Mildura Central Early Learning Centre in Mildura, Victoria | Childcare service

Mildura Central Early Learning Centre

Locality: Mildura, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5023 3214

Address: 145 - 149 Lime Avenue 3500 Mildura, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.mychildelc.com.au

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25.01.2022 Wiggle Friday! Our community worm farm is cared for by all our children and educators. Did you know Worm Farms are an efficient way to reduce household waste and produce nutrient-rich fertilizer for the garden. In fact, worms can consume and compact waste so well that they can reduce the volume of organic matter by 95 per cent!

24.01.2022 Meet Cat! Cat uses the emotions curious, happy and cranky as tools for children to express their feelings throughout the day. The Kimochi program is a big aspect of our wellbeing program, providing the children with opportunities to explore emotions, how they may look, sound, feel and regulate.

23.01.2022 We are ready for the gorgeous sunny week ahead! Don't forget to pack your sun hat, ready for the bear hunt! Swishy, swashy, swishy, swashy!

23.01.2022 Tomorrow & Thursday our Kindergarten children will be celebrating their Graduation! Parents of graduates please check your email & confirm with educators for details of how to log into our Zoom session

22.01.2022 Congratulations Erica! You have worked incredibly hard to complete your Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care.

21.01.2022 ‘Putting children first’ was front of mind when the National Child Protection Week campaign was launched in 1990. Putting children first means prioritising the safety and wellbeing of children. To grow up well children need to feel safe and loved, have a chance to play and explore, have a say in decisions that affect them, and access to essential things like food, shelter and healthcare. For children to thrive we need to continually come together as a community and put children’s needs first. Our children this week have been exploring how they feel safe and loved, through play, books, create arts and collaborative discussions.

21.01.2022 Celebrating You! Father's Day is this Sunday the first Sunday of September! COVID certainly has changed our celebrations this year, but we still enjoyed a take away smoko for our dads and special people today to say Thank you!

20.01.2022 Over the past several weeks we have been gathering our family, Children and community perspectives around new menu ideas. Every two years we have our menu assessed under Nutrition Australia to ensure we are providing the children nutritious, multicultural foods and promoting healthy eating. Our Centre Cook, Darrien, has started to collate all of our family and children's perspectives working in partnership with Sunraysia Community Health in creating new menus.

20.01.2022 Regular OH&S training is important to ensure the health and safety of our educators, families and children are met. Quality Area 2 Children's health and safety. Today Maddi completed the safe @ work general module, touching on different topics such as workplace injuries, safe manual handling techniques and the occupational health and safety act. This certificate can be found in the OH&S committee folder in the front foyer.

19.01.2022 Our enrolled families can now book photos. Lisa Milne Photography

18.01.2022 How beautiful is this ! Educators day is tomorrow, don't forget to place your wish in our basket.

18.01.2022 Recently our Centre participated in the Assessment and Rating Program. Today we received our Assessment and Rating Report and are very pleased to share the news!! Mildura Central Early Learning Centre has been rated as Exceeding National Quality Standard under the National Quality Framework (NQF). Our Early Learning Centre received seven out of the seven quality rating as Exceeding National Quality Standard. The National Quality Standard (NQS) sets a national benchmark for the quality of children’s education and care services across Australia. We are very pleased to have been assessed as the highest quality rating in all areas.

15.01.2022 An exciting virtual tour for families to watch while spending time at home! https://facebook.com/events/s/free-virtual-tour-african-safa/282200479746416/

15.01.2022 Phonics forms a strong base for our literacy and language program. But there are so many fun ways to explore so many concepts of learning during play. This literacy experience the children explored opened a world of learning opportunities for the children. Before exploring the sounds hiding amongst the ice we hypothesised, experimented with trial and error, strengthened our fine motor and social skills. With the warmer weather kicking at home there are so many fun ice exploration experiences you can create with the family! A treasure hunt on your next walk to the park, using all the goodies found place them in a recycled ice cream container or ice trays, fill with water and pop in the freezer.

14.01.2022 This afternoon the children enjoyed some time in the garden picking some fresh silverbeet ready for Lynise to cook up tomorrow for lunch. #healthyeating#exploringvegetables#homegrown

14.01.2022 Happy International Day of Older Persons to all of our grandparents and other special people in the children's lives! International Day of Older Persons is an opportunity to highlight the important contributions that older people make to our society. Today the Starfish Room children demonstrated great understanding of this special calendar event as they expressed their creativity while painting such beautiful pieces of artwork to post in the mail to their Grandparents and Special People. When prompted for ideas to brighten our local aged care home residents days while they aren't receiving visitors, the children were quick to suggest "drawings!". As they also set off to create meaningful cards and paintings to gift to a local aged care home.

13.01.2022 At the end of each term we like to critically reflect on our routines drawing on everyone's perspectives. This helps our team to review what is working and what is not working in the current approaches, practice, experiences, and how we might implement further strategies that will result in improved outcomes for our educators, families, community and children’s wellbeing, learning and development. Our starfish team enjoyed the sunshine over the weekend to collaborate and reflect on this past term. While our little starfish friends have been exploring their room floor book to express their perspectives.

12.01.2022 Reconciliation is a journey for all Australians as individuals, families, communities, organisations and importantly as a nation. Our curriculum has embedded learning opportunities as we strive to learn, understand and respect all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Our Reconciliation Action Plan https://www.narragunnawali.org.au//mildura-central-early-l

12.01.2022 Early Childhood Educator. An opportunity exists to join our Mildura Central Early Learning team. We are seeking an experienced Educator. An Educator that is passionate about early childhood and guiding children's learning in a positive and holistic way. Have great communication skills and are able to work in a team effectively. See all children as capable and involved learners. Eager to learn and grow with the centre. Have an understanding of Reggio Emilia or are willing to learn. Currently hold an early childhood qualification or are currently working towards. Have a current Working with Children's Check and First Aid Certificate. Please forward Resumes to Ainslee Sullivan [email protected]

11.01.2022 Hello Families, It is that time of the year again, Re-enrolment! Please keep an eye on your emails for an email from our DocuSign system. Re-enrolment for 2021 will need to be completed no later than Monday, 14th September 2020. If you have any queries, please let us know.

11.01.2022 Begin a balanced week by incorporating time for self care today. And read this article from The Conversation, which shares research-based ways to cope with the uncertainties of pandemic life. bit.ly/3i5sXqi

11.01.2022 Our Educators have had an amazing day. Thank you for all the beautiful gifts, flowers, wishes we received showing your gratitude for our magical educators. We love what we do creating a sense of belonging, building our community, learning, games, experimenting, cuddles, listening to the gorgeous things 2 yr olds say, emotion coaching, dressing up, dancing and singing out little hearts out. Thank you for being apart of our community! #earlychildhoodeducatorsday

09.01.2022 The Victorian Government has just announced that as of 11.59pm this evening (27 May 2021), the whole of Victoria will go into lockdown with Stage 3 Restrictions. We have been informed from 11:59pm tonight, there will be five reasons to leave home: Food and supplies Authorised work... Care and caregiving Exercise, for up to two hours and with one other person Getting vaccinated Acting Premier James Merlino has stated that childcare and kinder will remain open. We are waiting from specific advice from the Victorian Government to understand how these latest restrictions will impact the operation of early learning services as they remain open. We have been informed that there will be no restrictions on the attendance of children. There is new guidance that Face Masks will also need to be worn inside and outdoors everywhere except your own home. We will advise any further developments or updates.

08.01.2022 Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known - Loris Malaguzzi

08.01.2022 Our Educators in the Starfish room have been working closely with Ashleigh from the Aurora School in Melbourne around sign language and learning experiences. We are thankful for technology as the children zoomed into a session with Ashleigh and she signed the story "Brown Bear, Brown Bear". The children enjoyed the learning experience, so engaged copying Ashleigh's AUSLAN signs asking for Brown Bear to be read once more, effectively signing the words "more" and "thank you" to communicate with Ashleigh.

07.01.2022 2 days until Early Childhood Educators Day!

06.01.2022 Exploring our family cultures. Family cultural flags on building blocks. This fun interactive experience provided children with the opportunity to further explore the cultures within our room through a creative and challenging activity. It challenged the children's creative thinking and problem solving as they discovered the building together and taking apart processes while being exposed to cultural flag colours.

06.01.2022 Mildura Central Early Learning Centre have completed the new 'Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drugs' Health Priority Area of the Achievement Program Congratulations! ...You are the first Early Childhood Service in Mildura to be completely up to date with the updated Achievement Program cycle. Tracey Lee is pictured below (not Bree sorry!) showing off the additional resources that have been added to their wellbeing folder.

05.01.2022 Who is that baby? Some Friday fun, some of our educators have brought in a baby photo to share. Let's guess who they are!

04.01.2022 This year marks our centres 15th SunSmart Birthday. That’s a brilliant achievement! Through the efforts of member services such as ours and a more sun awareness in the community, we are seeing a decline in melanoma rates in people under 60 who have spent half of their life exposed to sun protection messages. During the sun protection times (typically from mid-August to the end of April in Victoria), please make sure children from about two years of age have some experience of applying their own sunscreen as this is a skill they will need to develop before starting school and becomes a life long skill.

04.01.2022 We would like to welcome Ally to our Mildura Central team and welcome back Teegan from Maternity Leave! Ally is excited to create beautiful relationships with children, educators and families across the centre and has a great talent of pottery that she can bring to the service! Teegan is excited to join the Mildura Central team again after having some time off with her newest son Kylo! If you see them around feel free to say hello and introduce yourself

03.01.2022 Celebrating You! We hope this gorgeous video adds an extra special smile for you this father's Day. Thank you to all the Dads and father figures in all our lives for everything you do for us

03.01.2022 Our Wednesday Graduates getting ready for their special day congratulations everyone! We wish families were here celebrating with us but we hope you enjoyed our Zoom!

03.01.2022 Maddi has been working hard creating experiences and learning opportunities for our children promoting good oral health and healthy eating habits. Our centre being awarded again Smiles For Miles. We have fulfilled the criteria set out by the Dental Health Services Victoria. Thank you to SCHS for your ongoing community support Sunraysia Community Health Services

03.01.2022 Happy National Fairy Bread Day! Today was all about providing the children with opportunities to express their own creative imaginations as they dressed up as fairies or other magical creatures! The children enjoyed creating and tasting some delicious fairy bread for afternoon tea!

03.01.2022 Our Kindergarten children have adored their new learning environment today with many stories being explored on their new couch.

02.01.2022 Happy Monday We are so excited to see what kind of magic potions we can make this week. Exploration, using our senses, mixing, pouring, fresh chocolate mint from our garden so much fun!

01.01.2022 It is that time of the year again, the 10,000 step challenge kicks off Monday! We love this community event and have a world of fun with it every year. This year our Magical Educators are ready to take on this challenge #wellbeingchallengepositivityteamwork #schs10000steps