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World Teacher’s Day 2023
Happy World Teacher’s Day to our very experienced, our newly-graduated, and our currently studying Early Childhood Teachers at Discovery! Today we celebrate our teachers for their skilled work in educating, inspiring and supporting our children, and recognise their role as leaders and mentors to their colleagues. Empowering minds, shaping futures and inspiring hearts- today and…
Read MoreSensory Play
Sensory activities, in addition to being fun and interesting for babies and young children, encourage children to explore and investigate. Furthermore, these activities support children to use the ‘scientific method’ of observing, forming a hypothesis, experimenting and making conclusions.
Read MoreEarly Childhood Educators’ Day 2023
Today we celebrate Early Childhood Educators’ Day! Changing the narrative (our language) about Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is one small but vital step we can all take to show the value of educators’ work in delivering positive outcomes for children. We invite our families to join us in thanking our educators as we…
Read MoreBook Week 2023 – READ, GROW and INSPIRE!
Book Week 2023 – READ, GROW and INSPIRE! 📚 … A time to set aside to highlight the impact of books on children’s education, enjoyment and awareness.
Read MoreNAIDOC Week 2023
NAIDOC Week is an exciting time in our national calendar as people of all cultures come together to celebrate and recognise the contributions and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This NAIDOC Week, as we focused on the theme “For Our Elders,” we were excited to welcome our own local cultural knowledge holders…
Read MoreReconciliation Week 2023
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. During the week, we had the opportunity to thank Uncle Wayne Anderson for his contributions to our curriculum, and his knowledge-sharing, which…
Read MoreGuula Gimbay Program
Thank you to Birpai Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) and Aunty Rhonda for inviting Discovery to participate in the Guula Gimbay program over the past few months. These weekly excursions provided the children with the opportunity to connect with the local culture, community and stories, and educated the children on the responsibility of looking after…
Read MoreDuplo Delivery from Deadly Science!
Thank you to Deadly Science for the special delivery of new Duplo construction sets – a great Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) resource! Construction with Duplo encourages teamwork, independence, confidence, the use of visual perception, spatial awareness, imagination and communication skills as children problem-solve and create their own play. The children’s inquisitive minds have…
Read MoreANZAC Day 2023
Learning about ANZAC Day helps young children to understand the life and times of Australia and its people. Today we welcomed back Greg Laird, retired president of the Port Macquarie RSL Sub Branch and Vietnam veteran, for the 5th year. Greg answered the children’s questions, told us about each of his medals, and engaged in…
Read MoreAn Easter visit from our Grandbuddies!
This week we had some very special Easter visitors. Our ‘Grandbuddies’ from Uniting Mingaletta Aged Care came to visit and brought the Easter Bunny with them. Deeper connections and friendships were made, as the children took on the important role of being active citizens in their local community.
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