Ruth Landau Harp Early Learning

25/09/2026

🏆 Little Scientists STEM Award State Winners 2026! 🔬✨

We were incredibly proud to host our award ceremony on Tuesday 22nd September, celebrating Ruth Landau Harp being named the Western Australian Winner of the Excellence in Early STEM Education Award at the Little Scientists Early STEM Education Awards 2026!

As Perth’s only Jewish childcare centre, we are especially proud of the connection between STEM learning and Jewish values, with a shared focus on curiosity, questioning, inquiry and critical thinking.

Our winning project, “How can we help Mr. Hippo to come down safely?”, followed the children’s curiosity over four months as they designed, built, tested and refined solutions through storytelling, play and STEM.

It was wonderful to celebrate our incredible educators and the curiosity, creativity and big questions our children bring to their learning every day.

A special thank you to Little Scientists, the independent judging panel, our RLH team, and our special guests Wendy Gorman, Hon. Patrick Gorman MP, City of Stirling Mayor Mark Irwin and The Perth Hebrew Congregation Board President, Adam Levine for helping us celebrate this wonderful achievement.

We are so proud!

15/09/2026

🌿 Celebrating our Educators! 🌿

We’re excited to share that two of our Educators have been awarded Certificates in Playwork Practice, issued by Play Australia. 🎓✨

The internationally recognised training, based on Play Wales, explores the principles of playwork and how we can support children’s natural, self-directed play through thoughtful environments, loose parts, appropriate risk-taking and responsive educator intervention.

The course also covers the play cycle, dynamic risk–benefit assessment, children’s rights, reflective practice, advocacy and practical playwork skills.

We’re so proud of our Educators for continuing to build their knowledge and strengthen the ways we support play, exploration, agency and learning at Ruth Landau Harp. 💚

Well done!

11/09/2026

🍎🍯 A special Rosh Hashanah lunch! 🍯🍎

Our Kindy 3s and 4s came together to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with a delicious shared lunch, beautifully decorated tables, sweet honey, apples and dates. We enjoyed fruit challah, roasted honey carrots, pomegranate and other delicious dishes while sharing wishes for health and happiness in the year ahead.

Gav Aviel also joined us to blow the shofar, our special spiritual alarm clock, reminding us to pause, reflect and think about how we can be kind to ourselves and one another.

Shanah Tovah!

11/09/2026

🐝 Busy bees at RLH! 🐝

As part of our learning about Rosh Hashanah, we welcomed Jay from Messines Bee Farm in Northam, who helped us explore the fascinating relationship between bees and humans.

The children enjoyed a hands-on experience learning about life inside a hive from dressing up in beekeeper gear, using real tools, tasting fresh honey and even listening to thousands of real bees buzzing in their bee box! 🍯

We also discovered that a hive can be home to around 50,000 bees, each with an important role, from the Queen and Drones to the many Worker bees who clean, care for the hive, make wax, guard the colony and collect nectar and pollen.

We finished by talking about how we can help protect our buzzing friends by planting bee-friendly gardens, building bee hotels and looking after the natural spaces they depend on. 🌻🐝

A wonderful day of hands-on learning, curiosity and discovery! 💛

07/09/2026

🌿 Congratulations Dani – Certified Bush Kinder Practitioner! 🌿

We are very proud to celebrate Dani, who has officially completed her Bush Kinder Certification with Early Life Foundations and is now a Certified Bush Kinder Practitioner! 🌳👏

This certification has involved completing three professional learning modules focused on:

🌱 Starting and establishing a quality outdoor learning program
🌱 Practical strategies for implementing Bush Kinder
🌱 Planning and documenting children’s learning in nature

The training has strengthened Dani’s knowledge and confidence in delivering meaningful nature-based learning, while also exploring the practical considerations that sit behind a successful Bush Kinder program – from planning and curriculum connections to supporting children to explore, take appropriate risks and develop a deeper relationship with the natural environment.

For us at RLH, this is about much more than completing a qualification.

Over the past year, we have continued to grow and embed our Bush Kindy program as an important part of the learning we offer our children. Investing in specialist professional development for our educators helps ensure the program is not simply an excursion into nature, but a purposeful, well-planned and sustainable part of our curriculum.

And Dani won’t be our only certified practitioner for long! 🌿

A further two RLH educators are currently completing the Bush Kinder Certification pathway, building greater knowledge and capability across our team and helping us embed Bush Kindy into our practice for the long term.

Congratulations Dani – we are so proud of the commitment, enthusiasm and expertise you continue to bring to our children and our Bush Kindy journey. 💚🌳

Our Bush Kinder micro-credential program offers educators a unique opportunity to deepen their understanding and practice in outdoor education. Bush Kinder certification by Early Life Foundations will enhance your skill set and confidence in facilitating outdoor learning experiences, leading to a ch...

26/08/2026

This week, we were so excited to welcome a very special guest to RLH! Hila from PJ Library flew all the way to Perth to share a very special story time with our children.

The children were captivated from beginning to end, getting hands-on with the characters and experiencing storytelling in a truly immersive and multi-sensory way.

It was such a wonderful way to bring stories, imagination and Jewish learning to life.

A huge thank you to PJ Library Victoria & Beyond for creating such a memorable experience for our children. We loved having you visit us!

Perth Hebrew Congregation Phc EmPower PJ Library

21/08/2026

🎉 WE’RE WA STATE WINNERS! 🎉

We are incredibly proud to share that Ruth Landau Harp Early Learning has been named the Western Australian Winner of the Excellence in Early STEM Education Award in the Little Scientists Early STEM Education Awards 2026! 🏆🔬🌿

This award recognises the way STEM is embedded into our everyday curriculum through children’s curiosity, questioning, investigation and play. From exploring the natural world through our Bush Kindy program to experimenting, problem-solving, designing and testing ideas within the Centre, our children are encouraged to see themselves as capable and confident thinkers, researchers and scientists.

This achievement belongs to our entire RLH community. We are so proud of our educators, whose thoughtful and intentional teaching creates opportunities for children to wonder, investigate and discover every day. Most importantly, we celebrate our children, whose endless questions, ideas and enthusiasm are at the heart of everything we do. 💚

To be recognised at a state level is an incredible honour and a wonderful acknowledgement of the high-quality early childhood education happening here at RLH.

Thank you to Little Scientists and the independent judging panel for this recognition.

Read more about the 2026 Early STEM Education Award winners here:
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https://tinyurl.com/bdvwwzhm

17/08/2026

So privileged to be featured in The Sector.
https://thesector.com.au/article/ruth-landau-harp-early-learning-wins-wa-early-stem-education-award?fbclid=IwcGRvZgNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80Mzc2MjYzMTY5NzM3ODgAAR6lpMpEohBzuRIutQZoAAGrqv-NC-nYTy4CGwprkpI7T9ZIh4hlCc_Vq32uxw_aem_Iw0poMFBcbXNWFxyxUcS9A

Award-winning Menora early learning service recognised as a leader in inquiry-based early childhood education.

05/08/2026

🚓👮‍♂️ What an exciting day for our Kindy 3 children!

We were fortunate to welcome members of the WA Police Force for a very special visit. A huge thank you to one of our parents, Matt, for organising this wonderful incursion. As a police officer himself, Matt helped create a memorable learning experience for our children.

The children eagerly lined up to visit the police vehicles, where they discovered the many ways police officers help keep our community safe. They had the opportunity to try on police hats, collect stickers, sit inside a police car and even hear the siren!

Experiences like these help children build confidence, develop an understanding of the important roles people play in our community and foster positive relationships with those who help keep us safe.

Thank you to Matt and the WA Police Force for so generously sharing your time and creating such a meaningful and engaging learning experience for our Kindy 3 children. 💙🚔

15/07/2026

We were delighted to welcome Minister for Education, Sabine Winton MLA, and Frank Paolino MLA to Ruth Landau Harp Early Learning earlier this month.

It was a wonderful opportunity to showcase the incredible learning taking place at our service and to share how the Supporting Children in Early Childhood Education and Care WA Grant has enabled us to establish our Bush Kindy program at Herdsman Lake Wildlife Centre.

Our Bush Kindy program gives children regular opportunities to connect with nature, take considered risks, build resilience, develop environmental stewardship and learn through authentic, hands-on experiences in the natural world. Seeing the children so confidently explore, discover and learn outdoors is a reminder of just how powerful play-based learning can be.

We are also incredibly grateful for the WA Government commitment to investing in our children's future through the $20,000 election commitment to upgrade our outdoor learning environment. These improvements will further enrich the play and learning opportunities available to the children in our care for years to come.

Thank you, Sabine Winton MLA and Frank Paolino MLA, for taking the time to visit our service, meet our educators and children, and recognise the important work happening in early childhood education. We appreciate your ongoing support of quality early learning and the positive difference these investments make for children, families and our community.

We invite you to read Minister Winton's post below. 👇

The early learners at the Ruth Landau Harp Early Learning kept Frank Paolino MLA and I on our toes!

This centre is one of the successful recipients of Round 3 of the Supporting Children in Early Childhood Education and Care WA Grants.

It was great to pay them a visit to hear first-hand how this support is making a difference.

They’ve launched a special bush kindy program at Herdsman Lake Wildlife Centre, supporting children to engage with the natural world through play.

Play is at the heart of children’s development, health and learning. I’m proud to support this work through our Government’s $20,000 election commitment to upgrade the centre’s outdoor area.

Thank you to the staff for showing us around and for everything you do to support early learners!