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Every Early Childhood Educator is a Star

This week is National Family Day Care Week, with the theme ‘Every Child is a Star’. We completely agree! We also believe that every family day care educator is a star too. In fact, all early childhood educators work hard to make a difference in children’s lives, whether they are…

7 Steps Special Gift

Congratulations on attending the ‘7 Steps’ webinar, where you learnt practical strategies to boost enrolments, how to enhance your centre’s A&R and a way to stand out from the crowd. Below are your special gifts as promised during the session. These gifts will help your centre prepare for your next…

Making Mums Feel Special on Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday 9 May, which means it’s time to do something special for the mums or special women in our lives. Mother’s Day has been celebrated since the early 1900s and was started by a woman named Anna Jarvis. Anna wanted to create a day…

Reviving Your Centre In a Post-COVID World

It’s hard to believe what we have all experienced over the last year or so. The CoVID-19 pandemic had a huge impact on the health and wellbeing of just about everyone. Beyond our personal lives, workplaces and our livelihoods were affected too, with early childhood education no exception. Centres were…

The Value of Sensory Play and Experiences in Early Childhood

Smelling, tasting, feeling, mouthing, touching… From birth children begin to explore the world around them via their senses. Even adults have much to gain from sensory experiences. Many of our strongest or favourite memories are attached to our senses. The warm sand on our toes at the beach, a favourite…