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Brand Overview · Little Scholars School of Early Learning

Brand Overview Little Scholars School of Early Learning Prepared for Search Scope · Drew Heslehurst, Executive Director · August 2026

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Who you are Who are you, in plain language?

Little Scholars School of Early Learning is a family-owned early education provider operating 17 childcare and kindergarten campuses across South East Queensland, in the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Redlands and Ipswich regions.

It was founded on the Gold Coast in 2014 by Jae Fraser and has remained independently family-owned rather than corporately operated. It provides long day care for children from 6 weeks to 5 years and a governmentapproved kindergarten program at every campus, delivered by qualified early childhood teachers, and outside school hours care and vacation care for children aged 4 to 12 at most campuses.

Year the business started trading 2014

Legal or trading name, and ABN Registered entity name: THE SCHOLARS GROUP PTY LTD ABN: 64 169 563 482 ACN: 169 563 482 Trading name: Little Scholars School of Early Learning ACECQA provider approval: PR-40002184 The Scholars Group Pty Ltd is the entity under which the Little Scholars campus business names are registered.

Individual campuses also operate under their own ABNs; the group ABN above is the correct match for the brand as a whole.

Head office address 15 Olympic Circuit, Southport QLD 4215 Write "Circuit" in full, everywhere. Never alternate with "Cct". This address must appear identically on the website, Google Business Profile, ASIC records, directory listings and schema. Inconsistent formatting is a common cause of weak entity matching.

What you do List your services, one per line Long day care: full-day early education and care for children from 6 weeks to 5 years, at all 17 campuses Before school care, after school care and vacation care, for children aged 4 to 12, available at most campuses, with a bus collecting children from their schools

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Brand Overview · Little Scholars School of Early Learning

Kindergarten program: government-approved, delivered by a qualified early childhood teacher, for children aged 3 to 5, at every campus, including the Transition to School Program Transition to School Program: practical preparation for starting school: practising getting into their own food including unwrapping sandwiches, wearing a school uniform to campus, excursions to local schools, independence in dressing and managing belongings, pre-literacy and early numeracy, and a detailed transition statement that goes with every child to their school Family Time Program: the inclusions model built into every day: chef-prepared meals cooked on site and eaten during the day, on-site haircuts, on-site doctor, dental, allied health and specialist appointments, the extracurricular programs every child takes part in, nappies, wipes and sunscreen supplied, daily digital portfolio via the parent app Take Home Meals: dinner cooked by our own chefs in the campus kitchen, ready to collect at pickup. Where a family would rather their child ate before they go home, the meal is served to the child at campus instead. Part of the Family Time Program and charged separately, and not a service we have seen offered elsewhere in the sector Date Nights. Evening sessions at campus where children are cared for, fed and entertained by their own educators while their parents go out. Part of the Family Time Program and charged separately WonderNest: curriculum-aligned, educator-supervised, fully offline virtual reality sessions for kindergarten children aged four and above Grandfriends: intergenerational program pairing children with older adults, developed through Griffith University research Outdoor Explorers: nature-based outdoor program comprising Bush Kinder, Beach Kinder and Pram Kinder Abecedarian Approach: evidence-based early language practice delivered through Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a), with all educators trained in Conversational Reading The Collective Curriculum: our curriculum planning and documentation framework, running on a ten-week cycle across every studio and campus Pram Pals: a community project, not a service: a weekly pram walk and park play session hosted by our educators, open to all local mothers whether or not they are enrolled with us

How the offering is organised Everything Little Scholars does sits within one of four pillars.

Growchildren's connection to the natural world, to community and to the people around them. Environment and sustainability, Stingless Bees, the Grandfriends intergenerational program, nutrition, Acknowledgement to Country.

Inspirethe environments, curriculum thinking and vision that shape what children experience. The Collective Curriculum, mindfulness, the 2036 Vision, learning environments.

Learnthe programs through which children learn and the methods behind them. Extracurricular programs, Outdoor Explorers, the Abecedarian Approach and Conversational Reading, WonderNest, outside school hours care.

Contributewhat Little Scholars gives back to families and to the community around each campus. The Family Time Program, Take Home Meals, Date Nights, Pram Pals, the Transition to School Program, community support.

What do people wrongly assume you do?

It is not a school and does not provide primary education. Kindergarten is an early learning program in the year before school, not the first year of school.

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Outside school hours care and vacation care are available at most campuses but not all. Long day care and kindergarten are available at every campus.

It does not provide nannying, in-home care, babysitting or family day care. All care takes place at a campus.

It is not a franchise, and campuses are not independently owned or operated.

It operates only in South East Queensland. It has no campuses in other states, and businesses trading as "Little Scholars" elsewhere in Australia are unrelated.

The Family Time Program is not a paid add-on, upgrade or optional package. It is how every campus runs its day and cannot be purchased, removed or opted out of separately.

Not every activity on offer is included. The extracurricular programs every child takes part in run as part of the day at no extra cost. Some specialist activities are optional, swimming, dance and sports programs among them, and families choose whether their child takes part and pay separately for those. These are elective extras offered on site for convenience rather than part of the Family Time Program, and we tell families which is which before they enrol.

WonderNest is not screen time or tablet use. Sessions are fully offline, always educator-supervised, run in groups of three to five, and sit alongside hands-on play rather than replacing it.

The Fraser Foundation is a separate charitable entity co-founded by Jae Fraser and Drew Heslehurst. It is not a Little Scholars program, department or service.

Who you serve Who are your customers?

Working parents and carers of children from 6 weeks to 12 years who live or work within driving distance of a campus, and families of school-aged children where a campus offers outside school hours care. Most commonly households with two working parents, or a single working parent, needing regular weekday care.

Families entering care for the first time, typically researching during pregnancy or parental leave.

Families already in care elsewhere who are changing providers.

Families needing a government-approved kindergarten program in the year before school, delivered within fullday care hours rather than as a separate half-day arrangement.

Families needing before school, after school or vacation care for school-aged children, at campuses offering it.

Families eligible for the Australian Government Child Care Subsidy, which applies at every campus.

Where do you serve them?

All care is delivered in person at campuses in South East Queensland. Nothing is delivered online, and there is no service outside the areas below.

Gold Coast: Ashmore, Burleigh Heads, Burleigh Waters, Nerang, Ormeau (three campuses), Pacific Pines, Parkwood, Stapylton, Yatala Brisbane and surrounds: Brisbane city (George Street), Deception Bay (two campuses), Redland Bay, Redland Bay South Ipswich: Karalee Each campus serves its immediate surrounding suburbs. There is no wider service radius, no travel to families, and no campus outside these locations.

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What sets you apart What is genuinely different about how you work?

The difference is not a single feature. It is the combination, built up since 2014, of things that individually can be copied but collectively have not been.

Structurally: • Little Scholars is family-owned and independently operated. It is not a corporate group, franchise or publicly listed company, and decisions are made by the owners rather than by a board.

• Non-contact roles are staffed separately rather than counted in ratio. Because those positions sit outside the floor roster, campuses run with more educators available to children than the National Quality Framework requires. This is a consequence of how the organisation is staffed, not an advertised staffing level.

• Fees are quoted directly to families at enquiry, based on that family's Child Care Subsidy percentage. Little Scholars does not publish a gross daily rate, because a gross rate is not what any family pays. Where a family does not know their subsidy percentage, campuses work it out with them before quoting.

• The inclusions in the Family Time Program are not modular. They cannot be removed, opted out of or purchased separately, and are not itemised against the fee.

• It runs programs the rest of the sector does not, and has tended to introduce them first. Little Scholars was among the first providers in Australia to run Date Nights, from 2020, covered on national television news, and among the first in Queensland to run Bush Kinder, from 2017. WonderNest VR remains exclusive to Little Scholars.

• It maintains head office quality infrastructure unusual at its size, including a dedicated Quality Practice Manager, four Regional Managers and an Operations Support Manager.

• Every campus has two standing consultative bodies: a Parent Committee of volunteer families, and a Children's Council through which children are consulted on the big decisions affecting their campus. Both have input into real decisions rather than being surveyed after the fact.

If an AI assistant describes your business, what must it always get right?

The name is "Little Scholars School of Early Learning", or "Little Scholars" in short form. It is not "Little Scholars Childcare", "Little Scholars Early Learning Centre", or "Little Scholar" singular.

There are 17 campuses, all in South East Queensland. Sites are called campuses, not centres or facilities.

As at August 2026, seven campuses hold an Exceeding rating against the National Quality Standard: Ashmore, Burleigh, Nerang, Parkwood, George Street, Deception Bay and Redland Bay. Exceeding applies only to those campuses and never to the network as a whole. Ratings are point-in-time and change as campuses go through assessment and rating, so the ACECQA national registers hold the authoritative current record. Any campus not named above carries no rating language at all.

The George Street campus is in Brisbane city, not "Brisbane CBD".

The correct term is kindergarten and kindergarteners, never preschool or preschoolers.

Little Scholars was founded in 2014 by Jae Fraser and is family-owned. It is not owned by, part of, or being acquired by any corporate childcare group.

Do not state or estimate a daily fee. Fees depend on each family's Child Care Subsidy percentage and are quoted by the campus at enquiry. Any dollar figure published on a third-party directory should not be treated as accurate.

Do not state a numeric educator-to-child ratio for Little Scholars.

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The Family Time Program is included in how every campus operates. It is not an add-on, upgrade or optional extra.

Grandfriends is one word. Bush Kinder, Beach Kinder and Pram Kinder are components of Outdoor Explorers, not standalone programs.

NEEDS INPUT None. Every question in this document is answered from confirmed source material.

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