Goodstart Early Learning Hughesdale in Hughesdale, Victoria | Childcare service

Goodstart Early Learning Hughesdale

Locality: Hughesdale, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9570 6443

Address: 1077 North Rd 3166 Hughesdale, VIC, Australia

Website: www.goodstart.org.au/centres/oakleigh-south-north-road

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25.01.2022 Relaxing yoga in our Toddler 1 room. Thanks Lakshmi for teaching the children these fabulous poses.

25.01.2022 Celebrating Book Week in Goodstart Hughesdale Kinder Our kinder children and teachers came wearing costumes of their favourite book characters. Our book week celebration promoted literacy, children's love for books and highlighted importance of reading.

25.01.2022 Starting tonight!!!!

23.01.2022 Our amazing team

23.01.2022 Kinder Project- How many elephant can stand and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.

22.01.2022 Kinder class Graduation 2020 We are so proud of our kinder children who have successfully graduated today. This year has seen them grow and develop tremendously. We are deeply grateful to our kinder families for ongoing support through this year when we all were together to stay safe and stay open. Congratulations to our kinder children. We wish them the very best in their big school.

22.01.2022 Celebrating National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Childrens Day at Goodstart Hughesdale

22.01.2022 What a fantastic initiative! It is so important that childrens voices are captured as part of this pandemic and for historical records. As a result of this momentous time in history, Australia Post believes it is important to record the thoughts of those experiencing significant change. To support the recording of this thinking, Australia Post has created a national letterbox where, from now until 18 August, anyone participating can write a letter to share their experience ...of the COVID-19 pandemic. The letters will then be curated by the National Archives, with eligible letters being kept for future generations, allowing all Australians to record their impressions of this remarkable time. #australiapost #dearaustralia #letterwriting #covid19 #coronavirus https://www.facebook.com/547116265677040/posts/1439989403056384/?d=n

21.01.2022 Dear Families, Tomorrow, Wednesday 2 September its Early Childhood Educators Day! This is a wonderful opportunity for us to recognise and celebrate the amazing team we have here at Goodstart Hughesdale. ... This has been a big year for everyone at our centre and we were hoping you would join us in celebrating this in a special way this year. Early Childhood Educators Day happens to coincide with the start of spring and what better way to show our appreciation than saying it with FLOWERS! Wed love to fill the centre with some springtime joy and ask our families to help us by bringing in some greenery or flowers in on the day or during the week, for our centre or for the educators in your childs room. These could be from a shop, your garden or from the side of the road found on your walk they will surely put a smile on the faces of our educators! Maybe your little one would even like to create a card and draw flowers or a portrait of your favourite educator? Let your creativity run wild! Thank you so much for your support, we are looking forward to brightening up the day together with you!

20.01.2022 Amazing job opportunity for an ECT at Goodstart Hughesdale. Come and work with an amazing teacher at an Exceeding centre.

19.01.2022 Enjoying a relaxing session of yoga this afternoon in the 4 year old kinder room.

19.01.2022 Families with children enrolled in 4 year old kinder programs at Victorian Goodstart centres will benefit from a saving of up to $2000 in 2021. Talk to us to understand how to use this subsidy to give your child the best outcomes. #GoodstartCommunity #GoodstartEarlyLearning

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19.01.2022 Congratulations to GoodStart Hughesdale that received an assessment and rating notification yesterday of Exceeding in every quality area. Such a wonderful achievement.

18.01.2022 Child - "How old are you, Grandpa?" Grandpa - "Im 81, dear." Child - "So does that mean you were alive during the Coronavirus?" Grandpa - "Yes, I was." Child - "Wow. That must have been horrible, Grandpa. We were learning about that at school this week.... They told us about how all the schools had closed. And mums and dads couldnt go to work so didnt have as much money to do nice things. They said that you werent allowed to go and visit your friends and family and couldnt go out anywhere. They told us that the shops ran out of lots of things so you didnt have much bread, and flour, and toilet rolls. They said that Easter holidays were cancelled. And they told us about all those thousands of people that got very sick and who died. They explained how hard all the doctors and nurses and all essential workers worked, and that lots of them died, too. That must have been so horrible, grandpa!" Grandpa - "Yes, that is all correct, but I was just a kid back then. But to tell you the truth I remember it differently... I remember playing in the garden for hours with mum and dad and having picnics outside and lots of bbqs. I remember making things with my Dad and baking with my Mum. I remember learning how to do hand stands and back flips. I remember having quality time with my family, even when they were being my teachers. I remember Mums favorite words becoming Hey, Ive got an idea... Rather than Maybe later or tomorrow Im a bit busy. I remember making our own bread and pastry, growing our own vegies and having fresh eggs from our new chooks. I remember having movie night three or four times a week instead of just one. I remember we got to put our Christmas lights up in the middle of the year, just because we wanted to. It was a horrible time for lots of people you are right. But I remember it differently." Remember how our children will remember these times. Be in control of the memories they are creating right now, so that despite all the awful headlines and emotional stories they will come to read in their future years, they can only actually remember the happy times!!!

18.01.2022 Celebrating NAIDOC week at Goodstart Hughesdale

17.01.2022 Celebrating space week at Goodstart Hughesdale

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17.01.2022 Celebrating the Jewish New Year with the children at Goodstart Hughesdale.

16.01.2022 Supporting Jeans for Genes day

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16.01.2022 For those celebrating tomorrow night Shana Tova.

15.01.2022 Yoga Instructor Evi Kouvarnta teaching the wonderful kinder children some fantastic yoga poises.

14.01.2022 Designing our own bubble sticks and creating bubbles. Endless fun and creativity!!!

14.01.2022 Some good news from the Victorian Government today. Providers are now able to waive gap fees if your child is absent from their centre for COVID-related reasons (in Stage 3 lockdown areas only). Essentially this means that you can secure your spot while lockdown restrictions are in place without having any out-of-pocket costs if your child is kept at home https://ministers.dese.gov.au//statement-fee-relief-victor

14.01.2022 Parenting during lockdown is tough! WEDNESDAY 19th AUGUST, 8pm is a free webinar follow this link to register. https://www.happyfamilies.com.au//lightening-the-lockdown/

13.01.2022 Hi Families, After Dan Andrews press conference today, Im sure you were all left a little bewildered in regards to what stage 4 restrictions equate too. Hopefully I can provide you with a little bit of an insight, whilst we await the Federal Governments announcement. Goodstart Early Learning Hughesdale will remain OPEN, for (on-site work) Covid Safe Plan in place, but will have restrictions as per the following statement provided by the Victorian Premier.... The Early Childhood Education and Care (including Sessional Kindergarten, Long day care, which is us, family day care and Outside School Hours Care). Restricted to permitted workers and vulnerable children (eg those in/out of home care or known to child protection, medically/socially vulnerable children, Koori children) I have not been made aware of what permitted workers look like, and will absolutely provide this information to each and every one of you as soon as it becomes available to me. Please continue to bring your children on their enrolled days, until otherwise informed. Hughesdale Team xx

12.01.2022 Fun dancing in the 4 year old kinder room today with Iris.

11.01.2022 Families....we cant wait to see you! We understand how important high quality early learning is for you and your family. Gaps fees for absent days are waived, and your booking secured so that when you are ready to return to your centres, we will be waiting for you ... *Gap fees are waived for absent days only. We know many Victorian families are spending more time at home. Regardless of whether you attend one of our centres, were here to help! Goodstart@Home is an online platform weve created to support parents and children to learn, explore and play at home. Its an activity hub filled with hundreds of fun and inspiring things to do at home, along with some really helpful information, tools and advice about childrens routines, behaviour and emotions. The best news is its available for everyone. Even if you arent a Goodstart family you can access Goodstart@Home for only $12 per year ($1 per month). Because we care about childrens learning and are here to help! https://athome.goodstart.org.au/

11.01.2022 Kinder children and their teachers have started a new project " First People in Australia." We have learned that Aboriginal people were the first people in Australia. The children traced own bodies on the paper to create Aboriginal imaginary friends, and decorated them with body painting. The children learned to use Aboriginal Art symbols to create meaning and write messages. We gave our imaginary friends names in Wiradjuri language. We placed our new friends on a prominent spot and wrote "We are the first people in Australia. We came to Australia 40 thousand years ago. Welcome to our country."

11.01.2022 Fun outside in the sun with the large parachute.

11.01.2022 This week our center is joining Cultural Diversity Week, celebrated in Victoria. Here at Goodstart Hughesdale we promote a rich diversity of cultures of our families and educators. Centre educators are sharing their diverse stories and culture with the children through dicussions, stories, dances, songs and traditional food preparation. Today Kindergarten Teacher, Luda, introduced Rusiian cultural traditions. Together with the kinder children we learned to sing and dance "Kalinka" and "Troika", played with Matreshka (Russian nested doll), cooked Vinaigrette and tried it for lunch.

11.01.2022 Tomorrow is National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Childrens Day. This years theme #EldersOfTomorrow highlights the uniqueness and importance of the ...knowledge and wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and listening to children, the potential leaders of the future. https://bit.ly/3ftVsh3 See more

11.01.2022 Goodstart Hughesdale kinder children enjoy our current project about theatre. We dance Ballet, dramatise familiar stories and create new ones.

11.01.2022 R U OK? R U OK?Day is Thursday 10 September 2020. Its our national day of action when we remind Australians that every day is the day to ask, Are you ok? Here is the link to support you on R U OK DAY and other days when creating discussions about health and well-being with children.... https://www.ruok.org.au/education What will you do on Thursday 10th September 2020?? #ruokday #health #wellness #mentalhealthawareness #earlychildhood

11.01.2022 It was so fun to celebrate crazy hair day at the centre on Monday. Well done to the parents that were so creative with their childs hair styles.

09.01.2022 Learning about spring in our 3 year old kinder room.

09.01.2022 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 wed 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

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07.01.2022 R U OK? R U OK?Day is Thursday 10 September 2020. It’s our national day of action when we remind Australians that every day is the day to ask, Are you ok? Here is the link to support you on R U OK DAY and other days when creating discussions about health and well-being with children.... https://www.ruok.org.au/education What will you do on Thursday 10th September 2020?? #ruokday #health #wellness #mentalhealthawareness #earlychildhood

07.01.2022 Goodstart Hughesdale Kinder Christmas Gruffalo Play Congratulations to Hughesdale kinder children who presented Christmas Play Gruffalo." It was a culmination of our kindergarten year. The year with two lockdowns, online teaching and learning. The year when we moved from working in the pods to stay safe and to stay open to new Covid -19 protocol when we could invite families to important events. We developed Covid-19 Safer Risk Assessment Plan. Only one member of the fam...ily could atrend, masks, hand sanitizer and chairs placed in a social distance - all that were important measures we folloeed. The children took parts of different characters, Foxes, Owls, Snakes and met a Mouse along and together with Gruffalo . All families came to share and acknowledge our children's brilliant performance. We prepared two presentations so all children had a part and an opportunity to shine, experience success and joy. Having a certain capacity of the room which could fit a half of parents a time was anothet important reason to do two presentations. We all are over the moon with a terrific experience which supported children' s agency, confidence, promoted literacy and strenthened our trust relationships with center families. See more

07.01.2022 Just a friendly reminder to all of our families as of tomorrow, you will be required to wear a face mask when entering our premises to drop off or pick up your child. Our educators will also be wearing face masks as of tomorrow in common areas outside of the childrens classroom

07.01.2022 Our little artists painting outside amongst our bamboo.

06.01.2022 Happy New Year. From GoodStart Hughesdale

04.01.2022 So nice to see the children and educators playing outside in the rain today wearing their puddle suits.

04.01.2022 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

03.01.2022 Community Challenge- Can you find the pixies in the garden? Have a look around our front garden and see what you can find.

03.01.2022 Kinder Theatre When all theatres are close because of coronavirus we undertake STEAM and literacy project "Kinder Theatre"and open our own kinder theatre. Kinder children and their teachers, Luda and Evi, made Puppet Shadow Theatre from the carton box. The children enjoy retelling their favourite story "Gruffalo."

02.01.2022 Dear families, As you will be aware the Victorian Premier has announced that from Sunday night Melbourne will move to Stage 4 restrictions with stronger rules to limit the movement of people and limit the spread of this virus across the city New restrictions for schools and early learning centres will apply from Wednesday.... At this stage all our centres will remain open for the children of essential and emergency workers as well as for vulnerable children We are currently working through the detail of this with the Government to determine these definitions As soon as we have more information we will provide an update via Storypark I appreciate this is an uncertain time for many of our families but please be assured we are here to support you and your children as much as we can. Hughesdale team

01.01.2022 The 4 year old children yesterday exploring sensory water play and literacy whilst outside enjoying the sunshine.

01.01.2022 Happy Early Childhood Educators Day to every one at Goodstart Hughesdale. You are all wonderful.