Out & About Care & Education caters to children from 6 weeks of age to school age. This Sunshine Coast Early Learning Service offers childcare, long daycare and an approved Kindergarten Program operating 5 days per week with an educator team that supports children as they learn and grow.
At Out & About, children are encouraged to understand and work with the natural world. Play spaces have been designed to foster children’s interaction with and enjoyment of outdoor play, investigation, and discovery. Outdoor play in nature offers children a number of benefits, including:
- Development of physical skills and stamina
- Practicing social skills, working with others, and collaborating on a range of projects and games
- Space to run, be free of concerns, and make noise and laugh like mad if they wish, or be quiet and thoughtful
- How to think about and manage risks and challenges
- A sense of awe and wonder at nature’s marvels. Children will connect with nature and understand how the natural world works, our interdependence on it, and our responsibility to nurture it
- A place to simply run, play and have great fun with friends in a relaxing and safe space.
O & A’s distinctive playgrounds encourage creative thinking and simple enjoyment of nature and the great outdoors. Timber, stone, other natural elements and planting offer children a natural environment in which to play.
This Sunshine Coast childcare and early learning service combines irregular layouts, patterns and textures in natural materials, quiet nooks, open spaces and different levels to provide children with interest and challenge and prompt many play possibilities and ideas for imaginative thinking.
BACKGROUND
Out & About Care & Education operator Pam Maclean has more than 40 years of experience in the early childhood world and holds a master’s degree in education.
She has previously operated several high-quality centres – including the two extremely popular Big Day Out centres in Peregian.
Pam was the Director of a centre named in the Prime Minister’s top three businesses in its category in Australia – the first childcare centre to be so recognised. She has a long history of high-quality care and education provision in the sector.
LOCATIONS:
Out & About Care and Education
30 Dalton Drive
Maroochydore Q 4558
07 5479 1411
Out & About Care and Education
2 Newspaper Place
Maroochydore Q 4558
07 5413 8099
Out & About Care and Education
6 Mooloolah Rd
Mooloolah Valley Q 4553
07 5356 9323
Outdoor play space at Out & About Care & Education Sunshine Coast
