Stories and ideas from our eight centres — what play-based learning actually looks like, where our children go, and what happens in the studio, the garden and the bush.

A block from the Broadwater, our Southport children have one of the Gold Coast's most beautiful classrooms on their doorstep. Here is what a session actually looks like — and why unstructured outdoor learning matters.
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What your child would be doing at half past nine on a Tuesday, and how our educators turn that into learning you can see.

What an atelier is, what your child is doing when they come home with paint on a sleeve, and how our educators set the room up.

What sustainability looks like on an ordinary day at our centres — so you can judge whether it is real practice or a word on a website.

What a Bush Kindy or Beach Kindy session actually looks like, which centres run them, and how our educators keep children safe beyond the fence line.

What a Stay and Play morning involves, what to look for while you are in the room, and what to ask before you commit to anything.

What reaches you during the day, what to expect and what not to, and how to ask for more.

The library, HOTA, the Botanic Garden, Woolworths and the Broadwater — where our Gold Coast children have actually been.

The library visits, the walks to the local park, the state school and a beach clean-up, drawn from what our educators have written up.

A zoo story time, a Darumbal story time at the art gallery, a supermarket tour in hair nets, and practice runs at big school.