Enrichment Programs
Supporting children’s learning through dedicated music, language & culture, community building, and artist-in-residence programs
Music with Laura
Music supports children’s learning across all aspects of development—including cognitive, language, physical and social-emotional.
The benefits of music for babies & children
When listening to music, very young children and babies unintentionally differentiate things such as frequency, tone and melody.
They unscramble the different parts of music and then build up a mental organisation system to memorise it. Without this exposure in their earliest of years they never build this important mental filing system.
Music also helps build intimacy which brains love. There is also some evidence that it can boost our immune system!
Sharing the love of music through a dedicated a music program for all
Laura’s interactive music classes enhances all the goodness of exposing children to music.
The program helps children grow into the musical beings they were born to be by reaching developmental and educational milestones with more ease, less stress, and long-lasting effects.
Availability
The music classes are held for every child during each school term, at no additional cost.
Learn how to enrol your child at Poets Grove
Physical Education Program with Vaughn & Chloe
Vaughn, along with Chloe from ActiveEd Consultancy, delivers a high-quality physical education program tailored to all age groups at Poets Grove. His focus is on collaborating with educators to create a program that is fun and exciting for our little learners, while inspiring confidence and fostering the development of their gross motor skills.
The benefits of Physical Education for babies & children
Physical education plays a vital role in the early years, supporting the healthy development of gross and fine motor skills in infants, toddlers, and young children. Through active play and structured movement experiences, children build strength, balance, coordination, and body awareness.
Regular physical activity also promotes cognitive development, social skills, and emotional wellbeing, helping children gain confidence in their abilities. Early exposure to physical education lays the foundation for lifelong healthy habits and a positive attitude towards movement and exercise.
Kitchen Garden with Emily
Emily’s kitchen garden program brings the garden to the table in a hands-on and engaging way. Children explore where our food comes from, how it grows and sustainable garden practices. The kitchen garden program gives young children the opportunity to prepare and taste a variety of healthy foods, creating a positive, confident and healthy relationship with food.
The benefits of Physical Education for babies & children
The kitchen garden program boosts children’s knowledge and skills in gardening and preparing foods, as well as boosting their willingness to try new foods. There are opportunities for literacy, numeracy, STEAM and sustainability learning embedded throughout the program.
Health and wellbeing are promoted as children spend time outdoors in the garden, develop their connection to the natural environment, and try fresh, healthy produce.
Our connections with the Poets Grove Community Garden and Elwood Primary School kitchen garden help to foster a sense of community.
Coming Together Program
Our planned and purposeful Coming Together Program creates opportunities for all the children to be with each other, so they can learn together
The benefits of building a sense of community
All of the children from each room come together in the afternoons to form valuable connections with each other.
This helps to develop:
children’s higher order thinking through sustained interactions with peers and teachers, and
promotes their sense of accountability and responsibility (as they learn to pack away).
When children play with other children and interact with adults they create relationships and friendships, test out ideas, challenge, challenge each others thinking, and build new understandings.
Shared outdoor play spaces encourage learning
Children learn dramatic play, storytelling, and different individual and collective art experiences in the outdoor play spaces.
Availability
The Coming Together program is held for every child each afternoon, at no additional cost.
Learn how to enrol your child at Poets Grove
Artist in Residence Program
The arts offers children significant ways of knowing about themselves, others and the world. We encourage art appreciation so children can grow up understanding cultural diversity within the communities we live, work and play.
The benefits of our artist in resident program
Imagine believing that children have the ability to express themselves in more than one way. Now times that by 100! Through art, children learn infinite ways to express, explore, and connect their thoughts, feelings and imaginings.
Creative collaboration through active learning
We celebrate artists from different disciplines through a transdisciplinary approach. This means the artist, educators, and children are all engaging and exchanging with each other throughout the creative partnership.
Each year the children explore a different art concept taught by a different artist. Our workshops encourage children to learn art techniques, materials, processes and concepts through active participation.
Our Annual Artist in Residence Exhibition
Children’s artworks are celebrated through an annual Artist in Residence exhibition. Members of the community come together to appreciate the value and relevance of art in our lives.
Availability
The artist in residence programs are held for every child during each school term, at no additional cost.
Learn how to enrol your child at Poets Grove.