Waratah 2 Ocean Day As today is Ocean Day, the Kangaroo Paw room at Waratah 2 decided to continue their exploration of pollution and caring for the earth after their interesting World Environment Day discoveries. They did this by using creative art to explore how the ocean’s ecosystem (blue dye) can become disrupted, contaminated and…
DetailsBolwarra Art Room Check out the amazing experiences in the Bolwarra Tillys art room at the moment! The children have recently sparked an interest in dinosaurs as they move on from engaging in learning which revolved around ‘the jungle’. 🦖🦕🌿
DetailsAbermain Reconciliation Week Last week Tillys at Abermain had been celebrating Reconciliation Week with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Aunty Michelle visited the centre and did a traditional smoking ceremony with the children and educators in the rock pit area. The children and educators were painted with ceremonial paint and were told that a…
DetailsBolwarra ANZAC Care Packages For the second year in a row the families, children and educators at Tillys Bolwarra worked together to collect donations to put into care packages which they sent to the Australian troops overseas for ANZAC Day. With all of the thoughtful and resourceful donations they were able to post 10 CARE…
DetailsWaratah2 1st place! This March our preschool children here at Waratah2 entered our local Newcastle show! We created delicious scones, iced biscuits and cakes for the Kids get cooking competition! 🧁 This was part of our community involvement initiative in this years Quality Improvement Plan. Today we received some amazing news that our children received 1st…
DetailsWaratah2 Reconciliation Plan As a part of our Reconciliation Action Plan here at Waratah2 we had our lovely Aunty Linda join us to share her knowledge about Australian flora and the Indigenous way of bush tucker! We explored our own environment and discovered our bottle brush trees in our garden have a yummy honey nectar…
DetailsNational Simultaneous StoryTime 2019 Today was National Simultaneous Storytime and a number of the Tillys centres participated in reading Alpacas with Maracas together. Each year the book changes and children across Australia read the book at the same time on the same day. The event aims to encourage young children to read and enjoy books.…
DetailsNational Families Week – Waratah 2 As part of national families week Waratah 2 had a special visit from a police officer and mother Constable J. The children loved dressing up in all of the policer officers attire and protective clothing. We all loved getting to look and investigate her police vehicle. Some even using…
DetailsAbermain Mother’s Night Tillys Abermain hosted a Mother’s night last night to celebrate all the special mum’s and women in our lives. The children enjoyed painting their mum’s nails, taking photos in the photo booth, making a cupcakes together, hand printing, reading and making necklaces. Thank you to everyone who joined us it was a…
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