Early Years
10 December 2025
Early Learning Programs
The Early Years program targets children’s readiness for school. It achieves this by offering a coordinated approach to engaging children and families with important health services and also implementing early intervention to address areas of developmental concern.
This strategy supports children aged 0 – 4 years
0 to 4 years- Ensuring all children are supported to reach developmental milestones before starting school,
by providing an enriched caregiving environment, that recognises individual differences in development and encourages exploration and learning through play.
Objectives
These are the Early Years strategy objectives:
- Educate parents and caregivers about childhood milestones and supporting their children to further develop these.
- Improve the level of early intervention and provide support to children who are recognised as developmentally vulnerable.
- Increase the frequency and depth of developmental assessments of children who attend ELP’s.
- Provide a play-based environment for children to discover, make inquiries and learn through play.
- Increase parent and caregiver awareness of developmental services available to their children and increase the participation of those services.
- Increase participation rates in early learning programs and children’s readiness for school.
- Enhance the personal, social, and academic achievements of young children, using the Abecedarian Approach, also known as 3a.
Schools
‘BHP Early Learning Programs in the Pilbara’ have been established on-site at six primary schools across the region:
- Baler Primary School
- Cassia Primary School
- Cassia Education Support Centre, delivered at Cassia Primary School
- Port Hedland Primary School
- Port Hedland School of the Air
- Newman Primary School
- Onslow Primary School
To find out more about the programs and how you can support your child in their learning, families are encouraged to attend an Early Learning Program at their local school.
To register your child in the program, please click the button below.
Early Learning Programs
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Highlights
Early Years
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Community Partners
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