Pyjama Week at Gillieston Heights
The best week of the year is Pyjama week! The educators and children at Gillieston Heights got into the snuggly spirit with their Oodies, dressing gowns, pjs and Ugg boots all week.
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Waratah 2’s Visit From Newcastle Art Gallery
We were lucky enough to have Nicole from the Newcastle art gallery visit Waratah 2 today. Nicole conducted a water colour workshop with some of our preschool children. Nicole taught the children techniques used by Newcastle artist John Olsen to create his art works. Nicole brought with her tools for the children to explore while…
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JD’s World of Magic at Rutherford
Today our Rutherford centre was lucky enough to have Joel from JD’s World of Magic to do his show “I like me!” Our children loved the interactive experience jam packed with magic, audience participation, a LIVE rabbit and doves, and funny puppetry! The children were in awe of the tricks and thoroughly enjoyed the show!…
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Rutherford Community Seeds Project
Last Friday, Lewi from our Rutherford service visited his local library to get the Rutherford journey started in the community seed sharing project. The Seed Library benefits individuals and the community. You can obtain free seeds for your garden and help build a collection of seeds for others. Sharing seeds through the Seed Library will…
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Dhiiyaan Art
Tillys at Rutherford were donated this beautiful print by Jess Hopcroft from Dhiiyaan Art, one of our OOSH families for NAIDOC Week.
Rutherford & Calm Hearts Mindfulness
Yesterday Erin from Calm Hearts Mindfulness gifted our Rutherford centre a resource pack! The pack will be shared throughout centre, to promote mindfulness and our educators are looking forward to creating some amazing experiences with these beautiful items.
Baby Chicks at Rutherford
“The Henny Penny Hatching staff have delivered this eleven-day incubation program to Tillys, this was an opportunity for our children, families, and educators to watch the eggs hatching in a specially designed incubator, and then to observe the hatched chicks at play in a large, clear-sided brooding pen”. Henny Penny little chicks has arrived at…
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NAIDOC at Cardiff
To celebrate NAIDOC week, Tillys Cardiff had a visit on Tuesday from Uncle Rod, an Aboriginal man in the Cardiff community. Uncle Rod brought along aniseed myrtle, lemon myrtle, Davidson plums, red cellar lime and finger lime for the children to smell and taste. The children said the food tasted sour, scrunching up their noses…
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Cardiff – Cooking with Courtney
The children in the Echidna room at Tillys Cardiff enjoyed their first session of ‘Cooking with Courtney’ on Monday! The children assisted chef Courtney in making bush tomato scones for NAIDOC week. They stood at the kitchen bench and assisted with measuring out ingredients, tasting ingredients, stirring the mixture together and cutting out portions with…
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