Little Scholars offers a range of studios tailored to different age groups, each designed to enhance learning and development in a nurturing environment. From the Nursery for the youngest learners, focusing on care and comfort, to the Toddler, Pre-Kindy, and Kindergarten studios, each space is crafted to support the specific developmental stages of children up to five years old. Activities and curriculum are age-appropriate, encouraging play-based learning, social skills, and foundational education.

This streamlined approach of an emergent curriculum supports educators to adopt child development theory and put into practice.

Our educational program is based on the premise that children are most successful at learning when curriculum experiences account for children’s interests, strengths, and individual needs.

The Collective encompasses all aspects of Little Scholars, including a collaborative approach with our children, families, educators, and community.

Our weekly programs, which can be seen in our studios, are responsive to the evolving interests and needs of the children and allow for flexibility and extended periods of play and research to test theories.

This enquiry-led teaching strengthens children to become competent and capable across their developmental domains.

The Collective allows educators to follow the children’s lead and actively explore new concepts, ideas, or interest.

• Excursions: through the Outdoor Explorers Program, children take part in outings and excursions around the area to parks, galleries, or the library
• Incursions: including experiences with Indigenous elders, educational wildlife, learning about body autonomy, and virtual reality
• Bush and Beach Kinder program: children get back to nature, learn about the environment, Indigineous cultural history, and fun childhood play like play with sticks, climb trees and look for animals
• Intergenerational program: Our kindy children visit their 'grandfriends' regularly at the local aged-care home, building bonds, sharing stories, taking part in craft, games and more
• Transition to School: to prepare them for their next steps in formal education
• STEM: Starting children’s interests in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects young gives them critical thinking and problem-solving skills that they can take with them into their future education and careers.
• Music and Dance Program: provides the joy of dance and music in young children of all ages while creating and promoting musical appreciation, rhythm, coordination, fitness, social skills and most of all fun!
• Language program: children take part in Japanese lessons, taught by Gai Sensei using the emergent perspective
• Health & Wellness program: each week the children take part in a physical activity program, as well as yoga sessions and a mindfulness program
• Cooking program: children enjoy hands-on demonstrations each week with their educators.

Little Scholars believes that health and wellness is the foundation of growth, early childhood development and education.

Developing healthy eating habits is a fundamental skill for young children and we play an important role in helping your child learn about and enjoy a variety of nutritious foods each day. That’s why our Little Scholars campuses employ qualified chefs to prepare tasty, nutritious meals and snacks in commercial kitchens. These meals are safe, developmentally appropriate and properly portioned for your child. It’s a recommendation from health authorities that children in long daycare are provided with at least 50 per cent of their daily nutritional requirements whilst they are in care.

We have an exciting rotating four-week menu that changes seasonally and incorporates a variety of flavours and textures to support our children trying new things, expanding their palates and promotes healthy eating. This menu always on display for families to have a look at, and we’re always open to suggestions from parents!

We provide your child with opportunities to enjoy healthy foods that promote growth and allow them to learn food preferences and good dietary habits that help them live a healthy lifestyle. Little Scholars offers a seasonal, Nutrition Australia-approved weekly menu, which includes vegetarian and halal options if required. We devote significant resources to allergy requirements, all combined with our user-friendly online allergy notification system.

Healthy eating from early childhood also means children will have less chance of developing chronic diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and some cancers. But it will also mean they feel great and enjoy life more!

Health and Wellness is essential for our Little Scholars growth and development and encourages the children to live robust, happy, and fulfilled lives.

• Bush & Beach Kinder

Our little scholars explore Mother Nature daily which is literally on their doorstep. They step outside and become outdoor explorers and the rest is history.

• Pram Kinder

No matter how little you are, even our littlest scholars partake in outdoor adventures and become outdoor explorers.

• Drawing Lessons

Young minds are hungry and always ready to learn new things. Our drawing lessons with Mr Tom offer our kindergarten children a world of exploration, creative expression, and expertise all in one. These classes are supported by Tom Gant from You CAN Draw!

• Cooking lessons

Our little scholars express themselves through the art of cooking and are opened to a world of opportunities for creativity and exploration. Watch your little scholar become their own little chef.

• Yoga

Watch out for your competitor yogi friends because yoga is on the weekly agenda for our little scholars! Yoga is more than just a fun activity; it is an outlet for coping with stresses and promotes a happy mind.

• Sport

Think personalised obstacle classes, soccer, swimming and more. Our little scholars are supported with expert teachers who promote fun and educational fitness lessons for the children.

• Dance

Dance provides the joy of dance and music in young children while creating and promoting musical appreciation, rhythm, coordination, fitness, social skills and most of all fun! Children are taught a range of dance techniques including ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap and more, in a relaxed, enjoyable atmosphere.

My son has just started his second week at Little Scholars Redland
Bay after moving him from another child care centre. To say we are pleased we moved is an understatement!

My son tries wearing his "kindy shirt" every day and gets upset when we tell him no kindy today, he just loves going so much!

The staff are exceptional and I love getting an update on the app on what he has done for the day. This centre continually impresses me every time I go!

Stacey, parent

It was mid January when we needed a placement for our Grandson who came to live with us at 18 months of age. We were visiting numerous daycare centres in the area but there wasn't much of a chance of a placement until after the first term. But to our thanks and gratitude, the Director if this centre phoned us with great news that they were able to give our grandson a place in their daycare centre.

We receive emails every day, passing onto us information on his activities for the day, sleep time, meals he ate and how he coped during his day there. The staff are all friendly towards us. 5 stars to you all who helped us with the admission and process of getting us started. Thank you to all staff who were involved in that process.

Liz, grandparent

The care given by the educators in this centre is incredible, my babies are always well looked after and look forward to their kindy days.

The centre is well laid out, high quality and the staff genuinely care about the needs of their families.
There's even meals available for parents to grab on the go when rushing to work and you can even arrange food to take home for the little ones (they seem to like it better than what I make at home).

If you're undecided, go have a tour of the centre, it's amazing.

Doug, parent

The entire team at little scholars Redland Bay are amazing. The level of care and effort they put into the location, the children and the families is second to none.

The facilities are top notch and extremely well maintained, the educators are passionate and really build great relationships with the kids and the management is so incredibly caring and supportive of families. Our kids look forward to their days at kindy and that makes it so much easier on us parents!

We have a little dude that requires a extra care and little scholars have helped him and us so much. They work with him and his strengths and weaknesses, at his previous kindy he was excluded and put in the too hard basket, but at little scholars they really have helped him to achieve so much growth. On top of this they have been incredibly understanding when he has had his bad days, and not only have they supported him but they have supported us as his parents and as any parent of a child with extra needs knows this support means so much. Thank you to all the team at little scholars, for not just being a kindy, but for being our kindy and for helping my little dude have somewhere he feels he belongs.

Anonymous, parent