Give your child the best start to life and learning
Our Playgroup is held on Friday mornings at Fintona Girls’ School ELC (80 Balwyn Road, Balwyn) and is facilitated by Terese Francis, an established and accomplished educator with significant experience in early childhood development.
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Benefits of our Playgroup
Welcome to our Playgroup at Fintona Girls’ School, where we embrace the joy of early learning through connections and play.
Our Playgroup provides a relaxed yet stimulating environment for you and your child to bond and engage in diverse learning experiences. Each session offers a variety of play and learning activities. Throughout the Term we rotate specialist activities such as art making, storytelling, music and movement to enrich their learning.
Fintona’s Playgroup offers children the opportunity to develop essential communication and motor skills, engage in cooperative play, and expand their sensory and spatial awareness. Additionally, it helps build literacy skills in a social setting and familiarises children and families within our School environment.
As your child explores and learns through play, they will develop essential social and practical skills, laying a strong foundation for their early education journey. Our playgroup also offers parents a chance to mingle with families in the local area and spend quality bonding time with their children in a fun, stimulating and nurturing environment and gain insights into our approach to early learning.
Frequently Asked Questions
Fridays during the School Term 9.30am-11.00am.
In our Early Learning Centre (ELC) 80 Balwyn Road, Balwyn.
Children from 6-months to 3-years-old can attend when accompanied by a parent or guardian.
$20 per session, $200 per Term based on a 10 week Term.
Yes, you can book for the duration of the current school year, term by term. Future year bookings will be available in October the year prior.
Your booking for our Playgroup is an application until your playgroup place is confirmed by email by the school, Fintona Girls’ School, please note it is not an application for enrolment in the School, if you wish to take up a waitlisted place please contact the registrar or complete and application for enrolment.
It is a requirement that the School receives a completed Playgroup Registration Form per child and a copy of the child’s Immunisation History Statement from Medicare.
The School reserves the right to change session times and locations.
The School reserves the right to cancel sessions without notice.
Bookings are for the duration of a full Term. There are no refunds for sessions not attended.
‘Fintona Playgroup is a wonderful opportunity for families to connect with one another while their children explore, play, and begin forming their earliest friendships. It’s a gentle way for young learners to become familiar with our School community, the spaces, and the people who will support them as they grow.’
Terese Francis
