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Explore & Develop Annandale yarn about Reconciliation Week

Explore & Develop Annandale yarn about Reconciliation Week

At Explore & Develop Annandale we believe in embedding the principles of equality, respect and kindness throughout all our programs. This year in the lead up to Reconciliation Week we... Read More
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Reconciliation Week at Explore & Develop Lilyfield

Reconciliation Week at Explore & Develop Lilyfield

At Explore & Develop Lilyfield, reconciliation means recognising, respecting, learning about and celebrating our Indigenous communities’ culture as part of our daily curriculum and we work hard to ensure that... Read More
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How Concord West Rhodes Preschool acknowledged Reconciliation Week 2017

How Concord West Rhodes Preschool acknowledged Reconciliation Week 2017

  Indigenous perspectives are embedded into our daily practices at Concord West Rhodes Preschool as meaningful, holistic, child directed experiences. Reconciliation week this year was an opportunity to look beyond... Read More
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Being an Aboriginal person in Australia

Being an Aboriginal person in Australia

This is a video of Jackie and I at the ARNEC Conference in Cambodia Yarning with Bonnie and Roger from the World Forum Foundation about being an Aboriginal person in Australia. Click... Read More
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Reconciliation Week 2017

Reconciliation Week 2017

Reconciliation Week at CityWest Children's Centre in Pyrmont began with a Sea of Hands art installation that was made collaboratively with the children, educators, families and local community. The Sea... Read More
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Power Play

Power Play

Power play is something that emerges universally in preschoolers where themes of good verses’ evil and sometimes aggression begin to appear. The preschool group that I taught last year were no different,... Read More
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Developing Interests: Fire

Developing Interests: Fire

At the beginning of the year one of our parents asked if we could organize an incursion from the local fire department as her son was “obsessed” with fire trucks. ... Read More
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Reflecting on good intentions

Reflecting on good intentions

When I first began working in early childhood in 2007 I was eighteen years old and working towards my qualification at TAFE. Being eighteen I was establishing my identity both... Read More
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The dual meaning of the 26th of January. Australia Day and Invasion Day is there room for both?

The dual meaning of the 26th of January. Australia Day and Invasion Day is there room for both?

As 26th of January quickly approaches there is a flutter on many early childhood forums discussing Australia Day experiences and activities to do with children. However, I really want to know... Read More
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Developing Interests: Charlotte’s Eggs

Developing Interests: Charlotte’s Eggs

This year I am the Early Childhood Teacher in the “Possums Room” at Explore and Develop Lilyfield. I work with the two to three year old age group and as... Read More
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