Action-Packed Fun: Interactive ECA Program!

Keep kids curious and captivated with Koaleyos immersive Nature Classes — tailor-made for Prep to Grade 6 groups! Our sessions are packed with hands-on activities, outdoor discovery and learning that feels like play.

📍 Engaging | 🌱 Educational | 🐾 Nature-Focused

All classes are STEAM-focused, encouraging busy young minds to question, explore and discover the wonders of nature. Budding nature-lovers will leave feeling amazed and buzzing with excitement!

Each term will include:

🌿 Tactile & Immersive experiences

🌿 Live animal encounters

🌿 Weekly activities

🌿 Weekly take-home activity sheets

When:

Term 1, 2026: 1 afternoon / week on either Mondays or Wednesdays

(identical classes): 3:15pm – 5:00pm at WESS

Where:

ECAs:

Mondays: B13 (in Admin Building on Level 1) at WESS

Wednesdays: J32 (overlooking Jane Street Oval) at WESS

Student collection: Prep students will be collected – all other students will make their way to room directly after class. A class roll call will be conducted at commencement and conclusion.

Term 1, 2026 Program: Take home activity sheets are also provided every week

Week 1: No classes (due to public holiday and WESS policy)

Week 2:  Theme: Air plants and carnivorous plants 

Activities:  

- Planting plants!

- Testing how carnivorous plants work!

Week 3:  Theme: Bees and Honey

Activities: 

- Tasting different types of honey

- Making beeswax candles

Week 4:  Theme: Relaxation in Nature 

Activities:  

- Mindfulness meditation

- Making lavender and possibly chamomile pillows

- Cloud gazing (pending weather)

- Journaling (in your own take-home book) 

Week 5:  Theme: A native land animal and native sea animal

Activities:

- Record keeping, exploring maps, using a tape measure, reading animal prints 

Week 6:  Theme: Exploring Australia!

Activity:  

- Making sand art! Australia has so many sand colours.... and loads of other cool things!

Week 7: Theme: Rewilding and Wild Places on Earth

Activities:  

- What does wild mean? Do some people still live in the wild? Looking at some case studies

- Looking at extraordinary rewilding projects around the world including those undertaken in Costa Rica and Bhutan

Week 8:  Theme: Natural wonders of the world! 

Activities:  

- We fly around the world, learn amazing things and stamping our take-home passports!

Week 9: Theme: Jobs to help our natural world

Activities: 

- Exploring 3d printed coral, robots, and three interviews with amazing people!

Week 10: Theme: Eggs plus Easter Eggs!

Activities:  

- Making paper mache eggs 

- Guessing who's egg is who's

- Egg hunt with reusable eggs

- Ladybug or Butterfly Release! (parent / carer attendance if possible)

- Plant pots – take home!

- Certificate with Fujifilm instax photo

- Take home bag with stickers

* Nature Class program is subject to change at no notice and pending seasonal availability from local suppliers