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.
At Tillys Fern Bay our Toddler Tribe and Preschool tribes have recently had some new pets join their rooms. The Toddlers now have three pet hermit crabs Shelly, Sandy and Spiky. While our preschool friends have had some stick insects join their tribe. Through caring for their new pets the children are learning to care…
ALLIED HEALTH COLLECTIVE held a free information evening at Tillys Cardiff on Monday 22nd February. We were lucky enough to hear from 4 amazing professionals sharing their knowledge in their fields with our families about child development: • Sprouting Health Integrative Family Chiropractic & Kinesiology – Dr Jeremy Thomas • Inspire Ability Speech Therapist -…
Today our Butterfly room at Waratah 1 enjoyed another technique of painting. This time we explored ‘Free mess painting’. Educator Loris invited the children to do a painting and as the children were waiting for aprons and paint brushes, Educator Loris squirted a few colours of paint onto a piece of paper and then placed…
Throughout this week at Bolwarra Tillys we have been involved in evacuation drills to prepare us in case there is ever an emergency. We conduct drills four times per year and include varied scenarios. Today there was a mock ‘fire in the laundry’. We practiced what we would do in that situation and moved as…