Splish-Splosh!
Early Learning Centre students splashing about on campus. What fun!
Early Learning
Early Learning Centre
St Michael’s Collegiate Early Learning Centre (ELC) provides a warm and welcoming start to your child’s educational journey.
Located on the green, cosy Junior School Campus in South Hobart, our Centre is staffed by an exceptional team of educators who value learning as an exciting and creative process.
Collegiate ELC holds an ‘Exceeding’ rating in all 7 areas of the National Quality Standard through the government-accredited assessment and rating system.
“We believe in providing a learning journey filled with unending possibilities. Our educationally rich program focuses on children’s individual interests to encourage their investigative and inquiry skills.
Early Learning centre Philosophy 2020-2021
The design and delivery of our program is responsive to our current and contemporary world.
We believe that children are naturally inquisitive, a quality that drives their passion and determination to investigate the wonderful and the extraordinary.
Children are active participants in constructing their own knowledge through their interactions with others and the world around them.”
The Collegiate ELC adopts a Reggio Emilia approach, which is designed to enrich learning in the formative years by immersing children in experience-based learning that stimulates their thirst for knowledge.
Catering for 2 to 4-year-old boys and girls, the Centre enjoys a warm village atmosphere with access to the Junior School facilities such as the tennis court, library, grassy oval, kitchen garden and flower patches, which are grown and maintained by the children.
The children also participate in unique nature walks along the Hobart Rivulet where they can engage in imaginative nature play and connect with their local community.
Our Early Learning Centre nurtures the learning and development of each child and family, providing a place for all to experience a sense of belonging.
Outside School Hours Care
We offer an Outside School Hours Care program conducted in Alkira on the Junior School Campus during term time. This is available to all Collegiate students up to 12 years of age. The After School Care program runs weekdays from 3.00 to 6.00 pm, except on public holidays. Before School Care is also available at the Early Learning Centre for students between 7.30 and 8.30 am. Bookings are made through the Program Coordinator or via the Early Learning Centre by contacting 6211 4953.
Our fun and busy Vacation Care Program operates during term breaks and over the Christmas holidays. We plan special events and activities for the children and there are excursions to the beach, parks and places of interest. General closure is between Christmas and New Year’s Day, as well as on public holidays, Easter Tuesday and the Friday after the Royal Hobart Show Day.
Little Learning House
Collegiate’s Little Learning House program welcomes children from birth to 4 years of age. The weekly sessions are filled with play-based experiences, exploration and storytelling. The program is designed to offer parents practical support and insight into play-based learning, to build connections between families with young children and to support each child to begin their individual learning journey.
Our program provides a wonderful introduction to the Reggio Emilia inspired, experience-based learning approach adopted by Collegiate’s Early Learning Centre (ELC) and Kindergarten.
The program takes place at the ELC in Anglesea Street, South Hobart. The Centre is staffed by an exceptional team of early learning specialists, who value each child’s ideas, needs and thoughts in order to enhance a sense of belonging and to create a safe environment in which the children can play and learn simultaneously.
Little Learning House is a free program, open to boys and girls from birth to 4 years of age. Parents/guardians are required to supervise their children at all times.
Little Learning House operates from 9:30am to 10:15am on Wednesday mornings during term time.
Register your interest today by contacting our Enrolments team on (03) 6211 4911, or via email enrolments@collegiate.tas.edu.au.
Early Learning Snapshots