Little Endeavours Early Learning Centre is a new, purpose built educational facility in the heart of Sans Souci for children aged 0-6 years.
Little Endeavours ELC has been specifically designed with little people in mind so our environment is warm and nurturing.
Our main focus is to provide an interactive and inviting space to allow our children’s minds to grow and develop. Directly opposite Sans Souci Public School, Little Endeavours ELC is conveniently located. Our ample on-site, covered parking allows for safe and quick drop off and pick up.
The Centre operates between the hours of 7:00am to 6:00pm, Monday to Friday, including school holidays. Contact us for more information.
Australian Music Schools ‘It’s amazing what can happen when you start for the fun of it!’
AMS is the home of fantastic music classes with fabulous results. Learn to sing, play, read & create music – classes for all ages from 2 year olds to adults. Quality music education by professionals in a fun environment.
Exams, Eisteddfods, Concerts & Camps contact us on www.australianmusicschools.com.au
Bexley Jack and Jill Preschool is an inclusive community based, non-profit preschool operated by our Parent Management Committee. The preschool holds a rating of Exceeding National Standard from ACECQA.
Our preschool has been providing quality early childhood education and care for over 65 years and is proud of its excellent reputation. All staff are qualified educators or university trained teachers and each has extensive experience in the early childhood field.
The preschool honours diversity and proudly welcomes children and their families from over 25 different nationalities and also provides an inclusive program for children with additional needs.
We are open from 8.20am - 3.40pm and are licensed for 37 three to five year olds each day. Contact us for more information.
Daystars Bardwell Valley State of art centre with great indoor and outdoor environment! We cater for children 0 to 6 years of age. Opening hours: Monday to Friday 7:30am until 6:00pm. We provide childcare, preschool and school readiness program as well as nutritional meals, nappies, extra curriculum activities such as languages, Technology, music and movement.
Here at Daystars we view children as ‘daystars’ because they light up their families, our Service and the community.
We view children as unique individuals with the ability to construct knowledge about themselves, others, and the world around them. Children develop and learn at their own pace through active play, exploration and discovery. They become beings who belong, and are connected to, the world they live in through interactions with others. Children are provided with interesting and enjoyable learning experiences that challenge their natural curiosity, encourage their creativity, and inspire their love for learning.
Contact us for more information.
Green Gables Kindergarten Our Early Childhood Educators are established, long term, and highly qualified. We train and retain to promote the utmost in continuity for your child. Caring for children 0-5 years.
We invite you to experience for yourself:
- Relaxed and friendly atmosphere
- Daily structured physical activity program delivered inline with NSW Health Munch & Move program
- Comprehensive School Readiness program delivered by qualified Early Childhood and Primary Trained teachers
- Preschool curriculum ensuring children are equipped with fundamental learning skills including phonics and numeracy
- Online portfolio system allowing parents to view children's learning stories daily
- Gourmet nutritional meals
- Huge Natural Play-space
- Computer Education
- Regular and exciting incursions
Contact us for more information.
Stepping Stones Early Learning Centre Bexley Open Monday to Friday 7.30am - 6.00pm, providing quality child care for children aged 2 to school age. We have an open door policy, which means you are welcome to visit at any time!
Contact us for more information.
Tumbling Teddy's Cottage Child Care Centre is a long day centre designed by Prue Walsh (NSW DoCS Advisor and Child Care Licensing Book Author) catering for children aged between 0-6 years. Open from 7:30am to 6:00pm, 50 weeks a year closing two weeks in late December early January and on public holidays.
The centre is well equipped, with all resources complying with safety regulations. The large natural Outdoor area and Play-deck has been purposely designed to suit age appropriateness, stages of development and designed to ignite the will to explore and learn in each individual child. Contact us for more information.
Barfa Bear Child Care Centre has a real warm home-like setting. From outside the building you would not think it was a child care centre, and that’s how we like it! Barfa Bear is licensed for 36 children per day, between the ages of 2yrs-5yrs. We are open 7.30am - 6.00pm approx. 50 weeks per year, closing at no charge to families over the Christmas/New Years period.
Barfa Bear is an air-conditioned building with security intercom for parental access. Contact us for a tour.
Mama Bear Child Care Centre caters for 0-2yrs age group and is licensed for 40 children per day, between the ages of 0yrs-5yrs. We are open 7.30am - 6pm approx. 50 weeks/year, closing at no charge to families over the Christmas/New Years period.
Mama Bear also has a real warm home-like setting. From outside the building you would not think it was a child care centre, and that’s how we like it! Although many people ask, “what’s upstairs?” - it’s our storeroom and staffroom.
There are 3 playrooms with a 2-4 Bear Team Educators for each playroom, being 2 qualified Educators (including min 1 Early Childhood Teacher ECT), plus additional playroom assistant who will hold either a Children Services Cert III or be studying a Children Services Cert III Traineeship. We are always working well over staff regulatory ratios, which ensures the best educational outcome for your child. Contact us for more information.
Janine Painter's Occupational Therapy Service Registrations are now being taken for our Handwriting Group in the October 2018 school holidays . The group is being run over 2 days, 2 hours each session
The Sessions are on DAY 1: Wednesday 3rd October 1.30pm – 3.30pm and DAY 2: Wednesday 10th October 1.30pm – 3.30pm * Maximum 4 students per group (minimum 2 students to run a group so bring a friend!) Venue: Level 1/ 14-16 Central Rd, Miranda. Depending on your level of coverage, sessions may be claimed through your private health fund. Call 9524 2566 for enquiries and reservations.
The Positive Living Skills initiative supports Early Learning Centres and Primary Schools across Australia to lead a culture of mental wellbeing in their communities.
The PLS Early Childhood Wellbeing program resources and training are designed to support educators children and families to build practical skills for long term mental wellbeing.
- 48 individually pre-prepared Learning experiences each mapped to the EYLF Curriculum
- 20+ audio and visual resources
- Coloured visuals and posters
- The ‘Possa Bill’ Puppet
- Learning Story templates
- Professional Development webinars for educators
- Ongoing Customer Engagement support from PLS
- LIFETIME LICENCE for a limited time
‘There was a gap there, a need for us to find a program that would help us support the children and the families in our community. The program helps children to acknowledge their feelings, to communicate, to relax, to get along with others, and Possa Bill and his mottos have taught us a lot about the sort of people we want to be.’ Rebecca Cragg, Preschool Director
To join an upcoming ‘live’ Positive Living Skills information webinar or download an Information pack, visit our
website.
Frontrunner Learning Centres Australia has curated some meaningful content for us Click here to read our article about how your child's brain works when we read for them
You can find relevant information about your child's development by following our facebook page.
A fresh and innovative online seminar! Gen Jereb's The Traffic Jam In My Brain is a Sensory Processing Approach to Challenges Associated with Autism, ADHD, Learning and Behavioural Differences, presented by international speaker Genevieve Jereb OTR.
Now you can view the workshop on your own schedule (broadband Internet connection required on a single computer), learning at your own pace how to help support children to “learn and thrive from the inside out.” Gen Jereb's dynamic, practical tools incorporate:
- Regulation
- Respiration
- Rhythm
- Relationship
Improved video quality, and MOBILE ACCESS. Start watching on your desktop, then continue on your mobile or tablet. (Note that mobile data rates may apply.) If you can watch a YouTube video, you can watch Gen Jereb's Traffic Jam In My Brain ONLINE.
This online experience comprises seven contact hours of Gen’s acclaimed methodology and will be available from October 1st through November 14th, 2018!
https://sensorytools.net/collections/workshops/
products/traffic-jam-in-my-brain-online-workshop
Learning Links Cool Kids- Anxiety program for children with high functioning/moderate Autism Spectrum Disorder
Cool Kids is a structured skills-based program presented by Learning Links, teaching children with and their parents how to better manage their anxiety. Current results indicate that most young people who complete this program show significant improvement, there are marked increases in school attendance, academic achievement, confidence, number of friends and involvement in extra-curricular activities and decreases in worry, shyness, fear and family distress. The program is suitable for children aged 8 to 12 years and will for 9 weeks, commencing Thursday 18th October, 2018. This program is eligible under NDIS Funding in the area of Improved Daily Living. Medicare Rebates apply. For information contact our Learning Links on 8525 8222 or visit www.learninglinks.org.au
Soccajoeys is a fun and enjoyable recreational setting for boys and girls aged 2.5 - 8 years to learn and play the world’s most popular sport soccer.
Soccajoeys is about a great deal more than just developing a child’s control with the ball, it is about giving them a well-rounded start in their physical, social and educational development and developing the ‘whole child’.
Our team of accredited coaches have developed a non-competitive, non-elite program for kids to exercise and have fun whilst enjoying the company of other children their age whilst being introduced to the structured, early learning principles of soccer.
Contact us today on 1300 781 735 or www.soccajoeys.com.au to register your child to one of our locations across Sydney.
A Very Productive Month for Positive Thinking Clinic (PTC).
So numbers are almost full for our Self-Empowerment Workshop for kids being held during the October School Holidays. This is one of our famous 2 hour workshops for only $50. If you want more details you can see it on my website or I will email it to you.
Time for a new strategy to use for weight loss. My hypnoband sessions have been successful and “life changing”. This is the goal… to change our lifestyle for the better and not feel that we are missing out. No we lose weight while we gain control!!!! Hypnoband package details on my website too.
So with all the inquiries on quitting smoking using hypnosis I am now promoting my 2 Session pack and this includes 2 free sessions. Quit smoking gets popular during January as we know new years resolutions are created. So if you need my help with this one, please email me. Check out the details on my website too.
I have had so many kids and teens (and adolescents) come to the clinic for stress and anxiety, and so I have created an $80 session. Its been popular amongst small groups, so feel free to come along now that exams are in the air!!!! And best of luck of course.
In recent times I have been assessing normal everyday people with specific “phobias”. These have included driving, darkness, flying, and a few more. If you are ready now to deal with any phobia, please dive straight in and tackle it. Book a season and lets get rid of it.
So I hope this shows you a brief snapshot of amazing things that happen at the Positive
Thinking Clinic. Contact me for more information on any of the above, or visit positivethinkingclinic.com.au , I usually keep my current specials and promotions on my blog tab.
Amanda Dounis Psychotherapist: Counsellor: Hypnotherapist: Early Childhood Teacher: NLP Master … and friendly person.
CENTRE NEWS
Rainbow Cottage
We are so very lucky to have amazing families who become involved in our activities at our service with the children. We were lucky to have a Grandpa Bill come in to create some more amazing garden areas for our children. More vegetables were added to our garden for growing and some protective netting added to our current veggie patch as we believe we have a night veggie snatcher who must visit our yard whilst we are all home sleeping as we have had lots of product from our veggie patch go missing.
Our Positive Living Skills program has really flourished at our service. Over the past month the children have been focusing on appreciation.
Allowing children to give their views on how we can appreciate not only people, but the world we live in. Simple things like a 'thank you' can brighten anyone's day. Having children learn about the drought and seeing what a tough time it has had on our farmers and then being able to appreciate the 'rain' when it finally came and not worrying too much about missing out on outdoor play that day was a highlight for the Educators. To hear the children use 'appreciation' in their words is very rewarding. Discussions on healthy eating has emphasised the appreciation we have to live in a society that can provide us with fresh foods, clean water, warm clothes and treats and desserts. We will continue to focus on appreciation with our children as well as our other many focus areas of our Positive Living Skills program
We will have an Open Week from 2nd October to 5th October for families in the community who would like to take a tour of our centre for future enrolments. Times for tours are daily between 10-11 and 4-5pm. Please give us a call to book your tour in to visit our service.
Banbury Cottage
What a beautiful community of families we have here at Banbury Cottage. The Educators had a very heart warming moment as we celebrated International Day of Peace with a afternoon of reading in the yard. Parents were invited to join us with some books and we set our yard up into small pockets of reading areas, with mats, blankets, picnic umbrellas, large pillows, and lots of books. To walk out into our yard as a Director and see all our Preschool children sitting in the variety of reading areas with parents of our service warmed my heart, and possibly a tear was shed, a happy tear.
We are so grateful for the involvement of parents in our service events and giving their time to us. We are a multicultural centre, we have Educators from many cultures and our families at Banbury Cottage come from a huge variety of cultures, speak different languages, have different religions, and all have different child rearing practices, but we all have so much in common, especially the love for the children and respect for each other. We celebrate everyone at Banbury, and it is a beautiful feeling knowing that we are teaching the future generation on how to live as one, how to appreciate everyone's culture, how to respect each other, how to learn from each other and how to love one another.
We will have an Open Week from 2nd October to 5th October for families in the community who would like to take a tour of our centre for future enrolments. Times for tours are daily between 10-11 and 4-5pm. Please give us a call to book your tour in to visit our service.
Little Dolphins Long Day Care Centre
SPRING HAS SPRUNG! The children have been busy refurbishing our garden and planting different seasonal fruits and vegetables for our garden which we have been watering and caring for daily as we are excited to watch them grow. The children and educators have had a busy month and would like to thank all our families and volunteers within our community who helped us with our fundraising fun day in raising funds and awareness for the farmers who are currently facing hardship with the droughts. The Dounis Group Services: Rainbow Cottage, Banbury Cottage, Little Dolphins and Babyland raised over $600 for the farmers. The Positive Thinking Clinic will be running some self-empowerment workshops over the upcoming school holidays. The workshop allows the children to work on their mindfulness skills allowing them opportunities to experience how to calm their mind and body as well as feeling happier and confident. If you are interested in the workshop please click here.
PARENT INFORMATION
Biting
It can be a shock to find that your beautiful baby, raised in a loving and non-violent home, is biting playmates. But rest assured - many children go through a biting phase, and they do outgrow it.
Common reasons for biting include:
- Teething - usually in babies or younger toddlers;
- Curiosity - babies have no concept that their actions can hurt others, and may just be wondering what something tastes like;
- Frustration, anger, or feeling hurt - usually in children who do not have the language skills to express themselves verbally, or do not have the physical ability to get away from another child who has hurt them.
Biting can happen more often when a child is going through a major change, such as weaning, a new baby arriving in the family, or moving to a new house. Children also find it more difficult to control impulsive behaviour when they are tired or hungry.
Empathy is a difficult concept to grasp, and can take some time to learn. While biting will be outgrown with time, there are things you can do to help:
- In a younger baby who may be biting to soothe their gums or out of curiosity, a gentle "no" and offering a teething ring or toy will redirect the biting.
- For toddlers and preschoolers, it can help to identify triggers. Keep a note of the time the incident occurred, what happened immediately before the bite, how it was dealt with, and what happened after the incident.
- Look for patterns: is the child more likely to bite at the end of the day when they are tired? Do they bite most often in disputes over toys? These notes can also be useful in identifying the most effective way to react to the biting.
- Avoid situations where biting is most likely to occur. This may mean separating two children who tend to bite each other.
- Help your child learn appropriate ways to resolve disagreements or cope with frustration. Teach your child to say "stop!" while putting their hand up, and to ask for help from adults if they need to.
- Watch carefully when the child is playing with others. There is no need to intervene in every disagreement. But if a child looks as though they are about to bite rather than resolve the disagreement in an appropriate way, it is important to step in.
Responding to biting with physical discipline, such as biting the child back, is unlikely to help the situation. Instead of understanding how the other person felt when they were bitten, the child may learn that it is reasonable to bite when you are very angry.
As with many behavioural issues, consistency is key. Talk to your child care provider about how they react to biting incidents, and ensure that your methods are compatible.