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Oakhurst Preschool

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Revolutionising Childcare & Development with Innovation
🌿 Preschool & Long Day Care
✨ Play-Based Learning
📚 School Readiness
💛 Play • Learn • Grow
Our goal is to provide an exceptional quality service and continue to offer a high quality of child If you're looking for early childhood centres in Oakhurst area we have a team of long-serving, qualified staff who are able to care for your baby or young child. Our educators are committed to safety, the highest level of care and genuine interaction with your little one and are competent and confident in caring for younger children. Oakhurst Preschool is conveniently and centrally located in Oakhurst (Plumpton)

14/09/2026

🌾 Sensory Exploration & Caring for Our Learning Environment

The children were invited to explore a sensory tray filled with dried oats, along with coloured cups, natural materials and loose parts that encouraged scooping, pouring, transferring and imaginative play. The children used their hands and the available resources to investigate the texture, movement and properties of the oats, while developing their fine-motor strength, hand-eye coordination, concentration and early mathematical concepts such as quantity, volume and comparison.
The open-ended nature of the experience allowed the children to make their own choices about how they wanted to use the materials, supporting independence, problem-solving, creativity and confidence.

As part of our QIP focus, educators have been working alongside the children to encourage greater responsibility for packing away toys, caring for play materials and respecting the equipment and resources within our learning environment.
This focus was intentionally incorporated throughout the sensory experience. Educators repeatedly reminded and encouraged the children to keep the oats and materials within the sensory trough so that everyone could continue to enjoy the experience.
Rather than simply packing the experience away for the children, educators are supporting them to understand why we care for our resources because the materials belong to our shared learning environment and need to be looked after so that everyone can use and enjoy them.
Through consistent modelling, gentle reminders and opportunities to participate in pack-up routines, the children are gradually developing a stronger sense of responsibility, respect, cooperation and belonging. These everyday moments help children understand that they are active contributors to their environment and that their actions can positively impact the experiences of others.

13/09/2026

🐨 Koala Feeding & Creative Arts Experience 🌿
At Oakhurst Preschool, educators are continually developing new and engaging activity ideas that encourage children to explore and learn in different ways. We observe closely to recognise the children’s emerging interests, curiosities and strengths, using these observations to guide future experiences and inform our programming.

The highlighted and highly engaging experience was koala feeding. Educators created a naturalistic koala habitat by placing a large koala picture amongst fresh eucalyptus branches and leaves. The children were invited to carefully select and pick the eucalyptus leaves before placing them into the koala’s open mouth. This simple yet purposeful experience captured the children’s attention and encouraged them to participate repeatedly, demonstrating curiosity, concentration and enthusiasm.

As the children grasped, selected and positioned the leaves, they strengthened their fine-motor skills, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness and control. The experience also encouraged an emerging understanding of cause and effect as the children discovered that their actions could ‘feed’ the koala. Educators extended the learning through meaningful conversations about what koalas eat, where they live, the importance of eucalyptus trees and how we can care for and respect Australian wildlife and our natural environment.

The use of real eucalyptus branches also provided a rich sensory and hands-on learning experience, allowing the children to explore natural textures, scents, shapes and colours while developing language and communication through shared discussion. Educators supported the children through open-ended questions, modelling language and allowing them time to investigate and make their own discoveries. This approach reflects Vygotsky’s view of learning through social interaction, where children develop their knowledge through shared experiences, conversations and supportive guidance from educators.

11/09/2026

🎈 Science & Mathematical Thinking – Water Balloon Investigation 💧

The children eagerly explored the balloons by holding, lifting, squeezing and comparing them, noticing differences in their size and weight.

Educators encouraged the children to make predictions and share their observations, introducing mathematical language such as “heavy,” “light,” “heavier,” “lighter,” “more” and “less.” Through this hands-on investigation, the children began developing an understanding of weight, quantity, comparison and cause and effect, while using their senses to test their ideas and discover what happened when they lifted different balloons.

The experience also encouraged children to think critically, problem-solve and engage in sustained exploration, as they revisited a familiar experience and extended their understanding through new questions and discoveries. Opportunities to share resources and discuss their observations with peers supported communication, collaboration and learning alongside others.

This type of hands-on, exploratory play reflects Jean Piaget’s theory, where children construct knowledge through actively interacting with and experimenting with their environment. Rather than simply being told which balloon was heavier, the children were able to feel, investigate, compare and reach their own conclusions.

Through this experience, the children demonstrated curiosity, confidence, problem-solving and a willingness to experiment, while developing their ability to communicate their ideas and observations with others.

08/09/2026

📸✨ PRESCHOOL PHOTO DAYS ARE COMING! ✨📸

We’re excited to announce that our 2026 Preschool Photo Days will be held on:

📅 Wednesday 17th & Thursday 18th September

A wonderful opportunity to capture those beautiful smiles, friendships and special memories from your child’s time at Oakhurst Preschool. 💕📸

🛒 HOW TO ORDER:
Families can place their photo orders online using the link below:

https://gsimaging.com.au/product/oakhurst-preschool-2026/

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Please ensure your order is placed the night before your child’s photo day so the online order lists are accurate on the morning of the shoot.

💰 Late orders: Orders placed one week after photo day will incur a $10 late fee, while orders placed after dispatch will incur a $20 late fee.

If you have any questions, please speak with our friendly team. 💗

We can’t wait to capture those gorgeous smiles! 📸🥰

30/08/2026

🏖️ Sandpit Play & Learning Through Play 🪣✨

There is so much more to sandpit play than simply digging and filling! Our children are given the opportunity to learn, explore, experiment and create through play, using their own ideas and imagination to guide their experiences. 🌿🤎

Each day, we provide a variety of sandpit resources and tools for the children to explore, including buckets, spades, scoops, moulds, trucks, containers and different utensils. By changing and rotating the resources we offer, we encourage children to discover new ways to use familiar materials, supporting curiosity, creativity and problem-solving.

As children scoop, pour, dig, pat, fill and empty, they are developing their fine motor strength, hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness, while naturally exploring early mathematical concepts such as full and empty, more and less, heavy and light, and size and quantity. 🔢🪣

The sandpit also becomes a wonderful space for social learning. Children practise sharing resources, taking turns, communicating their ideas and working alongside their friends. We often see imaginative play emerge as the sand transforms into cakes, meals, roads, construction sites, gardens and so much more! 👷‍♀️🌱

Most importantly, play is how children make sense of their world. When we provide open-ended resources and allow children the freedom to lead their own play, we create opportunities for them to build confidence, independence, creativity and a strong sense of agency. ✨

Our sandpit may look like a simple space filled with sand and toys, but for our little learners, it is a place full of possibilities, discovery and learning through play. 🤎🏖️

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28/08/2026

🌿👐 Exploring Our Senses – Sensory Discovery 👐🌿

As part of our planned learning experiences, we have been exploring the wonderful world of sensory play and encouraging our children to discover how their senses help us understand and make sense of the world around us. 👀👃👂🖐️

Our Sensory Bags provide a mess-free yet hands-on way for children to explore a variety of textures and materials. Each bag offers something different to touch, squeeze, press and move, encouraging children to investigate what they can feel without being able to see exactly what is inside.

We encourage our children to think about questions such as “Which bag feels soft?”, “Which one feels hard?” and “What colour do you think is inside?” This supports children to use descriptive language, make predictions, compare textures and communicate their ideas.

Sensory exploration is so important in the early years as children learn through their whole body. Touching, squeezing, seeing, hearing, smelling and moving materials helps children build an understanding of their environment while supporting curiosity, concentration, fine motor development, language, problem-solving and confidence. 🌈✨

This experience also reflects our ongoing commitment to our Quality Improvement Plan, particularly our focus on providing intentional, engaging and inclusive learning opportunities that respond to children’s interests, encourage exploration and support learning through meaningful play. We continue to reflect on how our environments and experiences can provide children with opportunities to investigate, make choices and learn in ways that are meaningful to them.

We love creating experiences where there isn’t always one right answer — just opportunities to touch, explore, wonder, question and discover! 💚

28/08/2026

🎩 Celebrating Educators’ Day! ❤️

Today, our Wallabies had lots of fun helping to create a special board to celebrate Educators’ Day and the many different “hats” our amazing educators wear each and every day! 🎩✨

From being safety officers, nurses, chefs and storytellers, to builders, gardeners, counsellors, detectives and even magicians — our educators take on so many important roles as they care for, support, guide and nurture our children. 🥰

We invite our Wallabies families to add a little message to our wall for your child’s educators. It could be a special thank you, something your child loves about their educator, a favourite memory, or simply a few kind words. 💌

Because behind every hat is an educator who brings patience, kindness, creativity, encouragement and a whole lot of heart into what they do every day. ❤️🎩

Happy Educators’ Day to all of our wonderful educators! We appreciate everything you do! 🌟

27/08/2026

🌈🌋 Rainbow Sandpit Volcano! 🌋🌈

Our children at Oakhurst have become little scientists as we took our volcano experiment outdoors and into the sandpit! 🧪✨

Using sand, bicarbonate soda, milk and colourful paints, the children worked together to create their very own rainbow volcano. They were encouraged to make predictions, take turns adding the ingredients and closely observe what happened as the colourful mixture began to bubble, fizz and erupt! 🌈

The experience sparked lots of curiosity, excitement and conversation as the children watched the colours mix and the foam flow down the sides of the volcano. We talked about what we could see, what we thought might happen and how combining different materials can create changes.

Taking our science exploration into the sandpit added an extra sensory element, allowing the children to explore the textures of the sand while investigating cause and effect. It was wonderful to see their natural curiosity, teamwork and excitement as they discovered something new together! 🔬🌱💛

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Address

88 Shinnick Drive
Sydney, NSW
2761

Opening Hours

Monday	7am - 6pm
Tuesday	7am - 6pm
Wednesday	7am - 6pm
Thursday	7am - 6pm
Friday	7am - 6pm

Telephone

(02) 9835 3225

Website

http://www.oakhurstpreschool.com.au/

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