The Learning Garden Early Education, Care and Kindergarten

By providing opportunities to explore graphic languages from infancy, we see children develop the ability to express their thinking in increasingly complex ways as they grow.

This photo serves as a powerful reminder that all children are capable and competent learners whose ideas, theories, and understandings deserve to be valued.

Children don’t play to learn; they learn because they play. That’s why protecting play matters to us.

We are super excited to launch our newly developed governing play statement on the 11th of June!

Celebrating the Protectors of Play (sounds like a superhero title).

Protect Play and you Protect Childhood. This is the theme for coming up, June 11th.

These are our local friends going to great lengths, helping with the mission to make Logan the Most Playful City in the World. Collectively we are securing healthy happy childhoods for thousands of Logan children.

Isn't that a heart-warming thought!

We are celebrating the many friends of ours who have been fantastic Protectors of Play and therefore an AMAZING CHILDHOOD. THANK YOU (we can never name all the protectors of play).

Areta Farrance from Bush Kindy Teaching
Angie, Kaycee and the Curious Me Team
The amazing The Family Place Team
Tina-Marie Ashby Smith from Play Your Way Around the World
Andrew Barnes and the entire faculty at Eagleby South State School
Steve Kanowski and the entire faculty Berrinba East State School
The Learning Garden Early Education, Care and Kindergarten Team
Kristy Morgan and the Goodstart Early Learning Shailer Park Team
St Joseph's Tobruk Beenleigh
Sonya Wilson and Renee Childs and the faculty at Loganholme State School
Libby Jordan and Team from Kimberley Park State School
Outsiders: Play Advocates
Logan City Council
Kerry Smith and Team from We Belong Family Day Care Services
SSI - Settlement Services International Community Hubs Logan
The Salvation Army Communities for Children (CFC), Logan
Logan Together
Kim Wright and the Kingston East Neighbourhood Group Team
Mibunn Team

A carefully curated environment acts as a silent guide, shaping the flow of the day and the experiences available to children. Through thoughtful layout and design, we create spaces that inspire curiosity, collaboration, and endless possibilities for play.

We understand that the words we use and how we deliver them when speaking or writing conveys powerful messages. We endeavor to use this powerful tool respectfully, understanding that small shifts in language reveal and empower fundamental shifts in perspective.

When we curate environments we are designing for possibility.

Our environments intentionally open up a multitude of opportunities in which children’s own curiosity drives the direction of the experience offered.

We are honoured to share with our community that we have been accepted to share our approach with the ways in which we work with and support children at the International Play World conference in Christchurch, New Zealand in November this year.

One visit to our service and you will notice how deliberately different and respectful our practices are and how deeply we value play and artistic expression as interconnected, process-oriented experiences within our everyday practice. How children are honoured, respected and valued as citizens within their own right each day and how valuing process over product can enhance children's creativity, agency, and identity.

We are grateful to our play community in which we continue to draw upon knowledge and evolve our practices. Wearthy Marc Armitage at Play Play Australia Bush Kindy Teaching Hyahno Moser Australian Institute of Play International Play Association (IPA) The ROSE Way Planning Framework

‘Building a relationship with clay means to spend time 'coming to know' the material. This early experimental phase is a time of learning, not a preparation for learning. Bringing the clay experience into an embodied interaction positions children as agents of their own experience.’
-The Creative Collection