The Learning Cottage strives to build strong relationships with our children, families and local community to provide a meaningful, interest-based educational program that links to the principles, practices and learning outcomes of The Early Years Learning Framework (v2.0, 2022). 

Our service is a small 35-place centre comprising two rooms, 0-3 years Wombats, and 3-5 years Koalas.
We are open Mondays to Fridays, 7:00 am to 6:00 pm. 

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We offer a Munch and Move program (centre wide) and school readiness program in our Koalas 3-5 years room – preschool pack attached.

Family App - We use the OWNA app platform, which provides information about your child's day. 

Orientations - As a part of our enrolment process, we invite all new children to attend two orientation visits before they commence care with us. We believe orientations assist new children and families in developing secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships with their Educators, and to build their confidence and sense of belonging towards the centre environment.

Lunch Box and drink bottle - We kindly ask all families to supply your child with their own drink bottle and lunch box each day. By implementing this on a daily basis, we aim to encourage all children to build on their self-help skills, sense of agency, confidence and independence whilst they, for example, recognise and take care for their personal belongings, open/close items within their lunch box and build their confidence to ask for help from their Educators when needed.

Start Strong Funding (3-5 years) - Our service is proud to be part of the NSW Start Strong funding program, which helps reduce the cost of early childhood education for families.