Goodstart Early Learning Morwell in Morwell, Victoria | Nursery

Goodstart Early Learning Morwell

Locality: Morwell, Victoria

Phone: +61 1800 222 543

Address: 252 Commercial Road 3840 Morwell, VIC, Australia

Website: www.goodstart.org.au/centres/morwell

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25.01.2022 STEM. Such valuble learning occurs in this space. Our Kinder childern are deeply engaged in exploring all things volcanos and the earth. Providing them with provocations through sensory play and literacy supports the childern to extend on and follow their own interest, leading to a multitude of further learning oportunites. I wonder where this exerience will take us?

25.01.2022 Did you know that ParentZone Gippsland have a number of programs to help support families in Gippsland on offer for term 4? Programs offered include Lets Talk about Parenting including a Dads Matter and a Parenting Teens program, Breaking the Cycle, Homework Club, and for Latrobe families Storytime (online supported playgroup). In addition they are excited to offer 5 single session parenting groups to Gippsland families: Understanding your childs behaviour, Wednesday 1...4th October Risky Business: Tough Conversation with Teens, Wednesday 21st October Parenting Pre-schoolers, Monday 30th November Parenting Anxious Kids, Monday 7th December Self-Care for Parents, Monday 14th December Parents/carers can register for one session, a few sessions, or all four sessions! To register a parent/carer please contact ParentZone Gippsland on 5135 9555 or email [email protected].

24.01.2022 Happy Friday Everyone. What a week we have had. Everyday is changing but one thing will always stay the same our passion for our children, families and community. I hope you all have a good weekend.

24.01.2022 Foodbank: Open TODAY Do not come in if you are sick. Service will be refused and you will be asked to leave. If you are sick please send someone to pick u...p what you need. We would appreciate it if you called ahead to tell us who will be coming in on your behalf. We have implemented some extra precautions to ensure the safety of our staff, volunteers and community. Volunteers or staff working in foodbank will now be wearing facemasks. Firstly, there we will continue with the frequent cleaning of our surface areas and bathroom facilities. Secondly, our Staff and volunteers will be increasing their hand washing or using hand santizer. Thirdly, if you are visiting us for foodbank, or any other service or support you will ask you to wash your hands before we serve you. Opens Mon, Wed, Fri 10am - 2pm Please BYO reusable bags. We are experiencing high demand in the Foodbank, therefore we respectfully asked for your patience as we work to support you. The new limits now start at 6 items and go up by 2 for each person in the family. (back to pre covid limits :-) Please be mindful that Foodbank is supported and run by a generous team of community volunteers. #bekind #foodbank #emergencyfoodrelief #poweredbyvolunteers #SDG #Zerohunger

24.01.2022 Our lovely neighbours The Latrobe Heath Assembly are running a positive parenting virtual seminar. Feel free to give them a like and jump on board for this great community opportunity.

23.01.2022 Foodbank: Open Monday Wednesday Friday 10am 2pm Our priority is to keep our foodbank open.... This essential service supports hundreds of people each week in our community and we really need your help to keep it operating as long as we possibly can. To keep everyone as safe as possible and to adhere to the Federal Governments 2 metre social distancing rule. We have now had to make changes to how people access the foodbank. The foodbank is no longer a self serve service. You will be given a pre-packed parcel. Entry to the House will be restricted to outside the entry doors and you can only pick up food parcels. Please Bring your BAGS. Due to increase in demand we can only support people with Latrobe Valley postcodes only. We are experiencing high demand in the Foodbank, therefore we respectfully asked for your patience as we work to support you. As a result of the increase in demand and to ensure we can support as many people as possible we have lowered the number of items going into the packages. The new limits now start at 5 items and go up by 1 for each person in the family. We acknowledge these new limits will cause some hardship and we apologies for that. We are hoping the limits restrictions will only be temporary. These changes will allow us to provide food relief for more people in need. If you are sick please send someone in to pick up what you need. We would appreciate it if you called ahead to tell us who will be coming in on your behalf. Please be mindful that Foodbank is supported and run by a generous team of community volunteers. #bekind #flattenthecurve #weareallinthistogether #foodrelief #spreadtheword

23.01.2022 GOOD NEWS FOR PARENTS! From term two, educational programming will be extended on ABC ME to support students and caregivers at home from 10am to ...3pm each weekday. The new schedule starts with primary school content in the mornings through to secondary school content in the afternoons. Together, weve got this! Read more: https://ab.co/39BvSTB See more

22.01.2022 From Monday, things may look a little different in regards to wearing masks. Please remember to wear your mask when entering our service. We trully appreciate your cooperation and support. If you forget your mask, please call the centre on 0351346799 Hope you all have a great weekend!

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 unde...rstand 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. See more

22.01.2022 Yum!! Look what we have been donated, fruit and vegetables Thank you to the Salvation Army for your kind donation. Please feel free to come in and take some home for your family.

21.01.2022 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

18.01.2022 Do we not have the best families?! Thank you so much for this generous gesture of appreciation. Your kindness made the office staff cry. Not only did the staff receive flowers and chocolates, but you thought of other families in need and donated gift cards for us to give out to some of our families doing it tough. Words can not express how grateful we are. Thank you

17.01.2022 Take what you need and give what you can. We are feeling the love at Goodstart Morwell. We are one family and at the moment families need food. We have decided to move our community pantry for all to access at the front of our building. Please help your self. Thank you to the Salvation Army for the bread. Thank you to a local family for the home grown apples. Yum

17.01.2022 Goodstart Families! Just wanted to clarify with you that the free childcare package announced by Government today absolutely includes ALL Goodstart centres. I...f 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. See more

17.01.2022 I hope you all have a wonderful day spent with family. See you all Tuesday.

17.01.2022 This afternoons Extra Time Newsletter has just been sent. In todays edition we look at a great initiative that has seen shipments of hand sanitiser go out to E...arly Learning Centres and Kindergartens across the Latrobe Valley thanks to a donation made by the Pharmacy Guild Of Australia - Victoria Branch to the Latrobe Health Assembly. We also share an update from the Latrobe Health Advocate; Jane Anderson on some of the things shes been hearing from the community. Image caption: Lizzie Snell, Morwell Centre Manager at Goodstart Early Learning Morwell Check out todays newsletter directly at https://mailchi.mp//the-extra-time-newsletter-edition-1368 Register to receive the FREE Extra Time Newsletter in your inbox at https://www.extratime.healthassembly.org. Lets stay connected. An initiative of the Latrobe Health Innovation Zone. #socialconnection #communitykindness #latrobehealthassembly #wearelatrobe

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. Were really excited... to share with you a new resource weve developed for families to help them guide and support their childrens 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. Its 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/ See more

16.01.2022 Today our Educators put on a brave face and received the flu vaccine. After a lot of trouble being able to access this The Latrobe Medical Centre came to our rescue. Thank you so much for coming to our centre today! http://www.latrobemedical.com.au/

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 Governments JobKeeper p...ackage. While this wont 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 See more

15.01.2022 Here at Goodstart Morwell we value group learning opportunities. These small and large group experiences support childern to develop relationships, problem solving, collabortion and negotiation skills while providing a sense of agency and alowing childern to experience a sense of belonging through sharing their own voice and knowledge with their peers.

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 celebrate 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

14.01.2022 The Race that "Stops the Nation" is happening Tuesday the 3rd of November, and we will be closed for the Public Holiday. Hope you all enjoy the sunshine !

14.01.2022 With so much happening in the world, things like this make us feel truly appreciated one of our beautiful families have made our educators some gorgeous masks! Thank you

13.01.2022 To the Amazing Dads, Grand Dads and special people in our childerns lives, we wish you all an amzaing day

13.01.2022 Today is RUOK day, and we are so lucky to have an amazing team of edcuators that we wanted to show how much we value them! It is OK not to be OK, and with a little bit of love and kindness we can make the world a better place www.ruok.org.au

13.01.2022 Here at Goodstart Morwell, our Kinder room has had a strong focus on exploring Emotions. Childern have enjoyed using our "Embrace your Emotions" Buddies, purchased through School Readiness Funding. This has enabled children to develop their capacity to identify a range of different feelings and emotions that we all experience.

13.01.2022 We absloutly LOVE water play and bubbles! Taking advantage of the warmer weather and sunshine, the children have been experimenting with cause and effect and engaging their senses while developing the skills to negotiate and collaborate with their peers.

11.01.2022 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 f...rom 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! See more

10.01.2022 Dear Families, There have been a few Government announcements this week which have prompted a number of questions around absences and fees, so I thought I would share a further update with you all. I can confirm that We are able to waive the gap-fee for any day/s your child is absent during the Stage 3 lockdown period What this means is... If your child is sick we will mark the day as absent and the gap-fee will be waived If you would like your child to attend only some of their booked days each week we are able to waive the gap-fee for the days your child is absent. If your child is not able to attend at all during the lockdown period We are able to keep your childs current booking and waive all gap-fees for days your child is absent Please note we do charge in advance and will apply the gap-fee credit to your account each pay cycle once CCS is confirmed by Government Please note: We ask that you please keep your childs booking in place, even if they cant attend all or some of the time. Your fees will be waived (no cost to you), but the funding we receive from Government (CCS) will help keep our educators employed; and our centres open and ready to welcome you back. The Government has allowed providers to do this so that families are still able to retain their bookings, without having any out of pockets costs. We will also be providing a further update soon on the additional support we will be offering around home learning for children who may need to be at home. CCS allowable absences I know that some of you are concerned that you may exceed your 42 CCS allowable absences for the year if you take extended absences during the Stage 3 lockdown period. I can confirm that today the Government announced an extra 30 absence days for families (72 in total) meaning that a child can be absent for part or all of the six week Stage 3 lockdown period with no out of pocket cost for families. Our priority is to continue to support our children and families through these challenging times. Please reach out to me with any questions you may have. Thanks Amanda and Lizzie

10.01.2022 Spring is here and flowers are blooming all around. The childern have taken great care in creating an array of flower types with their educators, exploring how the petals can be all shapes, sizes and colours, developing their knowlege of the world around them.

10.01.2022 This week the children at Goodstart Morwell have been celebrating book week. The children have been very excited to dress up as their favorite book characters. Over the week we have been busy making puppets and exploring lots of language and literacy.

10.01.2022 DID YOU KNOW? Morwell Neighbourhood House The Peoples Place. We deliver programs that address food security issues. ... We provide programs that reduce social isolation and enhance well being. We develop activities that prevent sickness and distress. We provide support services for people experiencing hardship. We partner with organisations, community groups, government departments and philanthropic bodies to share and activate resources in order to grow, replicate, or introduce programs for the community. #thepeoplesplace #registeredcharity #localissueslocalsolutions #WeAreLatrobe #neighbourhoodhouses #changemaker

10.01.2022 Happy Educator Day to our wonderful Team. A couple of little gifts, home made from the heart.

08.01.2022 Dear Families, we are proud to announce that NAIDOC week dates have been announced after their Covid19 postponement. This years theme for NAIDOC week is #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe and we look forward to celebrating the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples alongside you all. https://www.naidoc.org.au

08.01.2022 Team Love. Thank you to the dedicated staff at Goodstart Morwell Commercial Road for the beautiful flowers. Appreciation during COVID . What do you appreciate each day? Happy Friday!

07.01.2022 Look who we had a surprise visit from today! Michelle from The Smith Family delivered amazing books for every child in our service! We will gradually start to send these home and will start with the nursery. Reading to your child is important at all ages! Thank you so much to Michelle and her team for your generosity.

07.01.2022 We are starting our NAIDOC week with a little pretend play under the shade of a shelter. How are you celebrating with your family and friends?

06.01.2022 TOMORROW MORNING FROM 10AM TILL 1PM THERE WILL BE FREE FRUIT AND VEGGIES ONLY AVAILABLE AT 99 BUCKLEY ST MORWELL. PLEASE FOLLOW THE COVID-19 RULES AND RESTIT...UTIONS. IF YOUR FEELING ILL PLEASE DONT COME DOWN. ONE PERSON PER FAMILY IS TO ONLY COME DOWN. WE WILL BE TAKING YOUR DOWN YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION FOR YOURS AND OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS. THERE WILL MARKED AREAS 1.5 METERS AT THE FRONT OF THE GATHERING PLACE SO PLEASE ONLY LINE UP IF THERE IS A SPOT AVAILABLE TO DO SO. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH ONE ANOTHER JUST REMEMBER WHY YOUR LINING UP. THE PEOPLE THEIR ARE DOING THE SAME AS YOU. BE KIND,TAKE CARE&STAY DEADLY. See more

06.01.2022 Yes we are open tomorrow. We cant wait to see your beautiful faces. Remember to wear your mask

05.01.2022 Happy Grand Final long weekend! Just a reminder that we are closed for the public holiday tomorrow. We have also had a fantastic few days dressing up in our favourite Footy Colours and are super excited for the big game on Saturday! Good luck to all the Tiger and Cats fans!!

05.01.2022 Do you want to kick start your career as a male educator in early learning? Kick start your career as a male educator through a traineeship! As a trainee at Goodstart you will Gain your Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care Receive great pay and experience while working in our centres... Have the opportunity for permanent employment upon completion of your study Be part of a fun, high energy team Gain access to our employee benefit program which provides discounts on electronics, holidays, gym memberships and heaps more! Contact Goodstart’s Employment Diversity Team - [email protected]

04.01.2022 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 - lets all bring a little sunshine to some very special people

03.01.2022 Happy Mothers Day. We hope you enjoyed your little breakfast on Friday.

02.01.2022 Red Nose Day Tomorrow. Please feel free to wear a splash of red to the centre.

01.01.2022 Paint is not only for paper. Using bark and other natural materials supports children to broaden their understanding of the world we live in and offers wonderful sensory engagement opportunities