George Town Child and Family Learning Centre

31/10/2026

What a great effort from all of our young spooky visitors for our CFLC Halloween event this afternoon - especially for braving the rain just to visit us. We enjoyed the Photo Booth and a ‘trick’ treat (Polaroid) photo, choosing from the treat bag, stacking ghost cups, smooshing squishy pumpkin guts, tossing hoops onto the witch’s hats and scooping bats and eyeballs out of the sludgy slime. Nadine, Kate and Donna had such a fun time and we say a huge thankyou for joining us for fun and for your gratitude and support which made it all worth it to come out on this rainy day to be together.

29/10/2026

Springfest is on Saturday 7th November at Heritage Park in Mowbray with our friends from Connected Beginnings. There are a few seats left on the bus to Springfest if families would like to join the fun. The bus will leave the George Town Library car park at 10am and leave Heritage Forest at 1pm to return to George Town. Please let one of our staff know if you would like to reserve a spot on the bus as soon as possible.

Next Saturday is SPRINGFEST - Kanamaluka!

Join us in Mowbray, Launceston for a FREE, family-friendly community event featuring live music, entertainment, culture, creativity, art, FREE food, kids' activities, and more!

📅 Date: Saturday 7 November 2026
⏱️ Time: 10 am - 2 pm
📍 Where: Heritage Park, Conway Street, Mowbray, Launceston
🥗 FREE healthy food options and refreshments
☀️ Family-friendly event - all welcome!

Featuring Live Music and Entertainment:

🎸 Brad Gillies Band
🎷 The Southside Steppers
🔥 Treenoner Dance Mob
🎸Clay Maynard + Band
🎤 Caitlin Duffy
🎤 Ruby Gower
🎤 Ava, Jess and Lucas Ferguson

🐍 North West Snake Catchers
🚲 Crazy Bikes
🌱 24 Carrot Gardens Tasmania seedling workshop
🌿 SDC Ceramics
🎪 SuperSillyUs Circus
🏀 Active Children Tasmania
🚨 Poli Van Tasmania Police
🌭 City Mission North & North West TAS
🐥 Tresillian Tasmania Van
🎨 Kids Creative Corner Northern Suburbs Community Centre Inc
🥗 Healthy FREE food options Material Institute Lutruwita Tasmania
🫧 Kids sensory corner with Playgroup Tasmania- North
☀️ Cancer Council Tasmania
👂🏼 Hearing Australia - First Nations Services
🛝 HIPPY Launceston

Join us for a free community celebration - everyone is welcome!

Connected Beginnings Lutruwita Material Institute Lutruwita Tasmania Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre

27/10/2026

George Town CFLC staff are excited to join in with the community Halloween adventures. We will be in the CFLC playground (enter through the big gates near the shed) between 4:00 and 5:30 for a play, some simple activities and take a photo at the spooky photo booth. We will have some non-food treats available for children under 6. Join us for some fun and show us your costumes on your Halloween trick-or-treating path around the town.

25/10/2026

Important message for families: This Wednesday (October 28th) our play spaces will be closed for drop-in play due to our statewide CFLC Professional Learning day. We will only be open for scheduled appointments and urgent supports.
We will be open for our regular programs on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Thank you for your cooperation.

25/10/2026

Singing regularly helps your child develop strong communication skills while enjoying time with you. These Tasmanian families are having fun joining in with nursery rhymes at their local library.

For great nursery rhymes that you can sing along with, visit: greatstart.tas.gov.au

For help with your own reading and writing visit readingwritinghotline.edu.au or call 1300 6 555 06

23/10/2026

Tomorrow marks the start of Children's Week 💛

A time to recognise and celebrate children while also raising awareness of children’s rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

In Tasmania, Children’s Week is coordinated by Playgroup Tasmania Inc, who host a huge range of fantastic events across the state.

This year, events will run from 24 October - 1 November. Learn more and get involved: www.playgrouptas.org.au/national-childrens-week-2026

19/10/2026

Notice to community that the rear Hub carpark (behind the Graham Fairless Centre) will be closed for the morning of Wednesday, 21st October due to building works. Alternate carparking is available in front of the library. If you require special assistance, please give us a call on 6702 6092.

19/10/2026

Jacci has room for bookings at the drop-in physiotherapy clinic at the CFLC tomorrow. Contact us if you would like an appointment to chat to Jacci about your child's physical development tomorrow between 9:30-11:30am

19/10/2026

Please find our term 4 timetable. We are excited to welcome back our Toddler Group on a Thursday and a slight change to our baby group on Mondays where we invite our newborn bubs to join us to settle in for the first half hour from 9:00-9:30 and then free to stay if you wish with the bigger bubs from 9:30-10:30. We will make a gentle transition to this new timing over the coming weeks :)
We also have a sensory play group on Wednesdays in November - this group will be suited to all ages up to 5.