Kindergarten
Harty Street Kindergarten C&K is a community kindy located in Coorparoo. Our warm, caring and degree-qualified early childhood educators are dedicated to ensuring your child enjoys and benefits from their kindergarten year. At Harty Street Kindergarten C&K, your child will be nurtured, protected and will grow into a lifelong learner. Our program is play-based that helps to prepare your child for their prep year and beyond.
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Enrolments
Due to the popularity and reputation of Harty Street Kindergarten C&K, our enrolments reach their capacity each year. We have 108 placements across five groups so enrol your child now to secure a spot. Enrolments open from birth.
Program & Facilities
Children learn best through play-based learning. At Harty Street Kindergarten C&K, your child will be immersed in quality education and care experiences that are guided by C&K’s curriculum approach, the Early Years Learning Framework and Queensland Kindergarten Guidelines.
Our Educators
At Harty Street Kindergarten C&K, your child will have access to degree-qualified early childhood educators who are supported by highly skilled and qualified teaching assistants. Many of our teachers have invested numerous years in Harty Street Kindergarten C&K and its community, including some of whom have sent their own children for their kindy year. The team at Harty Street Kindergarten C&K fosters the development of secure, confident children in a nurturing environment.
About Us
Harty Street Kindergarten C&K is a non-denominational, non-profit association and is affiliated with the Creche and Kindergarten Association of Queensland (C&K). Harty Street Kindergarten C&K is managed by a Management Committee elected by the members (the parents).
Our education program maintains its focus on encouraging a love of lifelong learning through play-based activities, continuing the 110+ years of experience C&K has in educating and caring for children.
Explore Our Kindy
You are welcome to view our kindergarten prior to enrolling. At a viewing, you can meet our Director and get a tour of our grounds, facilities and classrooms. Throughout the visit, we can answer any of your questions relating to your child’s kindergarten year, our service and the curriculum. Please contact us to arrange a suitable time.
Our Kindy. Our Family. Our Community.
At Harty Street Kindergarten C&K, our sense of community is strong. Over the years our educators, parents and community have built a wonderful and well-known educational environment where children thrive, parents participate and families socialise.
Close contact between home and our kindy is most important, so we offer a range of activities to become involved including a very active Parents’ Club, parent participation days, working bees and other special events throughout the year.
Exceeding Rating
The National Quality Framework (NQF) for early childhood education encourages services to provide a high quality and consistent standard of early childhood education and care across Australia. In 2019, Harty Street Kindergarten C&K achieved an ‘exceeding the national quality standards‘ rating.
How many places does the kindergarten have?
Due to the popularity and reputation of Harty Street Kindergarten C&K, our enrolments reach their capacity each year. We have 108 placements each year across the kindergarten and pre-kindergarten classes so enrol your child now to secure a spot. Enrolments open from birth.
Why Harty Street?
Our kindergarten is a hidden gem! Tucked away on 2000sqm of land is a beautiful, natural and expansive playground where children can enjoy being children. This adventure playground is truly magical and plays a key role in our play-based curriculum allowing exploration, physical and social development. Our varied activities help children to develop emotionally, physically and academically.
What is the Harty Street community like?
At Harty Street Kindergarten C&K, our sense of community is strong. Over the years our educators, parents and community have built a wonderful and well-known educational environment where children thrive, parents participate and families socialise.
What is a community kindergarten?
Our kindergarten is operated by a parent management committee. The management committee, elected by the parents and guided by the kindergarten director, is responsible for the management of the kindergarten. This way, our kindergarten is a reflection of the community in which we operate.
How can I get involved in the kindergarten?
There are a variety of ways you can get involved in the kindergarten.
Close contact between home and Harty Street Kindergarten C&K is most important, so we offer a range of activities to become involved, including a very active Parents Club, parent participation days, working bees and other special events throughout the year.
Become class coordinator! This role helps to support your child’s teacher by communicating messages, planning class events for parents and children, promoting Parents’ Club events and creating a great sense of belonging between all parents, teachers and children.
Does Harty Street support inclusive education?
Harty Street Kindergarten C&K supports inclusive education and we encourage families to contact the Director if they have any questions about their child’s enrolment eligibility so that appropriate support may be organised if required.
What are some resources we recommend?
Harty Street Kindergarten C&K supports any open discussion about supporting your children through transitions or throughout their kindergarten year. For online guidance, we recommend articles from Starting Blocks and Kaylene Henderson – https://drkaylenehenderson.com/free-resources/ Another helpful website with tips and tricks for healthy lunchbox ideas and much more! – https://growandgotoolbox.com/?pathway=parents-and-families
Philosophy & Mission
At Harty Street Kindergarten we value our role in nurturing and protecting children, embracing differences, and establishing life-long learners through a holistic and responsive approach. Children are seen as competent and capable learners and are encouraged to learn new skills, express themselves and their opinions freely, and undertake experiences that develop self-confidence, independence, and a strong self-esteem through play. We acknowledge and celebrate that at Harty Street we learn and play on the Turrbal and Jagera land. We will continue to value this connection and ensure our practices are respectful in representing the history, culture, values and traditions of First Nations Peoples and their families in our Kindergarten Community.
In relation to children we:
- Are present, attentive and actively listen to your children, we notice, explore, expand and celebrate their interests; this is how we come to know who they really are.
- Protect and promote children’s wellbeing, health, safety, and security.
- Trust in children’s capacity to explore, problem solve, question, investigate, create, wonder, develop friendships, and extend their dispositions for learning through language, literacy, numeracy, music, art, science, and physical skills.
- Support children’s exploration of the natural world and foster their understanding of sustainable practices through local and global contexts.
- Build children’s capacity as collaborative social learners by encouraging them to engage in communicating and listening to others.
In relation to families we:
- Recognise families as their child’s first and most influential teacher.
- Celebrate the richness of Harty Street Kindergarten and the connections the centre has with the community past, present, and future.
- Are committed to establishing strong and trusting relationships.
- Encourage parents to take an active role: sharing skills, knowledge, and interests, to ensure they are an integral part of our quality education program.
- Recognise and value diversity within this community.
As educators we:
- Incorporate an emergent curriculum, guided professionally by the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 and the National Quality Standards into our daily practice.
- Support the well-being of individuals and the team and their ongoing professional development and reflective practice; maintaining a positive culture of enquiry and growth.
- Maintain a superior level of quality care and education through consistent reflective and collaborative practice.
- Support an inclusive practice across our entire program, so that it embraces the right of every child to be, to belong and become in a diverse world
- Respect the confidentiality of children, families, and staff.
- Recognise the natural physical environment as the ‘third teacher’ and its influence on how children play and learn.
- Recognise the significance of belonging to Harty Street for children, families, and staff.
- Invite and celebrate children’s uniqueness through ideas, intentions and actions
- Are dedicated professionals who uphold high standards and beliefs through communicative practice.
Creating Life-long Learners
We believe learning is a lifelong process and acknowledge that families are the children’s first and most important teachers. Children are competent and capable learners and we believe that they learn best through relationships and connections with people, places, things and time. We believe children’s learning emerges best from positive social relationships and interactions when they feel safe, supported and experience a sense of belonging. When children feel safe, nurtured and understood, they develop a sense of who they are and how they belong in their group.
