a long morning work cycle, and practical-life tasks such as pouring, serving and tidying sit alongside early literacy and numeracy. The three-year-old room combines first group work with Montessori materials, and the centre says eligible families pay nothing for funded kindergarten hours. Its centre page lists all meals, nappies and wipes as included.

The May 2026 assessment, its first, came back Meeting in each quality area, with no conditions on the approval and no enforcement actions. At $156.00 a day up to 35 months and $155.00 from 36 months, with eight inclusions listed, it undercuts both other ranked centres. Google shows 5.0 from 39 reviews. The register did not publish vacancies, so ask the centre about availability.

Future Leaders ranks first. All three ranked centres hold Meeting ratings issued within three months of each other, so the rating ties them and fees, practical fit and reviews decide. Against Aspire it wins on fees, $156.00 a day up to 35 months against $165.00, with eight inclusions listed at both. Against Wallaby the fees come out level, as Future Leaders is cheaper but lists one inclusion fewer, and its approved places cannot be set against Wallaby's because they include school-age care; with fees and fit level, reviews decide, 5.0 from 39 against 4.2 from 15. The rating is the first issued under the operator that took over the approval in February 2026.

Wallaby Childcare Wollert is part of a family-owned and operated group whose parent company was established in 2005 and which now runs seven centres across Melbourne's north and west, including Epping, Greensborough, Harpley and Donnybrook. The Wollert centre sits in the Edgars Creek area of the Aurora estate and is approved for 140 places. It is open from 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays for children from six weeks to five years, across a nursery, toddler, pre-kinder and kindergarten room.

The program is grounded in the Early Years Learning Framework and the Victorian framework, with what the centre describes as a partial Reggio Emilia influence and a focus on child-directed indoor and outdoor play. The purpose-built site is arranged around a central Big Red Barn hub, with seven rooms, individual climate control, a commercial kitchen and an outdoor classroom that includes vegetable and flower beds. An in-house qualified chef prepares fresh, multicultural menus, and nappies are included in the daily fee.

Wallaby was reassessed in May 2026 and rated Meeting National Quality Standard across all seven quality areas, a step down from the Exceeding rating it held from November 2022. It charges $157.60 a day for every age group, with nine inclusions listed on the register, and holds a 4.2 Google rating from 15 reviews. The register showed vacancies across the week when it was read on 22 October 2026.

Wallaby is second. Its May 2026 rating ties the other two at Meeting, so fees and fit decide. Against Aspire it wins on fees, $157.60 a day with nine listed inclusions against $165.00 with eight, with capacity (140 places against 142) and hours level. Against Future Leaders fees and fit are level and parent reviews decide the pair the other way: 4.2 from 15 against 5.0 from 39. Two things to weigh: the May 2026 result was a step down from Exceeding, with every quality area now at Meeting, and its Google base is thin.

Aspire's Arramont centre on Chenin Street is one of the newer services in Wollert: its approval dates from August 2025, and the centre is approved for 142 places. It is open 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays for children aged six weeks to six years, and its website shows eight learning spaces sized for each age group, a central piazza and an outdoor area designed to flow from the rooms.

An in-centre chef cooks the day's meals, and the centre page lists meals and snacks, nappies, bottles and wipes in the fee. Kindergarten runs as two programs, one for three-year-olds and one for four-year-olds, and the centre says it is approved for funded kindergarten as well as the Child Care Subsidy. Incursions and excursions, including bush kinder and visits to local primary schools, round out the week.

Its first assessment, issued in August 2026, rated it Meeting in all seven quality areas. Two conditions are attached to the approval: an extra educator must be on hand to supervise outdoor play, and, as a service in a bushfire-risk area, it closes on Catastrophic fire danger days. The fee is $165.00 a day at every age with eight inclusions listed, and the register showed casual and permanent places on each weekday when read on 22 October 2026.

Aspire Arramont is third. Its August 2026 rating is the newest of the three but within three months of the others, so it does not decide the order. It loses to Wallaby on fees ($165.00 against $157.60, with one inclusion fewer listed) and to Future Leaders on fees ($165.00 against $156.00, with the same eight inclusions). It holds 5.0 on Google from 36 reviews and 142 approved places. Before enrolling, note the two conditions on its approval, the outdoor supervision requirement and closure on Catastrophic fire danger days.