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25.01.2022 Last month our centre Chefs converged at West Leederville SOEL for a Japanese cooking class. Kyoko, a fully qualified Japanese Chef who runs her own cooking school, came in to teach us how to make sushi, teriyaki and vegetarian dishes. These meals will be added to the 2020/2021 Summer Menu that will run until April next year. It was a wonderful afternoon in the kitchen with Kyoko. She taught not only the traditional process behind the dishes but also the allergy and health s...ubstitutes that will need to be taken into consideration for the children. In the coming weeks, you may see Kyoko as she comes around to each of the centres to teach her follow-up lesson and iron out any issues around technique, quantities etc. We always strive to prepare delicious, wholesome and nutritious meals at all of our centres, so we are very excited to be introducing some classic Japanese cuisine dishes to the 2020/2021 Summer Menu. See more

24.01.2022 Choosing the right childcare can be a daunting process. Over on the SOEL blog, we delve into the process and offer some tips. Whether you're thinking about returning to work or considering changing services, this post is definitely worth a read. https://www.soel.wa.edu.au/choosing-the-right-childcare-ce/

23.01.2022 Como SOEL is filming their virtual end of year concert throughout the coming week. Here are some photos of their gorgeous set up with the props that the children have made. These props represent characters the children have been exploring throughout the year. On one side may we introduce you to Echo the bug. Echo, who also features in their Bunuru end of year design, is a stink bug living in the garden that the children had detailed dialogue and narratives about throughout the year. The one on the other side of the stage area is the robot-scarecrow. This character was created to help scare away the flies which, according to the children, were eating the tomatoes in their garden.

22.01.2022 Looking for something to listen to? We love Maggie Dent and her podcast 'Parental As Anything' gives practical tips for real-world parenting dilemmas. Listen here https://www.abc.net.au//parental-as-anything-with-maggie-/

22.01.2022 Across all of our centres at SOEL we have engaged throughout the year (and will continue to do so) in sharing and learning about the rich history of Indigenous Australians. Their traditions, music, language and stories have inspired our learning programmes, specifically through our long term research of ‘Connection to Nature, Land and Country’. We want to Acknowledge the importance of this date and that The very vert first footprints on this continent were those belonging to... First Nations people. NAIDOC 2020 invites all Australians to embrace the true history of this country a history which dates back thousands of generations. It’s about seeing, hearing and learning the First Nations’ 65,000-plus years history of this country which is Australian history. - NAIDOC.org.au For NAIDOC Week we would like to share with you what our three and four-year-old rooms have been working on for their end of year designs. Keep your eyes peeled for these designs as we’ll be posting them all week!

22.01.2022 Welcome back to all SOEL families. We hope you enjoyed the break over Christmas and New Years and are as excited as us for what we have install for 2021.

20.01.2022 At SOEL, we are committed to providing an environment that enriches each child, allowing them to reach their full potential. Quality people are our greatest asset. We are always seeking stars of the sector so that they can shine even brighter with SOEL. Is that you? Apply today! https://www.soel.wa.edu.au/child-care-jobs-perth/

20.01.2022 The children at Subiaco SOEL have been focusing on the Noongar season of Birak (December-January) for their end of year design. This is the season of the young, a time of year where rains ease up, and the warm weather really starts to blossom. There are many fledglings now venturing out of nests and reptiles are looking to shed their old skin. This year Karella had a strong focus on unknown creatures and insects; this has flowed through to their end of year design by focusin...g on young animals. The children have been making houses for bugs and bug families out of loose parts and drawing mini beasts on small pieces of paper. They have also been exploring the colours associated with Birak, orange, yellow, red and blue as well as incorporating circular shapes into their designs. The children worked together to create a detailed background for the end of year design accompanied by several small and curious creatures. This year Kanimbla has focused on baby birds, nests and snakes. Circles representing nests were carefully constructed using wire, wool and raffia, these explorations are supporting the construction and designs of headpieces designs that represent nest and places to nurture the young. Drawings of birds were carefully chosen by the children to complement the backdrop. Charcoal was experimented with, a tactile medium that echoed thoughts of fire, an element evident in the season of Birak. The children were fascinated with snakes and other reptiles shedding their skin. They explored this with bubble wrap and immersive experiences where they wrapped themselves up in materials. Throughout the creation of the end of year design, Subiaco SOEL’s four and three-year-old rooms reflected on their learning throughout the year. They came together again and again in a collaborative explosion to create their representation of the season of the young, Birak. #NAIDOC2020 See more

19.01.2022 At North Perth SOEL the children in the 3 and 4-Year-Old Rooms have been looking into the Noongar season of Makuru (June-July). Known as the fertility season, Makuru is typically the coldest time of year when animals start to pair up. The children investigated individually and collaboratively over the course of the year by revisiting and reflecting on these explorations for the end of year design, transferring and adapting their learning from one context to another. Wet and s...tormy weather characterises Makuru. Over the past few months, the children have been exploring their growing interest in the elements related to Makuru through small and large scale representations, body language, play and digital media, giving form to their understanding. Thought-provoking symbolic representations of the elememts of Makuru by the children of the Kardan Room formed the background of the design. This provided a stormy richness as a base on which the Wolgol children represented their narrative surrounding the birds. Interest in the birds flying inland during Makuru had the children focusing on birds, feathers, flight and protection in the studio. The educators observed the children’s growing advocacy for the birds and their emerging ideas of co-existing. The children reimagined ‘feathers blown away in the storms’ of Makuru, and small wings were created to be gifted to the birds who have lost theirs. Their developing ideas of interdependence with nature saw the children design, create and test wings for themselves and family members to allow them to fly with the birds to safety. Utilising body language as they practised flapping with their newly formed wings, the children also depicted wings on their own bodies through means of photographs and self-portraits. #NAIDOC2020

18.01.2022 At North Fremantle SOEL, the three and four-year-old rooms have gone through an in-depth investigation into the Noongar season of Kambarang (Oct to Nov). Kambarang is the season of birth. It is an explosion of colours and flowers. It’s also a time when snakes start awakening from their hibernation, baby magpies sing out for their parents and whales migrate. The children have used a range of mediums, from digital technologies such as iPads and projectors to paint, clay and wat...ercolour to explore the riotously colourful season of Kambarang. Through collaborative experiences in the studio, the children have worked in groups to create their end of year design. They have sorted through drawings, paintings and three-dimensional works, making decisions about what the design should include. Together they have worked to create their Noorne-Snake, which the children have voted to include in their final design. The children experimented with a range of artistic mediums: from paint, pencil, clay as well as found materials. The children observed elements of Kambarang through magnifying lenses, on overhead projectors and through headphones. They recorded changes in cut wildflowers over the course of a week, noticing changes in colour and shape, and represented these with oil pastels, pencils and paints. The children’s visual representations have helped connect the children to the change of the season: to notice the small details and make sense of their thinking. Together the children decided the design should represent the yellow and pink flowers of the season, the whales moving to warmer waters, as well as the birds, especially the Koolbardie (Magpie), singing songs. They were also inspired by artworks created by the West Australian Martu people. The children explored these paintings, spoke about the many shapes and colours and what they thought the works might be ‘saying’. #NAIDOC2020

17.01.2022 The children in Poppy and Preston at Como SOEL have been investigating the season of Bunuru, the season of adolescence (Feb-Mar). Bunuru is the hottest of the six seasons in the Noongar calendar. It’s a time of little to no rain, hot winds and white flowers. Throughout the year the children at Como SOEL have been observing a stink bug in the community garden which they have dubbed ‘Echo’. Many of the children have suggested that this bug only comes out when it’s warm, during ...Bunuru. Their friend Echo has been a learning lens the children have used throughout the year. They have carefully observed Echo in the garden, and the children have even explored their garden the way Echo would. This involved crawling, climbing and breathing through straws (like Echo supposedly does). This exploration was full of playfulness, testing ways of moving and using their bodies to embody the lived experience of Echo. This allowed the children to come to a more full, compassionate understanding of this bug. For their end of year designs, the children decided to create a representation of Echo. Throughout the year, the children have used their skills in observation, pencil and marker use, colour mixing, watercolour and acrylic paint, as well as clay, to create their representations. These mediums provided an array of perspectives for the children to contemplate Echo’s physical attributes; shape, size, colour and line. During the process of collaboratively representing Echo during the Bunuru season, the children have had to mediate their perspectives. They’ve had to make choices about how Echo would be represented, sometimes compromising their own creative vision to fit that of the group. Everything from the colour of the background to the number legs has been a decision the children have worked on together. The children have collaboratively come together for their end of year design to create a group representation of Echo in Bunuru. #NAIDOC2020

15.01.2022 Are you on our waitlist for 2021? Contact our enrolment team today to discuss availability for a 2021 enrolment! Call our enrolments team on 6314 1199 or email us at [email protected]

13.01.2022 North Perth's filming has just finished up. This centres virtual end of year celebration was filmed in the Studio. The stage area looked gorgeous this year with the children's cloudy little Makuru circle hanging above everyone. With North Perth done we have finally passed our halfway mark with only two centres to go; Como and North Fremantle. The filming of our end of year celebrations is absolutely flying by!

12.01.2022 To further our research on our investigation ‘Connection to Land and Country’, we invited Koorlong Noongar Songs in Schools Project into our centres. Guided by elders and other cultural leaders, they have been singing Aboriginal songs across the Metro area and regionally across WA. During their visits to each one of our centres, the group shared their new song: Bibbulmun Bonar- Six Seasons. We were the first ones to hear it and the song became an important part of our prog...ramme, as a large part of our investigation focused on the six Aboriginal seasons. Now we would like to share their song with you, alongside our children’s artwork! Please enjoy this song by Cezera Critti-Schnaars, Keira Gentle and Sara Terry. Music by Charley Caruso. Illustrated by Schools of Early Learning Kindy Children. With special thanks to Dr Clint Bracknell on his advice on language in the song. Visit their website to learn more about what they do http://www.madjitilmoorna.org.au/

11.01.2022 The three and four-year-old rooms at Nedlands SOEL have been investigating the Noongar season of Djilba (Aug-Sept). Djilba is the season of conception. It’s an explosion of flowering acacias and unpredictable weather which rapidly swings back and forth between sun and rain. The disposition of ‘creativity’ has been a focal point of the children’s learning, as they immersed themselves in exploring the colours, sounds, animals, weather, flora and changing landscapes of the Djilb...a season. The 4-Yr-Old Numbats room showed a keen interest in the flora elements of wattle and acacia flowers. The children observed the soft and fluffy yellow flowering buds and their interconnected twig stems and branches. They used these observations to create intricately patterned drawings which they built upon with ‘cuddle clay’ (as they had to warm the clay between their hands). The children modelled these circular lines and shapes, imbuing seeds into the clay to reflect the rich colours of the plants. The children have also been identifying and drawing the various Noongar symbols related to Djilba. The children went on a ‘water hunt’ around the school so they could label various areas in their environment with the water symbol (a swirl). This allowed the children to interconnect their environment and Djilba in a tangible way. The Bilbies, through their persistent exaltation of seeds and beans, created a large spiral to symbolise water, in memory of the sudden downpours experienced throughout Djilba. This spiral was made of painted pieces of card in seedpod shapes, embellished with colourful seeds and beans. The activity of sticking down the seeds and beans showed great persistence as the children glued each seed one by one. The spiral nestled on top of the flower design for the end of year canvas represents the unified documentation of the season of Djilba and all its wonder. #NAIDOC2020

11.01.2022 Enjoy the Christmas break, we are closed from Friday the 25th of December 2020 to Monday the 4th of January 2021, reopening on Tuesday 5th of January 2021.

09.01.2022 At the Schools of Early Learning, we aim to make all aspects of our children’s learning meaningful to them. We want the children’s learning to be something they can revisit throughout the year so they can reflect and build on what they know. These six Noongar seasons that we have shared with you on Facebook during NAIDOC week are not for NAIDOC week. They are a culmination of the children’s learning that has taken place throughout the whole year. Our goal this year as part of... our long-term investigation ‘Connection to Nature, Land and Country’ has been to honour Aboriginal ways of knowing and being, as well as immersing the children in the rhythm and colour of the Noongar seasons, stories, music and art forms. This investigation is still ongoing and will be until the end of the year, with many children bringing their newfound knowledge into next year’s investigations. #NAIDOC2020 See more

09.01.2022 North Fremantle SOEL had their last day of filming today! That means all of our end of year concerts are officially done for the year. Now we switch gears as we say goodbye to the children focusing on their portfolios and end of year canvases. North Fremantle SOEL's concert was a great finale for this filming adventure. Their backdrop this year was very natural and organic as the children performed under a tree in their garden with their Noorne-snake and lizard props. We're excited to share the final video with families, so please keep your eye on Storypark for those!

08.01.2022 On our Instagram, we’re taking a look at North Perth SOEL’s Connection to Country investigation. Don’t forget you can check out an in-depth look at all the investigations we feature on Instagram in our Insta Highlights. https://www.instagram.com/soel_perth/

05.01.2022 For their end of year t-shirt and backdrop design, the children at West Leederville SOEL have been focusing on the Noongar season of Djeran (April-May), a transitional time of the year when warm days are met with cooler evenings. This is the time of year when animals begin to prepare for winter (Makuru), birds reach adulthood and begin to make nests and shelters (mia mia’s). Cooler evenings bring more cloud cover and are characterised by vibrant sunsets. This year Matisse has... been exploring Connection to Land through engaging with a range of natural mediums to tell stories, reflect on their environment and develop a sense of place. One of the key provocations this year has been feathers. The children have developed a strong sense of narrative around birds, where they live and how they move. Due to this, the children decided that the main feature for their end of year design would be a tree for their birds. The DaVinci Room has been studying cycles in nature and colour transformations from the sky to the waters. The transcendent and fluid form of the colours through the sky sparked the children’s curiosity and sense of wonder. As the children worked to capture these changes as part of the background for the end of year design, they discussed how the changing sky might make the animals feel. Where can they find shelter at night? Do they need to find their mummy and daddy? Do they stay awake? What do they do? Working together, the three and four-year-old children have merged DaVinci’s colour exploration and observational skills of the shades and hues found in nature; with Matisse’s narratives of birds and stories of our land. The children have connected and collaborated to create this stunning representation of the seasonal elements of Djeran. The children have taken great pride and joy in the process and evolution of their design. #NAIDOC2020

01.01.2022 Are you on our waitlist for 2021? Contact our enrolments team today to discuss availability for a 2021 enrolment! Call our enrolments team on 6314 1199 or email us at [email protected]

01.01.2022 Want to learn more about the SOEL Way? Peek at our YouTube channel to find out more about what makes SOEL! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFsqYhXPOOrYNFmvjh7Pjtg