Harbour Early Learning Aranda

At Harbour Early Learning (EL), we place the rights of children at the heart of our decisions about curriculum, daily programs, and routines. Our vision is to create an early childhood educational learning environment that celebrates children within architecturally significant spaces, aesthetically considered interiors, and outdoor play spaces.

We engage and collaborate with aspirational early childhood teachers and educators who are critical thinkers, knowledgeable, capable, and invested in our children and their families. Our aim is to create a community of learning where family values are reflected in our curriculum. We ensure that the experiences for each child recognize and nurture their personality, learning disposition, ideas, and interests.

We are inspired by the marvel of early childhood and the curiosity that each child brings to the world around them.

At Harbour EL, we believe children have the right to an identity that is shaped from their early life experiences and their efforts to make sense of the world they share with others or the experiences they can share through living on the land or by exploring the sea and the air. Children have a responsibility to uphold the rights of others and to grow in their understanding of being respectful of self and others, of being loved and shown kindness in order to  love and to be kind to all others.

Children have a right to access knowledge about family, culture and community and for an education that is a continuum that begins at home, with family, then on through the early childhood years. Family values and equity of access to educational experiences pave the foundation for a life to be well lived ensuring respect for sustainability, within a civil, socially just and equitable society.”

Wendy Shepherd

MEd, BECE

Harbour Early Learning Executive Director of Education

Our enrichment curricula program has been developed by our teaching teams to nurture each child’s physical, cognitive, language, social and emotional development.

These experiences are essential to each child’s growth in their early years as they form important building blocks and life skills that will be drawn on throughout their lives, and include:

• Fundamental Movement Skills and Physical Exercise
• Community Excursions
• Language, Music and Literacy
• Mindfulness and Meditation
• Cooking and Nutrition
• Sustainability and Environment