Long Day Care Playrooms
Bambinos – 6 weeks to 15 months
Our Bambinos room provides to perfect transition for your baby from home to our education and care environment. The Bambinos room features full air conditioning of inside rooms, kitchenette, separate climate controlled sleep room, and a large playroom with separate nappy change facilities. The playroom links to a spacious outdoor environmen
t featuring natural shade, sandpit and exploration garden. Tiny Tots – 15 months to 24 months
The Tiny Tots room is perfect for your toddler and their budding independence. Our Tots playroom features direct access to both toilet and nappy change facilities as well as our spacious outdoor area, featuring our majestic Poinciana tree and stage area. The tots room is fully air-conditioned, and features an open play space, whilst allowing for the small group play space that toddlers thrive on. This allows for your toddler to feel fully supported in exploring their environment, whilst building on their sense of independence. Big Kids – 2 years (25 months) to 4 years
As the first room you see from the entrance, our Big Kids playground has undergone a recent transformation, allowing for more natural play and exploration. Our Big Kids room has been designed to allow for your child to play and move amongst peers, whilst being supported by our education team. Our Big Kids team consists of three educators, ensuring that children are supported in their learning and care environment, in line with their developmental needs. Allowing for children from 2 to 4 years also enables us to accommodate family groupings upon request. The Big Kids room features air-conditioned indoor environment, full toileting and nappy change facilities and spacious outdoor environment. Our alfresco dining is also a hit with the children – so much fun to enjoy a meal together outside whilst under the shade and protection of the verandah. Pre-Kindy – 3 years to 5 years
What a beautiful environment is available to children in our Pre-Kindy room! Our single staffed Pre-Kindy room, capped at just 12 children, allows for an extended educational program for children who require a smaller group environment, or who attend external Early Education programs. Our Pre-Kindy room is fully air-conditioned, and includes a spacious outdoor environment. The Pre-Kindy program focuses on self-help and independence skills, and on assisting children in preparing for larger group environments. The Educational Program focuses include the investigation of ideas, complex concepts and thinking, reasoning and hypotheseis through projects, discussions, exploration of environment and long term learning stations. Sharing morning and afternoon program time with the Kindergarten room, Pre-Kindy is the perfect room for your child who thrives on smaller groups, whilst spending small periods in shared large group environments with Kindergarten. Children who are ineligible to receive funding under the Approved Kindergarten Program may also be enrolled in the Pre-Kindy room. Kindergarten – 3½ years to 5 years
(year prior to formal schooling)
Approved Kindergarten Program
Our Kindergarten room, which features curriculum from the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guidelines, and supported by the Early Years Learning Framework, provides the perfect entrance to your child to pre-formal education programs. With an educational program provided by a qualified teacher, our Kindergarten program incorporates foundational literacy, numeracy, LOTE, science, social sciences with play based learning and music and movement, and is individualised to each child’s needs and family requests. Established as an entirely independent room, our Kindergarten room features age-appropriate play equipment that facilitates and encourages additional exploration and safe risk-taking. Children will work with our Early Childhood Teacher to establish their learning goals, which will be tracked in learning portfolios. Children interact within a safe and secure fully air-conditioned learning environment, gaining a respect and a sense of responsibility for their learning space. As an Approved Kindergarten Program, all children enrolled in this room are required to attend at least 2 days per week (7½ hour sessions) and be eligible to received funding under the Approved Kindergarten Program. Children completing this program will receive a Transition Statement for their primary school entrance, provided in Term 4, with graduation from our Kindergarten program to follow in the final week of Term 4.
