Environment

WAO Early Learning centres offer a natural, welcoming, and warm environment for children.

The Balgowlah Early Learning Space

At WAO Early Learning Centres, where we've carefully crafted environments that inspire curiosity, creativity, and connection with nature. Indoors, children are greeted by a warm and inviting atmosphere designed to spark their imagination and encourage exploration.

Various sections offer diverse opportunities for play, learning, and social interaction, ensuring every child feels engaged and supported in their development.

Our outdoor spaces are thoughtfully curated with an array of natural elements and materials, providing ample opportunities for hands-on exploration and discovery. Here, children can engage in properly designed risk play elements, fostering resilience, confidence, and physical development in a safe environment.

We believe in the power of ownership and collaboration, encouraging children to contribute to the decoration of both indoor and outdoor spaces and fostering a sense of ownership and pride in their environment.

A bright, spacious room with wooden floors and large windows overlooking a garden. The room is set up as a play area with low shelves, small tables, and chairs, and contains toys, plants, a fish tank, and cozy rugs.
Bright classroom with large windows, wooden floors, potted plants, and children's furniture, decorated with colorful murals.
A cozy dining area with a round white table set with teacups, teapot, and a flower vase, surrounded by four wicker chairs. Large sliding glass doors lead outside to a backyard with green grass and play equipment. Inside, there's a wooden shelf with a white cloth and black dishes, a potted plant, and a small kitchen area with utensils, and a wooden box cabinet. The room has wooden floors and is filled with natural light.

“Children feel safe, secure and supported when they confidently explore and engage with social and physical environments through relationships and play.”

-The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (EYLF)

Balgowlah Early Learning Space

  • Natural colour and materials

  • Various sections offer diverse opportunities for play, learning, and social interaction

  • We encourage children to contribute to the decoration of both indoor and outdoor spaces.

  • children can engage in properly designed risk play elements, fostering resilience, confidence, and physical development in a safe environment.

"The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens."

- Maria Montessori

Two children sitting in a sandbox filled with autumn leaves, wearing summer clothes and hats, outdoors in a backyard.

Join the Balgowlah Early Learning Community

We have a wealth of thrilling features waiting to be discovered at Balgowlah Early Learning!

We warmly invite all families to join us for a tour, where you can chat with our dedicated educators and get to know our lively young learners firsthand!

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