Other Programs

We value music and movement and find ways for this to be incorporated into each day.

Children gather to sing and are also provide with an array of instruments. In addition, we invite various musicians to share their knowledge with the children. The children have enjoyed African drumming, Aboriginal dance, expressive dance, Indian Bollywood and most recently specific music classes with Alicia.

Alicia provides the children with an introduction to music, rhyme, pitch, styles of music and access to the highest quality harp.

Alicia Dawes-Salazar is an innovative and gifted harp player hailing from Scotland, now based in Byron Bay. She began playing at the age of 5 and has enjoyed a varied range of experiences. Alicia has an engaging and creative approach to teaching, using innovative techniques and complemented by ample experience and qualifications in Early Childhood Education.

Our Fundamental Movement Program provides children the opportunity to engage in soccer lessons and yoga classes at various times throughout the term. These activities are designed to help develop essential motor skills, coordination, and body awareness in a fun and supportive setting.

We offer a range of exciting learning opportunities that allow children to build on their fundamental movement skills daily, encouraging physical activity, teamwork, and mindfulness. Whether practicing balance through yoga or developing agility in soccer, children gain confidence and a love for movement that will benefit them both now and in the future.

(Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics)

Children are challenged everyday to engage in scientific processes such as observation, describing their observation, predicting, hypothesising , testing and retesting. Children are exposed to concepts and provided ample uninterrupted time to explore and experiment freely with materials and concepts. Children are encouraged to document their scientific investigations in various way like charts, diagrams and using symbols. We use a constructivist approach in which children and adults are co learners and construct shared understandings.

We encourage the exploration of engineering strategies through use of construction materials, designing and building, heuristic strategies and utilising simple machines and real tools. Children are encouraged to become problem-solvers in all aspects of their life and play. Mathematics is embedded through every aspect of our day as children engage in everyday exploration of number, shape, patterns and concepts relating to mass, volume and length such as comparisons and informal measurement. Children learn about number as a communicative tool that helps us express concepts relating to quantity, size and relative size. This is done through carefully structure play environments, songs, games and stories as well as general everyday experiences like setting the table or playing on a see-saw. We also encourage the use of mathematics as a problem-solving tool which is ultimately used in our projects and construction.