This is Vivienne, our family and community development worker based at South Yarra. The diversity in Australian early childhood settings is growing every day: there are currently almost 400 languages spoken in Australia with 16% of the population speaking a language other than English at home. As well as cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity, [...]
Every Thursday at 11:00 o’clock at Mernda Villages we have Talk and Tea! Talk and Tea is all about making our suburbs feel more like neigbourhoods. It is all about the philosophy that there is no such thing as a stranger. We never think of ourselves as a stranger, but everyone else does. So often, [...]
Playford Children’s Centre staff was so inspired by the professional development day in January 2017 held at CERES that they created a recycle station for each room, installed a compost bin and reinstated their worm farm. Australians throw out $8 billion worth of edible food every year and most of this goes into landfill! Composting [...]
Australia provides children with just 15 hours of preschool per week for 40 weeks in the year before school. That guarantee runs out in December 2017. New Zealand fully funds the first 20 hours of early childhood education for all three and four year olds. The UK provides 15 hours of free early education for [...]
