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C&K Harty Street Community Kindergarten

Groups & Hours

Harty Street is a two-unit affiliated C&K centre offering four groups of kindergarten education across a short or long-day program and one pre-kindergarten group. The program is offered for children aged 3 - 5.5 years.

Long Day Program

Monday & Tuesday, 8:30am – 4:00pm

OR

Thursday and Friday, 8:30am – 4:00pm

Long Day Program with extended care

Monday & Tuesday, 8:00am - 6:00pm (includes after kindy care program from 3:30pm - 6:00pm)

Short Day Program

alternate Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, 8:45am - 2:45pm.

Pre-Kindy Program

Wednesdays, 8:45am - 2:45pm. 1 Unit offered.

Welcome

C&K Harty Street is a community Kindergarten located in Coorparoo. Our warm, caring and degree-qualified early childhood educators are dedicated to ensuring your child enjoys and benefits from their kindergarten year. At Harty Street your child will be nurtured, protected and will grow into a lifelong learner. Our program is play-based preparing 3 - 5.5 year olds for their prep year and beyond. 

Environment

Our Kindergarten is a hidden gem! Tucked away on 2000sqm of land is a beautiful, natural, expansive playgroup where children can enjoy being children. This adventure playground is truly magical and plays a key role in our play-based curriculum allowing exploration, physical and social development. Our varied activities help children to develop emotionally, physically and academically.

Facilities

Through vaired activities the children develop emotionally and physically. We achieve this by participating in activities and incursions both in and outdoors. These include

  • Outdoor play
  • Language
  • Music, movement & dance
  • History
  • Art experiences
  • Incursions

Sense of Community

At Harty Street our sense of community is strong. Over the years our educators, parents and community have built a wonderful and well known educational environment where children thrive, parents participate and families socialise.

Teaching Philosophy

Our education program maintains its focus on encouraging a love of lifelong learning through play-based activities, continuing the 110+ years of experience C&K has in educating and caring for children.

Teachers & Educators

At Harty Street your child will have access to highly qualifed early childhood teachers who are supported by highly skilled and qualified teaching assistants. Many of our teachers have invested numerous years in Harty Street and its community, including some who have sent their own children for their kindy year here. 

Applications for enrolment at Harty Street Kindergarten are open from birth. We invite you and your child to join the Harty Street community.

Harty Street is very popular, so with only 88 positions available each year, we advise you to enrol as soon as possible.

Enrol Now: Complete the Enrolment Waitlist Form here

Which year should my child attend kindy?

  • 2022 - Children born 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018
  • 2023 - Children born 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019
  • 2024 - Children born 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020
  • 2025 - Children born 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021
  • 2026 - Children born 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022

All C&K kindergartens feature our quality C&K kindergarten program.

Kindergarten, also known as pre-prep or preschool, is a program for children in the year before they attend school. If spaces are available, the program is also offered to 3-year olds. C&K’s kindergarten programs are guided by university-qualified teachers and support children’s curiosity, creativity, and resilience. 

At C&K we know that children do not learn in isolation, so we approach learning as a collaborative relationship between teachers, children and parents. At C&K we believe children are powerful learners, active citizens, thinkers and theorisers - this is at the heart of our early childhood curriculum. We've designed our indoor and outdoor spaces to ignite imaginations and nurture healthy minds and bodies. 

There will be a half-hour overlap between the core kindergarten program lead and the extended program lead educator each day. Educators will share highlights and continuing plans for the day.

The extended program continues children’s learning into the afternoon and is led by a diploma-qualified educator and supported by an assistant educator. The extended program team will also have access to an Early Childhood Teacher. 

Your child’s learning journey is shared with you via  conversations with your child’s educators, through written documentation and through StoryPark (an app and website). 

Read more about C&K’s education program. 

News

At Harty Street we schedule a number of events throughout the year for the children, families and parents. These include:

  • Welcome family picnic
  • Kindergarten open day
  • Mother's day afternoon tea
  • Fathers day stay & play morning
  • Annual parents night out function
  • Kids disco
  • Various parent information evenings and mornings with relevant guest speakers
  • Book week celebrations
  • Grandparents' day celebrations
  • End of year picnic
  • School day
  • End of year concert

2023 Kindergarten Fees 

The daily fee for eligible age children (children turning 4 by June 30 of the year attending Kindy) is up to $127.88. Depending on your individual family’s circumstances you may be eligible for a subsidy under the Queensland Kindergarten Funding Program to reduce your out-of-pocket expense. 

For more detail, please refer to our 2023 Statement of Fees (PDF). 

For more details on the subsidies available, please visit Kindy Savings. 

For more information on Kindergarten Fees, please visit Kindergarten Fees.