Baby Steps – Nursery Program
Ages 6 weeks - 2 years
The first 2 years of life is a time for rapid growth and development, where children are building the foundation for their future learning.
Our Baby Steps Nursery program provides a nurturing environment, with daily activities and intentional teaching to support your child reaching developmental milestones and transition into our toddler program. Our play-based learning approach allows children to learn through sensory play while stimulating their senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight.
Our Nursery Hubs are specifically designed to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere for your baby to commence their learning journey and support emotional and social development in this phase of life. Aspire’s nursery teams are highly qualified, with up-to-date knowledge of early childhood development, specialising in infant care.
Baby Steps Curriculum
Aspire’s Baby Steps curriculum incorporates a variety of different incursions to engage your child in different learning experiences. From drama, music, yoga, dance, movement, art and so much more, your child will benefit from the unique offerings at each centre. Each Aspire centre runs different incursion programs, so make sure you check what exciting offerings are available at your Aspire service.
What programs and experiences do we offer?
Incursions
As part of the Baby Steps program, we offer regular music incursions run by Hey Dee Ho. This program offers children a music and multi-sensory experience, where they learn the concepts of beat, rhythm, tempo, pitch, and dynamics in a play-based environment.
Excursions
As part of the Baby Steps program, children are given the opportunity to explore the local environment. Children can observe and explore different surroundings which help develop confidence and feel a sense of belonging within their community.
Sensory Play Experiences
Our spaces enhance and challenge various levels of physical development, from tummy time to crawling and walking. We provide rich and aesthetic learning environments to empower your child’s sense of curiosity and wonder.
What Learning Looks Like
Daily Routine
Eat, sleep, play, repeat! Routine provides structure
to your child’s day. A familiar routine helps
them settle in and gain confidence to explore
their environment.
Start Learning Journey
Activities focus on motor and social skills to
encourage learning and support your child as they
respond to changes in their environment.
Discover Interests
As your child develops they begin to establish
their emotional needs and demonstrate intentional
behaviour, which helps them to discover their interests.
How We Encourage Learning
At Aspire, we encourage your child’s learning by:
- Displaying delight, encouragement, and enthusiasm for their achievements.
- Getting into a routine – eat, sleep, play, repeat.
- Making positive eye contact as often as possible.
- Playing simple games e.g., peek-a-boo.
- Mimicking their sounds and actions e.g., clapping, waving
- Encouraging their motor skills e.g. placing a toy out of reach and urge them to crawl to it.
- Playing together on the floor to encourage your baby to stretch, wriggle and roll.
- Looking at books together, naming and pointing to the pictures.
- Talking to your baby in simple language.
- Taking turns in playing simple games e.g., clapping, blowing bubbles or finger and toe songs
- Singing nursery rhymes with actions e.g., round and round the garden.
- Giving them finger foods, using different tastes and textures.
- Giving them space to crawl and pull themselves up on
- furniture.
- Always let them know you or another family member is there with them.
Partner Programs
