We have put together a list of some local activities for babies, pre-schoolers, primary school students, tweens and teenagers. Something for everyone. MORE TO COME, save this article and check back again.
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Tutoring & Education
LoopLearners: Local Tutoring for Learners by Learners
Primary and high school tutoring (English, Maths, Science, HSC, NAPLAN, IB), online or in person. Choose your tutor, time and location. $20 welcome discount for new bookings.
📍 Lane Cove ☎️ 0432 272 246 🌐 looplearners.com 📧 [email protected]
Skill Samurai Lane Cove
After-school coding classes and maths tuition with self-paced adaptive learning, community support and future-ready skills.
📍 Suite 104, 79-83 Longueville Rd, Lane Cove 2066 ☎️ 02 8529 2620 🌐 skillsamurai.com.au/coding-for-kids
Kalibrate-Ed
Educational Strategy Experts. Effective learning gives your child the building blocks to succeed. Strong results open up more opportunities but classroom teaching alone doesn’t always provide the individual support every student needs.
At Kalibrate-Ed, a methodology distils a full year of study into a clear, personalised strategy to help students achieve their goals across any subject:
- Plug gaps in their learning so they get back on track
- Develop self-learning toolkits they can use their entire life
- Build confidence and motivation so they become eager to learn
- Enhance focus and retention levels so they can get higher marks with less effort
- Help identify and minimise wasteful screen time and other distractions
- Master the skills needed to manage a chaotic assessment year
- Self-regulation tools to identify and assist with lack of focus
- Ignite a passion for learning so they excel in the future workplace
📍 Lane Cove ☎️ 0435 136 828 🌐 kalibrate-ed.com.au
Kumon Lane Cove
Kumon personalises each student’s program from the beginning. Students start at a level that builds self-confidence from day one and progress according to ability rather than age, developing study habits and skills to study advanced material confidently and independently. Kumon has operated in Lane Cove for over 30 years and is run by local mum (and ex-Kumon student) Sheryl Lee. Families can study in person, online or via correspondence. Watch the introductory video or book an Orientation Meeting directly with Sheryl.
📍 Suites 5 & 6, 34 Burns Bay Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066 ☎️ 0403 397 885 🌐 kumonsearch.com.au 📧 [email protected]
Uber Tutoring
Tutoring for primary and secondary students by qualified educators with classroom teaching experience. Programs are tailored to each individual and involve the student in their own learning through positive, motivating classes.
Small Group Tutoring: 1-5 students in an intimate learning space. Individualised Programs: tailored support to meet each child’s learning requirements. Positive Learning Environments: positive workspaces and energetic tutors to meet each child’s emotional needs.
📍 Level 1, 133 Longueville Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066 ☎️ 0404 406 586 🌐 ubertutoring.com.au
Homework Club – Lane Cove
Homework Club takes the stress out of homework time. An experienced educator guides kids through their assignments in a small, supportive setting.
📍 Lane Cove Library (Tuesdays 3:30pm to 5:00pm) ☎️ 0412 016 278
NudgeMates
A playful online activity companion for kids aged 8-15, turning screen time into something more productive by building creativity, confidence and healthy habits through fun challenges.
📍 Lane Cove (Online) ☎️ 0409 900 487 🌐 nudgemates.com
Creative
Drama Spot
Meet new friends, learn new skills and find your voice in small, inclusive classes for kids aged 5 to 15. Drama Spot has been a much-loved part of the community since 2007, building confident, creative communicators while giving young people skills for life.
A child-centred approach recognises every student as unique, encouraging them to explore, create and grow in a supportive, non-competitive environment. Through collaborative and individual work, students build confidence, resilience, creativity and strong communication skills.
Contact Bec on 0402 342 986 or [email protected]. Ask about the free trial classes. Location is at Currambena. All terms are 8 weeks long, with makeup classes at the end of each term for public holidays.
Schedule: Mon K-2 (3.15-4.15pm) · Wed Yrs 5-6 (3.15-4.15pm), Yrs 7-9 (4.15-5.15pm) · Thurs Yrs 2-4 (4.00-5.00pm) · Fri mixed primary (3.15-4.15pm)
📍 Lane Cove ☎️ 0402 342 986 📧 [email protected] 🌐 drama-spot.business.site
Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Spaces
Pottery, art and textile classes tailored for children, offering hands-on experience in each medium. The curriculum covers fundamental techniques and encourages creativity, with each term providing a structured progression so students develop skills while having fun. A pick-up service is available for kids at Lane Cove Public, and the studio is close to St Michaels and Lane Cove Public for children who walk over after school.
📍 164 Longueville Road NSW (opposite the Library) ☎️ 02 9428 4898 🌐 gallerylanecove.com.au
Cameraygal School of Performing Arts
An initiative of the Lane Cove Theatre Company, Cameraygal School of Performing Arts has offered weekly after-school theatre classes since 2016 for primary and high school students, grouped by age: Junior (K-2), Intermediate (Years 3-6) and Senior (High School).
The aim is to help young people explore and develop their creative expression while building confidence, communication skills and strong social connections. Classes are led by industry professionals and experienced teachers, with all staff fully qualified and holding current WWCC. Enrolments are now open for all weekly classes.
📍 Living and Learning Centre ☎️ 0403 626 563 📧 [email protected] 🌐 cameraygal.com
Tennis & Golf
Kasey Dive Golf @ Lane Cove Golf Course
Kasey Dive Golf offers a variety of golf lessons at Lane Cove Golf Course, whether you’re just getting started, wanting to improve, young or old. The Lane Cove Junior Golf Program caters for over 130 juniors, with group clinics for adults and 1-on-1 lessons. Golf coaching is available 7 days a week.
📍 Lane Cove Golf Course ☎️ 0413 603 918 🌐 Book here
Sport
Vibe Football
Looking for a fun, high-energy way to keep the kids active this term? Vibe Football offers academy-style training for kids aged 5-15, designed to build confidence, creativity and real game skills, all in a supportive, player-first environment.
From beginners to more advanced players, sessions are tailored to each level with small group training, game-based learning and expert coaching. Vibe focuses on skill development and game understanding, confidence and decision-making, and teamwork and love of the game.
Programs run throughout the term at local grounds including Blackman Park and Pottery Green Oval, making it convenient for Lane Cove families. New players can start with a free trial before committing, and spots fill quickly.
📍 Lower North Shore locations 🌐 vibefootball.com.au
NBA Basketball School Australia
Created by the NBA’s Elite Basketball Development Team, this safe and fun program focuses on enhancing basketball knowledge and character, with exposure to NBA-approved coaches using proven, best-in-class training techniques.
Rookies (6-8 years, born 2018-2020) · All Stars (9-11 years, born 2015-2017) · Superstars (12 years, born 2014)
Location: Galuwa Recreation Centre Lane Cove, 180 River Rd Lane Cove NSW 2066
Babies & Preschool Programs
GymbaRoo Lane Cove/Greenwich
Baby and child development classes designed to enhance your child’s learning while spending quality time together. The gyms are specifically designed for little ones and cleaned after every lesson. Operating in Australia for over 30 years, GymbaROO is a great way to bond with your child through stimulating activities that enhance development. Christine Staniforth is the owner of Lane Cove/Greenwich GymbaROO and is well known to local families.
📍 1 Christina St, Longueville NSW 2066 🌐 Enrol here
Little Legends – Kinder Sport
Kinder Sport for ages 2 to 5 introduces children to important life skills to ensure they love being active. Classes build confidence in fundamental gross motor skills through age-appropriate games in a team environment, teaching respect, leadership, boundaries and spatial awareness alongside the athletic benefits sport provides. Register on the website. Trial class available.
| Tuesday Willoughby Park Bowling Club, 13 Robert St, Willoughby 9:15-10:00am (ages 3-5) 10:15-11:00am (ages 3-5) |
Wednesday The Diddy (Longueville Sporting Club), Kenneth St, Lane Cove 9:15-10:00am (ages 3-5) 10:15-11:00am (ages 3-5) |
| Thursday Willoughby Park Bowling Club, 13 Robert St, Willoughby 9:15-10:00am, new class (ages 2-3) 10:15-11:00am (ages 3-5) |
Friday Lane Cove Bowling Club, 151 Burns Bay Rd, Lane Cove 9:15-10:00am (ages 2-3) 10:15-11:00am (ages 3-5) 11:15am-12:00pm (ages 3-5) |
📍 Lane Cove and Willoughby 📧 [email protected] 🌐 littlelegends.net.au · Cost: $220 (45 min classes)
Music
Modern Sounds Music
🎸 Kids, teens and adults, music is for everyone and Modern Sounds makes it way cooler to learn. From first-timers to future rockstars, get real skills and real jams on guitar, drums, piano, vocals or bass, whatever your vibe. Book a $10 trial lesson now.
📍 Lower Ground, Pottery Lane Arcade, 102-104 Longueville Rd, Lane Cove NSW ☎️ 0466 607 429 🌐 modernsoundsmusic.com.au/book-now
Lane Cove Youth Orchestra
A community youth group offering quality music and recreational opportunities in a friendly, safe, co-educational environment. LCYO regularly participates in community events, holds a variety of concerts each year (some formal and others more casual) and gives extra performances when requested by sponsors.
LCYO has a professional conducting team headed by chief conductor and artistic director Mark Brown, with esteemed conductor and percussionist Colin Piper OAM as Patron and occasional guest conductor. Professional tutors assist during rehearsals as needed, and LCYO regularly invites other music, arts and cultural groups to participate for a diversity of cultural experiences.
Rehearsals: Monday evenings during school terms, 6-8pm, Cove Room, Lane Cove Council building. Fees are $95 per term.
☎️ Contact Lyndall on 0411 413 335 to get involved 🌐 lcyo.org.au
Syrinx Music
Does your child play a musical instrument? Syrinx Music (previously Lane Cove Music Supplies), located on the First Floor of Central Arcade, is a music store right here in Lane Cove. Shopping local saves time when a reed or a piece of music is needed 24 hours before it’s actually required. Call Derek to organise sheet music, instruments, reeds, music stands and more.
📍 Shop 18, 105-108 Longueville Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066 ☎️ (02) 9420 4499 🌐 syrinxmusic.com
Dance & Gymnastics
Burns Bay Dance Studios
A teaching team of many talented and professional teachers aims to pass on their knowledge and talent, providing a fun, creative learning environment through the art form of dance, whether that’s for fitness or for students who want to take it more seriously and one day dance or teach professionally.
Classes offered: Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Boys Only Hip Hop, Tap, Contemporary, Solo, Acrobaticarts, Group Eisteddfods and RAD Ballet Exams, catering from little ones through to adults. Private coaching available on request.
Imagination Dance
Joyful, inclusive classes for little ones through to tweens, combining ballet, musical theatre and performance in a fun, nurturing environment. Held throughout the week at Blackman Park, it’s a beautiful way for children to build confidence, creativity and a love of movement.
Ages: 20 months to 13 years.
Where: Girl Guides Hall, Blackman Park, Lane Cove West.
Monday: 9:30am Mummy + Me (20mths-3yrs) · 10:20am Imagination Ballet (3-5yrs)
Wednesday (school pickup available from LCWPS): 4:00pm ID Performance (5-8yrs) · 4:45pm ID Performance (8-12yrs) · 5:30pm Musical Theatre (5-12yrs)
Thursday: 3:45pm ID Performance (10-13yrs) · 4:30pm Musical Theatre (10-13yrs)
Friday: 9:30am ID Performance (3-5yrs) · 10:15am Mummy + Me (20mths-3yrs)
Saturday: 9:00am Mummy + Me (20mths-3yrs) · 9:45am Imagination Ballet (3-5yrs) · 10:30am ID Performance (5-9yrs)
☎️ 0458 333 063 📧 [email protected] 🌐 imaginationdance.com.au
Gladesville Gymnastics Club
A proud 40-year history in the Gladesville/Ryde community. The club provides quality gymnastics and acrobatics programs for all abilities from beginner to international level, staffed by professionally qualified coaches.
📍 436-484 Victoria Road, Gladesville NSW 2111 ☎️ 02 7226 5923 🌐 gladesvillegymnastics.com.au · Book now
Teens & Tweens
Synergy Youth Activities
Synergy Youth Centre is a free drop-in space where young people can go to hang out, seek information and support services, or take part in programmed activities, with no registration or booking required. Two qualified Youth Workers are on site during opening hours to provide guidance and support, and can make referrals to other services or arrange for other providers to meet young people at the Centre.
📍 Synergy Youth Centre, 8 Little Street, Lane Cove 2066 🌐 More information
Health & Support
Sydney Speech Clinic
Speech pathologists and occupational therapists are professionally trained to assess, diagnose and treat a wide range of developmental differences, aiming to support individuals in their daily activities, relationships and communication skills. Sydney Speech Clinic offers individualised 1:1 therapy and group programs. Individual sessions are highly tailored to each person’s goals, while group sessions promote peer learning in an interactive, motivating and supportive environment. Group programs supplement a child’s learning by building on existing skills and encourage children to learn from one another, offering an affordable way to maximise a child’s exposure to learning. All services are evidence-based and facilitated by qualified speech pathologists and/or occupational therapists. 1:1 appointments and group programs are available for Term 3.
📍 1 Pottery Lane, Lane Cove NSW 2066 ☎️ (02) 8404 0715 🌐 sydneyspeechclinic.com.au
Luz Abilities
Luz All Abilities Services designs and manages programs integrating coaches and purpose-specific activities to unlock all abilities. Intensive programs support parents, carers, therapists and educators to integrate exercises and new skills into a child’s daily routine to maximise their full developmental potential. Programs are unique, integrated and personalised to match each child and family’s needs, customised to the home, school and community environment.
📍 5 Sera Street, Lane Cove ☎️ 02 8065 4284 🌐 luzallabilities.com.au
Northside Speech
📍 Suite A, 161A Burns Bay Rd, Lane Cove NSW 2066 ☎️ 0492 979 449 🌐 northsidespeechpathology.com.au
PosAbility Australia
Posability Australia is a not-for-profit organisation and registered charity providing a range of services to assist children and adolescents with learning difficulties and other developmental delays. Educators offer comprehensive assessment and intervention in reading, writing, spelling, comprehension and mathematics, and are specialists in dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia.
📍 F28/16 Mars Rd, Lane Cove West ☎️ 02 9420 4101 🌐 posability.com.au
Apple Dental
If your child plays sport, make sure you invest in a mouthguard. More than 5 million teeth are knocked out during sporting activities every year, and it’s estimated that between 30% and 50% of these injuries could have been prevented, or would have been less severe, had a mouthguard been worn.
Lane Cove Orthodontics
Based in Lane Cove, north of the Sydney CBD, the team of orthodontic professionals takes pride in their work and gets results for every patient.
Hours: Mon-Thu 8:30am to 5:30pm, Fri 8:30am to 5:00pm
📍 Level 1, 138 Longueville Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066 ☎️ 02 9427 8088 🌐 lanecoveorthodontics.com.au
Lousy Solutions Gets Rid of Head Lice!
The end of the holidays is a good time to check if any unwanted visitors have taken up residence in the kids’ hair. Lousy Solutions is expert in head lice diagnosis, treatment, removal and prevention, supporting families, schools and childcare centres with a mobile clinic in the Lane Cove area and surrounds.
Appointments Mon-Sat ☎️ 0423 066 556 🌐 lousysolutions.com
Community
Beyond The Bell – School Holiday Camps
Screen-free outdoor holiday programs for primary-aged kids, run in small groups across the Lower North Shore including Lane Cove, with outdoor games, team challenges, nature exploration and water activities like harbour swims and sailing.
Lane Cove Bush Kids
Activities are held at local bushland parks and reserves: Blackman Park, Tambourine Bay Park, Stringybark Reserve and Gore Creek Reserve. Each activity includes a bush walk on unsealed tracks, a craft activity and storytelling, running for 1 to 1.5 hours and designed for both children and adults. Bookings and tickets are essential for both, via the individual activity booking links.
Cost: $10.85 per child, no charge for adults (an adult ticket is still required) 🌐 lanecove.nsw.gov.au/bushkids
Lane Cove Library Activities
Scrabble Afternoons for kids, Thursdays 3:30pm. Learn or play Scrabble for fun. Come along to the Library and play for free, with volunteers from the NSW Scrabble Association on hand to provide guidance. Held every Thursday afternoon during school terms, no booking required.
📍 Lane Cove Library, 1 Library Place, Library Walk, Lane Cove 2066 🌐 lanecove.nsw.gov.au/Community/Library/News-and-Events
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