About our centre

Welcome to Starlight Early Learning Centre - Vaucluse (formerly Vaucluse Little School). Our Early Years Centre established in 1997 has been providing quality care for families in Vaucluse, Watsons Bay and surrounding suburbs.  Starlight Early Learning Centre - Vaucluse offers a Montessori Education and seeks to achieve excellence and enrichment for Early learners. Our aim is for children to realise their full potential by introducing dynamic learning experiences according to Montessori principles.

Each child is allowed supervised free choice of classroom activities and freedom of movement based on his or her interests. This promotes initiative and self confidence.

Montessori Programmes

1 to 3 years 

The first three years of life are the most fundamental in the development of human beings and their potential. The infant's physical development is phenomenal and apparent and inspires our care and attention. Yet a profound and less obvious development is taking place within the child.

During the first three years of life the child's intelligence is formed. They acquire the culture and language into which they have been born. It is a period when the core of personality and the social being are developed. An understanding of the child's development and the development of the human mind allows environments to be prepared to meet the needs of the infant and foster independence, motor development and language acquisition.

3 to 6 years

Montessori 'school' starts at 3 years of age.  The 3 to 6 year old child is undergoing a process of self-construction. The application of the Montessori philosophy and the specifically designed Montessori equipment aids the child's ability to absorb knowledge and continue this path of self-construction. Acquisition of one's own first culture is the child's central developmental drive in the first plane of development.

The pre-school environment serves this drive abundantly, bringing the world to the child. Globes, maps, songs, land forms, collections of pictures of life in different cultures, and much more, is offered, with the aim of helping the child to grow as an individual appreciating the larger context of his or her world.

There are four main areas in the pre-school program: Practical Life, Sensorial, Language and Mathematics. Considerable emphasis is also placed on Creative Arts, Music, Science, Geography and Cultural Studies.