The Point Preschool in Oyster Bay, New South Wales, Australia | Non-profit organisation

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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25.01.2022 Our atelier was buzzing today with creativity.

25.01.2022 We are very proud to be part of this exciting collaborative art exhibition at Hazelhurst from 10th October - 27th October 2020. The Point Preschool Class of 2019 will exhibit Yanma Nura - Walking on Country. We invite you to visit Hazelhurst and enjoy this wonderful exhibition.... #YanmaNura #WalkingOnCoutry #Hazelhurst #ArtsPractice #EarlyExplorers

24.01.2022 "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

23.01.2022 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

23.01.2022 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

22.01.2022 Our hearts are overflowing with joy. Thank you so much to all our wonderful children, families and the Management Committee for your beautiful words of gratitude, chocolates and tea cake you gave us to celebrate Early Childhood Educators' Day. Thank you also to our Director Catherine for the lovely flowers. We feel so loved We are a team of very committed and passionate early childhood educators and we are so very proud to teach at Our Place. Our days spent with young children are always filled with joy. #gratitude #Thankyou #EarlyChildhoodEducatorsDay

21.01.2022 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

21.01.2022 During Nature Play on Dharawal Country, this week, we smelt flowers that were blooming and then kindly shared the flowers with our friends. We explored a new fire circle and made marks with our sticks and charcoal. We clambered over rocks and discovered bees, lizards, and very large ants amongst the bark and leaves. We played movement games on our new turtle lilypads and listened to a story about a laughing kookaburra. When we finished the story we could hear the kookab...urras in the trees laughing back at us. We wondered had they been listening too? Making new friends, exploring and learning in our natural world, developing a connection to nature, and experiencing a sense of calm and wonder. It’s amazing what our natural world offers us. Nature Play is held every Wednesday from 9.15am to 10.45am, in the Green Point reserve next to The Point Preschool. we welcome children and their families up to 3 years of age. If you'd like to join us, please contact The Point Preschool for more information [email protected] #NaturePlay #TakeAStepOutsideYourDoor #WeLoveNature

21.01.2022 Made by the children of The Point Preschool and curated by The Assemblage Sisters. Such a wonderful creative partnership

21.01.2022 The first day of Spring is National Wattle Day. We honour the knowledge of the Dharawal people and notice when the wattle blooms, telling us the whales are migrating up the coast. We also harvest the wattle seeds to grind and use in our cooking. Our wattle seed frozen yogurt was so delicious and loved by everyone today. #WattleDay #BushTucker #DharawalKnowledge

21.01.2022 Today our hearts are filled with love. Our beautiful friend and neighbour, Norma, celebrated her 95th birthday yesterday and so today we surprised Norma with flowers, cards, and music. The Point Preschool was built in 1956 and Norma worked for many years before the opening to raise money to fund the building of the preschool. Norma continued to support the preschool after her 3 children attended and still to this day visits us often; donates children's books to our Street... Library; feeds our lovely Clucky Brownie on the weekends and welcomes and farewells the children families with a smile. Norma enthusiastically encourages families to spend time outdoors and play in the park that is next to her home. Norma tells us, one of her greatest joys is to hear the laughter of children playing. Norma is our dear friend and supports us all. She is the best neighbourhood watch friend you could ever wish for and also lobbies politicians to provide us with funding. Norma you are an inspiration to us all. We love you Norma. Happy birthday from all the children, teachers and staff, families. Thank you for the joy you bring to us. #HappyBirthdayNorma #Love #BestNeighbour

17.01.2022 Celebrating our magnificent angophora through art with our good friends Tarn and Lisa The Assemblage Sisters #ArtistsInResidence #Nature #TakeAStepOutsideYourDoor

17.01.2022 Our gorgeous and majestic Angophora costata, gifts us her beauty, shade, shelter to our beautiful native birds, bark, blossoms and many gumnuts. This year our playground is overflowing with gumnuts. We have delighted in gathering gumnuts, weighing the gumnuts, engaging in observational drawing, printing, building gumnut towers, gifting gumnuts to our buri - our babies and to each other, making gumnut bunting, decorating sand sculptures, theorising why the cockatoos pick the... gumnuts and drop them all over our deck at our place, and investigating the seeds inside the gumnuts. Jack suggested we investigate the gumnuts on the overheard projector in our atelier. Jack then invited Delilah and Maddie to join him and lay down and look at the gum nuts on the screen and at the same time see the gum nuts on our angophora outside the atelier. Maddie said "It's like we are having a gumnut meditation and we can see them in my mind". Delilah and Jack agreed. We are surround by beauty and receive gifts form nature everyday. We have received so many gumnut gifts that Sofia suggested today that we rename the preschool Gumnut Cottage. #Gumnuts #GunmutMeditation #BeautyInNature

15.01.2022 At Nature Play today the children's growing confidence and relationships with each other were evident when Eliza suggested they play hide and seek and they helped each other to find hiding places, climbing over the rocks and behind trees. The children also eagerly sought out beautiful flowers to place in our flower press and we were very excited to see the joy and fun our youngest children had joining in the parachute games. We spent a beautiful morning in nature, hands on... and exploring with all our senses. #NaturePlay #TakeAStepOutsideYourDoor

14.01.2022 Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much. Helen Keller. Today is Saturday and our place was filled with children, families, teachers and educators working together to make make our preschool more beautiful. Thank you so much to everyone for your joy and time. ... #WorkingBee #WorkingTogether #Community

14.01.2022 As we explored the reserve during Nature Play it looked and smelt so fresh and inviting after all the recent rain. Rain does not deter us It is always interesting and fascinating to experience nature in all its many elements. The rain made some little puddles, changed the colour of the rocks and made the dirt soft to dig in. The children were excited to see so many tadpoles swimming in our tree trunk pond. We are going to learn more about the life cycle of a frog to supp...ort our understanding of the changes we will hopefully see. There is so much for children to learn and experience in nature and its right there just outside our door and your front door. #TakeAStepOutsideYourDoor #WeLoveTheRain #NaturePlay

14.01.2022 We are so happy to add a Plant Library to our Street Library and Stick Library. We invite our local community to "take a plant or give a plant" to help our Plant Library grow and flourish. So come to Our Place, borrow a book from our Street Library, let your dog borrow a stick from our Stick Library and visit our new Plant Library.... We look forward to seeing you. We love being part of our local community #plantlibrary #streetlibrary #OysterBayCommunity.#OurPlace

14.01.2022 Wishing all our children, families, staff, friends, and community a very Merry Christmas. Earlier this year when we were thrown into the uncertainly of COVID, lockdowns, and isolation, we began to reflect on gratitude, connection, and being mindful of the many things that brought us joy and happiness. Now seems the perfect time to revisit this reflection - our Angophora Project. May we always see the joy and happiness in our lives.... #AngophoraProject

14.01.2022 We are so honoured and proud to be awarded the Sutherland Shire Local Business Award for Environmental Sustainability. As a very small, not for profit, community preschool, established in 1956, this is wonderful recognition for our sustainable practices. We know early childhood is a great time to involve children in education for sustainability and develop lifelong practices to ensure the respect and protection of each other and our planet.... Thank you to all our beautiful children who are amazing custodians of our land. Thank you to all our families and community for the support you give us everyday. And a special thank you to our Management Committee for their time, energy and continued support. Thank you to Sutherland Shire Environment Centre for your support and encouragement. Thank you to Sutherland Shire Council - we are very appreciative of our professional partnership since the preschool was built in 1956. And thank you to all our dedicated and kind teachers, educators and staff at The Point Preschool who are actively engaging our children in sustainable practices every day. At Our Place, education for sustainability has strengthened our relationships with our children, families and community. Chloe from the Rosellas has a message to share on behalf of the children at Our Place, "Please be a good custodian of our land. Please love our land." #EnvironmentalSustainabilityAwards #SutherlandShireLocalBusinessAwards #EducationForSustainability #LoveOurLand #SutherlandShire #ECEEN

13.01.2022 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

13.01.2022 Our beautiful Vanilla Bean and Clucky Brownie loved eating the chick weed the children and our dear Bush Care friend, Bradley dug up for them today. As soon as Bradley and Zara gave them the chick weed, the girls immediately started digging through the weeds and began eating them with great joy. We love to see our girls so happy ... #BushCare #TakeAStepOutsideYourDoor #CustodiansOfTheLand

12.01.2022 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

11.01.2022 We are looking for an amazing Diploma Trained Educator to join our dynamic team from Term 1, starting on Wednesday 3rd March 2021. This is a permanent part time position for 3 days - Wednesday to Friday from 8.30am - 3.30pm. Staff development and meetings are held every fortnight on Thursday from 3.30pm - 6pm. We are looking for an Educator who:... - has more than 4 years experience in early childhood education, preferably in preschool, as a Diploma Trained Educator. - has experience as a Responsible Person - is aware of social justice issues and advocates for the inclusion of our shared Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture in children's learning - loves pedagogical documentation and inquiry based learning and can demonstrate these skills - delights in nature and being outdoors in any weather - is passionate about the rights of the child and their right to play based learning - strives to do the best for our planet - celebrates the 100 Languages of the child. - will bring knowledge, innovation, commitment and dedication to the team and to the preschool If this sounds like you and you'd love to join our unique, small, Exceeding community based preschool, please contact our Director, Catherine Lee at [email protected] to request the selection criteria. Applications close Monday 1st February 2021. We are very excited to hear from you.

11.01.2022 Our fascination with feathers and our beautiful native birds continues to inspire our arts practice and connection to Country. We have been filled with awe and wonder as we find feathers in our playground and at home. This week we have had many noisy miners, cockatoos, rainbow lorikeets, a crow, an eastern rosella and a kookaburra visit Our Place. We have explored our feathers through observational drawing and investigated them on the overhead projector. We are learning the ...Dharawal names of our binyang - birds; and the children are very interested in understanding what our Aboriginal people did with feathers. #feathers #aweandwonder #birdsinourbackyard

09.01.2022 Today was the last day for Nature Play this term, so to celebrate we had a Teddy Bears Picnic . When we walked on Country on the reserve we discovered quite a few teddy bears in the trees and bushes so we collected them and they walked with us. We showed the teddy bears our tree trunk tadpole pond and the burrow Archer and Eddie had discovered last week. Later we had a little tea party with the teddy bears and some of them went clambering up the rocks with us and watched ...as we made ochre paint by rubbing the sandstone rocks together. Nature Play provides our children with amazing opportunities to explore our natural world and experience its beauty, the sense of calmness it brings and also its challenges as they physically explore and learn about taking risks in their play. #NaturePlay #TakeAStepOutsideYourDoor #TeddyBearPicnic

09.01.2022 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

07.01.2022 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

06.01.2022 We are so excited to be a Finalist in the 2020 Sutherland Shire Local Business Awards Sustainability Award. In 2019, we very proudly received Highly Commended for this award. This award recognition means so much to us. As a not for profit, community based preschool, we are proud to embed sustainability into our daily practices and support our children to be good custodians of the land.... "The purpose of this Award is to support and encourage business practices that contribute to the sustainability of the planet. Environmental sustainability encompasses the concept of living and working in a way that neither depletes nor damages the environment to preserve and protect it for future generations." Sutherland Shire Sustainability Award #LocalBusinessAwards #SustainabilityAwards #SutherlandShire

06.01.2022 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

05.01.2022 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.

03.01.2022 Happy Father's Day to all our Dads, Grandads, and Uncles. We hope you are enjoying spending time with your family. Thank you for the support you give to us at Our Place. Your involvement is very valued.

03.01.2022 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#

01.01.2022 So much beautiful sunshine to enjoy today at Nature Play. We found some very sparkly treasures in the reserve today and we wondered if some fairies had visited overnight and left some surprises for us. Archer found a burrow in a hollow at the base of the tree and we wondered what type of animal might live in there. We will have to investigate this. ... Ellie and Harper worked together to make bush stew and Harper delighted in exploring the texture of the mud. Nature Play provides the opportunity for children to make exciting discoveries about their world in a hands on way which makes their learning more meaningful. We love fostering these experiences at Nature Play and seeing the joy it brings to the children. If you would like more information about the free Nature Play program we run for children up to the age of 3 years please email The Point Preschool at [email protected] #NaturePlay #TakeAStepOutsideYourDoor #Sunshine