Preschool & School Readiness · 3 – 5 years · 60 places across two rooms
Big ideas.
Bright futures.
By the time your child reaches preschool, they're ready for bigger ideas. This is where the Smart Steps difference is most visible — where our partnership with Arkki, the Finnish creative-education program, comes fully to life.
More than the alphabet
Plenty of centres will teach your child to recognise letters and numbers, and so will we. But school readiness isn't just knowing facts — it's knowing what to do with them. Through Arkki's structured, project-based approach, children spend these years learning to imagine, design, build, collaborate and solve real problems — the creative and thinking skills that carry them through school and life.
NSW Start Strong. As a registered service, eligible families can access NSW Start Strong fee relief for children in the preschool years, on top of the Child Care Subsidy — making a premium program more affordable than families expect. See Fees & Subsidy
What your child experiences
- The structured Arkki creative curriculum — hands-on projects using design and building to integrate STEAM and 21st-century skills.
- Genuine school-readiness foundations: early literacy and numeracy, concentration, independence, following instructions and confidence in a group.
- Rich incursions and real-world experiences that bring learning to life.
- Emotional and social readiness — resilience, self-help skills and the confidence to walk into “big school” ready to thrive.
- A smooth transition supported by educators who understand what the next step demands [note: informed by the founders’ K–12 experience at Kalibre Education].
The essentials
- Ages: 3 to 5 years · 60 places across two rooms of 30
- Educator-to-child ratio: in line with NSW requirements (1 educator to every 10 children)
- Structured Arkki creative curriculum + EYLF
- Chef-prepared meals · incursions · OWNA app
- Hours: 7:00am–6:00pm, Monday–Friday