Little Lane Early Learning Centre - Hawthorn

Little Lane Early Learning Centre - Hawthorn is a family owned early childhood education and care service located in Hawthorn, Melbourne.

Little Lane Early Learning Centre - Hawthorn opened in March 2018 as a brand new early childhood education and child care service. Our architecturally designed, state of the art facility features a dedicated art studio, large open classrooms flooded with natural light, outdoor learning classrooms, a purpose-built dance and music studio and so much more. With access to the best facilities and the best resources, our qualified early childhood educators will be able to support your child in building a strong foundation and a lifelong love of learning in the years prior to starting school.

Our philosophy and practice is strongly based on a socio-cultural theory; building strong, authentic and respectful relationships with each child and their family to truly understand and support their individual learning and developmental journey.

At Little Lane Early Learning Centre we value each child as a competent and capable learner, on their own unique journey shaped by their own context and family. We value the early years’ of each child’s life as the formative years, in which we have the opportunity to build the foundations of strong brains through meaningful play based learning, in order to promote a lifelong love of learning.

Our Programs

Little Lane Early Learning Centre provides high quality Education and Care Programs for children aged from 3 months to school age, delivered by our highly skilled and educated early childhood educators. All of our programs incorporate intentional teaching through play-based programs supported by the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework. Children will be encouraged to participate in programs that have been specifically designed to support their learning and development needs, by educators that know them and their interests and strengths.

Language Immersion Program

The Little Lane Early Learning Centre Language immersion program promotes literacy, vocabulary and understandings of cultural diversity and is facilitated by our qualified in-house Mandarin teacher. Children will have the opportunity to participate in the language immersion program through play-based learning experiences and relationship based interactions without the necessity of rote and repetitive lessons.

Artist-in-Residence led Art Program

The Little Lane Early Learning Centre Art Program is delivered in our purpose-built Atelier by our artist in residence in order to promote an appreciation of the arts within the early years. Our artist in residence has the skills and passion required to facilitate our unique art curriculum to children aged 0-5 years. Through this program children will have the opportunity to explore a variety of mediums, such as clay, charcoal, paint, wire and 3D modelling to support learning and explorations. Our unique art curriculum allows children to explore varying methods of self-expression, communication and interpretation, as well as promoting creativity, empathy, understanding and physical dexterity.

Kodály Early Years Music Classes

Specifically design for children aged 0-5 years using the Kodály concept, the Little Lane Early Learning Centre Music Program provides opportunities for each child to participate in weekly music classes, delivered by our highly skilled and trained Early Childhood music teacher. Our specialised Early Childhood music teacher understands the importance and benefits of prompting developing speech, vocabulary, listening and memory skills through structured and planned music lessons.

Nutrition

We believe that a healthy, balanced diet has a significant impact on the way that children learn and develop within the early years. We know that the food we provide to children fuels their bodies and their brains. So it makes sense to us that in order to promote the best learning and development within children, we need to provide them with the best fuel we can. Our qualified in-house chef is in charge of creating the most delicious menus, full of variety and multi-cultural influences from all over the world. Every dish prepared meets the nutritional guidelines set by Nutrition Australia.