NEWS
There’s always something new and exciting happening in our Children First community!
Families are kept up to date with what’s happening at their child’s centre with Floorbooks displayed at each centre as well as receiving monthly e-newsletters with helpful tips and advice and to learn what’s coming up in their centre.
Read the articles below to find out the latest BIG NEWS happening across our centres and learn a little more about our wonderful community.
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Child Safe Statement of Commitment
Growing Potential Ltd is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation that puts child safety and wellbeing at the centre of its culture. We have zero tolerance of child abuse and are committed to actively contributing to a child safe community where children are protected from abuse. We are committed to being an…
Children First – Tamworth South Outside School Hours Grand Opening Event!
On Wednesday 27 July 2022, we were excited to officially celebrate the grand opening of Children First – Tamworth South Outside School Hours. The date marks the one-year anniversary of the service, having opened its doors to local families on 26 July 2021, but was not officially celebrated due to Covid-19 restrictions. The date also coincides with OOSH…
Media Alert | Official Grand Opening Celebratory Event for Tamworth South Outside School Hours
An upshot of the NSW Government’s $120 million 2019 election commitment to create more out of school hours care vacancies particularly across regional areas of the state, the opening of the Children First Outside Of School Hours (OOSH) Care Hub at Tamworth South Public School will be officially celebrated on 27 July 2022, from 3.15pm.…
NEW Educator Training website!
Children First Training has grown in recent years and have now launched their brand new website dedicated to Early Childhood and OOSH Educator training. From little things, big things grow! As part of the Growing Potential network, Children First Training was founded to provide Training to educators and staff of our Children First services. Once we opened up to other Early…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) – updates and information
Children First would like to acknowledge the significant impact the coronavirus (COVID-19) is having on our children, families, employees, communities and individuals. Our thoughts go out to those who have been directly impacted by this crisis. At Children First, the health and safety of our clients, families and employees are our most important priority. We…
Long Day Care Preschool Programs Help Your Child Get School-Ready
We offer dedicated preschool programs for children aged 4 to 5 years which are based in our long day care environment, helping children get school-ready.
We build and maintain strong working relationships with our local schools to help make your child’s transition from preschool to primary school positive and smooth.
TIP & ADVICE
Looking for some advice to help with your little one? Browse our articles below:
Hygiene Fun
Maintaining hygiene and cleanliness can often be difficult and time consuming especially while working and caring for your family. To help you out Children First have put together a few suggestions on ways to make keeping clean fun for all the family and a permanent change for the healthier at home and at childcare. A…
Long Day Care Preschool Programs Help Your Child Get School-Ready
We offer dedicated preschool programs for children aged 4 to 5 years which are based in our long day care environment, helping children get school-ready.
We build and maintain strong working relationships with our local schools to help make your child’s transition from preschool to primary school positive and smooth.
Supporting Positive Mental Health in Children
Many factors can contribute to someone feeling low. It isn’t always easy to know whether someone is OK, particularly if they haven’t talked about it or children have yet to recognise the importance of changes in behaviour. Good mental health helps children form positive relationships with others, handle ups and downs and generally enjoy life.…
Engaging Your Child Through Play
Play-based learning is described in the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) as ‘a context for learning through which children organise and make sense of their social worlds, as they actively engage with people, objects and representations’. But what is play? Play is hard to define as there are a number of theories and types of…
Top tips to help your child share and take turns
Sharing doesn’t come easily to kids, and can be very challenging for younger children. Here we share our top tips to help your child learn how to share and take turns. Why is sharing so hard? For children, sharing can be difficult because they have to: Understand how their friend feels Understand why their friend…
EMPLOYMENT
If you’re enthusiastic about working in an innovative organisation that’s committed to children, families and communities, check out our current vacancies.
We offer rewarding experiences, training, development and opportunities to grow.
