We work with passionate educators and professionals to inspire, design and build beautiful natural play spaces for young children.
Our purpose is to reimagine a childhood where children are connected with the earth through unstructured play in beautiful, nature-based learning environments.
Childscapes is based in Perth, Western Australia.
We offer consultation, design and construction of natural learning environments and resources. We also offer workshops for educators on a variety of topics relating to early childhood environments and curriculum.
Kim has a Master of Philosophy in Early Childhood Education with 20 years experience in the early childhood industry. Kim has experience as a teacher, director, manager, validator, trainer and assessor, mentor, consultant and public speaker. She also lectures part time in Early Childhood at Curtin University. Kim is a qualified landscape designer as has been designing playgrounds for Childscapes for 7 years. Kim is the mother of 3 nature loving children who constantly remind her of the importance of free outdoor play.
We want to share our passion for Children and Nature at every possible opportunity and what better way to that than a workshop!
Our workshops start at a 2 hour session, and can be up to a full day seminar depending on the needs of the clients. Our 2 hour workshops start from $33 a head.
We run community workshops and we come to your centre or school for a customised workshop tailored for you.
All workshops are run by Kimberley Beasley, who has a Master of Education and lectures at university level in early childhood education.
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We can visit your centre and consult with you on your indoor and outdoor environments. We can mentor educators one-on-one to improve practices and help educators grow professionally.
A learning environment rating audit is useful to determine how effective, engaging, child-focused, natural and aesthetically pleasing your learning spaces are. The audits are used to set goals to improve the learning environments to better match you philosophy, the NQF, the EYLF and current research around children’s learning environments.
Every space in your service or school and everything in those spaces is a depiction of your educational philosophy. In a service where the educators know, live and breath the philosophy, it will be obvious to visitors and families just by looking at the spaces, what your philosophical values and beliefs are. If your philosophy…
Something that I have learned through my time as a teacher, parent and researcher is that children will generally take a different route through a space than an adult if they have the option. They will find the alternate path, the secret path, the one that may not even be visible to the adult, but…
I watched a group of children in the park yesterday; 8 and 9 year olds. Their mother told them they had 20 minutes to play and then they would go home. Now I don’t know if 20 minutes is a long time in the mind of a child, but I thought about this and realised…
I would value the opportunity to speak to you about your ideas and how we could work together.
Email: kim@childscapes.com.au
Phone: 0430 140 958
