Since opening last November the centre has been active in establishing a stronger literacy and quality numeracy program. The communities response has seen the centre experience almost full enrolment growth over the period and is in no small part a large reflection on the professionalism and commitment of the staff over the past 9 months.

At present staff and parents are focusing on implementing emergent curriculum across the centre which focuses on developing a child's interest in enhancing their individual set of skills by establishing an individual portfolio document. This methodology provides an invaluable resource for future primary school enrolment.

The centre has a limited number of places available and we encourage anyone to book early so as not to miss out.

Last July the centres owners Robert Toon and Neale Kaalund participated in the conference at Hobart of “Landscapes of Possibility” run by Reggio Emilia Australia Information Exchange over 3 days we and also 650 other delegates learned of the Reggio Emilia Educational Program and it’s commitment to the world of a child. The poem “The child is made of one hundred” is repeated here and encapsulates the conference theme.

“The child is made of one hundred”

The child has
a hundred languages
a hundred hands
a hundred thoughts
a hundred ways of thinking
of playing, of speaking

A hundred, always a hundred
ways of listening,
of marvelling, of loving,
a hundred joys
for singing and understanding
a hundred worlds
to discover,
a hundred worlds
to invent,
to dream

The child has
a hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred
hundred more)
but they steal ninety-nine.
The school and the culture
separate the head from
the body.
They tell the child:
to think without hands
to do without head
to listen and not to speak
to understand without joy
to love and to marvel
only at Easter and Christmas

They tell the child:
to discover the world
already there
and of the hundred
they steal ninety-nine
forcing thought without a body
action without a mind.
They tell the child:
that work and play,
reality and fantasy,
science and imagination,
sky and earth,
reason and dream
are things
that do not belong together.

And thus they tell the child
that the hundred is not there.
The child knows:
The hundred is there.

Loris Malaguzzi
1920 - 1994