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: 3:15-5:00pm at WESS

Mondays (Mondays and Wednesdays are identical classes) at Room B13

Wednesdays (Mondays and Wednesdays are identical classes) at Room J32

Term 2, 2026: 3:15-5:00pm at WESS

Mondays (Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays are identical classes) at Room B13

Tuesdays (Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays are identical classes) at Room E12

Thursdays (Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays are identical classes) at Room J32

Student collection: Prep and Grade 1 students will be collected from under L Block – all other students will make their way to the 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

Term 2, 2026 Program: Take home activity sheets are also provided every week

Week 1: Vegetables

Activities:

- Planting plants plus Pamper Pack for Mothers Day: Making a card and a secret gift

Week 2:  Natural Jewelry and Decorations

Activities:  

- Pamper Pack for Mothers Day: Making two secret gifts

Week 3: Pollinators (more than just bees!)

(Tuesday and Thursday class only due to Monday Public Holiday)

Activity: TBC

Week 4: A native land animal and native sea animal

Activity: TBC

Week 5: How can we recycle and reuse?

Activity: TBC

Week 6: Exploring Antarctica!

Activity: Looking at live footage from different bases

Week 7: Prints and clues of animals in nature... solve the mysteries!

Activity: Dress up as investigators

Week 8: Rainforests

Activity: TBC

Week 9: Bush Tucker and more!

Activity: Basket weaving or making something from natural materials

Week 10: Mock-Camping and learning safety tips with dangerous animals

Activity: Assembling tents, eating damper and marshmallows plus torch light stories

Activity: Quick safety tips on snakes, spiders, jellyfish and other animals (eg how to put on a bandage and use vinegar to help with jellyfish stings)

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