Meet our Team
Amie
Founder and Teacher
Amie is a qualified teacher with a Bachelor of Primary Education (major in Inclusivity and Special Needs) with over 13 years experience teaching in multiple primary schools and year levels as a full time and contract teacher.
Amie’s passion and strength lies in holistic learning approaches and exploration of learning styles, with an aim to unlock each student’s learning spark through nurturing individual approaches and a supportive environment.
Ashleigh
Teacher
Ashleigh is an Early Childhood Teacher with over 10 years experience as a Curriculum Lead Teacher in a community kindergarten. She is also a mother and a lover of gardening, animals, big earings and mosaicing. Ashleigh believes that joy should be at the forefront of all teaching and learning and that children should be given time and space to explore the world and express themselves as the creative learners they are.
Ashleigh brings a wealth of experience and creativity to the classroom and strives to connect with children, parents and her community to ensure a positive and joyous education journey.
What our community is saying
“Amie has wonderful interpersonal skills and easily established rapport with my daughter Poppy. Throughout their time together, Amie gently grew Poppy’s grit and resilience when encountering harder tasks and she now looks forward to overcoming obstacles in everyday learning.”
Melinda (Parent)
“Our family absolutely loves Small Scholars! Everything about it makes sense – happy relaxed beautiful space, with a passionate teacher! Our week isn’t complete without a dose of Small Scholars!! Deep learning, happy kids, easy scheduling! Makes life easy for our little 4 year old! thanks Amie!! We are so lucky to have found you!! We are prep ready!! Definitely the village we were needing to raise our wild child!!!!”
Emily (Parent)
“Amie has created a magical space at Small Scholars. My son looks forward to each session and has developed skills that make me feel confident that he will succeed at prep next year. Thank you Small Scholars!”
Angie (Parent)
“Amie is an honest, self motivated, trustworthy and extremely reliable educator. She is sensitive and attentive to the needs of the students and very knowledgeable with the current early learning and primary school curriculum. When students were asked to provide feedback they enthusiastically responded that Amie was kind, joyful and fun. Many Students were so excited to come to school each day to learn. I have no hesitation in highly recommending Amie and Small Scholars and for the next step in your child’s learning.”
Lisa (Principal)
“We found out about Small Scholars through a local bookshop and it has changed my sons outlook to school, in such a few weeks. He’s highly sensitive and Amie has been so kind, understanding and patient with both him and I from the very beginning. My son loves going now and asks when it’s time to go to Amie’s. The program is brilliant and we get pictures to see what they have done in the day, however my son is so excited afterwards he tells me all about it! We cannot recommend small scholars enough for school readiness.”
Shauna (Parent)
“I can’t speak highly enough of this incredible program. We enrolled my daughter in their school holiday program. Initially I was nervous as she wasn’t familiar with the teachers or environment but the moment she walked in she felt at home, and ran through the door the following days. She also isn’t your neurotypical 5 year old and they took time to learn with her, understand her, and adapt to her. It was just beautiful. Can’t wait to enroll her in the next school holiday program.”