This page covers what each room is like and what your child will eat. It also covers how we teach and exactly what it costs. The whole category hides that last one. We think that says plenty.
One educator to three babies, better than most regulators ask, because feeds and naps should never queue. The Nest keeps your home rhythm, the same nap times, the same bottles, and the same words for things. Postcards from this room tend to record firsts.
Toddlers need repetition, low risk and real jobs. The Perch sets the same garden loop, the same songs, the same washing-up bowl every day, and lets them carry the small watering can. Language everywhere: educators narrate, name and wait.
Project work begins here, Reggio-style: an interest becomes an investigation that can run for weeks. The atelier table holds clay, crayons and whatever the current obsession is. Educators document the thinking, not just the artwork.
The school-readiness room, defined properly. Children who can negotiate, persist, hold a pencil because they drew every day, and walk into a classroom expecting to like it. Structured literacy and numeracy moments hide inside real work: the shop, the garden ledger, the postcard desk.
We follow the child's questions the Reggio Emilia way. Projects grow from what the room is curious about, and we map every project back to the national early-years framework, in writing, where you can read it.
Your child is not minded here. She is listened to, followed and taken seriously, and the documentation wall proves it, week by week.
Breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and a late snack are cooked in our own kitchen from whole ingredients, menus posted weekly, allergies managed with a named plate system. Fussy weeks are met with patience and a second offer, never a battle.
Per day, everything is included: meals, nappies, sunscreen, hats, excursions and linen. No enrolment fee, no levy. The fee stays the same in week three. Government subsidies apply to eligible families and can change these numbers a lot. We will walk you through it on the tour.
daily fees — everything included
| Room | Ages | Per day (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| The Nest | 0–1 | $128 |
| The Perch | 1–2 | $121 |
| The Meadow | 2–3 | $112 |
| The Treehouse | 3–5 | $104 |
no enrolment fee · no levy · no surprises
1:3 in The Nest, 1:4 in The Perch, 1:5 in The Meadow and 1:10 in The Treehouse, at or better than required, every hour we are open, including the 5pm stretch where some centres quietly thin out.
The process starts with three short visits, with you in the room. Two half days follow, then a first full day, with photo updates whenever you want them. Some children take longer. That is allowed.
You just read them. We would rather lose a family on price at 2am than at the end of a tour that wasted your only free Saturday morning.
The Nest usually has one. The older rooms turn over each January. Join the list after your tour. We hold places in visit order, not by who calls most often.