With convenient locations across New South Wales for children from six weeks to six years, Young Academics Early Learning Centres offer resource-rich learning environments designed to encourage a love of lifelong learning.

Young Academics is opening soon in the Illawarra region, with its distinctive approach to high-quality early childhood education that is tailored to the needs of each individual child.

Our new centre in Dapto is purpose-built to create vibrant, stimulating learning environments designed to nurture children’s cognitive development, confidence, and social skills during the critical early learning years. As a forward-thinking organisation, we are constantly researching and reflecting to discover the latest advances in early childhood education and implementing them across our centres.

Through our custom-designed programs – the Evolution Program and the Transition to School Program – our passionate, experienced educators, many of whom are multilingual, deliver a holistic education that balances organised experiences with play-based learning. Key skills such as numeracy, literacy, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), music, drama, and art are fostered through engaging learning stations.

Our indoor learning environments at our Illawarra childcare centre is packed with age-appropriate resources promoting imaginative play, experimentation, and collaboration. Our outdoor learning environments help children develop their curiosity, gross motor skills, and understanding of sustainability using resources such as building areas, sandpits, bike tracks, herb gardens, and worm farms.

Each Young Academics childcare centre works closely with families and the local community to meet children’s needs, and many families continue to visit our educators many years after their children have moved on to school.

At our Illawarra childcare centre, children will enjoy five nutritious meals and snacks every day, prepared by our in-house cooks, and all bed linen, nappies, and wipes are included.

With our new centre opening in Dapto, we are excited to bring our premier early childhood education services to even more families in the Illawarra region. For more information on unlocking the best childcare in the Illawarra, you can contact a member of our experienced team.