Happy Campers Prekindy

Happy Campers is a privately owned and run Pre-Kindergarten, established since 1998 by highly qualified and experienced teachers specialising in Early Childhood Education. Our philosophy is to provide an environment rich with opportunities to socialise, build resilience and promote learning opportunities in a diverse indoor/outdoor play-based environment. As a team we pride ourselves on providing a holistic approach to teaching, providing a warm, supportive and nurturing environment for your child. We take delight in the simple things that to the adult eye may seem unimportant or go unnoticed but to us (your Childs’ educators) we get great rewards from observing how your child interacts with the many different learning environments and varied resources we set up for them and the learning and the social interactions that happen within it.

We believe in collaborative learning and sharing of ideas. Whether it’s helping each other to feed and look after our “sick pets” in our “vet clinic”, saving the baby dinosaurs from the volcanoes in our dinosaur land, making water valleys, roads and buildings in our huge sandpit or even working together to make magic soups from fresh flowers for the fairies in our fairy garden. Our ideas to encourage social play and their enjoyment are endless. Our objective is to provoke inquisitiveness and curiosity from the things in our setting or the discussions we have about a topic of interest.

We will encourage and support your child to explore and discover and ask questions about the things that interest them. We will help them find answers to help build their knowledge in the things they are interested in and share this with their peers. We get just as excited (even more than your child sometimes) when we see your child reach different milestones throughout the year. It could be in their ability to make new friends and express themselves during play, make new discoveries in our garden or science area. Learning to independently dress themselves, learning to use scissors or roll play dough effectively and craft a shape or expressing themselves through free painting. It’s all the little things we notice and enjoy sharing with you along the way on your child’s learning journey. We hope your child will enjoy the varied tactile and sensory experiences of the different art and craft we do over the year. Along with all the other language, social, educational and physical benefits that come from being part of our Happy Campers family the building of your child’s confidence, resilience and interest in learning is key. 

Our families over the years tell us that our programme is like no other, it is exciting and stimulating and the staff always go over and above to make the children and parents feel that their individual needs are being met. Most of all, their children come home having felt safe and secure and having had loads of fun, often asking their parents all week, “Is it a Happy Camper day yet mummy!” Our service is not like a day-care in any way. We see ourselves as a boutique educational Pre-Kindy offering a very high level of personal care and attention to you and your child. We programme under the National Quality Standards and the Early Years Learning Framework that has been rolled out across the country called Belonging, Being and Becoming. This ensures that the level of education in the pre-school sector across Australia is of a high standard and is accessible to all children by all care providers from home day cares, small kindergartens like us, large day care centres and primary schools.