Lady Gowrie Tasmania in South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Lady Gowrie Tasmania

Locality: South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Phone: +61 3 6230 6800

Address: 346 Macquarie Street 7004 South Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.gowrie-tas.com.au

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25.01.2022 Lady Gowrie Tasmania is a member of the B4 Early Years Coalition and is a partner of the Making Marks Celebrating Children’s Art Exhibition. This project, which saw over 130 works of art submitted for the exhibition by children aged birth to four years, aims to celebrate, nurture and support the voices of very young children through art. The B4 Early Years Coalition has facilitated a Tasmanian tour of the exhibition and the artworks are currently on display at the Launcesto...n Library until Friday 27th November, 2020. B4 Early Years Coalition is a movement for change to ensure every child in Tasmania is cared for and nurtured through the early years, no matter what. The name ‘B4’ represents the early years of a child’s life pregnancy to age four before a child begins full-time school and the period before birth. To learn more about Making Marks Celebrating Children’s Art Exhibition and the important work of the B4 Early Years Coalition, please follow the link below: https://b4.education.tas.gov.au/projects/ Lady Gowrie Tasmania ‘Children First’.

24.01.2022 At Lady Gowrie Tasmania’s Annual General Meeting held yesterday, retiring staff and those who have given 10 and 20 years of dedicated service to the organisation were acknowledged along with the announcement of the recipients of the Helen Stephen Memorial Scholarship. Helen Stephen was the Kindergarten Teacher at the Lady Gowrie Tasmania Battery Point for 25 years and during this time she played an important role in the lives of many children and their families. She also infl...Continue reading

24.01.2022 To demonstrate Lady Gowrie Tasmania’s commitment to both reconciliation and genuinely learning about our First Nation peoples, members of staff from Head Office in South Hobart took a walk along the along the South Hobart Rivulet Track this morning. This was a time for reflection and understanding the story of the muwinina people of Hobart through palawa wiradjuri artist Luana Towney’s travelling book, ngayapi niyakara - Born to Dream. The story is told through five panels a...long the rivulet track and Luana describes the story as ‘a child friendly history lesson about first contact in nipaluna in both palawa kani and English.’ Luana is a proud Palawa/Wiradjuri woman, painter, basket weaver, shell stringer, poet and photographer. She was recently awarded the First Nations Aboriginal Writers Network Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert Open Age Poetry award and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Emerging Writer award in 2020. This walk is family friendly and is a wonderful opportunity for children and families to celebrate and understand the story of the muwinina people of Hobart in an interactive way. Lady Gowrie Tasmania ‘Children First’.

21.01.2022 ‘The professional learning session provided a good balance between theory and practice. I feel inspired to implement these user-friendly ideas in my day-to-day practice and interactions with children’. Gowrie Training & Consultancy Client. Gowrie Training & Consultancy is a division of Lady Gowrie Tasmania. This program consists of a team of dedicated professionals, who have worked in, studied with and supported organisations across a range of early and middle childhood progr...ams, throughout Tasmania, Australia and overseas for over 20 years. The team provides professional learning through a range of programs, both accredited training as a Registered Training Organisation (RTO 45602), as well as customised delivery, projects and events to professionals working in education and community programs. To learn more about the inspiring programs available through Gowrie Training & Consultancy, please follow the link below: https://gowrie-tas.com.au/gowrie-training-consultancy/ Gowrie Training & Consultancy - ‘A Culture of Inspired Learners’

20.01.2022 Lady Gowrie Tasmania Norwood Education and Care Service share their NAIDOC Week reflection below: NAIDOC Week aims to embed respect for indigenous history, culture and stories into our daily practices as an ongoing ‘way of being’. A discussion in the Hilton Room about caring for our land and each other was followed by our Acknowledgement to Country poem, all whilst sitting in a circle on our ‘yarning’ mat. We then shared the book ‘Kangaroos Hop’ written by Ros Moriarty and i...llustrated by Balarinji. Later the children painted small cups using cotton buds and the prominent colours, red, green and yellow, used in the illustrations in the book. The children referred to the animal pictures for inspiration and shared discussions about kangaroos, birds, lizards, goannas and crocodiles. Then we all helped to decorate our ‘yarning tree’ using traditional indigenous colours. Yarning trees, also known as welcoming or belonging trees, are used in some indigenous ceremonies where leaves from the tree are offered to welcome you to everything from the tops of the trees to the roots of the earth. The tree symbolises a link between community, country and is a means by which to honour the ancestral spirits. Working together to create the yarning tree encouraged genuine conversations around indigenous culture and acknowledged the value of each child’s story and experience. Lady Gowrie Tasmania - ‘Children First’.

20.01.2022 Gowrie Training & Consultancy will be hosting Little Scientists Design and Technology workshops in Hobart, Launceston and Ulverstone during November. For further information about these inspiring, engaging and practical workshops please follow the link below:

18.01.2022 More photos to share from last week’s Lady Gowrie Tasmania 2020 Children’s Week Teddy Bears’ Picnic. Lady Gowrie Tasmania Gordon Square Education and Care Service in George Town, Gemma’s Family Day Care and Enriched Explorers Family Day Care share their photos below. It was wonderful to see Emily, Shelley and Toni from the Lady Gowrie Tasmania Family Day Care team enjoying a Teddy Bears’ Picnic in the office with their own teddy bears from home!... Lady Gowrie Tasmania ‘Children First’.

09.01.2022 To celebrate NAIDOC Week 2020 and AusMusic Month, ABC Melbourne is presenting a special one-hour performance today featuring some of Australia’s most talented and exciting Indigenous musicians. This special broadcast will showcase the talents of multi-award winning singer-songwriter Kutcha Edwards, Kee’ahn and Bumpy and soul powerhouse Emma Donovan will perform her rousing release Mob March with her funk band, The Putbacks. This special performance will be broadcast on ABC Ra...dio today from 2.00pm until 3.00pm and then streamed on Facebook and YouTube from 8.00pm until 9.00pm tonight. ABC are hosting a variety of NAIDOC Week programs and celebrations across radio and television this week, including special features on ABC Kids. Please follow the link below to find out more: http://about.abc.net.au//always-was-always-will-be-naidoc/ https://www.abc.net.au//naidoc-musical-celebration/12797360 NAIDOC Week 2020 - 'ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE'.

02.01.2022 It was a wonderful sight to see children and educators across all Lady Gowrie Tasmania Education and Care Services come together last week to celebrate the 2020 Children’s Week Teddy Bears’ Picnic. Teddy bears of all shapes and sizes were proudly cuddled, played with and ‘fed’ at the picnic by the children and their friends. The Integrated Centre for Children and Families and Fahan Education and Care Service share their Teddy Bears’ Picnic photos below.... Lady Gowrie Tasmania ‘Children First’.

02.01.2022 Lady Gowrie Tasmania Battery Point Education and Care Service share their NAIDOC Week 2020 reflection and photos below: ‘Aboriginal body painting or art and personal ornamentation is an ancient tradition which carries deep spiritual significance for the Australian Indigenous People. Their cultural rituals including body painting differ between Aboriginal Tribes and topographic location. It is related to spiritual matters and is very creative in character. The specific designs... and motifs used by the Aboriginals reveal their relationships to their family group, social position, tribe, precise ancestors, totemic fauna and tracts of land.’ Quote taken from Artlandish Aboriginal Art Gallery website. This week the children from the Kelly and Runnymede Rooms were engaged in representational Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art exploration in the garden, using both watered down clay to represent a similar product that would have been used traditionally and earthen coloured water paints. There was great interest in this experience due to the direct connection between the children’s eagerness to engage in body painting this year and their ongoing journey of learning about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and their practices. We thank our wonderful educator, Corin, for encourging the children’s use of natural materials to make the homemade tools to paint with. In the Kelly Room the children also engaged in meaningful discussions about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flag and what the colours represent. With the clear understanding that the flag is a significant symbol and an original artwork, the children then painted their own flags as a representation of the flag and their ongoing learning.’ It is wonderful to see the children and educators at this service engaging in such genuine and respectful NAIDOC Week celebrations and experiences. Lady Gowrie Tasmania ‘Children First’.

01.01.2022 NAIDOC Week is an annual celebration of the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The NAIDOC Week theme for 2020 is ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’ and recognises that First Nations peoples have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. Lady Gowrie Tasmania especially acknowledge and pay our respects to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community and Elder’s past and present. We wish to highlight the importance of celebrati...ng with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community during NAIDOC Week 2020. To learn more about Lady Gowrie Tasmania’s commitment to reconciliation please follow the link below: https://gowrie-tas.com.au/about-us/ Lady Gowrie Tasmania - ‘Children First’.