The Woods is a 75 place centre caring and educating children from birth through to 5 years. The Woods Early Education Centre & Preschool has a contemporary design featuring a suspended playground for the over 3’s, a separate playground for the younger children and five well equipped classrooms. At The Woods Early Education Centre & Preschool, we have an open door policy. Parents are strongly encouraged to participate in our programs if they wish and new parents are particularly welcome to spend as much time with their child in our centre as required. Our centre is pleased to be operating a Queensland Government approved Kindergarten Program with an Early Childhood Teacher, aimed at preparing our pre-prep children for primary schooling. Our centre implements the Queensland kindergarten learning guideline and focuses on building upon children’s learning and development including literacy and numeracy skills and exploring the foundations of mathematics and science. We are committed to the implementation of the National Early Years Learning Framework and operate an Emergent Curriculum. Our program is based on the individual needs of the children in our care, is balanced and developmentally appropriate. It has variations, providing for a wide range of individual experiences. Our centre also boasts a second language program and are proud participants in the Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) initiative. ELLA is an Australian Government initiative aimed at reviving the teaching of foreign languages in Australian schools, with the aim of significantly increasing the number of Year 12 students studying a language other than English within a decade. We believe food ingredients should come from the kitchen, not from a lab. From this belief came the inspiration to open our own production kitchen, the Healthy Cooking Company. We aim to create and promote natural and wholesome food with a number of health benefits:
* Preservative Free
* No artificial flavours
* Low in sodium & refined sugar
* Naturally sweetened with honey
To accompany our beautifully designed on-site outdoor environments, we offer a Bush Kindy program which has been carefully planned and implemented for further outdoor learning & development opportunities for our children. Our team of educators, together with our families and the local community, take groups of children to an off-site location at least once a week, where our children build upon their own learning through using the natural resources our off-site locations offer. From climbing trees to constructing tree swings or tee-pee cubby houses, our children continually engage in play in a way that promotes learning for life long skills. https://www.natureplayqld.org.au/the-woods-early-education-center
As Educators, we believe in teaching children that physical activity can be fun as well as good for our bodies and minds. As a result we have employed the skills of a fully qualified Personal Trainer to coordinate exciting exercise programs within our centres. We want the children in our care to experience the numerous health benefits that regular physical activity can provide. Contact our Centre Director to find out more or to arrange a tour!
