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Supporting Families: Know Your Local and National Community Services
Building strong, supportive relationships with families is a key part of early childhood education—and it’s essential to have the right tools ready when families need a little extra help. This post provides a practical list of community services and websites that you, as an educator, can use to connect families with the support they may…
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Today, our Nursery One friends learned about fire safety and explored the concept through painting. The educators introduced the children to basic fire safety tips, such as the importance of staying away from flames and knowing what to do in an emergency. To reinforce these lessons, the children were given red, orange, and yellow paints…
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The Great Fish and Yabby Debate in George’s Giraffes
We are still having the debate which started after Lilliana went yabbying on the weekend. Should we put fish or yabbies in our new fish tank? This question has generated a lot of curiosity and excitement among the children. We learnt about the differences between fish and yabbies eg yabbies have nippers that go “nip,…
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Pet Rock Project
What a fantastic start to the year we are having! Welcome to our new families. It is a pleasure to have you join us. It has been great to get so much family input, with lots of you sharing with us how you spend your weekends. This has enabled us to build our daily curriculum…
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Graduation 2015 – We miss you
We have loved caring for and educating each and every child. We will miss both the children and families. We know each of you will have a lot of fun at school and continue to learn, play and grow. Come and visit, and tell us all about school.
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Moving cows to another paddock
Connecting with community: It’s important that children feel like they belong in their world, and understand their connections with family and community. This contributes to a positive sense of identity and wellbeing, and is the basis for all other learning. Did you know that there are lots of learning outcomes in the Early Years Learning…
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Friendships
We know how important it is for children to develop positive relationships with other children and adults. Through these interactions children learn empathy and social skills, gain confidence and feel a strong sense of belonging in their world. They are also exposed to the different views, ideas and knowledge other children have. With these skills…
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Under Construction
Children love to build and experiment. This week we continued exploring these interests in our construction corner which has lots of materials for children to work with. Children had a lot of fun constructing ramps using cones and lengths of timber. They worked together to balance the planks on the cones. It took many hands to…