Director's News
This year seems to be flying by!
We are continuing to welcome new children to our Centre and over the next couple of weeks have many more children starting. We are looking forward to getting to know you all.
It has been quite distressing of late to see so many children being driven to and from the centre who are not properly restrained.I have some information which I hope you will find of assistance at this website.
Also please avoid leaving your other children unattended in the car whilst dropping off at the centre.
July 2nd - 9th
NAIDOC Week celebrations
Reminders
Breakfast:The centre does not provide breakfast for the children. For those children bringing breakfast, you are reminded that only healthy breakfast cereals etc are acceptable. Sugar coated cereals or Bars are not an acceptable choice.
Staff Only:Doors which are marked "Staff Only" are only for staff use. Please enter rooms through the verandah doors.- Now that the weather has turned colder can we ask that all children have shoes, socks and jumpers
- Check your child's pocket on the wall each day as important information is placed there.
- Please send a drink bottle, we do not provide spares.
- Also please make sure your child's bag only contains spare clothes. No plastic bags, creams, money, toys or medicines. These all pose dangers to young children.
National Quality Framework
What the NQF means for you?The National Quality Framework (NQF) for Early Childhood Education and Care helps ensure your child is given the best possible start in life.The NQF has new quality standards to improve education and care across long day care, family day care, preschools, kindergartens and outside school hours care services.
Benefits for families
• greater individual care and attention for children
• better support for children's learning and development
• educators with increased skills and qualifications
• improved educator to child ratios in most services
• a new rating system of education and care services.
A learning framework assists nominated supervisors, educators and co-ordinators to think more deeply about the service's approach to learning, development and care and the way in which this guides everyday practice and development of the program. The frameworks are designed to inspire conversations, improve communication and provide a common language about young children's learning among children themselves, with their families and the broader community, with educators and with other professionals.
Sustainability
One of our goals for the year is to concentrate on Sustainability. The children will be learning about recycling (water, paper), our environment, such as plants, caring for plants, and most importantly, how we can do our part for the environment. Did you know that the process of recycling paper instead of making it from new materials generates 74% less air pollution and uses 50% less water.
Here at Piptree we do lots of arts and craft activities which means we use a lot of paper! I am asking families, if you do have scrap paper or cardboard at home, please bring them into the centre, so that we can recycle them here for the children's art and craft experiences!
We have also had a big delivery of a sustainability pack. We have a water tank we can now reuse the water for our gardens, a worm farm and compost bin. We are super excited.
We also had a visit from the The Magical Garden Creatures Show which taught the children about the environment and sustainability in a fun , active way.