Jacaranda Grove Pre School

28/08/2026

What a fabulous Friday to end the week. A busy morning with 4 new families coming in to have a look around and some less than patient children waiting to go out walking! 🤣When it came time to choose the children to take it was too difficult… there were so many little voices chanting ‘I want to come’… and with lots away, we decided to take the whole Lilli Pilli room of 23 children… 4 teachers and 2 goats 🐐 🐐 and we were off! It was a stunning day ☀️and the children were delightful, no yabbies or tadpoles today but we saw a ’real live fox’ 🦊 ( as opposed to the dead one we found recently 😬) and one kangaroo, 🦘we had stick sword 🗡️ fights, played, climbed, and explored 🌸🌺🌿and enjoyed time with our friends. I am sure there’s some tired children ( and teachers) tonight! 🥰

14/08/2026

It’s not even 5pm, the children have left and the guinea fowl come in to find any crumbs left from our picnic lunch! 🥙 🥪 🥗

14/08/2026

Photo week will be here before we know it!

Leighsa will be here Tuesday 8th, Wednesday 9th and Friday 10th September.

If you are wishing to purchase photos but haven’t yet, you can order them through the QR code. 📸

- Matilda

05/08/2026

Not just fun… but benefits that carry on in later life! What better excuse to get outside! 🌺🍀🔥💐💦🌳🪾🫶🏼

Children who spend more time playing outdoors between the ages of two and four may be less likely to develop emotional and behavioural difficulties later in childhood. That’s according to new research led by the

22/07/2026

Is your child going to school next year? How do you know if they are ready? School readiness is often wrongly measured by whether a child can write their name or know some letters and count to 20, while these are good skills to have there’s so much more to it! And a “school readiness program” is often sold to well meaning parents… children don’t need to be sitting at desks for extended periods learning about numbers and forced to write ✍️ unfortunately that’s what schools are for. The last few days bush walks I have noticed how organized the children are, packing their own bags, making sure they have their lunch and even noticing if there’s enough water in their drink bottle and asking for it to be filled, they check on their friends and remind each other about the rules, they look after their belongings, negotiate with their peers and have so much fun! This week I’ve been getting the children to write the lists of who’s coming, they understand and accept if they’re not on this list, they can put their names on the next. Children who don’t love these kinds of writing activities and always say they can’t are suddenly very interested… 😉 and these children are not all school leavers next year, just thriving, with the right environment, opportunities and encouragement. 🥰

13/07/2026

A little snapshot of what we have been up to lately - visits from Gregory the Blue Tongued Lizard, human sized bubbles, lots of excited conversations and play around big school, looking after our gardens and ducks and some School Holiday Program fun! 🦎🦆🫧🌸
- Matilda

13/07/2026

📢 Bike day 2.0! 🚲

Bike day is always a favourite in our holiday program and unfortunately last week with the wet weather it was called off (much to the disappointment of all of our children).

Tomorrow we will have a make-up bike day along with dress up day! Make sure to wear your best costume and bring your bike and helmets!

Hopefully the weather stays nice for us! 🤞🏼☀️
- Matilda

26/05/2026

With this perfect weather lately we’ve been enjoying lots of bush adventures, from camp fire cooking 🔥 to sneaking up on kangaroos, 🦘 today we even fed some kookaburras some scraps. We have been collecting bones and Google imaging them to find out what they are, climbing, singing, playing with fairies 🧚 jumping in puddles, watching the calves, finding caterpillars 🐛 and butterflies and their eggs, and making memories!

15/05/2026

Day 5

14/05/2026

Day 4 🥰