Coonans Hill Early Learning Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Childcare service

Coonans Hill Early Learning Centre

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9383 3999

Address: 38A Coonans Road Pascoe Vale South 3044 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.coonanshillelc.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Thank you to all our families and educators who donated to WWF to support the Australian bush fire emergency. Together, we raised $269.85! This donation will go towards care for our injured wildlife, and when the fires clear, help restore the forest homes our koalas and other animals have lost

24.01.2022 January is always known for people Cleansing their homes and sheds before the new year starts. In Playground to Plate we like to practise what we preach and today we RECYCLED our plastic pots and all the plastic bags from our organic soil and mulch that we use in the gardens. ... Drop off your waste to Banyule Waste Management Center, East Brunswick Transfer Station or Moonee Valley Transfer Station. Bulleen Art and Garden accept your plastic potting mix and mulch bags. Happy Recycling

24.01.2022 The first BIG Harvest from our 3 year old Olive Trees at Coonans Hill ELC. They certainly didnt disappoint this year! Thank you to the people who volunteered their time to help me today ... We cant wait to taste them in a few months and we hope the children will enjoy them for lunch or afternoon tea.

23.01.2022 As part of our ongoing mission to be a sustainable centre, our Broad Beans room engaged in an up-cycle project. The children and educators had a discussion about how they could upcycle fabric scraps and what better way than to make a fabric bowl! The children were given a pair of scissors each and a small piece of fabric to cut up into squares and placed it into a large bowl. A bowl was covered in plastic wrap, where the children used glue to paste the fabric - paper mache style! Once the bowl had dried, the plastic was peeled off and the bowl stayed in shape, hence making a fabric bowl! What a fantastic way to up-cycle

23.01.2022 Look what Rachel found in the Garden today! Can you guess how much these Zucchinis weigh? You can make a Gold coin donation for a guess at the centre. Money raised will go to the Australian Childhood Foundation. Whoever guesses the closest wins a little produce pack from the garden Good luck!

21.01.2022 Well done and Thank you to the children in Playground to Plate that helped Plant a Tree for Planet Arks School national tree day this week. Planet Ark have been planting trees all over Australia on this special day since 1996 and have planted over 24 million Trees. Trees provide us with Fresh Air, Food and Shelter. Being amongst them and in nature provides us with a positive state of mental health and well being ... All the families can visit Shore Reserve to see the Eucalyptus Trees we planted in the small playground area. Look for the stakes with red paint on the top. A huge Thank you to Basil from the City of Moreland for providing the trees and locations. If you want to get involved visit https://treeday.planetark.org/get-involved/community for Tree Planting in your area Sunday 28th July.

21.01.2022 Holy Basil or better known as Tulsi is a sacred plant grown in every house in India. They are planted near the front door so when the wind blows it fills the house with the aroma. Its medicinal benefits are to heal a sore throat and to ward off any colds or flus. You can add the leaves to your tea or to a salad to enjoy. We will be using the leaves in our Summer Salad next week in Playground to Plate. Come and visit the plant growing in our gardens to have a smell and see all the bees buzzing around the flowers.

20.01.2022 The Bushfires across Australia as we know have devastatingly impacted countless Australians and Australian Wildlife. We are working with the talented Narrelle Cahill, our Centre Manager at our soon to open sister centre in Fitzroy who is an experienced sewer, to sew pouches for injured wildlife that have been affected by the devastating fires across Australia this Summer. How can you help? Please drop off any left over fabrics or material that you have at home to Coonans Hill... ELC by Friday 10 January to be sewn into pouches that will hopefully help our injured wildlife recover. These fabrics must be clean and in good condition. Narrelle and her team of experienced sewers will hold a sewing bee. The pouches will then be donated to a Wildlife Sanctuary in Diamond Creek that will work to distribute these pouches as necessary to the areas across Australia that need them most. Thank you so much for your help and our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected during this very difficult time.

20.01.2022 Were delighted to announce that were opening a new sister centre in Fitzroy early next year! Currently under construction and due for completion in Feb 2020, Fitzroy Early Learning Centre is conveniently located at 300 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy - just 1500 meters from Melbournes CBD and with great public transport at its doorstep! Follow us on Facebook & Instagram (@fitzoy_elc) for construction updates, information about special things happening and our opening night event...! Visit www.fitzroyelc.com.au to register if you or someone you know is looking for care for your child to commence 2020 - places are filling fast.

20.01.2022 Exciting News! As of July 1st Moreland City Council are taking fruit and vegetable scraps in your green bin. Over 50% of household waste is food Organics and fruit and vegetables that are in landfill give off a harmful methane gas that affects climate change. ... The council initiative compliments our Playground to Plate principals of REFUSING to add to landfill, REUSING the waste and RECYCLING it into compost to enrich the soils at our local parks, gardens and schools. Contact the council to get a bigger green bin or a new bin if you dont have one free of charge and a complimentary compost bin for your kitchen. #sustainableliving #refusereuserecycle #playgroundtoplate #coonanshillelc

20.01.2022 We love to garden! Today our Sprouts children planted some pumpkin seeds and rosemary. The children planted them in their special hand made pots that they painted last week. We cant wait to start to see our little plant friends grow!

19.01.2022 We’re delighted to announce that we’re opening a new sister centre in Fitzroy early next year! Currently under construction and due for completion in Feb 2020, Fitzroy Early Learning Centre is conveniently located at 300 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy - just 1500 meters from Melbourne’s CBD and with great public transport at its doorstep! Follow us on Facebook & Instagram (@fitzoy_elc) for construction updates, information about special things happening and our opening night event...! Visit www.fitzroyelc.com.au to register if you or someone you know is looking for care for your child to commence 2020 - places are filling fast.

18.01.2022 National Reconciliation Week runs annually from May 27th June 3rd. "At the heart of reconciliation is the relationship between the broader Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. National Reconciliation Week is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia." The 2019 theme is Grounded in Truth. Walk Together with Courage. This morning the children and educators gathered together as a service for an Acknowledgement of Country in commencing Reconciliation Week at Coonans Hill ELC.

18.01.2022 Rachel our Playground to PlateEducator made a delicious Zucchini Soup for her family using one of our Zucchini grown by the children in our Playground to Plate lesson as well as Organic Basil and Garlic grown at home What do you like to make with Zucchini?

18.01.2022 Happy NATIONAL RECYCLING WEEK Planet Ark started this week 24 years ago in 1996. It was started to bring a national focus to the environmental benefits of recycling. Never more important than now due to Climate Change, it continues to educate and stimulate behaviour change for people at home, work and school. To celebrate, we organised an Incursion for Playground to Plate this week. Thank you to Moreland City Council we invited Veida from Envirocom to share with the child...ren different ways to recycle their rubbish. It was a fun lesson and we learnt some cool names for our recyclable rubbish such a Gloria the Glass Jar! The children in Broad Beans ended the lesson by singing their Recycle song that they have learnt in class, what a great song and message they delivered. Happy Recycling and remember the 7 Rs to Zero Waste..... REFUSE REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE REPURPOSE REPLANT and ROT (Compost)

18.01.2022 At Coonans Hill ELC we believe that by creating an inclusive and inviting environment for the children, we are able to promote their holistic development. In the Broad Beans room the educators have put together an animal area as this is a high interest within the room. The children engage with this play place at their pleasure and express their creativity and imagination as they develop their own play.

17.01.2022 Did you know that you cant catch a cold from going to bed with wet hair? And giving your child vitamins, supplements or antibiotics wont prevent them from cat...ching a cold either. Paediatricians Dr Anthea Rhodes and Dr Sarah McNab discuss the latest RCH Poll findings about preventing colds in kids and knowing what works. https://bit.ly/2MDi0Op See more

17.01.2022 As an extension of our Playground to Plate Food Garden Program, our Acorns room made Japanese Okonomiyaki by incorporating ingredients they harvested from our beautiful garden. The children engaged in an experience where they were able to cut their own vegetables, building on important real life skills. Cooking with children helps them build on fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and early concepts of math and science. ... What do you cook with your children at home?

15.01.2022 Playground to Plate will not continue lessons during the school holidays so we can plan for Term 2 and prepare and maintain the gardens around the centre. We had a working bee with other Playground to Plate Educators this week to prepare for our Autumn/Winter vegetable garden. What vegetables would you like to see growing?

14.01.2022 Were delighted to invite our families for an afternoon of fun and activities in the new year when we open our brand new sister centre, Fitzroy Early Learning Centre. If you or someone you know is still waiting for care, places are still available for early 2020. Register Now at www.fitzroyelc.com.au to avoid missing out. Fitzroy ELC is conveniently located at 300 Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy - just 1500 metres from Melbournes CBD. Perfect for Mums and Dads that work in the city.

14.01.2022 Congratulations Cath Conte on guessing the correct weight of the Zucchini. One was 3kg and the other 2.9kg Well Done Please come and collect your basket of fresh produce from the centre.

13.01.2022 Our Seeds children collaboratively worked together to create this amazing fireplace play area using recycled materials. How beautiful

13.01.2022 We are excited to announce Coonans Hill Early Learning Centre is now part of the Only About Children family. New owners, same great team! Visit our page Only About Children Early Learning to learn more!

12.01.2022 Happy National Composting Week The children and Rachel conducted a compost experiment in Playground to Plate this week to celebrate. You can see the Experiment in your childs room. Composting ROT is one of the 7 Rs that we should practice each week to build a sustainable future

12.01.2022 Our Coonans Hill Early Learning Centre Street Library is officially up and running! Located near the entrance to the centre, on the left side of the doors, we have placed our Street Library which contains a variety of books. A Street Library is essentially a mini collection of books where people are encouraged to take, share and give books that they no longer need. We invite you all to reach into our Street Library to share the joys of reading. You can take what may interest... you, then choose to return or exchange for another book. We would also love for our community to donate books, if you have a book that you think others would enjoy, just pop it into our Street Library. We are so excited to share this with our community

11.01.2022 What a bumper crop of Tomatoes we are having in the Playground to Plate garden. We will be making a delicious Summer Salad for a lesson in a few weeks.

10.01.2022 We're delighted to invite our families for an afternoon of fun and activities in the new year when we open our brand new sister centre, Fitzroy Early Learning Centre. If you or someone you know is still waiting for care, places are still available for early 2020. Register Now at www.fitzroyelc.com.au to avoid missing out. Fitzroy ELC is conveniently located at 300 Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy - just 1500 metres from Melbourne's CBD. Perfect for Mums and Dads that work in the city.

08.01.2022 To our valued families, children and the broader Pascoe Vale South community, wed like to let you know that Coonans Hill Early Learning Centre has recently been acquired by Only About Children (Oac). The transition between Advance Childcare and Only About Children is currently taking place with full operation by Oac to commence as of March 2 2020. We are very grateful to our families, educators and the broader community for all your support over the years and we wish you all the very best in your onward journey with Only About Children.

07.01.2022 We at Coonans Hill Early Learning Centre like to practise and endorse sustainable living. REDcycle is a Melbourne based initiative that helps to reduce soft plastic going to landfill. By putting your soft plastic in a REDcycle bin at Coles or Woolworths we are making a change for our planet To participate in Plastic Free July we will be collecting soft plastic from the Kitchen and Families at CHELC. Place your soft plastic in the basket at reception and we will place i...t in a REDcyle bin at the end of the month. We would love your support in this important challenge. See more

06.01.2022 In Playground to Plate today we were lucky enough to have Morgan from Bee Sustainable come in to talk to the children about Bees and Beekeeping. Did you know Bees only live for 6 weeks and only collect honey in the last 2 weeks of their lives! Also one beehive produces 50kg of honey a year, wow!

06.01.2022 Sanjeev and Anna sharing their bread baking skills with staff and parents today. Do you bake your own bread at home?

05.01.2022 From our team at Coonans Hill Early Learning Centre, we would like to wish our children, families and community a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Years! We look forward to what 2020 is going to bring

04.01.2022 Today we celebrated Diwali which is a 5-day Festival of Lights in honor of Rama-Chandra. The children all had so much fun dancing and learning new Indian dance moves and so did our educators! Thank you to Sher from BhangraFit for helping us celebrate! Here is a glimpse of all the fun

04.01.2022 Mmmm the Sweet Potato Fritters were popular this week during our Playground to Plate lessons. I even had requests for the recipe from the children! Sweet Potatoes are full of Vitamin C and Magensium and are an Anti Inflammatory Root Vegetable. Funny enough they are not related to the humble potato and instead come from the Morning Glory Family ... If you want to grow your own, plant them using a tuber or seedling in November and they will be ready to Harvest in Winter next year. Happy Gardening #playgroundtoplate

02.01.2022 The children enjoyed an afternoon tea eating our Organic Cucumbers Harvested straight from the garden today yummo #PlaygroundtoPlate

02.01.2022 As part of our efforts to educate our children on the importance of recycling, our children have been working on a collaborative art piece for the past couple of months that was displayed at the Waterways and Plastics Childrens Art Exhibition through Moreland City Council. The children and educators explored the effects of plastic waste on our environment. We would like to thank our children for their participation in creating an amazing art piece all made out of plastics that were donated to the service by our community!

01.01.2022 A massive thank you to all our families who donated to the Toy and Book Appeal, supporting The Smith Family. The Smith Family Toy and Book Appeal provides us an opportunity to help bring smiles to the faces of disadvantaged children this Christmas

01.01.2022 In keeping with their tradition of Friday cooking classes, the Kindergarten children in our Vines room made fresh homemade focaccia on Friday last week! Our Vines children have been expressing their desire to cook something to take home and share with their families, so they picked some fresh parsley, oregano and rosemary from our Playground to Plate Garden to add to their focaccia. The children had the opportunity to talk about measurements and they learnt about yeast and... its reaction to sugar and water. They were amazed to observe the change and watch it rise to the top of the cup. Once the dough was made, they left it to rest for half an hour. Wow! was all we could hear from the children - they were so excited when they saw that the dough had doubled in volume after resting. Our amazing chef Anna went on to help the children lay the focaccia dough onto different trays. The children had the opportunity to watch Anna and ask her questions, such as Why are you making it flat? & How long will it take to cook?. Once the focaccia was ready the children helped to cut it into squares and placed it on a tray for their families to taste. Well done Vines

01.01.2022 On Saturday night, our amazing team went to the Advance Childcare Awards Night. Together we celebrated our achievemens and the wonderful year that weve had. Congratulations to all of our award winners! Rising Star Award Runner up Megan Winner Suleyha... Outstanding Leader Award Runner up Laura Winner Enza Educator of the Year Award Runner up Adna Winner May Leader in Innovation Winner - Georgia Our Centre won the Teamwork and Collaboration award for demonstrated improvement in community engagement as well as practices and procedures. A massive thank you to all the families and educators that voted. We look forward to what 2020 is going to bring!