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Reddam Early Learning School - St Leonards Centre overview
Welcome to Reddam Early Learning!
The Early Learning School in St Leonards enrols children from 1 to 5 years.
Our school day starts with sunlight streaming through our windows, and children and staff sharing a warm welcome, enjoying time together in a happy and secure environment. The importance of the individual is central to the Reddam Early Learning Schools approach, the potential of every child is uncovered, nurtured and celebrated in all aspects of school life. The focus on strong, nurturing relationships between teacher and child, children and their peers and, school and home, are of vital importance to us.
Our Reddam Early Learning Schools are a tribute to the importance of early years’ education. We believe that our children, no matter how young, are all capable and therefore deserve the best educational experience possible. We provide inspiring and magical environments for the children to start their journey of self-discovery, building each child's self-confidence and developing their cognitive skills of thinking, reasoning and application. This is done through "play" and self-discovery, ensuring a lifelong thirst for education and a love of learning.
Centre Features and Highlights
- State of the Art Facilities
- Internationally renowned Group of Schools
- Specialsed teachers for Music, Sport and Dance
- Highly qualified teachers
- Nutritious Meals
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Reddam Early Learning School - St Leonards Service features
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Programs
Programs
At Reddam Early Learning School St Leonards, programs are facilitated by specialist teachers who are hand picked to offer children new experiences through:
Music: this program aims to give children the opportunity to engage with and create music both together and individually guided by a specialist music teacher. Learning through music continues as children naturally love to sing songs and play instruments from a young age. Music gives children security in who they are and a sense of knowing that they belong, and is used extensively throughout the day.
Physical Education: this program ensures that children are physically ready for learning. Balance, posture and coordination are essential for children to be able to sit still and pay attention in the early years. The program seeks to give children a good physical experience, enhancing skills development but also to encourage friendship, provide a positive outlet for emotions and energy, develop teamwork skills, foster leadership opportunities and allow children to take responsibility for their health and well-being.
Dance & Drama: in these lessons a specialist drama teacher provides opportunities for children to accept and assign roles, and then act them out. It is a time when children are encouraged to break through the walls of reality, pretend to be someone or something different from themselves, and dramatise situations and actions to go along with the roles they have chosen to play.
About the curriculum
About the curriculum
At Reddam Early Learning School St Leonards, the children’s indoor and outdoor environment is considered the ‘third teacher’. Their Reggio Emilia inspired approach portrays a unique view of the child: each seen as beautiful, powerful, competent, creative, curious, and full of potential.
Placed at the centre of the curriculum, children are encouraged to select and explore topics and activities for themselves, developing deeper engagement, building independence and stimulating curiosity. Rather than being seen as the target of instruction, children are seen as having the active role of an apprentice and researcher.
Many of the activities take the form of projects where children have opportunities to explore, observe, hypothesise, question, and discuss to clarify their understanding. Children are also viewed as social beings and a focus is made on the child in relation to other children, the family, the teachers, and the community rather than on each child in isolation.
12 months - 24 months - building nurturing relationships
The educators believe that nurturing, respectful relationships are the most important part of their offering. Parents are a child’s first teacher and collaboration with parents plays an essential part in supporting the holistic development of your child. The process of consultation and collaboration with parents allows the educators to support parents in their role as the most important part of a child’s life. By providing an environment that feels safe, children will be able to feel confident enough to express their needs through a sense of belonging and well-being. Emphasis is placed on emotional and social development as the children grow into independent, confident explorers of their environment.
2 years - 3 years - encouraging independent investigation
The educators design the program around encouraging children to become independent investigators with a focus on language development and communication. As young investigators, children ask questions and attempt different experiences that are presented in their daily environment.
3 years - 4 years - discussion and discovery
Educators see the children as competent researchers that contribute to their own learning. The skills learnt in previous stages are used to explore their provocations through discussion and discovery. Nurturing of the individual remains the primary focus in the Stage 3 classroom. Happy children, who feel secure and cared for, are able to explore and enjoy their learning experiences in a calm, uncluttered environment which encourages deeper engagement with the provocations. Older children are encouraged to take part in longer project based learning and the provocations followed are rich and varied following the interests of the children. The development of language is key in this age group and many areas will encourage communication between peers. Role play and small world play becomes increasingly important as children build vocabulary and begin to replicate that which they see in the world.
4 years - 5 years - pre literacy and numeracy
Children have moved from being explorers to investigators to researchers to having the attributes to work together as a collaborative team. The fundamentals of being effective learners, ready to reach their full potential have been instilled. Children’s readiness for formal learning is the focus of the Stage 4 program which includes pre-literacy, pre-numeracy, physical readiness for learning, and social and emotional readiness.
Meet the team
Meet the team
At Reddam Early Learning School St Leonards the team believe that the teachers, educators and staff are the key to their success. The hand picked staff are highly motivated and trained to ensure each child is challenged and prepared for future learning. The centre’s teachers have excellent qualifications and dynamic personalities with a professional demeanour, creating a nurturing environment for the children.
Through observation, teachers become acutely aware of each child’s individual needs and latent potential as they constantly engage through attentive listening and observation of the child’s interests, concerns or ideas. The teachers challenge the children to deepen their understanding and ultimately identify the endless possibilities to their thinking. Teachers plan rigorously, yet are flexible, for on-going projects and explorations, whilst still covering the prescribed curriculum. Materials and resources are carefully chosen to inspire inquiring minds and build skills.
Our Reddam Early Learning Schools are a tribute to the importance of early years’ education. We believe that our children, no matter how young, are all capable and therefore deserve the best educational experience possible. We provide inspiring and magical environments for the children to start their journey of self-discovery, building each child's self-confidence and developing their cognitive skills of thinking, reasoning and application. This is done through "play" and self-discovery, ensuring a lifelong thirst for education and a love of learning.
Graeme Crawford, Reddam House founder
Our Centre Philosophy
We aim for all children to become confident and involved learners. We encourage the discovery of deeper meanings and the making of connections between ideas and concepts. Equipment and resources allow students to participate in rich learning experiences.
The Reddam Early Learning School St Leonards Team
Health & nutrition
Health & nutrition
At Reddam Early Learning School St Leonards, the educators understand that the early years in a child’s life are instrumental in developing positive, long-term eating habits. Exposing young children to a healthy, diverse diet not only gives them the best start in life, it helps secure their future health, development and wellbeing as they grow up.
The centre’s in-house chefs, in conjunction with catering company Kids Gourmet Food, offer fresh, nutritious and creative meals to our children.
The rotating menus include meals that are well balanced and feature seasonal ingredients. All dietary needs are catered for, with individualised prepared meals to please even the most fussy eater. The meals enable the children to experience a world of new flavours and textures, and to enjoy positive social eating experiences.
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80 Christie StreetSt Leonards, NSW, 2065
Centre Reviews
Although the environment is new, the Educators are very disappointing, very indifferent and lacking in love. I really don't understand why we hire... Although the environment is new, the Educators are very disappointing, very indifferent and lacking in love. I really don't understand why we hire someone who doesn't love children to take care of them. Our children are not cared for and taken care of here. If you go on a tour, you will feel that there is no love here! Read more