The Point Preschool in Oyster Bay, New South Wales, Australia | Education

The Point Preschool

Locality: Oyster Bay, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9528 5003

Address: 89R Greenpoint Road 2225 Oyster Bay, NSW, Australia

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

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24.01.2022 Each day the children are so excited to play with our new, second hand dinosaurs. As Flynn said "It's great to play with them because we are reusing them. They could have been put in the bin and that's not good. We are good custodians of the land". Thank you to Mikila for sourcing our second hand dinosaurs for us ... #Reuse #Reduce #Recycle #CareForCountry

20.01.2022 We’re organising our tea towel fundraiser for this year and we’re now taking orders. Last year's tea towels were absolutely gorgeous and many families bought them for Christmas gifts. Families please check your emails today for more details. If anyone who is not a parent of a child currently enrolled Our Place and you'd like to order a tea towel message us or email us directly. We welcome orders from our wonderful supportive friends and community.

19.01.2022 Thank you to Eleni Petinos MP for your continued support for our place and all the community based preschools in The Shire. We greatly appreciate your recognition of our high quality educational program and beautiful learning environment. We all enjoyed your visit and hope you visit us again very soon. #WelcomeEleni #CommunityPartners

18.01.2022 This is exciting news - the Aussie Backyard Bird Count 2020 results are available. Bird watching and counting brings us great joy at Our Place. We delight in being able to connect with nature each day and spend time outdoors in our beautiful learning environment and when walking on Country. #AussieBackyardBirdCount #WeLoveNature #TakeAStepOutsideYourDoor

17.01.2022 There is something about the scent of gardenias that immediately takes you back to your grandmother's garden or to the tropical islands of the Pacific. Helena gifted us with these beautiful gardenias from her garden. Their scent filled our atelier with their beautiful perfume and with love. Thank you Helena for your beautiful gift. #Gardenias #PedagogyOfSmell

15.01.2022 At Nature Play this week many of the children decided to climb on the bush rock and trees. They took risks and challenged themselves supported by the adults nearby. Weighing up risks and making decisions whether to try something new is important for young children as it is an essential skill for life and empowers them to know they are capable. Playing in the outdoors provides many opportunities for this type of play. #NaturePlay #RiskyPlay

12.01.2022 "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi. In the extreme heat yesterday, Liam, Finn, and Thomas noticed a baby and mother rainbow lorikeet in our angophora tree, with their beaks open and holding their wings out. The boys immediately sought support from Catherine to provide a bowl of cold water. This act of compassion filled our hearts with joy.... #Kindness

11.01.2022 Our children are very excited to be counting birds this week. Today, the 1st day of the AUSSIE BACKYARD BIRD COUNT we saw 2 kookaburras, 1 magpie, 1 crow and 1 rainbow lorikeet. What did you see ?... www.aussiebirdcount.org.au #AussieBackyardBirdCount https://app.aussiebirdcount.org.au//e2ba4018-bf10-46f4-996#

11.01.2022 On the last day of his HSC trial exams, Joshua returned to visit The Point Preschool, where he had attended preschool for 2 years, many years ago. Josh, returned to surprise Catherine, his preschool teacher, to tell her, he had been accepted into university to study to be a teacher. This was such an amazingly, proud moment for Catherine, especially when Josh also told her that she had such a big impact on his life. The children were in awe of Josh, especially knowing he h...ad attended the preschool when he was their age. They were so proud to talk to him about their play and learning and to talk about what he had enjoyed investigating and learning when he was at preschool. Catherine showed Josh the book "Our Place" which is always on our bookshelf. Josh is featured in our book and it filled our hearts with joy when Josh said he remembered the day the photo was taken and how he loved spending time in the garden at preschool. #Joy #OurHeartsAreFilled

10.01.2022 Last week was NAIDOC Week and as always we acknowledged the Dharawal speaking people as the traditional custodians of our land. We walked on Country and delighted in the beauty of Oyster Bay. We engaged in thoughtful and robust discussions about how our words and actions impact our relationships with each other and our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We connected to our earth through exploring clay, making ochre and harvesting our coastal wattle seeds; read ou...r favourite stories "Respect" and "Family" by Aunty Fay Muir and listened to Jack Charles read "Go Home, Cheeky Animals!" We revisited the 3 flags of Australia and what the symbols on our flags mean; we noticed the beauty in our playground and recognised it is the season for our large angophora tree to shed it's bark and for our baby lorikeet to fly from our bird box. We discussed our responsibility to be good custodians of our land and the beauty of recycling, re-using; we delighted in supporting the health of our environment by feeding our chickens, composting the leaves we raked into large piles, feeding our worms our food scraps and splitting our native bee hive. And there were many questions and wonderings about time and if our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people co-existed with the dinosaurs and the mega fauna. Our understanding and respect for our oldest living culture on earth continues to grow. #NAIDOCWeek #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

04.01.2022 Congratulations to our amazing artists from Our Place and from the preschools in the Sutherland Shire Preschool Alliance on such a wonderful art Exhibition at Hazelhurst Arts Centre. During our Director's visit to the exhibition, Catherine overheard our children's art described as honest, thoughtful, inspiring, respectful, and beautiful. Thank you to Hazelhurst Arts Centre for the opportunity to exhibit our children's art. ... #EarlyChildhoodArt #OurPlace