Learning Experience
6 weeks to 1 years - Observers
In the Observer’s room the youngest children start their journey from six weeks to around one year of age in a beautiful, light filled room with a separate sleep room for restful daytime naps. Babies can explore their surroundings with cosy areas and sensory activities as well as enjoying getting messy using a variety of different activities. We also have a separate outdoor environment for 1 -2 years old. Our experienced staff work with parents to ease the important transition from home to nursery through an embedded key person system and open communication. Our staff have a vast knowledge of working with babies and are sensitive to their individual needs. They very much enjoy assisting your baby to flourish in their new home-from-home environment. When a baby starts at the centre, we endeavour to maintain the routine that parents have already started and then gradually introduce social and physical development through sensory play. This is achieved by providing the babies with a range of activities that stimulates their emotional and physical development providing infants opportunities to learn about communicating, moving, making sense of their surroundings and developing trusting relationships with others.

1 year - 2 years - Learners
The Learners are our toddlers. The children move into this room when they are confident and ready to explore the wider Centre. This is the time for your child to become more independent and confident in their surroundings. With access to a range of resources and their own outside area, the children can follow their interests whilst their learning is supported by knowledgeable staff. Creative opportunities, problem solving, a cosy book corner and role play activities all complement each other to facilitate your child’s learning and development. Our little ones in this group are developing independence and are full of curiosity and energy.
To support this independence, educators gain insight from families to collaboratively plan to help the children build confidence, interact with others and develop new skills. Your child will be introduced to colours, shapes, sorting and counting, which develops physical and intellectual skills. In this room children are encouraged to interact and share with other children and are given help in developing their social skills. The staff are ready to help fulfil all your child’s needs and encourage each stage of their development. The focus in the Learner’s room is providing new experiences around early language development, mathematics, science, gross motor a and communication skills in a way that interests them and inspires them to explore!

2 years to 3 years – Explorer’s
Children from around two years of age move into this room when they are eager to use their newly discovered independence and voice as they find there is a great big adventurous world full of ideas to discover, explore and learn about. These rooms are full of busy energy as by this stage, your child will be able to experience a wider range of educational yet fun activities that have been carefully selected to stimulate their ever-expanding minds. This room is full of exciting and stimulating resources that provides a variety of hands on activities (role-play toys, natural materials, etc) this room offers adventurers the opportunity of finding answers to their own inquisitive matters whilst discovering their place in the world. Activities are centred around the children’s interests with the focus being on encouraging the children to interact and develop their social and personal skills. Experimenting with a range of sensory or “messy” materials (flour, sand, paints etc) gives the children the opportunity to create and consolidate their own concepts through active play. The Explorer’s are also very interested in ‘why’ and our Educators work hard to provide experiences that build on ‘why’ and allow children to find the answer for themselves. With the EYLF planning and observation system in place, the staff will be actively encouraging your child’s interests, offering them further opportunities to explore.

3 years to 4 years – Adventurer’s
Children between the ages of three and four need to be given time to expand their horizons and investigate the world around them. They are becoming readers, writers, counters and collaborators. This is time for them to learn from each other, test ideas together, and to be challenged by differing views. The Adventurer’s at this age love to talk and experiment through play, and our educators provide all the essential opportunities to get the most enriching early learning experience. Days are built around varied activities allowing children to learn through discussion and exploration, wonder and investigation. Children will form wider friendship groups, and build stronger problem-solving skills as they learn about diversity and negotiating with others. They are given the freedom of “free-flow”, being able to choose their own areas of interest and participating in activities that best suit their learning, personalities, peer group. The opportunity of accessing outdoor learning and environment multiple times a day enriches children’s experiences. During this important stage of a child’s learning, they will develop independence, self-esteem, self-confidence and the skills required to manage their emotions as they play cooperatively with others. Children are encouraged to be independent and to make their own choices from a wide range of different activities to increased levels of confidence and be socially interactive.

4 years to 5 years – Discoverers/Kindergarten
With a name derived from the Aboriginal Dream Time, the Discovers are in the preschool or kindergarten phase of their early learning years and are about to embark on their transition to school life. Our transition to school program has been designed for children the year before they start formal school to help support their school readiness. Children of this age have an appreciation and curiosity of and for the world around them. As children get older educators introduce more complex ways of learning with projects and opportunities that encourage and enable them to problem solving andresearch more complex ideas. They begin to use materials and objects purposefully to express ideas. We understand the importance of this year for your child, and a bachelor-qualified early childhood teacher will provide our program. Our entire curriculum is suitable for the pre-school program and we work closely with kindergarten parents to ensure your child is ready to enter the primary school program seamlessly in the year ahead via our school readiness program. Children are becoming more independent and confident, more accomplished at sharing, taking turns, smiling, and cooperating with others. They will show enjoyment playing with other children and in larger groups but will likely also show a preference for particular friends. We will liaise with local schools in our community to ensure each child’s specific needs are met as they transition to formal compulsory schooling. The Discovers room is supported by trained and qualified preschool and kinder programs and we work closely with families to ensure children are ready and excited to embark on their next phase of learning.
