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How to Make Childcare Drop-Off Easier: Advice for Parents and Educators

The first few weeks of childcare can feel exciting, emotional, and overwhelming all at once.

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Early Learning

Emotional Readiness & Transitioning into Early Learning

Transitioning into childcare can be a significant milestone for both children and parents. In this blog post, we will explore the emotional readiness required for successful transitions, the importance of high-quality early education settings, and practical tips for families navigating this change.

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Early Learning

Why early learning matters

Early learning lays the foundation for success. In the first five years of life, children’s brains are wired to learn quickly. This is when the foundations for learning, health and behaviour throughout life are laid. In fact, 90% of a child’s brain development happens by the age of five.

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What do children need to flourish?

The top 5 things evidence tells us really make a difference in early learning

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Child Development

Building Your Child's Love of Reading: Tips and Strategies for Parents

The key to children’s literacy is setting the foundations of oral language, story telling and a love of books. Compared to our peer countries, Australia is performing above average in literacy. That’s the good news. The bad news is since 2000, when we first participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), our students’ reading levels have been declining. Rapidly.

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Early Learning

The key to a child’s success at school

The parent-teacher relationship is built on a culture of trust and collaboration. Your child’s success in school might be determined by the quality of the relationship between you and their teacher and that journey starts even before their first day.

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Early Learning

Risky play: Why it benefits children

Often our instincts will scream at us to get involved and stop our children from engaging in risky behaviours. But with the benefits of risky play to our child’s development being well documented, it is useful to understand appropriate risk.

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Lifestyle

Parent connections with early learning

We all know the importance of strong, positive relationships between families and educators, but the ability to stay connected has been challenged during COVID-19. It’s a challenge that early learning centres across Australia have had to overcome.

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