Smiles 4 Miles Award

Guess who has received their SMILES 4 MILES AWARD? YES! EAST SALE KINDERGARTEN has!

"Congratulations on the great work you & your team did in promoting oral health to your students. You have shown great enthusiasm for encouraging your children to eat healthy foods, drink water & brush well"


How exciting for us!

Shirley Fyfe

Wellington Shire - PARENT DIRECTORY

The Wellington Shire Early Years - Parent Directory has finally been released - it is jam packed full of Information & resources to help families connect with their local community!

A limited number of HARDCOPY editions are available at East Sale Kindergarten OR you can choose to download the ELECTRONIC BOOK version which has inbuilt links that with one click; will connect you to the service you are looking for!

 

To download the electronic version visit www.ucgipps.org.au & follow the links to the Parent Directory OR simply just click HERE.

 

If you do download the electronic version, Wellinton Best Start welcomes your feedback & ideas. A short survey has been developed to help gather feedback about the Directory and ways it can be better improved! You can access the survey HERE.

Shirley Fyfe

Strong Foundations Conference

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

Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge

Did you know that The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open to children of all ages!

Families & Early Childhood Professionals are being encouraged to share the joy of reading with young children EVERY DAY!

The challenge for young children is to read 40 books – or have 40 books read to them! Children who successfully complete the Challenge will receive a Certificate of Achievement at the end of the year & have the opportunity to have their names published on the Achievers Honour Roll in 'The Age' newspaper.

 

You can find out more information & register your child by visiting The Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge here!

Upcoming Events!

Our 'Upcoming Events' section in the left hand column has been updated with a list of our planned Incursions & Excursions for this term.

Make sure you check back regularly to see the additional events that will be added once more details are confirmed!

NEW MULCH!

A very big thank-you to all those families & extra helpers who assisted with the spreading of new Playground Mulch about our very vast outdoor area last week!

 

It looks absolutely amazing & the children love how spongey the bark area now feels as they run around on it!

Without everyone's valuable help, the task would have taken a great deal longer to get completed, so thank-you one and all!

 

Mrs. Fyfe, Mrs. Murray & Denise

INFORMATION NIGHT

The annual Information Night for East Sale Kindergarten will be held on Wednesday November 14th from 7pm!

 

Come along & hear all about our 2013 Kindergarten Year & collect your child's Enrolment Information Pack!

• What hours is East Sale Kindergarten operating in 2013?
• How will the sessions be run & by whom?
• When will my child start Kindergarten & what will they need to bring?

Come along on Wednesday November 14th at 7pm to here the answers to all these questions & more!

 

We look forward to seeing you then!

NO KINDERGARTEN - Melbourne Cup!

Don't foget that East Sale Kindergarten will be closed on Tuesday November 6th for the Melbourne Cup Public Holiday!

 

We hope everyone has a very enjoyable day whatever they may be doing!

Another NEW ADDITION!

Well - we decided not to wait - the second new addition to the East Sale Kindergarten Blog has been added!  Again, just scroll down a little on the left hand side and you should see something that looks like this!

We've created & added an Indoor Environment Slideshow which showcases a wide variety of the wonderful learning opportunities that we provide for the children in our care!  Stay tuned for more images to be continually added!

For those of you who may not be able to visit our Centre just at the moment, we hope that this will be a way for you to gain a little insight into what East Sale Kindergarten is all about AND what we can offer to you & your child!

A NEW ADDITION!

Have you seen our new addition to the East Sale Kindergarten Blog?  Just scroll down on the left hand side a little bit and you should see something that looks a little like this!

We've created & added an Outdoor Environment Slideshow which we hope is a way to showcase our wonderful spacious outdoor environment with our readers!

We do have intentions of creating an Indoor Environment Slideshow as well, so stay tuned for that announcement in the very near future too!

For those of you who may not be able to visit our Centre just at the moment, we hope that this will be a way for you to gain a little insight into what East Sale Kindergarten is all about AND what we can offer to you & your child!

ENROLMENTS

Don't forget that Enrolments into our 3 & 4 Year Old Programs for 2013 have now commenced.  It is essential that you get your child's Enrolment Form to UnitingCare Gippsland as soon as possible to ensure that your child will have a place in one of our Kindergarten Programs in 2013.

2013 will see East Sale Kindergarten operate the following programs:

• 4 Year Old Program - Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday - 9am until 2pm
• 3 Year Old Program - Friday - 9am until 1pm

Download our INFORMATION PAMPHLET!

PLEASE REMEMBER - East Sale Kindergarten Enrolments will close on August 31st, 2012.  Please get your child's Enrolment Form in as soon as possible to avoid disappointment - places will be offered to eligible children in order of receipt, so it's important once you have collected & completed your child's Enrolment Form - get it sent in to UnitingCare Gippsland to avoid having your child placed on our 2013 Waiting List!

EAST SALE KINDERGARTEN - OPEN DAY

East Sale Kindergarten will hold its annual Open Day on Monday 23^rd July from 12 midday until 2pm.

Catering for both Defence Force families & those from Sale & surrounding areas, we encourage you to come for a drive out to the RAAF Base at East Sale and have a look around our centre and find out about our 3 & 4 Year Old Kindergarten Program operation for 2013.

Download our INFORMATION PAMPHLET

Make sure you bring your child/ren along to our Open Day because they can have a jump in the Jumpin Around Jumping Castle from - http://www.jumpinaround.com.au - that will be available on the day too!  They're sure to have a wonderful time!

We look forward to seeing you at the East Sale Kindergarten Open Day on Monday 23rd July from 12 midday until 2pm.

For more information you can contact East Sale Kindergarten on 03 5146 6723.

Welcome to 2012!

A new Kindergarten year is about to get underway and we would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!  We are certain that 2012 is going to be an amazing year at East Sale Kindergarten!

We'll start the year by being able to show off our newly renovated bathroom & locker area!  The work that has been done since the beginning of the year has been amazing - our tired & rundown bathroom was more or less ripped out with new fixtures, flooring & lockers being installed.  It looks amazing - we can't wait to share it with you!

There's also been a lot of work taking place on the exterior of our building too - some general repairs here & there and a fresh coat of paint!  East Sale Kindergarten is certainly getting a new lease of life!

We have some fantastic ideas of things we'd like to see at East Sale Kindergarten and we look forward to discussing these with our Family Support Group over the course of this year!  Who knows what we can achieve by the end of 2012 - like we said, it's going to be an amazing year!

We look forward to sharing our revitalised Kindergarten environment with you very soon!

Annual General Meeting

Please be advised that the East Sale Kindergarten will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday November 9th at 7pm.

At 6.45pm, a Special General Meeting will be held to announce the de-incorporation of the Kindergarten Committee and thereafter the operation of the East Sale Kindergarten will continue as an un-incorporated body.

Also, in line with the Victorian Early Years Learning & Development Framework, a review and adoption of our new Centre Philosophy will also be taking place.

We look forward to your attendance!

Welcome to Term 4!

Here we go . . . Term 4 is underway!  Can you believe it?  Here's hoping everyone enjoyed a wonderful relaxing break!  Over the holidays, Mrs Phillpotts, Mrs. Murray & Myself had a big clean-up in one of our Kindergarten storage sheds and you'd be surprised at what wonderful treasures we discovered - well - yes, there were some things that we didn't consider to be such wonderful treasures BUT we are looking forward to sharing some of the good stuff with your children over the remainder of the year!

It is our aim that through the East Sale Kindergarten Blog you'll not only be kept updated with things that are going on within our environment BUT also some of the daily learning that your child is experiencing too!

We're adding information about the Early Years Learning Framework - including the 8 Practice Principles that underpin our Early Childhood Education and also the 5 Learning Outcomes we work towards with each & every child in our care.

We hope you find this *new* format of communication interesting & beneficial and we do look forward to hearing your feedback in the coming weeks!  Please feel free to let Kim or myself know of things that may be of interest to you OR that you would like to see us feature!

Mrs. Fyfe