Our bayside days

We're a hundred metres from the water, and we use it. The bay isn't an excursion we run twice a year — it's part of the ordinary week.

The Wednesday walk

Every Wednesday the pre-preppers walk down to the esplanade with an educator for every three children. They come back with shells, driftwood, a tide line drawn from memory, and usually sand in places sand should not be.

The weather chart

The oldest room keeps a weather chart by the door — wind, cloud, tide, and whether it was a hat day. It started as one child's question about why the water was further away on Tuesday and it has run for three years now.

For the babies

The nursery has its own sensory wall — shells, netting, smooth glass, a length of rope — at crawling height, so the bay reaches the children who can't walk to it yet.

Arriving

Sign in on the iPad by the front desk — it takes about ten seconds, and it's how we know exactly who is in the building. Someone will be at the door to take you through to the room on your first few mornings, and you're welcome to stay as long as you both need. If a different person is collecting that day, tell us at drop-off or ring through before three; we won't release a child to anyone who isn't on the list.