Setting up an edible garden in your children’s service can encourage sustainable practices and connect children to the earth. Start small, plan ahead, involve children and your community to explore food from plot to plate. Reap the harvest and benefits. You might think autumn isn’t a particularly good time to kick off your service’s edible […]
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 […]
The Board of Community Early Learning Australia (CELA) advises that Diane Lawson’s period as CEO concludes today. Board members thank Diane for her commitment in leading CELA (formerly Community Child Care Co-operative) for almost two years, and wish her well for the future. The CELA team will continue on its mission to amplify early learning’s […]
This week we’re giving you a prod to do your PRODA.Â
What’s a PRODA? So glad you asked!
It stands for PROvider Digital Access and certain people in each children’s service need to be registered so you can use the new IT system.Â
You know the song? It takes us from point A back to point A, and at the end the bucket still needs to be fixed! That’s how we feel about the Commonwealth’s position on extending the duration and scope of funded preschool programs. If the bucket fits Let’s try it out: There’s a hole in […]
Each quarter we bring you the top 10 posts based on readership statistics on CELA’s website. Enjoy articles you might have missed, or set aside for later viewing, and share with your colleagues the articles that most helped you in the past three months*! 10. A bush yarn; how one preschool’s nature program reduced anxiety for […]
A new study led by a researcher from The University of Western Australia has analysed the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by parents who reject some or all vaccines for their children. While the study didn’t find a causal link between the two practices, it did find a connection that might help ECE […]
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Emma Pierce, an early learning inclusion specialist, returns to share more tried-and-tested resources for educators supporting children with developmental delays or disabilities transition to school. Â Developed by ECIA NSW/ACT, the resources can be applied to any educational setting, anywhere, and are relevant to all educators. We have included the ECIA videos that relate to Emma’s […]
Michele Carnegie to lead CELA’s national sector development Michele Carnegie joins CELA at the end of July in the position in executive leadership for sector development. As one of our first senior appointments since the launch of CELA, Michele will be responsible for learning and development, Â sector alliances and government relations. Michele has a Bachelor […]
