Our Program

Extra Curriculum Activities (included in fees)

We understand that many of our families run on a tight schedule, and our busy life style means that there isn't much time left for you to take your children to participate in extracurricular activities you might wish they could join.

Many of your children spend a lot of their time in our care, and we want to assist our families, offering different activities for them to take part in while at the Butterflies.

To learn more about each extra curriculum, please give Rose (Director) a call on 02 9438 4884 or email admin@butterflies-elc.com.au

Daily Planned and Unplanned Curriculum

At Butterflies we aim to provide the highest standard of educational programs for our children by following the principles and practices of the Early Years Learning Framework and allowing the outcomes to guide our teaching intentions and practices. We also use the NSW Curriculum Framework to direct our educators and ensure we offer learning experiences at every part of the day.

We believe the relationships established between educators and children, as well as between peers are a key strategy in the success of our educational programs as they allow us to have a deeper understanding of children's motivations, interests and ideas; as well as qualifying us to individually plan to enable children to learn more effectively.

Our curriculum is play based and child-centred to enhance each child's learning, development and wellbeing.

The educational programs are developed by each of our teams for each individual room outlining or teaching intents and highlighting clear proposed teaching strategies to reach our intended outcomes.

Our evidence-based Education Summaries are delivered to families every 3 months as children develop and work towards their goals, celebrate milestones and achievements, and explore the learning and education they have encountered and the educators have observed over this period of time.

Our day-to-day program and philosophy are guided by Being, Belonging and Becoming. It is Australia’s first national Early Years Learning Framework for early childhood educators. The aim of this document is to extend and enrich children’s learning from birth to five years and through the transition to school.

Our educators use a holistic approach to help children continue developing in all areas, such as physical, social, emotional, cognitive and language. 

Transition to School

Our Transition to School Program was designed with the aim of giving children all of the social, physical and intellectual skills required to easily join their respective schools in the coming years.

At Butterflies we believe that play is a very important part of child's development. Therefore, we make sure that children have plenty of opportunities for free play every day. Our environment promotes play on every level and materials are selected to ensure that they stimulate the children's interest and help expand the learning process.

At the beginning of each year, we organise our Transition to School conference by inviting teachers from primary schools to give parents some insight of what children will need to do to get ready for ‘big’ school. We also arrange one-on-one meetings with each family to catch up with their child’s progress, set up goals quarterly, and aim to set them up for a successful transitioning experience for

If you’d like to know more about our School Readiness program, please don’t hesitate to speak to our Director Rose on 02 9438 4884 or email admin@butterflies-elc.com.au