Preschool education
We offer a wide range of fun, interactive preschool education programs, workshops, and play-based activities for preschool-aged children. These sustainability-themed learning experiences will inspire care, wonder and connection to the world around them.
We tailor programs to complement the NSW education curriculum. If you have a specific topic or interest you would like to cover, get in touch with us to see how we can help.
Sustainability education programs
Ecosystems and biodiversity
Marine debris working group and beach clean-ups+
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Children will learn:
- how to do marine debris clean-ups using the Australian Marine Debris Database (AMDI)
- why it’s so important to record the debris they collect
- how we can work together to prevent the debris from entering the marine environment.
Batemans Marine Park+
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Children will learn:
- about the marine park’s zones, its benefits and the variety of marine species living in the local area
- to identify, describe and evaluate interdependent relationships between living things and the environment within the marine park’s ecosystems.
Endangered ecological communities+
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Children will learn:
- the importance of local vegetation communities such as dune systems, wetlands, littoral rainforests, and bangalay sand forests
- how to mitigate threats and contribute to conservation of these communities.
Protected and endangered species+
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Children will learn about:
- our native species, like the flying-fox, and how we can help to protect them in their natural habitat
- the programs that protect these native species such as responsible cat ownership.
We can:
- deliver this program as a preschool excursion, educational visit to your preschool or as a teaching resource
- organise school excursions to our flying-fox camps when flying-foxes are visiting the area.
Native plantings+
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Children will learn about:
- plants native to our local area
- how plants help reduce emissions and create habitat for local fauna
- how to create more shade at their preschool.
Council will:
- provide plants that children can plant in their preschool grounds or at a nearby reserve
- align this program with National Tree Day, Native Species Day, or another program of your choice, if required.
Waste
Setting up a compost at preschool+
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Children will learn:
- about compost and how it works
- what critters they’ll find inside compost that play an important role in our environment
- how to set up a compost at their preschool.
Introducing co-mingled recycling at your preschool+
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Children will:
- help introduce yellow recycling bins and collection services to their preschool
- participate in hands-on activities designed to improve their knowledge about correct recycling practices.
Smart Textile Saver Program+
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Children will learn about:
- textile waste
- Council’s new Smart Textile Saver Program
- the social and environmental impacts textile waste can create.
How to return and earn+
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will:
- learn how to reduce litter and encourage recycling
- help design and implement a return and earn scheme at their preschool.
Contact us
Contact our sustainability education officers for more detailed information about our education programs: