St Mary's Preschool Tamworth in Tamworth, New South Wales | Childcare service

St Mary's Preschool Tamworth

Locality: Tamworth, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6766 5071

Address: 7-9 North Street 2340 Tamworth, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.stmaryspreschool.net.au

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25.01.2022 The children’s voices are always valued and important. #lockdownevacuationdrill #reflectingonourlockdown

24.01.2022 We had a delivery today from Riley Callie Resources, Mirii Designs The children were quick set up for a game with the bush food snap cards. We had a solid 45 minutes worth of children coming and going from the space learning, trying, watching, laughing and participating Some children were unsure of how to play while others were really keen to share their skill on the game. The bush food pictures and names added a beautiful cultural layer all wrapped up in important detail about the land around us. These cards help to extend the children’s knowledge about different types of bush food, but also promoted further discussion around the bush foods we already have in our garden and new plants the children are excited to add. #persistence #perseverence #patience #Aboriginalperspective #conectiontocountry #careforourlandandcountry

23.01.2022 Spring is in the air #natureappreciation #careforourcountry #outside #sunshine

23.01.2022 This afternoon after making strawberry ice cream with Hayley this morning we had an ice cream shop. The children got to practise asking the shop keeper for their icecream and paying for it. Building communication skills and confidence is key. #confidentcommunicators #homemadeicecream

22.01.2022 Some gorgeous cooking with our home grown plums this morning and a little bit of Christmas cooking too. #plumtarts #peppermintcoconutballs #growyourown #christmasiscoming

22.01.2022 Sensory play #buildingnerveconnectionsinthebrain #supportinglanguagedevelopment #encouragingscientificthinking #interactionswithfriends #beautifulday

19.01.2022 Another bumper harvest from the plum tree this morning. From our garden to our belly #growyourownfruit #bees #joyinfood #tryingnewfoods

16.01.2022 So many amazing Christmas projects went home with the children this year. Many of these were projects that we worked on over a period of weeks, that really shows the perseverance and concentration these children have #christmas2020 #childledandinspiredprojects #childrensvoices #sharedlearning

16.01.2022 We have had a mural in our minds and thoughts for sometime now and finding the right artist has been a very important step. We are very proud to share with you all we have found Kaliela at Maaya-li Dhawun Creations - Aboriginal Artist. Kaliela is an amazing local Aboriginal artist who has visited with us twice now. Today Kaliela popped in and while meeting with the children discussed her draft artwork with them. Our children shared some of their ideas about animals they would like to add including Burrugarbuu and Dhinawan in the sky. We are already in love with Kaliela’s ideas and can’t wait to work together. #ThankyouKaliela #Aboriginalartist #mural #artworkblurreduntilthebigreveal #love

15.01.2022 Today we started our very own individualised beeswax wrap. The children chose their colour and began their drawings. Tomorrow we iron on the beeswax. In our garden today some of the children explored loose parts on a small scale, moving dirt and sand to build their own miniature bike ramp in a small dirt patch in the middle of the yard. #sustainablepractices #buildingcreativity #encouragingthought #takecareofourcountrytogether

13.01.2022 A big part of the preschool journey is preparing for the transition to big school. At St Mary’s we value the journey as much as the destination and today that involved stepping out into our community and investing in our self confidence. The children delivered some pamphlets about their Food Bank and Book Exchange (see the video from earlier today) and hung signs in our North Tamworth community. The teachers have been so overwhelmed by the children’s selflessness, sense of empathy and the generosity of our beautiful families. #confidentcommunicators #readyforschool #sustainablefuture #proud

13.01.2022 We wanted to send out a special appreciation post to all of our amazing families who have embraced our curriculum and adapted so many of the values and concepts we worked on with the children into your homes this year. It has been clear in your thoughtful cards and letters these have been some of the things you love about St Mary’s. Sharing life lessons and learning new skills with the children is how we encourage a life long love of learning and preparing our children for their future education. We have had an amazing donation for preschool from one of our families we wanted to share with the wider community. Straight from a small community near Uluru. To all of our families, thank you for taking this walk with us Casey and family, thank you from the very bottom of our hearts.

11.01.2022 We had an inspiring day today celebrating Indigenous Literacy Day. Can you imagine never seeing a book written in your own language? We can’t either! We have plans in the making on how we can engage with some of these children, sharing not only literacy but all kinds of shared learning experiences and hopefully friendships with them. We also cooked and ate damper together, painted animals out of stories from remote communities written in language from that nation to, thanks ...to ILF. These are stories those children can relate to and finally get to see printed in their language. We had many discussions throughout the day and one of our friends decided we should keep the donation tin out the front for anyone else who didn’t get the chance to donate today. The Indigenous Literacy Foundation #readingopensdoors #learningabouttheworldaroundus #noteveryonehasbooks See more

11.01.2022 We would like to wish all of our amazing families past and present, of course the children and our much loved wider community for your ongoing support and love throughout 2020. We are very excited to welcome the new year in with open arms. Have a happy and safe New Years everyone

11.01.2022 Those simple unplanned moments are sometimes the best #sunnydays #experimentation #learningthroughplay #lookwhatIcando

11.01.2022 Our lid collection is still going and has been a big source of discussions and sorting today. We have refreshed the reuse, reduce, recycle message with the children again so in the coming days and weeks, your children will be looking for lids with the number 2 and 4 in your recycling boxes I’m sure. Thank you for your ongoing support in our effort to guide the children toward a greener world. #sustainability #envisionhands #mobilityaids #redusereuserecycle

10.01.2022 Adding Apple, banana and plastic to our decomposition garden. Turn taking, water exploration play, let’s get wet. What’s the time Mr Wolf. Wattleseed popcorn and taking care of our land ... #cookingwithbushfoods #learningabouttraditionalfoods #learningaboutdecomposition #sustainability #appreciationoftheworldaroundus

10.01.2022 Another gorgeous resource from Riley Callie Resources. We do a lot of cooking and discovery in the kitchen at St Mary’s and one of our goals is to have a workable bush food garden that we can use in our kitchen. Another learning space in our garden and plenty of native flowers for our soon to come native bees. Marumalay bushspices #nativebushspices #discovery #growingourown #learningtocooktogether #awakenthesenses #addinganAboriginalperspective

10.01.2022 banma-li in Gomeroi language means help #communityconnection #bigvoicesforlittlepeople #activecitizenship #empowerment #keywordsign

09.01.2022 Always searching through trees to find the hidden gems #birdnests #stoptolookinthetrees #appreciatenature

09.01.2022 Happy Father’s Day to all of the Amazing Dads, Pops, uncles, brothers and Mums managing both roles in our lives #propagatedourownsucculentsformonthswaitingforfatnersday

09.01.2022 Today our children were asked to design their own beehive. As we wait excitedly for our bees to arrive hopefully next term, it is time for us to prepare our preschool to accommodate them appropriately. While they are native, the weather in Tamworth does get really hot and pretty cold so it is important we do our research to protect them as much as we can #nativestinglessbees #holisticapproach #childrensvoicesandideas #bringingnativesback #caringforourlandcaringforourcountry #nativeaustralia

08.01.2022 Warmly welcoming visitors into our preschool is very important to us. Understanding what it takes to do so is a beautiful skill to master. At preschool greeting new friends is vital, mostly it’s a Hello or Yaama maybe a smile and a wave. It is also nice to have something to offer our visitors. Today we made Krystle some lemon Myrtle scones with home made marmalade and strawberry jam. Our new friend Krystle came in today to teach us a beautiful song about a kookaburra in langu...age. Now most of us know the Kookaburra song, but do you know the Gugurrgaagaa song. The children learned it quickly and it has now become their new favourite. They were also keen to share with Krystle other words and songs they have learned in language over the past year. Learning about our countries beautiful traditional culture through song/language is nothing short of inspiring. Thank you Krystle for coming and sharing your knowledge with us today. Yaluu for now and we can’t wait to see you again next term. #learninglanguage #Gugurrgaagaa #kookaburra #sharingculture #sharingknowledge

07.01.2022 Building campfires, making mud pies. Rolling and chasing hoops, engineering waterways and fresh fertilised eggs for Henrietta. #beautifulday #outside #friends

06.01.2022 So today the tears began to fall as we said goodbye to our Rosie. Gradually from now our friends will begin to leave preschool for their final time. While it is sad for us to say goodbye we know they are ready to take on big school and we wish them all the very best for their future. #bigschoolready #wewillmissyou #safetravels

04.01.2022 Well it’s Christmas eve and while I’m sure all of our beautiful little people are all tucked up in bed having left out their reindeer food and snacks for Santa, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Enjoy the quiet moments with those you love the most amongst the chaos of the festive season. #christmas2020 #stmarysfamily

03.01.2022 Harvesting more mulberries, what a beautiful week we have had celebrating NAIDOC week at preschool. Artwork credit to Letitia Barty, LB Aboriginal Art #learninghowtogrowourfood #caringforourfruittrees #aboriginalart #alwayswasalwayswillbe #letitiabarty #nurture #growth #learningtruthandhistory

02.01.2022 Real tools...is there another way to really engage and learn? Real and authentic experiences are what our children crave. That element of danger and risk is present which allows the children to decide if the want to take it or not. Making considered choices can be difficult but our children are learning their teachers trust them which in turn allows them to trust themselves and their own choices. #riskyplay #dangerouselements #makingchoices #trustingourselves #trustingourteachers #webuiltourowncar

02.01.2022 Shhh they can’t see us....here we are! #friends

02.01.2022 Engineering waterways, experimenting with force and motion, celebrating birthdays and taking home our homemade beeswax wraps. #term3youwereamazing

01.01.2022 So busy on this Thursday. This morning we made Lemon Myrtle melting moments and further discovered our very own Lemon Myrtle tree smelling this gorgeous leaves. A little later, outside we made a hose reel using the drill. #homemade #bushfood #realtools #realcooking #lifeskills

01.01.2022 There are some exciting things happening at preschool already

01.01.2022 The goodbye circle and the tunnel have become almost legend at this time of year