Our Sea Shell & Rock Pool friends at Fern Bay have been embracing the outdoors & taking their naps outdoors! Research has shown the benefits of being outdoors, that children have better brain development, bone and muscular development, social and cognitive development, better emotional wellbeing and less illness. Here at Tillys Fern Bay…we believe that…
Indigenous Literacy Week at Fern Bay The children in the Pelican Room at Fern Bay explored a new interest table called ‘The Colours of Worimi Land’. Miss Mel collected soil and sand samples from our local environment and matched these samples with photos from the locations they were collected from. There were white and yellow…
This week at Waratah 1 we have been celebrating Superhero Week for the Bear Cottage. Bear Cottage is the only children’s hospice in NSW. Established in 2001, Bear Cottage provides support, respite and end-of-life care to children with life-limiting illnesses and their families. Please continue to dress up in your superhero outfits.
Recipe of the Month – Mince and Beans Mexican Style! Looking for a quick dinner that will have the kids scraping their bowl and asking for seconds?! The children at Tillys Greta sure think this meal is one of the favourites! Try it out with our recipe below Ingredients 250g beef mince 1 onion, chopped…
Staff Spotlight – Bridget! Bridget is an Educator at Tillys Bolwarra and is currently in the 3-6 years Echidna room. Bridget has her Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care and has been in the industry for over 19 years. She started her journey at our Bolwarra centre in December 2018 and has been a…
Last night Abermain Tillys hosted a transition to school information night via zoom due to COVID-19 restrictions. They reached out to Erin Gibbs from Abermain public school who gave great information on how to help children get ready for school, orientation information and how to make the transition process smooth for next year. A big…
As part of our Book week celebrations the Pelican children at Fern Bay focused on the book ‘Where The Wild Things Are’. Miss Mel read the story then handed out some puppets to our friends to help tell the story. We then read the story a second time with our friends acting out the story…
Fern Bay has been busy with many experiments for National Science Week this week. Yesterday, we explored a variety of slimes. We made elmers slime, fluffy slime, and psyllium husk slime. Through making slime the children are experimenting and exploring with concepts of reactions and changes from liquids to solid, and exploring gravity and flow.…
Today at Waratah 2 the children engaged in scientific learning and discovery. We explored concepts of force, motion and movement through a fun and engaging balloon experiment. The children were very curious about the experiment that was being set up in the outdoor environment and couldn’t wait to join in the fun. Educator Gina blew…
Our National Science Week experiments have been in full swing at Greta! The children have explored aspects such as hypothesising, observing, investigating, predicting, analysing and evaluating. The experiments they have conducted so far include; creating storm clouds, exploring ‘germs’, salt paintings, rainbow clouds, lemon fizz and magnetic paintings.