Environment and location

Hobart Place is a smaller-scale centre with a warm community feel. Most children move on to attend Illawong or Tharawal Public School together. They start school with the benefit of solid friendships formed at Hobart Place.

Our centre is close to Illawong Public School and Illawong Shopping Village.

Spacious outdoors

Families value our picturesque and well-resourced ‘outdoor classroom’. The large playground has been renovated and features a sandpit, cubby house, bike track, and mud kitchen for messy play.

Climbing is a favourite activity here! Under our large shade structure, we engage in mobile play opportunities such as climbing and balancing to build motor skills and core strength.

Our team

Families tell us how much they value our caring, experienced and long-standing team. Most of our Educators have been with us for many years.

Strong connections are the foundation for every child to thrive. Parents value our collaboration and the secure attachments we build with children.

We're a culturally diverse team who enjoy sharing our heritage with the children. Hobart Place's learning program also reflects our Educators' talents. Our passions include sustainability, fitness and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, maths) learning.

Preschool program

Our quality preschool program includes a deliberate combination of intentional teaching and spontaneous learning. It also reflects the children’s interests and each child’s learning goals.

We foster every child's love of learning. Children who are inspired to learn will thrive in every aspect of their development.  They will ask questions, process information, try new things, be happy to share and collaborate, develop friendships, join in games, and know they belong to a community of learning.

Our creative early education programs follow the Australian Government's Early Years Learning Framework, the only government-approved learning framework for children under school age.

Our preschool program fosters:

• Language (learning new words, following directions, sharing news and stories etc).
• Cognitive growth (concepts such as time, advanced memory games)
• Pre-literacy
• Pre-numeracy
• STEAM experiences (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths)
• Fine motor skills (pincer grip, cutting, pasting, holding a pencil, drawing, writing name)
• Gross motor skills (hopping, jumping, skipping)

Social and emotional skills are also important for primary school. We focus on children's development in these areas:

• Emotional resilience (self-regulating emotions, expressing emotions in a way that others would expect)
• Self-care skills (e.g. caring for belongings, tying shoelaces, toileting by themselves)
• Making and maintaining friendships
• Starting conversations with others
• Problem solving skills
• Developing resilience
• Sharing and taking turns
• Compromising, cooperating and working in a group with other children.
• Learning to adapt to changes in routines
• Knowing when and how to ask for help
• Empathy and caring for others.

Testimonials

‘Every day my daughter asks to stay longer. If that doesn’t sum up how much she loves the Educators and the welcoming, safe environment then I don’t know what would. Thank you, Hobart Place, for being part of our family.’

‘Our children grew up at Hobart Place, surrounded by beautiful people who are taking the best care of them. They LOVE going and we feel like the Educators are our extended family.’

‘Every single day you turn up with a smile on your face with bountiful positivity and energy. We are forever grateful for the comfort, love, education, play time, feeding (amazing food!), nappy changes and everything in between.’