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Did you miss it? Top five from 2018

Welcome back to Amplify in 2019. We’re starting the year in traditional style, looking forward and back. Looking ahead, there’s a story tapping into the New Year resolutions many of you are making to improve your own and the children’s physical activity and guess what? Research is saying that improving educator and parent activity is […]

Teaching in rhythm and rhyme – free PD plan in Rattler Magazine

CELA Writers April 23, 2018 CELA topics / Child development / Creative arts / Education / Guest writer / preschool / Professional learning / Resources / Training / Uncategorised 3 Comments

Bring back the rhyme Think back to your earliest years of memory – at home, in preschool or in school. There’s a good chance that one of your most enduring memories will be in song. It might be a song your mother, grandfather, or bus driver sang, or a song from the end of year […]

This old step

Ariane Simon March 5, 2018 Child development / Creative arts / decor / Education / Guest writer / National Quality Framework / Professional learning / Provocation / Stories 4 Comments

It’s a mess. Green, pink, red, yellow, blue and grunge-coloured splotches and drips cover its top and sides. It could welcome an application of steel wool and some elbow grease, or perhaps a new coat of paint in a fashionably Scandinavian shade of white or ecru.

But as long as I’m director, that’s not going to happen.

V-Day makes you gag? Write a love letter to your library instead.

Bec Lloyd February 9, 2018 Child development / Creative arts / Education / Recreation / Tips 4 Comments

If the idea of Valentines Day makes you want to hurl a box of pink chocolates at an overpriced bunch of roses, you’re not alone – but that doesn’t mean you can’t make the occasion special with a different kind of love…

Glitter alternatives, a CELA Simple Guide

Bec Lloyd December 9, 2017 CELA topics / Child development / Creative arts / Education / Fact Files / National Quality Framework / OSHC / Parenting / Professional learning / Simple Guide 4 Comments

Alternatives to glitter The Great Glitter Debate (or GlitterGate as we like to call it at CELA) has been around for years – so why bring it up again each time there’s a story about banning the tiny plastic sparkles in the media? For one thing, the discussion is worth having simply because of the turnover among […]

Intentional approach to teaching the arts, a success

CELA Writers December 8, 2017 Child development / Creative arts / Education / NSW / Professional learning / Stories 3 Comments

CELA writer Margaret Paton shares her interview with a centre director whose powerful belief in creative arts education had many positive outcomes this year. Creative arts What does it look like when you have a thriving creative arts program unfurling in your early childhood education setting? Bambini of Lilyfield, a long day care centre in […]

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