At Little Zebra we believe that play is the business of early childhood. Our play-based curriculum has been designed to allow your child to gain a sense of self, explore, play with their peers, and build confidence. Our educational programs, designed and implemented by our qualified Educators, will nurture the creativity of your child and equip them for life’s adventures.
At our Little Zebra childcare centres, our learning environments include a range of commercial, natural, and recycled materials to support children’s learning. Our indoor and outdoor spaces include natural elements and materials which allow children to explore their world and have fun doing it!
Technology plays an important part in our programs, with each of our centres having access to interactive whiteboards and computers. Our web-based programming allows parent instant access to their children’s learning documentation.
Welcome to Nursery
Our Nursery classrooms have a sense of warmth and security. Younger children and babies need to form trusting relationships during the early years, and our Educators encourage this through one on one interactions, showing genuine affection, demonstrating understanding and respect for each child, acknowledging and responding to each child’s cues, and attending to their daily routines that they experience at home. Routine times such as nappy changing, meal times, rest/sleep times, and bottle times are the perfect opportunity to build trusting relationships with each individual child. The Educators modify their own language and communication techniques to meet each child’s level of understanding. The use of hand gestures and body language also helps babies and young children to find the link with identifying objects and sounds. In our Nursery classroom we begin to introduce many attractively illustrated books in a range of textural materials, and our Educators sit with children to explore these books, toys, and other objects together. We challenge the physical abilities of each child and provide appropriate resources and equipment for each child’s stage of development. Our Educators stimulate children’s aesthetic awareness by preparing appealing indoor and outdoor settings.
Welcome to Junior Toddlers
The environment created for the children captures their sense of wonder, creativity, and curiosity. Our Educators support children’s attempts to anticipate, explore, and understand this environment. Our Educators provide a variety of creative experiences and materials that encourage children’s self-expression and exploration. Our Educators sing with the children and emphasise rhythms, sounds, and melodies. Our Educators support children’s attempts to meet physical challenges and develop their motor activity.
Welcome to Senior Toddlers
Our Educators find opportunities to encourage children’s independence and self-help skills. Reading to children is an integral part of the program and will help to encourage active listening skills. When a child comes to understand and use words for new concepts, our Educators use the words in ways that will affirm meanings for the child. Children are encouraged to use a range of construction materials to expand their problem solving skills. Music is featured as part of the program, and children are encouraged to experiments with objects to make music.
Welcome to Pre Kindy
Opportunities to make choices and participate in play are integrated and evaluated with other areas of the program. Children’s feelings are discussed along with the right of individuals to have their thoughts and ideas heard and respected. Our Educators empower children to use their language abilities to share issues, ideas, and experiences that are important to them. The program encourages children to participate in a variety of expressive arts. Children experience creativity through books, drama, storytelling, and puppets.
Welcome to Kindergarten
Our Educators encourage children to acquire new skills in solving problems. Children are encouraged to access and use a wide variety of writing and reading materials in meaningful ways. Our Educators challenge children to use their language in interesting ways, like contributing their ideas cooperatively to a story or song. Mathematical problem solving experiences are integrated with other areas of the program. Our Educators encourage children to work together on projects, and provide children with experiences to help make predictions and construct concepts.
