Goodstart Early Learning Middle Park in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Childcare service

Goodstart Early Learning Middle Park

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3376 5866

Address: 94 Horizon Drive, Middle Park 4074 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 This mornings cooler weather had the children gathering to experiences set up in the warmth of the sun. Our outdoor block construction was a go to for many children this morning; catering for children from our Toddler children right up to our Kindergarten age children. Manipulative play helps build a childs sense of spatial awareness. Through manipulative use of block building activities, children learn how things fit (or do not fit).

25.01.2022 Clay- A wonderful, natural resource from the earth that provides sensory stimulation while helping to develop fine motor skills. Children receive immediate tactile and visual feedback from working with clay and as their skills develop they can use it is a medium to express their ideas. Clay was added to our outdoor environment today with the children experimenting with pinching, squishing, pulling and squeezing.

25.01.2022 JOIN OUR TEAM! We currently have a full-time lead educator vacancy in our Toddler room! We'd love if you could share the job listing with your friends to help us find the right person to add to our friendly team. https://careers.goodstart.org.au//MIDDLE-PARK%/661693400/

25.01.2022 An exciting opportunity has opened up within our Goodstart Team. Are you a positive, passionate and Pedagogically minded educator? We are looking for you and would love you to join our Middle Park Family. Please apply online to start your career with Goodstart Early Learning.

22.01.2022 As Australias largest provider of early learning and care, we are here to support families in communities across the country. Our centres remain open across Australia with flexible sessions and additional measures to ensure the ongoing health and safety of our children, families and our people.

22.01.2022 Through unstructured exploration, We foster the development of imagination & creativity. -Beth Rosenthal Davis In Hands-on science and math

22.01.2022 Pizza is always a good idea A crowd pleaser here- Ham and pineapple, supreme and vegetarian. Our centre is smelling mighty delicious right now.

22.01.2022 "This is a love heart for my mummy." Goodstart Middle Park, art is the colours and textures of your children's imagination. We have limited vacancies in our Nursery, Toddler and Pre-kindy rooms. Please get in touch if you’d like to know more about becoming a part of our centre.

21.01.2022 Thank You Miss Deanna! Over the past two months our centre has experienced a fair bit of change. Through it all Deanna stepped up to lead and strengthen our team, and support our wonderful families - all with a smile on her face and a positive attitude. Youre a super star Dee! We look forward to our centres next chapter as Deanna supports our incoming director and our Goodstart Middle Park community continues to flourish.

21.01.2022 To all our Goodstart middle park families, we wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. The centre will reopen on Tuesday 29th. Stay safe these holidays

20.01.2022 Celebrating our wonderful mums with afternoon tea at the centre is something we look forward to every year. Though we cant hold afternoon tea this year, we can still spoil our mums a little with Mothers Day breakfast on us! At pick up today, please help yourself to a pack of pancake mix to spoil mum this Sunday. Wishing you all a beautiful weekend with your loved ones.

19.01.2022 Ever wonder whats going on inside those magical minds? At Goodstart Middle Park, we encourage open ended, hands on enquiry that sparks creativity and exploration. Todays water play episode sparked curiosity around measurement, colour mixing, comparison and experimentation. I used 20 lids to fill this jar

19.01.2022 We have been embracing the great outdoors this week. Nature hunts are a great way for children to explore our natural environment. Lady beetles, seed pods and butterflies were some of our most exciting finds.

19.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS! Today we’re celebrating our Miss Shahla who has completed her Diploma of Early Childhood and Care!

17.01.2022 Today at Middle Park we honoured our ANZACs as we engaged in discussions about why we remember this day every year. Together we worked on creating red poppies in a range of mediums to display around our centre this weekend.

16.01.2022 Our sensory tables provide endless opportunities for discovery. Today we added shaving cream, glitter and our alphabet boards. Each child approached the tables differently; some were hands in while others took some time to build the confidence to get their hands messy. Not only was this a sensory dream but also a fun approach to exploring letter formation.

16.01.2022 Our Pre Kindy kids are developing their fine motor skills and problem solving skills while they enjoy mastering our interactive lock board. Come on in for a tour to see if you can master the lock board too!

16.01.2022 Nature Crowns The perfect accessory for any imaginative play experience.

16.01.2022 Is there anything better than the smell of fresh Banana muffins baking... These are a real hit with the children... and educators

15.01.2022 Children develop understandings of themselves and their world through active, hands-on investigation. A supportive active learning environment encourages childrens engagement in learning which can be recognised as deep concentration and complete focus on what captures their interests. Children bring their being to their learning. They have many ways of seeing the world, different processes of learning and their own preferred learning styles.

14.01.2022 Developing social skills in children prepares them for a lifetime of healthier interactions in all aspects of life. Displaying good manners, communicating effectively with others, being considerate of the feelings of others and expressing personal needs are all important components of solid social skills. Helping children to develop these important skills requires a different set of strategies in each stage of development.

13.01.2022 We have some Dinosaur visitors in the sandpit this morning. An invitation for learning is usually set out by educators to intrigue or entice childrens further exploration and investigation.

13.01.2022 We can all agree that this year has been a full and challenging year already - and were just half way through! All the while our beautiful educators have carried on day in day out, delivering the same quality of care and attention alongside wonderful learning experiences for our children. We invite you to share your notes of thanks with our educators on our Thank You wall.

13.01.2022 Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul. -Friedrich Froebel

12.01.2022 This week in Pre Kindy we began our exploration of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. The children have enjoyed making play dough caterpillars, following pattern recognition, making caterpillar fruit skewers with grapes and strawberries, and completing puzzles to strengthen their numeracy skills.

12.01.2022 Todays invitation to play supports the childrens enquiry into road rules and road safety. Educators used our road set up to explore the childrens prior knowledge while looking for opportunities to extend and have discussions with the children.

12.01.2022 Investigative play ideas bubble up from within children themselves, not to meet an external goal but to satisfy their own needs. Children then choose how to play out their ideas. They direct and change play scenarios as needed. The end result is usually a rich, creative and deeply satisfying experience. After reading Wombat Stew, our Kindergarten children were eager to get their hands and feet dirty in our mud kitchen and create their very own Ooey Gooey Wombat stew.

12.01.2022 ‘You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.’ - Dr Seuss

12.01.2022 Stopping to listen to children and being in the moment has enabled us to truly hear what they are saying to us

11.01.2022 Create experiences and environments that support social and emotional skill development... and watch children flourish.

11.01.2022 Our centre is a hive of activity today! This morning our busy bees have imagined themselves into ... builders as they constructed towers ...bakers as they mixed up play-dough ... restauranteurs as they made pizzas with magnetic tiles ... engineers as we problem solved our way through puzzles.

11.01.2022 Over, under, around and through. Today the children climbed, crawled, pulled and rolled their way through the web obstacle course. Its easier to go under it than through it

09.01.2022 Today our Kindergarten class have been busy designing and creating a city scape using our assortment of blocks. We read the story Iggy Peck Architect to motivate and stimulate the childrens ideas and thinking.

08.01.2022 S C I E N C E W E E K Science is the study of the world around us. Scientists learn about their subject by observing, describing, and experimenting. This week our children have become scientists as they explore colour, reactions, nature and the weather.

06.01.2022 Social and emotional skills are at the heart of the Early Years Learning Framework: Being, Belonging and Becoming. Today we shared the story In my Heart by Jo Witek. This beautiful book is a great tool in building childrens knowledge around different emotions and is a great conversation starter. Putting feelings into words- As children learn to use language we can help them to put feelings into words instead of action. We might say, I can see that you feel sad and cross that someone took your toy but we dont hit. Tell Tommy how you felt when she took your toy and that you dont like it. We may have to give them the words at first and monitor the telling.

06.01.2022 Our Toddler Room’s programming focus this week is on sensory play to further develop fine motor skills and coordination. Water play this morning meant there was a lot of fun to be had while extending on the children’s individual learning. Come in for a visit so we show you around our happy centre.

05.01.2022 I hear, I forget; I see, I remember; I experience, I understand. -Dr. Maria Montessori Our art stations provide opportunities for children to invent, imagine and create.

05.01.2022 The open-ended nature of the sand pit encourages creative thinking and allows children to freely create without fear of making mistakes. Digging, pouring, sifting, scooping and mixing are all techniques used as children imagine, create and experiment with sand.

04.01.2022 Hip Hip Hooray! Wishing our Miss Ziba a wonderful birthday today.

04.01.2022 Gooey, brewy, yummy, chewy. Crunchy, munchy for my lunchy. Hot and spicy, oh so nicey. WOMBAT STEW... Today we read one of our favourite books; Wombat Stew! After we finished reading, we decided to head outside in search of ingredients to mix up our own batch of Wombat Stew.

04.01.2022 Today we introduced a shared story time that we video and send home to our children that arent currently attending the centre. This is a great way to keep up communication and share a familiar part of their day. Today we read The Book With No Pictures. It was a hit!

02.01.2022 The latest addition to our outdoor environment. The children have been loving the challenges and physical nature of the slackline. This activity helps - Physical exploration - build resilience and persistence - Balance and coordination... - Awareness of the capabilities and limits of their own bodies. - The ability to assess and make judgement about risk. See more

02.01.2022 Loose part play Loose parts are basically any loose, tactile materials that children can move about during play and exploration. They are versatile, open ended and can be added to any learning environment. Children use loose parts to make, build, experiment and invent. Loose part play invites children to explore and discover, imagine and create, enquire and experiment, play and tinker about as they build on their developmental skills in a supportive learning environment. Today the children used our loose part wooden pieces to explore the shapes, lines and directions of the letters of the alphabet.

02.01.2022 Encouraging children to enjoy challenges rather than to shy away from them can increase their persistence and learning abilities. Dweck 2000

01.01.2022 Were going on a planet hunt. Our Kindergarten two children are busy exploring all things solar system at the moment. We are reading books, constructing planets, exploring our current knowledge while identifying questions we would like to research. Today the children constructed telescopes to support their planet hunt.

01.01.2022 ~When its more about the process, less about the product~ Busy hands + creative minds

01.01.2022 Wee got that Friday feeling!!

01.01.2022 The concentration tongue We see it here all the time.... busy little hands, busy little minds.