Welcome to
Little Darlings Playgroup
Little Darlings Playgroup is a co-educational nursery,
faithful to both Chilean and British traditions.
Our bilingual education focuses on a play-based and inquiry-based learning, aiming to develop creativity and collaboration among our pupils, in a caring and safe environment. We value open-mindedness, cultural, religious and social diversity and we promote teamwork.
Pupils learn English as their second language from day one, ensuring full immersion and exposure to bilingualism.

Two teachers per class.

Class Schedule
Monday to Friday from 8:20AM to
12:35PM.

After School Programme
Monday to Thursday until 14:50 hrs.
What makes Little Darlings Playgroup one of a kind in its category?
Pupils recieve English instruction as their second language from the first day, ensuring full immersion and exposure to bilingualism.
Our educational project fully integrates the academic areas – oral language (both comprehension and expression), fine and gross motor skills, and logical-mathematical abilities – as well as the formative areas, including autonomy, identity, and social interaction. Moreover, it is based on the best pedagogical approaches available worldwide, including the Reggio Emilia approach to teaching and learning and the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP).
All of Little Darlings Playgroup’s teachers and educational community – renowned professionals from the most prestigious universities in the country – prioritise the children's care and learning experience.
Little Darlings Playgroup stimulates and enhances our pupils' curiosity, their desire for learning, and their growth—both as individuals and as a group—respecting their developmental processes and allowing them to reach their full potential.
We teach our pupils to act with respect, consideration, and in accordance with our community's values.
In Little Darlings Playgroup we embrace our diversity and differences as a fundamental part of our identity and culture. In line with this philosophy, we welcome various religious beliefs and strive for the holistic development of our pupils.
We provide a warm and nurturing environment, showing care and commitment to our entire community.
The stimulation of psychomotor skills and physical activity is a fundamental part of our pupils' holistic development. To support this, we have the necessary infrastructure provided by the campus, which includes four grass pitches, two synthetic fields, spacious changing rooms, a medical room, and a barbecue area.
Little Darlings Playgroup has classrooms, play areas, and bathrooms exclusively for its students. All of this is set on a 24-hectare site in the Lo Barnechea district.



How to apply to little darlings playgroup?

To apply to Little Darlings Playgroup 2025 pupils must be three years old by 31st March 2025 and have bladder control. Pupils attend clasess with comfortable clothing, which promotes their autonomy.

We offer 75 places per year, distributed across three classrooms, each led by two early childhood educators and with a maximum of 25 students per class.

Little Darlings Playgroup is independent from the educational cycle of Craighouse School. Families from Little Darlings Playgroup who do not have children at Craighouse School and wish to apply for Prekinder must go through the formal admission process, which takes place every year starting in March.
Apply here
All students wishing to apply to Little Darlings Playgrouwill need the following:
- Fill out this form
- Must be three years old by 31st March 2025
- Birth Certificate
- Bladder control
- Student observation session.
Meet the team

Thomas Hughes
Head of Little Darlings Playgroup

Tatiana Almendares
Deputy Head

María Magdalena Band
Academic Coordinator

Joanne Berger
School Life Advisor
