Our Philosophy

Mowbray Place Early Learning Centre is committed to providing the highest quality of care for all children. We believe positive experiences in a child’s early years lay a solid foundation for the child’s life. Together with parents, we believe we can help the children in our care to grow into happy people that can make a valuable contribution to the community.

Quality play experiences provide endless opportunities to practice life skills, develop thinking and representational skills and to make sense of the world through investigation, exploration, manipulation, questioning and discovery. Play offers young children a stimulating and intrinsically motivating way of interacting with people and objects around them.

Children are encouraged to be independent learners; to self select materials and equipment and to initiate and control their own play experiences and learning while being facilitated and guided by qualified and experiences early childhood professionals.

Our programs are child focused and interest based with a focus on open ended, natural elements. We acknowledge that young children are powerful, resourceful, imaginative, creative and enthusiastic learners and bring with them a strong ability to control their own learning. We embrace the concept that young children can largely direct their own learning as they explore and discover through play.

By providing a happy, safe, fun and stimulating environment, children become active learners while developing independence and self esteem. Emphasis is placed on the development of a strong self image where children can feel confident.

We strongly recognize the importance of parent participation, and encourage open, positive and trusting relationships with parents.

Our highly qualified and experienced early childhood educators aim to achieve excellence in their role as facilitators, role models and nurturers of young children's learning and development.