Today, just after 7am, all the staff at East Sale Kindergarten ventured off to Warragul to attend the annual UnitingCare Gippsland - Strong Foundations In Early Childhood Education Conference.
Attending the conference, was a wonderful opportunity for our staff to network with other professionals & to hear from a wide variety of speakers on a diverse range of topics.
Our MC for the day was Libbi Gorr - ABC Radio - who brought a wonderful candour & humour to the day AND our Morning Guest Speaker was Professor Margaret Sims who spoke about her research interest focussed around quality community-based services for children & families.
Morning Concurrent Sessions were held prior to morning tea - Shirley attended Planning for Resilience with Professor Margaret Sims; Rosanna & Kim attended Music In An Inclusive Environment with Louise Dorrat & Denise attended Learning Stones Project with John Murray.
Afternoon Concurrent Sessions were held after lunch - Shirley & Kim attended Embedding Quality with Catharine Hydon; Rosanna attended Building Children's Resilience with Louise Dorrat & Denise attended Creating A Circle Of Security with Jenny Enter & Sara Janssen.
Each of the concurrent sessions provided staff with a mixture of ideas & concepts to reflect on in our daily practice as Early Childhood Educators. In fact, quite a bit of that reflection & discussion about the day took place on the journey back home! *grin*
Our Afternoon Keynote Speaker was Michael Grose who spoke most entertainingly about Parenting & Raising Kids To Thrive. I've included some information about Michael's website at the bottom of this post as I believe a number of our families might find it very useful.
Following the Panel Discussion, Evaluation & Farewell we all then made the journey back home, arriving in Sale at about 6pm. It had been a wonderful (but long) day of socialisation, networking, information & reflection AND we all look forward to introducing aspects from it all into our daily work here at East Sale Kindergarten!
FOR FAMILIES
Michael Grose has a wonderful website - Parenting Ideas - Raising Exceptional Kids & from there you can find him on Facebook or Twitter, link through to his Blog, subscribe to his Happy Kids Newsletter (which is a fantastic parenting resource) & even link through to his shop to access a wide range of resources about raising happy & confident children - something that I'm sure each & every one of us want to do!
Shirley Fyfe
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