Lady Gowrie Fernvale Community Kindergarten

02/03/2026

Kindergarten Open Day – You're Invited!

We warmly invite you to explore our exceptional learning environments and meet the passionate educators who make our kindergarten such a nurturing and inspiring place for young learners.

We look forward to welcoming you and your family into our vibrant kindergarten community and sharing what makes our program truly distinctive.

During our Open Day, children of all ages will enjoy a range of engaging, hands-on learning experiences designed to spark curiosity and joy.

As places are limited, we encourage families to secure their enrolment or join our waitlist for 2027 and future years to ensure the opportunity to be part of our community.

Date: Wednesday 1st April 2026
Time: 9am - 10 am
Location: 1605 Brisbane Valley Highway

If you have family or friends that are looking for wonderful Kindy Program for their children, please share our post!

We can’t wait to meet you!

11/02/2026

Dear families,

We hope you and your children are enjoying your time at our Kindy.

Our families, past and present, are such an important part of our community. Your experiences and reflections mean so much to us, and they also help other families feel confident when choosing a kindy for their child.

If you’ve had a positive experience with us, we would truly appreciate you sharing it as a Google review. Your words help other families find us and continue to grow our beautiful kindy community. You can leave a review here:
https://g.page/r/CXF5dgYb0veBEAE/review .

Thank you for being part of our kindy community and helping us grow!

06/11/2025

Sugar and spice and everything nice! We ignited our senses through the children's investigation of gingerbread cookies, beginning with a sensory exploration of spices, smelling cinnamon's warmth, touching ginger's grainy texture, and tasting the sweet-spicy combination that makes gingerbread so special.

Watch us strengthen our finger dexterity, pre-writing skills, and fine motor muscles as we pour, combine, mix, roll, mould, and cut our gingerbread shapes, then ice them with intricate and delicate care, carefully maneuvering icing tools across each cookie's surface.

Cooking integrated through STEM allows us to explore rich mathematical concepts, including volume, weight, mass, measurement, counting, and spatial awareness. We also investigate scientific concepts of changing matter: solids transforming into semi-liquids as we cream butter and sugar together, then reforming into solid dough. Through baking, we observe how heat changes the dough's form, from soft and springy to firm and deliciously edible treats!

31/10/2025

"Dragon Butterfly, Dragon Butterfly, show us the way you fly through the sky!"

As Children lead through their "Zone of Proximal Development" according to Vygotsky's Theory, their embodiment of imaginative and mystical creatures enhances their symbolic thinking, abstract reasoning, and mental representation as they view their worlds and play through multiple perspectives and lenses. Their child-led imaginative play not only develops their social, emotional, and language skills, but it also develops their executive functioning skills, such as planning ("What powers does my Dragon Butterfly have?"), working memory as they recall their imagined Dragon Butterfly character traits and their created storyline, and cognitive flexibility as they adapt to an evolving narrative through their play.

"I am a Dragon Butterfly who lays eggs in a secret den. They are magic eggs, you cannot see them!" "I drink water from leaves and eat seeds, and I fly high in the sky so you cannot catch me!"

Child-led play is a realm of magic and freedom, where children can let their imaginations soar. It is a joyous journey that inspires and motivates us to value child-initiated play as serious learning and protect it as essential pedagogy.

22/10/2025

Mark making in sand allows children to navigate through Indigenous knowledge systems and storytelling traditions tens of thousands of years old. Through their tactile senses, experimentation and play children Build their cultural awareness and respect for First Nations peoples
as they recognise Indigenous culture as living, relevant, and valuable. They begin to understand communication takes various forms across many cultures as they build upon their visual literacy through symbol meaning and code, further enhancing their pre-writing skills through mark making and symbolic representation.

Let us lead our Discovery of culture and ways of "being" through our senses with mindfulness and calmness within the meditative aspect of playful sand marking.

20/10/2025

Exciting news! In 2026, our kindergarten hours will be 8:30am – 4:00pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

At Lady Gowrie Fernvale, children enjoy a play-based kindergarten program where curiosity and creativity thrive. Our days are filled with STEM exploration, nature play, and hands-on learning.

With the same teachers from start to finish each day, children feel safe, supported, and deeply connected, a wonderful foundation for lifelong learning!

As a not-for-profit, approved kindergarten program, we’re proud to offer an environment where every child is valued and families are part of our community.

* Talk to us about Free Kindy in 2026!
* Contact us today to arrange a visit, we’d love to show you around our beautiful kindy! Please phone 535 6823 or email on [email protected].

09/10/2025

Come and Visit Lady Gowrie Fernvale Community Kindergarten!

We warmly invite families to our Open Days to experience our play-based program in action and meet our wonderful teacher and educator.

At Lady Gowrie Fernvale, play and imagination spark curiosity, confidence, and a love of learning as children explore, create, and discover. Through this approach, they also develop their knowledge, language, relationships, and sense of identity.

Come along to:

* Explore our single unit kindy and see the indoor and outdoor learning environments. The kindy is conveniently co-located with the FFernvale State School

* Learn about our Free Kindy program through the Queensland Government.

* Discover how we nurture creativity, imagination, and child-led learning.

We’d love to welcome your family and show you what makes Lady Gowrie Fernvale a special place for children to grow, play, and discover.

[email protected]
(07) 5359 6823

09/10/2025

"I know who I want to be in this moment, my play will empower me, let me lead."

Through imagination, art, and creativity, children develop their own knowledge, language, relationships, identity, critical thinking, and meaning making within their play.

Mixing potions and experimenting with mud strengthens their identity through connection with the natural environment and with each other, while projecting their "being" into their play. I experience this moment through my senses: touch, sight, scent, aural, and I am free to explore through my never-ending wonder!

The magic of child-led play!

09/10/2025

Children learn best through experiential play, especially when immersed in the natural world. As they engage in simple yet meaningful activities - like throwing rocks into muddy puddles - they follow their own curiosity and begin to uncover scientific and mathematical concepts organically.

Through this natural inquiry, children explore elements of STEM such as gravity, force, kinetic motion, angle of projection, air resistance and mass. We are playing, we are getting wet and muddy and joyfully learning - while being exactly who we want to be!

Spaces are available for next year!
Book a tour today! Call 5359 6823

27/05/2025