Explore & Develop

Explore & Develop is a group of individually owned and operated early childhood education and care services located across NSW and ACT in Australia. It operates as a franchise organisation, where families and employees benefit from a locally-run service and a direct relationship with the Owner/Approved Provider, alongside support from the group's early childhood experience, professional training and resources. All service owners work onsite in their services. The brand describes its approach as child-led and play-based, with educators developing emergent educational programs to deliver the national early childhood curriculum, the Early Years Learning Framework.

Explore & Develop describes itself as a unique organisation in the early childhood and care sector in Australia. It is a group of individually owned and operated early childhood education and care services located across NSW and ACT. As a franchise organisation, families and employees enjoy the benefit of a locally-run service and a direct relationship with the Owner/Approved Provider, as well as the support of many decades of early childhood experience, professional training and resources from the group. The group only welcomes new owners who demonstrate a sincere passion for the early childhood sector, and all service owners work onsite in their services.

Enriching, natural environments for learning and development, with child-led, play-based learning in a calm, unrushed environment.

• Early childhood education and care services

  Individually owned and operated early childhood education and care services located across NSW and ACT.

• Emergent educational programs

  Programs developed by educators to deliver the national curriculum for early childhood education programs, called the Early Years Learning Framework, focusing on the individual child's interests, challenges and understandings.

• Play-based learning programs

  Daily programs that reflect a calm, relaxed and unrushed environment for growing and learning, where children learn best as they explore, discover, make, create and imagine.

1. 1Explore & Develop - Where curiosity leads to learningexploreanddevelop.com.au
2. 2Explore & Develop Childcare Centres Sydney NSW & ACTexploreanddevelop.com.au