Why You’ll Love Spirals Early Learning
At Spirals Early Learning Armadale, we are proud to offer high-quality child care and long day care in a warm, welcoming and family-focused environment. Our centre is designed to support your child’s growth, confidence and love of learning from their very first day.
Family-Owned and Operated Child Care in Armadale
We are a family-owned and operated early learning centre in Armadale, WA, which means we truly understand the importance of trust, communication and strong relationships with families. We work closely with parents and caregivers to ensure every child feels safe, supported and valued.
Smaller Group Sizes for Individual Attention
Our smaller group sizes allow our educators to provide personalised care and learning experiences. This helps each child build confidence, develop social skills and reach their full potential in a nurturing and supportive setting.
Management of the Centre
The nominated supervisor and director of Spirals Early Learning Armadale is Mrs Penelope Cormack-Gibbons, who leads our team with a strong focus on quality education, child safety and positive family partnerships.
Inclusion
At Spirals Early Learning we believe in respect and understanding of all cultures, diversity and disabilities. Inclusion is embedded throughout our centre.
We live in a multi-cultural society and promote inclusion through our program and practise.
Celebrations our centre will embrace are Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day and other relevant spiritual and community events relevant to our service.
Why The Name Spirals Early Learning?
The spiral is an ancient symbol etched into the annals of human history. The spiral appears everywhere in nature. From ancient shells of molluscs, galaxy formations, tornados, to our unique fingerprints, and DNA molecules, all which have a spiral form.
Its origins date back thousands of years, where it has graced the cave walls of many indigenous peoples across the globe. For the Aboriginal people, the spiral denotes the waterhole or a campsite, a place that is seen as sacred, where people meet for physical and spiritual sustenance. The symbol of a spiral also denotes a never-ending journey of discovery and rediscovery.
(Knudsen, 2004, The Circle & Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Māori Literature).
The pedagogy and research-based approach implemented at our service, is the Montessori Spirals Curriculum, founded by theorists Maria Montessori and Jerome Bruner. This curriculum supports the following concepts, underpinned through play-based learning, the NQF and the EYLF:
• Everything is interrelated, one activity leads to many others
• Children move from concrete towards abstract understanding
• We work from the big picture to increasing detail, scaffolding understanding
• Major themes are revisited and looked at in greater depth
With all of this considered, it was an obvious choice to name our service.
