Staff Spotlight – Natalie! Natalie first began her journey with Tillys 8 years ago after she completed her Certificate 3 in Early Childhood Education and Care and accepted a permanent position with the Waratah 2 centre. Due to her exceptional leadership skills and commitment, she quickly moved into a room leader position in one of…
Maitland Show is on this weekend. One of the competitions that our Greta service loves being a part of is the Scarecrow Competition. This year the theme is, “Celebrating a Resilient Community”, although it was short notice our service has been able to come up with a wonderful idea in creating a living Scarecrow. When…
Belonging in the Panda Cubs at Rutherford Tillys. “Here is our land.” “Here is our sky.” “Here is our water.” “Here are our friends” “And here am I.” “We acknowledge the Wonnarua people who live on this land in which we learn and which we play.” In the Panda Cubs room we are focusing and…
What a beautiful first week back at Gillieston Heights for 2022. It was lovely to see all of the smiling and happy little faces join us again. We welcomed new children to our family and are settling in wonderfully. We cannot wait for the year ahead. Even though we are all going through a tough…
Recently, Tillys Waratah 1 & Waratah 2 were invited to participate in a community mural project. This involved highly experienced mural artist and community arts worker, Nina Katzmarski visiting our two services to take photos of the children’s geo creations, then transferring them to the community wall in Dulling Street. Community involvement is beneficial in…
Merry Christmas from Tillys Bolwarra!
Staff Spotlight – Amanda! Amanda is our wonderful Educational Leader at Tillys East Maitland. Amanda has previously worked at our Rutherford centre, but when East Maitland opened 18 months ago, she was our first educator to transfer across. She is beautiful educator, with a passion for working with Preschool aged children. Amanda is known for…
We are so proud of all of our 2021 Tillys Bolwarra preschool graduates! We celebrated at a graduation held at East Maitland Bowling Club last Thursday night. After an Acknowledgement of Country beautifully spoken by Dakota, the children danced up the front to the song ‘A Friend Like You’ and then each received their preschool…
Today, silence will fall across our country for one minute as Australia commemorates those who have fallen defending our Nation. November 11 is a day to remember the sacrifice that thousands of people have made in service to their country. Tillys at Rutherford showed our appreciation and respects by pausing at 11am. We heard Miss…
At Waratah 2 last month we were lucky to have a visit from Mrs Butler, a kindergarten teacher from Waratah Public School. The children enjoyed learning about their buddies and what fun things they will do once orientation visits start. This helps us with the transition to school process as we approach the weeks before…