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Cranebrook Community Pre School

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 4729 0383

Address: 72-74 Laycock Street Cranebrook NSW 2749 Sydney, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 We are so proud our super PT Team who are five sessions into their six week challenge. Yesterday with the heat we experienced our first pool session which was super fun. If you would like to join in for our next challenge, keep your eye out and get in fast. Don’t let children stop you, there are more than welcome to come and play or join in. ... Well done team!!!!

25.01.2022 TODAY’S GIVEAWAY Today we have a giveaway for the parents or the children. We are giving away a $50 Hoyts Voucher.... The winner will be drawn at 5.30pm this afternoon and the prize will be ready for pick up tomorrow morning from 7.30am To enter: 1. Like and follow the @cranebrookcommunitypreschool page so you can see if you are the winner. 2. Share the post. 3. Tag 3 friends. You’ve got to be in it to win it!

24.01.2022 What a beautiful frame ‘ as parents, we need to find the magic’. Please read this beautifully read article. It is all directed towards Mindful and Attachment Parenting. This is how we care at Preschool and how we soothe young hearts in their moments of needing care and comfort.

24.01.2022 Just a few of the gorgeous set ups ready for tomorrow.

23.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS!! Our Youfoodz and Nepean Aquatic Centre and Eva Borys winners have been drawn. The winners for the one weeks supply of Youfoodz are:... Hayley Ledbrook @ Jodie Victoria Neal The winners for the 10 pass aqua aerobics passes are: Kel Wilmot Hayleigh-Marie Thomas A big congratulations. Please send us a private message and we will help you organise your prizes. Just wait for our next giveaway... you are going to love it

23.01.2022 Enjoying their beautiful new playground Thank you Stuart Ayres and Eco Lawns Australia Synthetic Grass 0247 021 149

23.01.2022 A big thank you to the beautiful Mary and Rothana for coming into the centre last Friday to speak to the children as part of our NAIDOC week celebrations. Rothana and Mary are family to one of our Blue Gum children. They kindly presented a slide show to the Blue Gums, which was all about their Torres Strait Islander culture and family history. The children learnt about their language, the land and sea on which their family have lived, hunting and the food they eat, and tradit...ional dress and dances. Thank you so much to Rothana and Mary for sharing your incredible story with us. #NAIDOCWeek2020 #TorresStraitIslander #mamaloveconnect

23.01.2022 Enjoying a beautiful spring day.

22.01.2022 Introducing our amazing team Personal Trainer Claire Muller. Claire started training the CCPS team least week and we all had a ball! She was the absolute professional by easing us into training and supporting our individual needs. Lots of laughs, fun, support and getting healthy together. ... Keep your eye out for some fun pics of our team training on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Thank you so much Claire for a great week 1! #teamsthattraintogethetstaytogether

22.01.2022 Nothing like a Tuesday Disco with our fabulous Ed Leader Miss Kerri-Anne. The children have been enjoying learning songs from all different genres. Miss KA is such a groover!

21.01.2022 This is so awesome!

21.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS RENEE LIDDALL A big congratulations to Renee Liddall for winning the $50 Lollipops school holiday voucher!! Be sure to be online tomorrow to see what we have to giveaway!!... Thank you Lollipops Playland Penrith for your voucher and to Miss Emily for drawing out draw winner

19.01.2022 $50 HOYTS VOUCHER A big congratulations to Karlie Fell who is the winner of our $50 Hoyts Voucher today! Stay tuned for what we are giving away tomorrow

19.01.2022 Sharing something for all the Mama’s today. You are not alone

18.01.2022 This is a little bit what Friday night Occupational Therapy and Educator brain storming sessions look like. Watch this space... we have something super exciting coming to the Educator space!

18.01.2022 Miss Louise and Miss KA having a sing of one of the Blue Gum favourites.

18.01.2022 Each Wednesday evening the team come together to learn, share, discuss ideas and explore new ways to support the children, families and one another. This evening some of the team members had a turn at training the other staff in our in house policies. In particular, the social media policy, accident/injury/trauma, administering of medication and emergency evacuation policy. We ran through strategies and case management plans for children requiring additional support and ide...as on how staff support each other throughout the day. We also talked about the book the Rainbow fish and how Miss Kerri-Anne once write to the author to discuss questions from the children. We would love to include families on the topics we cover in our team meetings to give you a little insight as to what the team get you to in order to provide a personalised care and education plan for each child. This week we shared pizza together and we were excited to meet our new personal trainer Claire who will be coming along three afternoons per week to train group PT with the team.

17.01.2022 SCHOOL HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY EVERY DAY With the last few school holidays being not so fun with covid... we have teamed up with some of our rocking local businesses and we are giving something away EVERY SINGLE DAY of the school holidays. We will have vouchers from your favourite venues to take your little kids, big kids and there will be some adult rest and relaxation thrown in the mix as well.... You better be following on @cranebrookcommunitypreschool on facebook to watch and enter each days giveaway. Giveaways will be put on no later than 10am each morning and will be drawn at 7pm each night on our Facebook page. Prizes can be picked up at the centre the following morning from 7.30am. Share share share with your friends because YOU’VE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!

17.01.2022 The Cherry Blossom’s working on a special gardening Christmas project

16.01.2022 LOOK WHAT IS COMING THIS WEEK We are so excited for our outdoor kitchen’s to arrive. Friday is the day! Here’s to lots of sandpit pretend play, cooking and mud kitchen fun.

15.01.2022 Story time in the Cherry Blossom room. The children have been enjoying Thelma the Unicorn. Stay turned to hear Miss a Emily read this one live in FB tomorrow.

14.01.2022 A big thank you to Samantha from Donuts by Design for our Friday treat! Donuts By Design

14.01.2022 TEAM TRAINING The CCPS team are one week our their 3 x’s per week training regime with new PT Claire. For us, we aren’t training to be skinny (well maybe a little bit) but mostly we are training to be: - Physically fit. ... - Improve our range of motion. - For our mental health. - For bone density and to take care of our bodies. Lifting and keeping up with children is a physically and emotionally taxing role and we take it very seriously. This is part of our professional development personally and as a team. We are so excited to be embarking on this journey to help us do our jobs better and as always we have lot of fun together for some team bonding. We are also super proud that we can do this as a team and to be able to provide this as another employee benefit. A big thank you to Claire our new PT, we are so glad we found you. Check out her page below and give her a follow to keep up with our journey. https://www.facebook.com/toneup.trimdown/

14.01.2022 Last week we said goodbye to our old dinted and faded soft fall and hello to our beautiful new Astro Turf. Next week we are having our sandpit topped up and in weeks to come our new blinds installed. A huge thank you to Aaron and the team at Eco Lawns Australia Synthetic Grass 0247 021 149 for bringing this beautiful new yard and to Stuart Ayres for the funding to help our play ground dream come to life

13.01.2022 Look what is coming to Preschool Silk worms!! We cannot wait

12.01.2022 LUNCH BOX SUGGESTION COMPETITON We are currently looking for some amazing lunch box ideas and recipes to put in our 2021 parent hand book. We are calling out for 10 creative snacks and 10 simple but yummy main lunch recipes to go into our booklet. ... We have two main prizes which are free coffee vouchers for you and a friend for the two winners of the most favourite recipe. To enter, comment YES below and write your recipe in a private message to our inbox and if you can provide a photo, if not that’s ok. If you have a friend who you know is super creative, tag them because we would love the whole community to be part of this fun little competition. Our recipes will be available by email for all the community from the 30th of October.

12.01.2022 Continuing with our Sea theme. Miss A enjoying experimenting with the different sounds of the ocean coming from the different size shells

11.01.2022 Take #342a while Miss Emily laughs through each attempt! Looking forward to seeing the finished result of this book reading video today

11.01.2022 SCHOOL HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY DAY 1 Our very first school holiday giveaway is a $50 voucher for some fun on us! The draw will be drawn this afternoon at 5.30pm and the voucher will be ready for pick up tomorrow morning from 7.30am... To enter: 1. Like and follow the @cranebrookcommunitypreschool Facebook page so you can see if you have won at the end of the day. 2. Tag 3 friends. 3. Share the post. GOOD LUCK!!! https://www.facebook.com/Lollipops-Playland-Cafe-Penrith-105502699494492/

11.01.2022 Over the next four weeks we will be providing parents with information based on age appropriate play and development. In the lead up to Parent / Teacher catch ups, it would be great if you could pop a list of goals together for your child based on the information we send out on Kinderloop. We have completed developmental check lists for each little one for the term and we are keen to hear your feedback and the things you would like us to focus on in term 2. ... In terms of play, many parents are curious about how a child’s play develops. The images above show a really nice explanation for each age group from the early stages of play right up to after a child starts kindergarten. Some children if they have additional needs may play at a younger stage but this is ok. It’s important as Educators that we adjust our experiences to every child’s individual stage and we can help families with ideas and strategies at home with regards to how to develop play with siblings or between child and parent. We hope you find this information over the coming weeks helpful and we look forward to seeing you all in your individual parent/teacher catch ups Photo credit: Stepping stones :)

11.01.2022 Compost Worm Farm On Tuesday some of the Blue Gum children worked hard in the yard to set up our new compost word farm kindly donated by Bunnings North Penrith. As you can see it wasn’t real team effort with Miss Louise leading the experience with her trusty Bunnings sun hat. ... The children worked hard to help Miss Louise with following the instructions, gathering what was needed and using lovely listening ears when it was each person’s turn to ask a question. We look forward to showing you lots of updates on our compost worm farm. Bunnings Warehouse Australia

10.01.2022 YOUFOODZ and AQUA FIT GIVEAWAY We are working on creative ways to help the community look after themselves from the inside out. We thought what a great way to combine to of our favourite things at Mamalove and CCPS... YOUFOODZ and our friends at Nepean Aquatic Centre. ... On the 1st of March we will have 2 tasty and nutritious filled packs of food to giveaway. Each pack contains: - 5 breakfasts. - 5 lunches. - 5 dinners. - Snacks for each day. We also have 2 x 10 Aqua fit passes to give away to people wanting to improve their fitness, move their body during their pregnancy or to simply have a fun hobby. To enter follow the instructions below: 1. Comment with YOUFOODZ OR NAC OR BOTH so we know which prize you would love the most. 2. Tag 5 friends. 3. Like and share the post. We hope you all love this draw and the message of wellness we are hoping to spread through our beautiful community. Good luck everyone!!! Nepean Aquatic Centre and Eva Borys Youfoodz

09.01.2022 We would like to sincerely thank all the team at Artep cleaning services for their quick response to our big outbreak last week. We know many services and schools in the area have had this terrible big and we feel so awful for all the Children, Educator’s and Families who have been sick. We are working with other centres in our local area and NSW Health to ensure we are on top of infection control and we highly recommend Artep cleaning. ... Thank you for helping us help keep our community safe

09.01.2022 A few experiences from earlier in the week. A huge thank you to all the Educators for always putting in such thought to the program.

08.01.2022 Nothing like a beautiful spring day to have lunch outside

08.01.2022 Following our Sea theme, the Cherry Blossom room experimented with shells. The children placed the shells up to their ears to hear the different sounds. The children were fascinated by what they heard and where the sound was coming from.

07.01.2022 Story shared with parent permission Miss Z featured in these photos is 2 years and 11 months old. Apart from being inquisitive, caring, kind and a force to be reckoned with when her older sibling is around, Miss Z has a diagnosis of Verbal Dyspraxia and mild whole body Dyspraxia. Typically by now, Miss Z should be using words, small sentences and be able to express herself using her words. Until this little one tries to speak, you would never know she has a diagnosed dis...ability because this little champion understands every word said, follows instructions and is incredibly independent. So what is Dyspraxia? Dyspraxia is a disorder of movement and coordination in which messages sent from the brain to the muscles are interrupted. It is often identified in early childhood, but can also come on later in life after an illness or an injury. Typically in other settings Miss Z may fall under the radar however we work really hard at finding ways for children like Miss Z to express herself other than using her words when she feels she needs to have some time out. For children who have a disability, communicating, managing their regulation and keeping it together can be really tricky. We have had an OT and Psychologist coming to the centre for quite some time now but as part of the Mamalove Program and the extensive experience of our Educational leader, we are quite skilled at splitting up our day to give children just like Miss Z the perfect opportunity to thrive but catering to their individual needs. So what does Miss Z’s day look like? - Joining in to the inclusive program. - Daily one on one therapy practice with staff. These are strategies and goals put in place collaborately by our mini multi disciplinary team with our OT, Psych, Ed leader, Parents and Mamalove Coordinator. - OT. One per week. - Psychology ( when needed). - Break out time to create and communicate in other ways than using words. We are so grateful to be able to cater for children like Miss Z. All of these additional services are free of charge to parents and are paid for by the Mamalove Connect program. Inclusion, intervention and Intergration are the three I’s we pride ourselves on at Cranebrook Community Preschool. Thank you to children like Miss Z who help us grow as Educator’s and as a service every single day. #dyspraxia #dyspraxiaawareness #inclusion #cranebrookcommunitypreschool #additionalneedsmatter #changinglives

07.01.2022 A couple of cutie from our Cherry Blossom room last week. Our babies love their outdoor play!

06.01.2022 Happy Monday! Just a quick reminder to our families that we have the StEPS Vision Screening happening at our centre from 9.30am-11.30am, this Thursday 19th November. If your child is 4 or over and you would like to them to receive a free vision screening (no eye drops used) then please ask one of our staff members for a consent form and ensure you bring it back by Thursday. This is a free, NSW Health Initiative. See below information about the program and as always, if you ha...ve any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch. The Statewide Eyesight Preschooler Screening (StEPS) Program is an initiative of the NSW Dept. of Health and offers all 4 year old children a free vision screening assessment. It is highly recommended that all children ages 4 and upward participate in the vision screening program as many vision problems remain undetected unless a child is screened by a trained professional. The StEPS program will be coming out to the centre next Thursday 19th November for a 2 hour period (9.30am-11.30am). Each screening will take approximately 10 minutes per child and will be performed by specialist StEPS Program staff employed by Nepean Blue Mountain Local Health District. Your child's vision will be screened one eye at a time and no drops will be used. All parents/carers of children screened will be informed of the results of the vision screening assessment and these results are confidential. If you would like your child to receive a free vision screening assessment then please ask Louise for a consent form, which can be collected in person at the centre. For more information on the program please copy & paste the following link in your web browser: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au//Publicat/steps-brochure.pdf Thank you, The CCPS Team.

06.01.2022 Discovering child lead interests from exploration of the outdoors is one of the most exciting parts of the day. Today the children found some new life in the yard and made a home for their new friends. The fun part for us... extending on this experience

06.01.2022 We love when families come along to Preschool and get to spend time with each other. Miss M and Mr T enjoying some cousin fun

05.01.2022 Spring is here To celebrate the gorgeous flowers of spring, last week Miss Scotia brought in some beautiful flowers from her home. The children experimented with the flowers with Playdough, making their own arrangements and threading to make their own creations.

05.01.2022 Christmas Santa Photos & Light Display Covid safe!... We are really excited to announce that we will be having Santa photos are the Centre this year. This will be something we will run for our families as a priority and if there are additional spots left, for the community as well. We will have Christmas light displays and parents and local businesses will have stalls set up with beautiful unique gifts for families people to browse and purchase while their children have their photos. Our talented Centre Photographer's Miss Sarah and Miss Louise have kindly offered to take photos and families will be sent unlimited photos via email for them to print out for a small donation of $5. Time slots will be for 15 minutes per family and will be available between 3pm and 6pm on Saturday 5th, 12th and 19th of December. The Santa's all have a working with children's check and they will be the husbands of Miss Emily, Miss Laura and Mel James. We will have a beautiful Christmas set in the Annex area to keep everyone Covid safe and entry will be via the side gate. Temperature checking and scanning of the QR code to Covid tracking will be essential upon entry as we are a Covid safe business. If you are interested in a Family Santa Photo, please comment below with: 1. Child / Families name. 2. Preferred date and time. Time slots will be on on the hour and every fifteen minutes. eg 3pm, 3.15pm. 3.30pm etc. Please pop your name down as it will be first in best dressed.

04.01.2022 At Preschool we are serious about sun safety... but not so serious that we can’t have a bit of fun. This Spring and Summer, the team at CCPS will be sporting their Bunnings Warehouse Australia hats to have safe fun in the sun and to support our wonderful local store. Please remember to send a wide brimmed hat with your little ones to Preschool to make sure we keep everyone safe from the sun Bunnings Warehouse Australia

03.01.2022 Today we had a couple of special surprises arrive for our beautiful team. This group of women are some of the amazing team who run the in’s and out’s of the daily operations of the Preschool. They wipe tears, clean, sort clothes, change nappies, , know everything child’s individual needs, console emotions, educate, strategise for additional needs all whilst following the national law and regulations and following the EYLF. The community put their children in the care of the service and it is this core group of spectacular ladies who ensure everything for each of the 39 children on site are looked after consistently and cared for unconditionally every single day. A big thank you for all you do and a special mention to The Bloom Room Richmond for always delivering such gorgeous arrangements.

03.01.2022 LITTLE KICKERS IS BACK! Covid - 19 really put the breaks on our extra curricular programs but we are thrilled to announce that Little Kickers is back on Wednesday’s from week 1 term 4. Get ready to see our extra curricular program for 2021! It’s pretty exciting ... Everyone give a shout out and say a big welcome back to coach Ahmad. Head over to Elisa and Ahmad’s little kicker FB page and give them a follow to see the fabulous program they will be delivering at the Preschool. https://www.facebook.com/littlekickerspenrith/

03.01.2022 The children have been experimenting in the garden ove the last few weeks. We have been picking flowers, creating arrangements and exploring everything about spring. This little man was telling Miss Sarah all about his Nan who has big flowers which promotes this hunt for flowers in our yard. Such a beautiful extension of the child’s interest and also fitting in with our current intentional teaching themes.

03.01.2022 We are in the process of booking our programs and incursions for 2021! If you run an amazing child related business and want regular ongoing work, drop us a line or comment with your business name below.

02.01.2022 HAPPY MONDAY Don’t forget to bring: - Your hat. - Lunch.... - A piece of Fruit. - Drink bottle with water only. - Spare clothes. Have a wonderful week!!

02.01.2022 The Freeze Song. By Justine Clarke

01.01.2022 6 Week Group PT Challenge Giveaway We know how tricky it can be to find time, budget and make taking care of your health a priority when you are a parent. For the next 6 weeks starting Monday 9th of November, we are offering 10 amazing parents to join us with our 6 weeks fitness challenge. ... Provided by Cranebrook Community Preschool and run by the lovely Claire from Tone up Trim down Personal training, we are so excited to be able to help families feel better, gain strength and feel ready for the new year. What’s included? - 3 group training sessions per week on Mon, Tue and Thur from 5.45pm-6.30pm. - You can bring your children along. - Private FB group where you can support one another, we will share food ideas and motivation throughout the week. - Fortnightly weigh in, measurements and love video chats on FB. Live chats will be online and run by Claire and Mel James who is also a qualified PT. We only have 10 spaces available and to make it fair we will draw the names out of a hat on Sunday 8th November at 7pm. To enter: 1. Follow our FB page. 2. Tag 5 friends in the comments and write FIT FOR 2021 if you yourself are entering. 3. Like and share the post. TONE UP TRIM DOWN

01.01.2022 Why is the Ocean blue? We have been exploring everything about the ocean. Do you know why the ocean is blue?

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