Incursions provide children with the opportunity to explore meaningful learning experiences in the comfort of their early childhood service. The following provides a directory of incursions for your early childhood service.
Sydney Music Incursions
School Music Incursions can help you to meet the National Quality Standard guidelines by addressing the key quality areas. Our cultural and educational incursions are fine-tuned to nurture the development of life skills and experiences, with a focus on early childhood relationships and education.
What They Offer:
- African Dance
- Laughter Workshop
- Recycled Junk Instruments
- Polynesian Dance
- Bollywood Dance
- Arabic Drumming
- Japanese Drumming
Contact: School Music Incursion
The Drama Toolbox
Established in 1996, The Drama Toolbox provides education through imagination with our unique drama incursions for Preschools and Primary Schools across Victoria and New South Wales.
- What They Offer:
- Wellbeing, Social-Emotional Learning,
- Sustainability,
- Fairytales,
- Dinosaurs,
- Human Bodies
Contact: The Drama Toolbox
Minibeast Wildlife
Using a stunning array of live invertebrates, we offer a range of programs that will supplement the core curriculum and aid teachers to cover a number of key concepts.
What They Offer:
- Minibeasts and climate change
- Natural selection and evolution
- Animal behaviour
- Reproduction
- Venomous creatures
- Backyard bugs
- Spiders
Contact: Minibeast Wildlife
Early Start Discovery Space
The Early Start Discovery Space is an interactive children’s museum that stimulates curiosity, nurtures creativity, builds confidence and provides families with opportunities for discovery and play.
What They Offer:
- Curious Collection
- Dinosaur Dig
- Garden Explorers
Contact: Early Start Discovery Space
Food and Move Program
The Food and Move program, powered by Jamie Oliver’s Learn Your Fruit and Veg and Sport Star Academy aims to inspire children’s love of both food and movement in a fun and interactive environment.
What They Offer:
- Jamie Oliver's Learn Your Fruit and Veg Program is a hands-on cooking and food education experience for children aged 3-12 years that offers fresh food.
Contact: The Food and Move Program
The Teeth Talk
The Teeth Talk is a private Oral Health Promotion business located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. We provide information and services for the community at large, with a specific focus on the Child Care Sector.
What They Offer:
- An introduction to the dental clinic via storytelling and a brief description of what to expect at your first dental visit.
- We demonstrate the decay process with a hands-on experiment
- Talk about healthy eating, foods and drinks that promote a healthy mouth
- Hand Washing and Coughing etiquette
Contact: The Teeth Talk
Circus In Education
Circus in Education uses circus to encourage fitness through a fun, to teach through demonstration, and to encourage participants to try and achieve new skills. Because of this, we see circus incursions as a fantastic way to complement the great work already being done by teachers throughout Australia.
What They Offer:
Taste of Circus Workshop. Encouraging fitness through fun, participants enjoy learning a variety of new skills including hula-hoop, devil sticks, diablo, spinning plates, feather balancing, rola bola, poi, juggling and human pyramids.
What They Offer:
- The Circus Play Space Workshop equipment includes hula-hoop, poi, rola bola, devil sticks, spinning plates, juggling clubs, juggling balls, twirling ribbons, diablo and more.
Contact: Circus In Education
Ocean Stars
Ocean Stars Marine Education provides educational incursions with live marine animals. All our programs are curriculum aligned (including EYLF) so that students and teachers receive a memorable learning experience that complements and enhances their classroom activities.
What They Offer:
- Mini Ocean Stars
- Sustainable Me, Sustainable Sea!
Contact: Ocean Stars
Go Seek Shows
Using music, dance and drama and plenty of fun along the way, Go Seek Shows are designed to empower, challenge and build the self-esteem of children and include a variety of fun and exciting age-appropriate topics that encourage children to be active and adventurous, musically creative and use their imagination.
What They Offer:
- Protectors of the Planet
- Super Strong Bones Show
- Musical Adventure Show
- Go Seek Junior Show
- A Pirate & Fairy Adventure
- Xmas Adventure Show
Contact: Go, Seek Show
Tim Credible
- Magic Show
- The Incredibubble Show
Contact: Tim Credible
Animals Of Oz
The children will meet and touch some of Australia’s wonderful and unique native fauna with the Animals of Oz ‘Animals Galore’ education program.
What They Offer:
Animals Galore’ -
- Possum
- Bird
- Frog
- Lizard
- Python
- Crocodile
Bugs Galore’ - stick insects
- litterbugs
- millipedes
- centipede
- scorpion
- tarantula
- mealworms
Rocks Pools Galore
- nails
- sea urchins
- anemones
- elephant snails
- sea stars
- CRABS!
Contact: Animals Of Oz
African Beat
Our African Master Drummer will have the children spellbound. He comes dressed in a colourful and authentic African costume and brings a drum for every child.
Children have an immediate attraction to the drums and love to feel the rhythm. Interactive drumming is an excellent energy release, encouraging social interaction and building confidence.
What They Offer:
- age-appropriate games,
- stories
- rhythm activities
Contact: African Beat
Little Travel Adventures
Active, Educational and Multicultural classes for 2-5-year-olds. Bringing the Adventure to your childcare centre within Sydney. Get ready to move and shake celebrating countries and cultures around the World.
What They Do:
- Australia, China, Italy, and Brazil
- Australia, Japan, the UK, and the USA (Hawaii)
- Australia, India, Kenya, and Mexico
- Australia, USA, France, and Jordan
- Australia, Indonesia, Canada, and Greece
- Australia, Ecuador, Ireland, and Antarctica
- Australia, Egypt, USA, and Russia
Contact: Little Travel Adventures
Little Sprouts Incursions
Little Sprouts incursions are one of a kind – seamlessly blending scientific investigation with creative arts. This approach helps to cater for the different learning styles of your children and creates truly fun and immersive experiences.
What They Do:
- Worm Farming
- Recycled Paper
- Growing
- Water cycle
- Composting
Contact: Little Sprouts Incursions
Digeridoo Australia
Our programs meet National Quality standard 1.1, particularly elements 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 as we connect children to the indigenous community and offer children hands-on knowledge and experience in the indigenous culture.
What They Offer:
- Aboriginal Culture
- Meet an Aboriginal Elder!
- Aboriginal Art
- Aboriginal Craft
- Bush Food Ingredients
- Didgeridoo Meditation
- Aboriginal Dancing
- Aboriginal Storytelling
- Boomerangs
- Corroboree!
Contact: Digeridoo Australia
Koomurri Preschool Incursions
At Koomurri Entertainment believe in sharing our aboriginal culture with all Australians and international guests.
What They Offer:
- Didgeridoo Show
- Face Painting
- Song and Dance
- Aboriginal Art
- Storytelling
Contact: Koomurri Preschool Incursions
Toonworld
At Toonworld we Empower, Educate and Entertain kids through Creative solutions and Awesome cartooning workshops that REALLY make a DIFFERENCE!
What They Offer:
We teach various drawing activities that enhance their hand-eye coordination and develop their motor skills, giving them a sense of achievement to express themselves through their creativity.
Contact: Toonworld
Reverse Garbage
Designed especially for pre-schoolers, our workshops are an opportunity to develop fine and gross motor skills while investigating, hypothesising and experimenting with materials.
What They Offer:
- Music Makers
- Under The Sea
- Float Your Boat
- Ocean Loose Parts Play
Contact: Reverse Garbage
Starr's Planetarium
Our school planetarium and the information we provide is second to none. No other mobile system operating today can boast the history, quality, and professionalism of our productions and displays.
What They Offer:
- Day & night.
- The motion and patterns of the Sun, Moon and Planets through the sky.
- Changes in temperature.
- Changes in the seasons
- Changes in the shape of the moon
- The stars at night
- Planets
- Constellations & their stories.
- 360° Surround Movie
Contact: Starr's Planetarium
Kids Car Ed
Our Road Safety Program is a fun and interesting learning experience for all students from Prep to Grade 6. We teach passenger and pedestrian safety as well as awareness of roads and traffic
What They Offer:
The students drive specially designed small two-seated electric cars. They also experience being a responsible pedestrian on our simulated pedestrian crossing by being involved in an interactive game. Students will also experience speed and forces in accidents and passenger behaviour. We teach all primary school students how to be pedestrian savvy.
Contact: Kids Car Ed
Be Seed Sensational
As part of the Be SEEDsational campaign, we offer incursions packed with unique activities that, through hands-on exposure to food and real-world activities, encourage children to learn healthy habits for life.
What They Offer:
- Story Time
- Craft activities
- Seed planting
- Science workshop
- Movement & dance
- Cooking demonstrations
- Bilingual format
Contact: Be Seed Sensational
Henny Penny Hatching Program
The Henny Penny Hatching program is a bit of a favourite at many childcare centres and kindergartens. Both children and staff members at these venues await our arrival with eager anticipation. The program is suitable for children of all ages and provides endless opportunities for observation and interaction
What They Offer:
- Creating drawings or paintings which feature chickens
- Creating a collage featuring chickens
- Designing an Easter bonnet that features chickens
- Reading short stories about chickens
- Creating a booklet about the chicks hatching
- Singing songs about chickens
- Observing behavioural patterns and the interactions between particular chicks
- Observing the establishment of pecking order (this can be incorporated into a few lessons on the theme of bullying)
Contact: Henny Penny Hatching Program
Dinosaur Diggers
Dinosaur Diggers specialises in providing education on the natural science subject of dinosaurs and fossils as a preschool or school incursion.
What They Offer:
Dinosaurs and fossils is delivered in a multi-sensory format through presentation and interaction with our authentic museum-quality exhibits.
Contact: Dinosaur Diggers
Ten Little Pieces
Ten Little Pieces is raising awareness of and advocating solutions to plastic pollution to promote clean oceans through sustainability education, and community activism.
What The Offer:
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The Sea & Me - Incorporating the accredited Early Years Learning Framework, Pre-Kinder, Kindergarten and Prep children (ages 4-6) are entertained and educated through song, dance, play and storytelling to share the Ten Little Pieces philosophy, leaving them feeling empowered and motivated to take care of the places they love to play.
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Beach Kindy - In this in-situ delivery of "The Sea & Me" program, the session offers a tangible demonstration of the impacts of marine debris on the places children love to play.
OSHC Junior - These action-packed programs engage STEM principles to educate through entertainment to align with the My Time, Our Place Framework.
Contact: Ten Little Pieces
Note: Aussie Childcare Network is not affiliated with any of the incursion programs listed above. This is purely for information purposes.
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