Yesterday the children from Abermain & East Maitland experienced a zoom meeting with each other. The purpose of this zoom meeting was to build stronger relationships within our Tillys community. The children waved at each other, said their acknowledgments and showed each other something special that they are doing within the centre. East Maitland showed…
At a time when the world, as we know it, has been turned upside down ,we reflect on how very fortunate we are. We have so many things to be grateful for. How could we show our gratitude to others? What could we do to help and support those in frontline work. Who could we…
At Tillys Rutherford the Nursery Rooms have been exploring the natural elements of the outdoor environment. Extending on their interests, today we looked for bugs within our garden finding worms and lady bugs. Upon this, we checked on our worms in the worm farm and looked at bugs during a group experience. We can’t wait…
Yesterday, leaders from each of our centre’s Cultural Squads came together for a meeting to discuss the ways in which we can continue to work on embedding respectful, meaningful and purposeful Indigenous perspectives and experiences into our every day practices. We would like to thank Shannon Mavin from Indigenous Services Group a proud Gomeroi and…
Thank you to everyone who attended our Family Fun Day on Saturday to celebrate Tillys Abermain’s 25th birthday! What a great turn out, beautiful weather, memories and fun! We are looking forward to another 25 years as Tillys Abermain!
Just Dream Productions brought their Rock Pool Adventure show to Tillys at Bolwarra yesterday. We learnt about many different sea creatures then were hands on in holding crabs, starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea sponge and shark jaws. We were able to look at but not touch the eel, octopus and larger crabs. After this…
Clean up Australia Day Excursion. On Monday the children from Tillys Abermain enjoyed walking to Centenary Park Abermain to collect and dispose of rubbish to support and be involved in Clean Up Australia Day. Before collecting any rubbish we put on gloves and our educators made sure that each rubbish item was safe for us…
Tonight at Tillys Rutherford, some of our educators engaged in professional development training from Kids and Traffic. We welcomed team members from Greta and Bolwarra Tillys who joined us for the training. Louise presented their workshop on Out and About: Safe Journeys with Kids. Our educators enjoyed discovering new and interesting ways of integrating road…
Waratah 2 had the pleasure of having The Ladybug Academy’s Butterfly Garden visit the centre. The enclosure was set up in their dining room and each room visited the butterfly garden daily, checking on the process of the beautiful insects and watering the plants when they needed. Over the course of the two weeks they…
Some highlights of our day yesterday at OOSH Rutherford including our new resource for our room – the felt wall which has captured a few of the children’s interests.