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…
DetailsClean 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…
DetailsTonight 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…
DetailsWaratah 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…
DetailsSome 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…
DetailsALLIED 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 -…
DetailsToday 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…
DetailsThroughout 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…
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