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Little Pipers

A free playgroup for little learners

Little Pipers is a free early learning programme that fosters our youngest community members' love of learning.

Each fun, sociable session features activities designed by our early learning specialists that offer an insight into our inquiry-based teaching and learning method.

Where and when?

Our sessions are held on Monday and Friday mornings during the school term at our Junior Middle Library and Early Learning Centre.

Loving Literacy (Monday)

For children 0–4 years

Junior Middle Library

Visitors can park in P9, P10 (Junior School) or P11 (our Early Learning Centre car park), detailed on our map.


Inquiring Minds (Friday)

For children 2–4 years

Early Learning Centre

Visitors can park in P12 (Lake Claremont end of Stirling Road) or P11 (our Early Learning Centre car park), detailed on our map.

View the schedule for Term 3, 2024


New members

If you are new to Little Pipers, we ask that you arrive at our Early Learning Centre 15 minutes early. One of our team will meet you and walk you to your session's location.

Making a booking

Little Pipers' registrations open roughly two weeks in advance. Please check our schedule for specific release dates. All registrations are free. If you are unable to attend, we appreciate if you can let us know to ensure as many people can attend as possible.

COVID-19 requirements

Proof of vaccination

Based on advice from the state government, all adult participants at Little Pipers are required to show proof of double vaccination when entering the premises for their session.

Mask wearing

Masks are to be worn by adults at all times during the session.

Although our staff are not required to wear masks when teaching, they may choose to do so during Little Pipers when social distancing is not possible.

Capacity and registrations

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, places are limited to 16 families per session. All attendees will need to sign in, to ensure we are meeting the capacity requirements.

It is essential that families only attend a session if they have pre-booked. If you were unable to register, we recommend joining the waiting list. Upon receiving a cancellation, we will automatically send an email inviting the next person on the waiting list to register, which they will then need to accept.

If you joined the waiting list but missed out on a session, we will get in touch about pre-enrolling before the next session's registrations open. We do our best to ensure everyone has the opportunity to attend at least one session a fortnight.

Our community's health is of the utmost importance to us, and we thank you for your support during this time.


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Take a tour

Take a tour of our school, meet the students and teachers, and discover what our College has to offer.

We run regular group tours of our Early Learning Centre, Junior School (Years 1–5) and Middle School (Year 6–8).

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Term 3 2024 Schedule

2B

Monday 29 July
(9:00 – 9:45 am)

Junior Library

Loving Literacy Library Session: NAIDOC Week

Welcome back Little Pipers! We have missed you all! Let's celebrate NAIDOC Week through story, craft and song. Join us as we explore Indigenous symbols with play dough and create our own story stones.  

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Friday 2 August
(9:30 – 10:15 am)

ELC

Inquiring Minds: Art

Please join us in the ELC for some experimental fun, creating mixed media 3-dimensional art from various materials. Play with clay, cardboard boxes, wire, beads, paper, glue, paint, string and sticks to develop your unique creation. Be prepared to get messy.

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Tickets released on Friday 19 July

3A

Monday 5 August
(9:00 – 9:45 am)

Junior Library

Loving Literacy Library Session: Colours

What's your favourite colour? We have some wonderful books about colours to share together. For our craft session we will be experimenting with food dye and bicarb soda to create 'fizzy drips' with colourful and mesmerizing effects. We will have some art smocks, but you may wish to dress your children in their messy play clothes. We can't wait to explore the magic of colours together!

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Friday 9 August
(9:30 – 10:15am)

ELC

Inquiring Minds: Kindy Class Session

We can't wait to welcome you to our Kindy learning space for a session of exploration and play.

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Tickets released Friday 26 July

4B

Monday 12 August
(9:00 – 9:45 am)

Junior Library

Loving Literacy Library Session: Father's Day

Join us as we celebrate the special men in our lives through story, song and craft.

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Mid Term Break (Friday 16 August – Monday 19 August)

5A

Friday 23 August
(9:30 – 10:15 am)

ELC

Inquiring Minds: Bush School

Welcome back to Bush School! Please come and join us for a hands-on morning of playing, constructing, and discovering nature.

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Tickets released Friday 9 August

6B

Monday 26 August

Week 6B Loving Literacy Little Library Session will not be happening due to a library incursion from the wonderful James Foley for Book Week. We look forward to welcoming everyone back next Monday for fun with patterns.

Friday 30 August
(9:30 – 10:15 am)

ELC

Inquiring Minds: Music

Please join us for a musical experience that will get you singing, moving, rhyming and playing instruments! This session is very interactive and hands-on.

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Tickets released Friday 16 August

7A

Monday 2 September
(9:00 – 9:45 am)

Junior Library

Loving Literacy Library Session: Patterns

Join us as we explore patterns in nature and patterns around us through stories, songs and craft. We will be threading large beads and other objects through twine and pipe cleaners to create colourful bracelets or necklaces. Great for practicing hand-eye coordination and the recognition of patterns and sequences. We can't wait to see you!

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Friday 6 September
(9:30 – 10:15 am)

ELC

Inquiring Minds: French

Bonjour! Please join Marcel and Madame for stories, songs and activities about sharing the planet with animals!

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Tickets released Friday 23 August

8B

Monday 9 September
(9:00 – 9:45 am)

Junior Library

Loving Literacy Library Session: Teddy Bears Picnic

If you go down to the woods today, your sure of a big surprise! It's Teddy Bear Picnic time! Bring your favourite teddy as we go on a bear hunt and picnic together to end a wonderful term of literacy fun. We're beary excited!

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Friday 13 September
(9:30 - 10:15 am)

ELC

Inquiring Minds:  PE

We have a fun session of games and ball sports planned. Bring along your best catching hands and kicking feet!

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Tickets released Friday 30 August

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Contact Junior School

For all enquiries, please contact our Junior School team.

juniorschool@scotch.wa.edu.au
+61 8 9383 6874