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25.01.2022 The bushfire situation across Australia is heartbreaking so we are reaching out to offer special support to our volunteer firefighters. If you are a volunteer firefighter and are actively fighting the current bushfires we would like to support you to access up to 6 weeks of free care for your child/ren at our centres. You dont have to be a current Goodstart family to qualify for this offer, the offer applies to any eligible* families across our Australian communities. Pleas...e reach out to our Family Support Team at [email protected] or speak with your Centre Director directly so we can support you to access this as soon as possible. *Offer must be used by the last day in February. Proof of membership and deployment information will need to be provided. Speak to our team for further information.

25.01.2022 Hi everyone. This morning you will have seen an address by the Prime Minister around Australia's response to COVID-19. We wanted to take some time to share this message from our CEO about Goodstart's preparedness and response. We've been planning around COVID-19 since early January, and we're here to support our people, our children and our families as we move through the next few months. https://www.goodstart.org.au//goodstart%E2%80%99s-working-

24.01.2022 Do you work in healthcare? As part of our planning for COVID-19 we're asking if you can spare 5 minutes to discuss your contingency plans, and how organisations like ours can support you through the evolving COVID-19 situation. Were interested in hearing from anyone who keeps our healthcare system working - nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, laboratory technicians, paramedics, hospital cleaners or others. Click the link for the survey https://goodstart.au1.qualtrics.com//fo/SV_818cxqi8Hn7z6LP

23.01.2022 Goodstart Early Learning acknowledges all Traditional Owners across Australia and recognise all First Nations peoples continued cultural and spiritual connection to the land, sky and waterways that surround us. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. #InThisTogether2020 #NRW2020

23.01.2022 Hands up who loves unicorns? Today is the launch of the Great Australian Storybook Collection and Thelma the Unicorn is the star! Head out to your local newsagent or IGA to grab your newspaper and free copy of the book, along with a free Collector Case to kick-start your collection! In the meantime, here's a little bit about Thelma... Thelma dreams of being a glamorous unicorn. Then in a rare pink and glitter-filled moment of fate (we're sure it's environmentally friendly gli...tter of course), Thelma's wish comes true. She rises to instant international stardom, but at an unexpected cost. Tip for families You can bring the story to life at home and encourage conversation about self-love by reading the book together and exploring with your child about what makes them special. Maybe they might want to draw pictures of the things they enjoy or are good at? For more info about the collection visit https://www.goodstart.org.au/storybook #KidsBookCollection

23.01.2022 Next Wednesday 2 September is Early Childhood Educators' Day! This year it coincides with the start of spring and we thought what better way to celebrate than to say it with flowers! We are calling on our families to help fill our centres with greenery on this important day! It doesnt matter whether you bring a plant from a shop, something from your garden or even a sneaky snip from the side of the road it will surely put a smile on the faces of our well-deserving teams!

22.01.2022 The Federal Government has signaled that it is thinking seriously about ending 'free child care' very soon. Our friends over at The Parenthood are keen to understand what this decision might mean for families with children in early learning and care all over Australia. If you can please spare 5 minutes to take their short confidential survey.

22.01.2022 A little bit about today's Great Australian Storybook Collection book - The Very Itchy Bear... Bear has been itching, a very persistent itch in this delightful tale. Getting rid of Flea leaves Bear wishing he hadn't. Find out how Bear and Flea forge a bond that can teach little ones a lot about friendship. Remember, for your chance to win one of 3 $100 vouchers to spend on toys, crafts or games from Educational Experience, simply share a photo of your family enjoying any of the collection books on Instagram and include the hashtags #KidsBookCollection and tag @goodstartmoments_with a caption about what you most enjoyed about the book. Full terms and conditions on our website.

20.01.2022 Today is Indigenous Literacy Day. At Goodstart we are deeply committed to Reconciliation, we want to recognise our rich culture, history and connection to our First Australians every day and celebrate by embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in all that we do. We know that language is more than just a means to communicate, it is an essential characteristic that makes people and communities unique and plays a central role in a sense of identity. Did... you know there were more than 250 Indigenous Australian languages spoken on the continent at the time of European settlement in 1788? Now Only 13 traditional Indigenous languages are still acquired by children today. (source: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies website) In Australia the 2018 NAPLAN report indicated that only 36% of Indigenous Year 5 students in very remote areas are at or above the national minimum reading standards, compared to 96% for non-Indigenous students in major cities. Keep Indigenous language strong by finding out the language of the Traditional Custodians where youre located by visiting https://gambay.com.au and incorporating it into activities with your children. Advocate for better access to literacy resources for remote Indigenous communities by learning more from the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. https://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/

20.01.2022 To celebrate NAIDOC week we have a lovely activity you can do with your children at home. Sing along with Goodstart’s Cultural Liaison, Melody Ingra, her Mum- Juliri and Nana Magic to the Hokey Pokey (or the Shake a Leg) in the Gooreng Gooreng language. For more great NAIDOC week activities head to Goodstart@Home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfmMyz_HQLo&feature=youtu.be #NAIDOC #alwayswasalwayswill #NAIDOCweek

19.01.2022 We know it's a really worrying time for families all across Australia right now. So when we see something like this from one of our centres we just couldn't be more proud that they are part of our Goodstart family. Goodstart Mount Martha - Bentons Road put together this short video for families who couldn't be with them, and dropped off a basket of materials to the children's home so they could still make an Easter hat and virtually participate in the centre's annual Easter Hat parade. What a team of incredible humans. #inthistogether #stayingconnected

18.01.2022 Insta families - show us your magical reading moments! To celebrate the launch of the Great Australian Storybook Collection we are offering families the opportunity to win one of 3 $100 Educational Experience vouchers. Simply share photos of your family enjoying the books on Instagram with the hashtag #KidsBookCollection and tag @goodstartmoments_ with a caption about what you enjoyed most about the book. For competition terms and conditions visit https://www.goodstart.org.au/storybook

16.01.2022 When it's almost summer and your centre has a waterpark! #onlyinQLD #wishwewerethere

16.01.2022 Hi Goodstart families! As you know the Government announced today that the 'free childcare' package will expire on 12 July and that the CCS system will return from 13 July, along with new transition measures (up until October) to support the sector and parents as they move back to the subsidy. This announcement is a little bit complex so we are working hard to understand what this means for our families and for Goodstart. We will provide an update to our centres and our families later today and over the coming days as we learn more. #5weekstogo!

16.01.2022 Families are spending more time together than ever before, and sometimes that can mean emotions (and behaviours) can go a little off track. We're really excited to share with you a new resource we've developed for families to help them guide and support their children's behaviours and emotions. The Goodstart Family Behaviour Support Kit has information and resources to help support your child to understand and manage their emotions and help them learn how to communicate their needs in an appropriate way. It's a physical kit delivered straight to your door and includes a multitude of helpful tools and tips! You can purchase this kit direct from our Goodstart@Home website (click on Behaviour Support Kit). https://athome.goodstart.org.au/

16.01.2022 One sleep to Early Childhood Educators' Day! Whether it be taking flowers and plants to your centre tomorrow, or sending them a photo of a picture your child has drawn - let's all bring a little sunshine to some very special people

15.01.2022 Our hearts go out to everyone across Australia currently impacted by these devastating bushfires. We hope this article from our parenting website First Five Years may help in supporting your children who may be seeing footage or experiencing the trauma firsthand. https://www.firstfiveyears.org.au//how-to-talk-to-children

15.01.2022 COVID won't stop us supporting children's learning . Here's our wonderful Chef Monique from Goodstart Early Learning Cheltenham hosting one of her weekly 'virtual cooking lessons' for families staying at home in VIC. #wevegotthisvictoria #nowthatswhatwecallacookie https://www.facebook.com/goodstartcheltenham/posts/734336530446032?__cft__[0]=AZUiwKvayIUPkpqEcmqW-Z2Yz_NxfZoc3RM59bViN0if_InNIYluGZZjNWYoN82KGyWrB2N0WTxCX1b8JFvs8aZrCU2zkCvYpUyQiTDRXsEA6YJmwSgNk5NB_7FYf_LT21-gk-UkNcazUrap3uJyZ2L_dWJZwXCXMtpwO2-moypCOQ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

15.01.2022 With much relief we can confirm that the Federal Treasurer and Minister for Education announced that Goodstart WILL BE eligible for the Government's JobKeeper package. While this won't be introduced into parliament until Wednesday, we know that once passed it will provide some much needed reassurance to our Goodstart teams and enable us to continue to provide high-quality early learning and care to our children and families all over Australia. https://www.goodstart.org.au//goodstart-welcomes-new-jobke

15.01.2022 A nice little mid-week reminder

15.01.2022 Read along with us this National Reconciliation Week! "How the Birds got their Colours" by Mary Albert. We love this book which tells the story of how birds released colour into the world at the time of creation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRHtCa6GZ8 For those of you who have signed up to our online learning hub Goodstart@Home we have also uploaded some lovely National Reconciliation Week activities for your family to explore together at home. https://athome.goodstart.org.au/#/public-dashboar

14.01.2022 We think its safe to say that 2020 has been a year unlike any other. For the world, for Australia and for our Goodstart team. Over the past few months people, families and communities have been tried and tested in the most extraordinary ways. As frontline essential workers our Goodstarters rose to this challenge, stepping up to support our 60,000 families and 71,000 children through some incredibly challenging times. So weve declared this week Thank You Week! A week to ce...lebrate and recognise our 10,000+ Goodstarters for continuing to go above and beyond in face of adversity. We have a few special surprises planned for our Goodstarters this week, but in the meantime we'd love for our Goodstart families to get involved too! Please share your messages of thanks and support below and tag an educator or a centre who has really made a difference. #ThankYouWeek #InThisTogether

13.01.2022 Waiting for a tour? Why not take a virtual tour of our amazing centre! Comment if you're loving this video as much as we are

13.01.2022 The spirit, meaning and history of Anzac Day was explored by many of our centres this week, with moving tributes like the one below being created by our children, our people and our families. We are continually inspired by the sense of community we see all around us at this time, with many of our educators and families planning to participate in the combined driveway dawn service that is happening across Australia at 6am tomorrow. Goodstart centres and families - let's warm our hearts and fill the comments with photos of the wonderful Anzac tributes and activities you have been doing this week. #lestweforget

12.01.2022 Over the past week there have been an increasing number of stories about Coronavirus in the news and on social media. We know this has caused concern for some so we wanted to make sure we update you on what we are doing at Goodstart to manage any risk. We are closely monitoring the advice provided by the Australian health authorities regarding the Novel Coronavirus. Our 665 centres across Australia are also taking a conservative approach in line with advice and information from health authorities. Click here to read more: https://www.goodstart.org.au//goodstart-early-learning%E2%

12.01.2022 Its International Mens Day today and were giving a huge shout-out to all of our amazing male educators! Read about our inspiring Tuggerah centre which has eleven male educators! Do you know an amazing male educator? Give them a shout-out in the comment section below! https://www.goodstart.org.au//male-educators-bring-their-o

12.01.2022 To support our families who speak languages other than English, we have translated some of our most popular Goodstart@Home routine-based learning activity cards into Mandarin, Arabic and Hindi. Download them today and share them with your friends and family. https://www.goodstart.org.au/goodstart-at/other-languages/ #goodstartathome

11.01.2022 Reading in the early years is something we are really passionate about here at Goodstart, so we are super excited to be partnering with NewsCorp to launch their Great Australian Storybook Collection on February 8th! There are 15 books all up in the collection, with the first one (and a bonus Collector's Case) available for free this Saturday when you buy a participating NewsCorp newspaper. We will be featuring all 15 books across the promotion period, with fun ideas on how to bring them to life at home with your children. Head to https://kidsbookcollection.com.au/ for more info!

11.01.2022 Here's a short video from our National Safe Work and Wellbeing Manager around how to correctly put on/wear a face mask. This is something we recently shared with our centres in VIC and thought it may be helpful for some of our families as well. https://youtu.be/HlNkWN58TyE

10.01.2022 Happy Early Childhood Educators Day! If there is one group of people who deserves to have their own day, its definitely early childhood educators! We have already seen so many gorgeous flowers, plants, drawings and gifts flooding our centres this morning. A heartfelt thank you to all of our incredible educators who are making memories and changing lives every second of every day. A huge thank you to our Goodstart families as well for joining us today to share the love, making sure they know just how special they are. #EarlyChildhoodEducatorsDay #LoveMyECE

10.01.2022 Goodstart Families! Just wanted to clarify with you that the 'free childcare' package announced by Government today absolutely includes ALL Goodstart centres. If your child is enrolled in one of our centres and you are still working, studying or searching for work you will be able to send your child for free from Monday 6 April. We know you probably have lots of questions, and your Centre Director will share more tomorrow once we understand the finer details of how it all works.

10.01.2022 Last week we held our annual national 'Goodies Awards' (virtually of course!) and were again overwhelmed by the incredible submissions from our teams across Australia. The Goodies is about recognising the brilliance, compassion, determination and innovation our people bring to their centres and roles every day. As our CEO Julia Davison said, "At a time when COVID-19 turned our world upside down, our centres and our teams of Goodstarters exceeded all expectations and stepped up when the nation needed them most". A huge congratulations to all the state and national winners, and everyone who nominated - you are exceptional. https://www.goodstart.org.au//goodstart-recognises-excepti

09.01.2022 In HUGE #thankyouweek news our CEO Julia Davison just announced that all permanent Goodstart centre team members who worked tirelessly through COVID (and still continue to do so) will get a free day off on us! This is on the back of the exciting update yesterday that every Goodstarter in our centres will also be receiving a surprise gift pack (worth $200) from our friends over at Good360 Australia as a thank you from them! #thankyouweek #loveourGoodstarters

06.01.2022 As COVID-19 continues to evolve we know many families are growing increasingly concerned about their family situation. Did you know if you are experiencing financial hardship and you need some help paying your child care fees, you may be eligible for Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) Temporary Financial Hardship? If your income has been reduced because you have lost your job, you are caring for a seriously ill family member or have recently lost a family member you may be eligible. More information in the link https://www.goodstart.org.au//m/help-when-you-need-it-most

06.01.2022 This week is Early Learning Matters Week. This year will be a little different to previous years but it's still really important that we continue to raise awareness about how valuable high quality early learning is for our children. We know high-quality early education and care supports children to be confident, enthusiastic learners, building a foundation for wellbeing and achievement throughout their lives. Help us share the word by joining the Early Learning Matters Week virtual community, and sharing your wonderful early years stories on social using #earlylearningmatters https://www.facebook.com/earlylearningmattersweek

06.01.2022 Thank you to our children who helped create our wall of poppies here at Goodstart's centre support office in Brisbane. Lest we forget.

05.01.2022 'Somewhere in Australia' is today's Great Australian Storybook Collection book! Join the little joey and many more familiar animals in this lovely Australian counting book based on the classic rhyme Over in the Meadow. You can further extend on this with your children by asking which animals they may have seen at a zoo? Explore how the zoo habitats may be the same or different as the habitats described in the book, and why zoos try to mimic the natural habitat of the animals in their care as much as possible. #KidsBookCollection

05.01.2022 This Thursday at 4pm (AEDST) Play School are hosting a special COVID-19 episode to help explain the current situation to children. This might be helpful for parents who may be struggling with what to say.

03.01.2022 2020 has been a year like no other. This year, Goodstarters have gone above and beyond in the face of adversity and our Goodstart community of children, families and teams have come together like never before. To acknowledge this extraordinary year, we have created a short 30 sec TV ad "What we're for" to reflect on the year we have shared together. The ad is filled to the brim with our very own educators, children and families! We hope you love it as much as we do! *sound on is best! #becauseweareGoodstart #weareforchildren #goodstartfamily

02.01.2022 When our wonderful kindy children at our Goodstart Morningside - Wynnum Road centre reached out and asked if they could hold a bake sale at Goodstart HQ this morning to raise funds and awareness about the bushfire crisis it was met with a resounding YES! So many of our centres have been exploring this topic with their children, who have taken it upon themselves to come up with ideas about how they can get involved. Big shout out to the Goodstart Morningside - Wynnum Road educators and families - the bake sale was a huge hit!

02.01.2022 We are pleased to announce that Goodstart will no longer charge families on public holidays from 1 Jan 2020, with New Years Day our first fee free holiday in the new year. As Australia's biggest not for profit provider we wanted to ensure a fairer approach for all families. Families will now have more flexibility and will be able to book days with confidence knowing they wont be charged for a day where no service is provided. https://www.goodstart.org.au///no-fees-for-public-holidays

01.01.2022 Did anyone manage to grab their copy of The Man from Snowy River today? This is an iconic Australian story that can be explored further with your children in a few ways.You might want to use it as an opportunity to talk openly and honestly about our countrys history with your children. About colonisation and Australia's First Peoples. You could also talk about where your family and friends originally came from and find them on a map.