Goodstart Early Learning Merriwa in Merriwa, Western Australia | Nursery

Goodstart Early Learning Merriwa

Locality: Merriwa, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9305 8633

Address: 16 Hughie Edwards Drive 6030 Merriwa, WA, Australia

Website: www.goodstart.org.au/centres/merriwa-hughie-edwards-drive

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25.01.2022 The children this week have been extending on their literacy and numeracy, through the story Jack and the beanstalk. They used magic beans to count quantities of numbers 1 to 10

25.01.2022 PANTRY RESTOCKED We have restocked our Community Pantry and will be able to restock for the next coming months due to The Rotary club of wa generous donation of a $400 Coles gift voucher! Thank you for supporting our community initiative!

24.01.2022 Today we participated in pirate Day, Arrrr me hearty we dressed up as pirates and did follow the leader and copied pirate Ray by skipping, jumping, side stepping, galloping, running, then we listened to ol pirate stories, dug for buried treasures....... oh what a pirates life for ......US!!!!!

24.01.2022 In collaboration with RAAFA WA we created the "The Little Hands Art Exchange" Please read the wonderful story below! :)

23.01.2022 Our service has been really been working on ways to provide more support for our families and the local community. we have an organisation whom visits three days a week on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Feed it Forward Maori Stylz WA, who provide bread and vegetables and food produce. Some times not all the food is taken and we dont want to waste it, we feed it to our worms or add it to our compost or chop of the butts of the vegetables and experiment with trying to grow new vegetables or we divide the seeds from the vegetables or fruits and plant the seeds to grow.

22.01.2022 Thank you goodstart!

22.01.2022 Five things you need to do before CCS returns! Follow the below link for information on how to prepare for the end of the free childcare period and the return of CCS. https://www.goodstart.org.au//5-things-you-need-to-do-befo!

21.01.2022 The kindy children watering their newly planted plants that they potted into their alien decorated pots, furthering in collaborating their sustainable practices and ongoing care for their outdoor environments, within their Space week explorations and investigations.

20.01.2022 At Goodstart we want to help give all of Australias children the best start in life and Child Protection Week is all about just that! This National Child Protection Week (6 12 September), is an opportunity for us to celebrate the many ways that everyone in the community can make a difference in the life of a child. ... #childprotectionweek #goodstartchildprotection #puttingchildrenfirst See more

19.01.2022 SCIENCE WEEK - Waitj Room Our Nursery 2 children explored a salt and ice experiment as a part of science week! Their experiment was called Rescue the Sea Animals! The children used salt water in spray bottles to free the animals trapped in ice.

19.01.2022 Its Christmas in July here at the centre! We have some fun Christmas activities planned and the children are enjoying their yummy roast lunch.

18.01.2022 The children have continued with their space journey, today they are building on their knowledge about how craters are made on the moon surface.

18.01.2022 New Door Signs Take a look at our new door signs in native Noongar language that our Assistant Director Raylene Driver sourced through her community connections. Thank you to @KellysPersonalisedSigns They are so beautiful we love them and cant wait to display them throughout our centre!

18.01.2022 Some awesome places to visit in the school holidays!

17.01.2022 October School Holiday Program! Get in quick to secure your place as spots are limited!!

17.01.2022 Check out our July school holiday program. Places are limited so book your tour today.

15.01.2022 This month in our Toddler Room we explored the Dreamtime story: How the birds got their colors to build on our cultural competence through honoring the Indigenous culture through their story telling. Firstly watching the story on you tube video, then reading the story together on our mat session, then finally the children were invited to create their own birds inspired by the Dreamtime story.

15.01.2022 The children in the kindy room used recycle materials to make their space rockets

14.01.2022 This weeks focus literacy theme that the Kwelena (kindy) room have been learning and building on has been Jack and the bean stalk, the children have assisted in creating their fantasy display of prompts and their re-tell narratives of the story Jack and the beanstalk.

14.01.2022 The children in the Kwelena (Dolphin) room are furthering on their understandings and relationships with visual, oral and written text, and showing how they are using their comprehension skills to re-tell the story of the three little pigs

14.01.2022 This week at Goodstart merriwa the children in the nursery room discover an activity focusing on their fine motor skills as well as their reconciliation acknowledgment. The educators in nursery use printed, laminated pictures of aboriginal art animals and add red sand on the top for the children to then use paint brushes dusting away the sand revealing the animals. Educators explain the animals name that they reveal and ask them to repeat the name if they can speak as well as make the animal sounds for the children to copy. This activity is a great way to focus on hand and eye coordination, fine motor development and acknowledgment to country.

14.01.2022 Our beautiful Karda children exploring an ocean themed sensory tray with sand and natural resources for Science week! The pebbles had sea creatures printed on them and the children loved engaging with the activity!

13.01.2022 Fathers Day We honored the Fathers, Grandfathers and Special persons on this day by inviting all to join us for a sausage sizzle. We saw loving interactions between the children and their loved ones as the children proudly showed them their workplace and demonstrated to them how they get their jobs done here at our Goodstart Merriwa Centre. ... A big thank you to all the parents and special persons who attended and made the childrens day so much more enjoyable. We hope you all had a lovely weekend celebrating your loved ones!

13.01.2022 The children have been learning about water pollution and what we can do to make clean and sustainable water. In a jar filled with water, we placed things into it that we know that pollute our oceans such as plastic and other bits of rubbish. We also put mud, sand and sticks into it, talking about the appearance of the water being dirty and how sea animals wouldnt survive in this. Using a coffee filter and gravel, we made our own water filtration system. The children watched... as the filtered clean water slowly dripped out of the coffee filter and into the jar. We compared the appearance of the water, stating that it is much clearer, with no bits of plastic inside it. When asked about how we can keep our oceans clean, the childrens main idea is to pick up our rubbish. Through our STEM experiment, we were able to filter dirty water into clean water, learning about how sea animals need clean water to survive. This is working towards our ongoing sustainability strategy. See more

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12.01.2022 Please take a moment to watch this short documentary on our Little Hands Art exchange project with the Merriwa RAAFA WA base. It highlights the passion that this community based initiative has sparked, and truly warmed out hearts watching what this has meant to our friends across the road. Thank you Gen Lamond for capturing this, you did a wonderful job :)

12.01.2022 Today we are celebrating National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Day Its an opportunity for us to show our support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, as well as learn about the crucial impact that culture, family and community play in the life of every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child. Here is our Cook Karen, and our Nursery 2 educator Lubi proudly wearing our Goodstart NAIDOC shirts!

11.01.2022 We would like to thank the RAAFA and The Mindarie Rotary Club for building and donating our Paint the Town Red boxes for our Centre. We have added this to our Paint the Town Red display for our families to utilise in foyer to promote literacy at home, feel free to bring a book and take a book.

11.01.2022 If only we all lived like Toddlers! #FunnyFriday

11.01.2022 It’s World Teachers’ Day in Australia! Celebrate being part of a remarkable profession and its bright future, or say thank you to teachers by posting a photo in your sunglasses on social media, either on your own or with your colleagues, friends, or family. #teachersday #thankteachers #brightfuture

10.01.2022 Science Week Flash Back For Science Week this year our Yonga room explored and experimented with Glue, salt and water colour. Teaching children about absorption. We traced shapes we find in the ocean like stars, spirits, half circles, with glue squeezed from a bottle and poured salt on it. We used droppers with water colour one drop at a time and observed as the colour spread as they are absorbed by the grains of salt through a chemical action. ... This salt painting science experiment is a fun way to combine art and science together. It is also a visual and hands-on way for children to learn about absorption as they transform their white glue drawings into colourful designs. For us adults: Salt is hygroscopic which means that it can absorb both liquid water and water vapour in the air.

09.01.2022 Did you know we dont charge for public holidays? Enquire now!

09.01.2022 LEGO MASTER CHALLENGE......... the kindy construct a variety of space vehicles out of their LEGO blocks! Then they show cased their LEGO masterpieces

08.01.2022 The kindy children begun their science week exploration of the theme the big blue...... by investigating and exploring a clean ocean and then from their book I can save the ocean..... the children are furthering their understandings of the importance of recycling and reducing waste and not polluting our water ways with, house hold items and rubbish and chemicals, through their interactive sensory experience.

08.01.2022 Last week our beautiful babies in our nursery room did an awesome activity with edible paint, using just two ingredients, yogurt and food colouring. Such an easy activity to recreate at home, and a great way to introduce your child to painting without worrying about them having a little taste! :P

07.01.2022 Happy Early Childhood Educators Day for our wonderful educators at the centre. Thank you for all your hard work each and every day

07.01.2022 The children have begun their background painting of their interpretation of the contemporary Aboriginal art piece. Before they started their painting they discussed what they could see and what colours they would like to use for their own artwork and also what the artwork represents. We believe it is important to teach the children about Aboriginal spirituality and their connection with the land.

06.01.2022 CAN YOU HELP US? We are seeking resources to support our growing creativity and in centre sustainability. If you have any of the items below that you would like to donate please drop them off at our centre :)

06.01.2022 We are hiring! Apply here: https://careers.goodstart.org.au//MERRIWA%2C-PE/664744700/

06.01.2022 Educators enjoy learning about NATIVE BUSH TUCKER! To bring back to educate the children in bush tucker and how to grow and use in our meal cusines.

05.01.2022 This video really shows how competent and capable children really are! #yummy #amazing

05.01.2022 Here are our Toddler children participating in a rain experiment with their wonderful educator Anna. They used oil, water and food coloring and then observed how the food coloring gets too heavy and burst out below the "cloud" pouring "rain". After our experiment was complete we recycled the water for a sensory bottle with stars and glitter.

05.01.2022 It’s book week! Shout out to all of our educators for making this so enjoyable for the children

04.01.2022 Through the children exploring language and story-telling through a variety of narratives, Today the childrens investigations have lead them in furthering their understanding of measurement and quantities, by using the story of the three bears, to scoop oats into different sized bowls with different sized spoons.

03.01.2022 Space Tunnel This week in our Toddler room the children worked cooperatively on a group project - creating a galaxy by painting the inside of a recycled box black. We stuck prints of space ships, sate lights, astronauts, stars and the sun inside and had the children crawl through the galaxy . ... The children had to share a confined space and allow ample time for their peers to explore and name what they see in space. Exploring the space tunnel as a small group; children express wonder about what they discover in our galaxy.

02.01.2022 On 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 Merriwa. 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 if you could possibly bring some greenery or flowers in on the day, for our centre or for the educators in your childs room. It doesnt matter whether they are from a shop, from your garden or from the side of the road 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! Shannon White