Encounter 3: Geelong Grammar ELC and St Michaels Grammar ELC and Junior School

Date: Thursday 29 June 2023

Time: Bus departs at 8.00am - return to MCEC 12.30pm

Venue: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

Category: Pre-Conference Educational Experience

This tour includes morning tea.

Registrations have now closed

Program Description

Geelong Grammar School ELC

The Early Learning Centre at Geelong Grammar School, Toorak Campus is located in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. The ELC is housed in a building known as The Pottery, a beautiful, joyful and inspiring learning space for children aged three to five years. We have two ELC 3 programs and two ELC 4 programs.

Our Early Learning Centre is inspired and influenced by:

• The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP)
• The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education
• The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (EYLF)
• Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF)
• Adventure Education, Positive Education and Creative Education.

These elements underpin all of our practices and beliefs about teaching and learning in Early Childhood.

We believe learning is a natural and ongoing process that begins at birth. Children start to construct their understandings and ideas about the world from an early age based on their knowledge and interpretations of events and experiences.  We believe learning is hands on, interactive, interest based, play centred and investigative. We encourage children to develop their inquiring minds by exploring and engaging, observing and wondering, challenging and questioning their world.  We aim to build the foundations for a lifelong love of learning.

We are proud to share the children’s learning as well as our learning and environments with visiting delegates.

St Michael’s Grammar School ELC and Junior School

St Michael’s Grammar School, founded by the Sisters of the Church, is a co-educational, ELC – Year 12 Independent School, located on one site. We have an 84 place ELC, consisting of 3YO and Pre-Preparatory (4YO) groups.  We are situated in bayside St Kilda, surrounded by a diverse and rich offering of the Performing and visual arts, water sports at nearby St Kilda beach, multi-cultural restaurants and the St Kilda Botanical Gardens. The School values the diversity of the local community and our ‘Signature Programs’ are enhanced by our community connections. The ELC and Junior School are in a phase of regeneration, where we see opportunity in the evolution of education, while we continue to be anchored by the tenets of the Reggio Emilia Research Project. We look forward to sharing our research, programs, newly opened Centre for Inquiry and Innovation (CII) and ELC and Junior School facilities.

Notes:

• All Educational Encounters will depart from and return to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Delegates must arrive and depart from school/centre venues via the accompanied bus tours.
• Pending unavoidable traffic delays, departure and arrival times may vary.
• All delegates are requested to arrive at the Convention Centre 15 minutes prior to their bus departure to ensure timely departure.
• The pre-Conference Educational Encounters are optional and tickets must be purchased separately to Conference registration.
• Prices include GST.
• This encounter is limited to a maximum of 26 participants.
• Priority is given to registered delegates of the 2023 REAIE Biennial Conference.