Sagewood Early Learning Partners with Foodcore Nutrition Services to Elevate Children's Nutrition Across Perth

Sagewood Early Learning, a boutique, owner-operated group of seven Montessori-inspired early learning centres across Perth, today announced a new partnership with Foodcore Nutrition Services to strengthen the menu planning and nutrition offered to children in its care.

Under the partnership, Foodcore works alongside Sagewood's in-house chefs to review menus and recipes against national nutritional guidelines, ensuring that the fresh, wholesome meals served at each centre continue to meet the highest standards for growing children. The collaboration also supports Sagewood's Quality Improvement Plans, the framework early learning services use to reflect on their practice and continually improve, embedding expert nutrition guidance into the way the centres grow and develop.

For Sagewood, whose nutrition program is built on four pillars of simplistic, nourishing, educational, and joyful eating, the partnership formalises a long-held commitment to food as a cornerstone of early childhood wellbeing.

"Good food is central to how young children grow, learn, and feel, and it has always been something we care deeply about at Sagewood. Partnering with Foodcore means the meals we lovingly prepare each day are backed by trusted, qualified expertise, and reviewed against the very best national guidelines. It gives our families real peace of mind, and it reflects our promise to keep improving in everything we do for their children."

Jay Lee Barr, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Sagewood Early Learning

The two organisations share strong Western Australian roots and a common belief that early, positive experiences with a variety of wholesome foods help children build healthy eating habits that last a lifetime.

About Foodcore Nutrition Services
Foodcore Nutrition Services is a Western Australian not-for-profit health promotion charity that has been a trusted partner in food service and nutrition since 1994. Foodcore works with early learning centres, schools, and community organisations across the state, providing expert advice, education, training, and menu assessment grounded in the Australian Dietary Guidelines. Its mission is to unite people through healthy eating and to make providing healthy, varied, and delicious meals simple and sustainable for groups both big and small. Learn more at foodcore.org.au.

About Sagewood Early Learning
Sagewood Early Learning is a boutique, owner-operated group of seven Montessori-inspired early learning centres across Perth, Western Australia, caring for children from six weeks to school age (from 12 months at its Joondalup centre). Guided by the values of nurture, love, and inspire, Sagewood blends Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and Waldorf/Steiner philosophies within the national Early Years Learning Framework, in warm, thoughtfully designed environments where every child is truly known. With more than 150 educators and hands-on, present leadership, Sagewood is a caring community built on trust, connection, and shared values. Learn more at sagewood.com.au.

Sagewood Early Learning is an ACECQA-approved provider (PR-40020572).

Media Contact
Jay Barr · COO, Sagewood Early Learning · 0411 115 567 · jay.barr@sagewood.com.au · sagewood.com.au