FEATURED SERVICES
Lapstone Preschool Early Childhood Intervention Services
offers the following services:
- Early Childhood Advisory Service
- Early Childhood Assessment and Referral Service
- Early Childhood Screening Service
- Early Development Program
- Integration Support Program
- Early Learners
- Lapstone Preschool
Contact us for more information.
Sweet Angels Family Day Care Scheme
Are you looking for a child care with a difference? Do you need care with flexible hours & low cost but provide quality early childhood education in a loving, caring and safe environment? Then Sweet Angels Family Day Care is a day care for you and your child.
We provide flexible care options, such as:
- Full-time / part-time / casual
- Emergency care
- Before/after school and Vacation Care
- Overnight and shift work
- Public holidays and weekends
- Child Care Benefit (CCB) & Child Care Rebate (CCR) approved service provider.
Sweet Angels Family Day Care provide children with:
- A safe, comfortable and secure learning/home environment
- Socialisation and developmental play experiences within small groups
- Stimulating learning opportunities tailored to individual child's capabilities, strength, interest and needs
- Close relationships with educators and other children (one to one
- interaction)
- Consistency of care
Contact us to find out more about our educators or to become and educator.
Playdays Preschool & Long Day Care Centre Acacia Gardens cares for children ranging from 6 weeks to 6 years of age. We provide a safe and stimulating play environment where children learn to make friends, share toys and equipment and to have respect for themselves, their friends and their teachers. All children participate in programs which are planned according to the children’s interests. Our professionally qualified teachers ensure the children learn through play in a stimulating and fun atmosphere. We encourage and motivate the children to learn, and build on each child’s individual interests to encourage positive attitudes to learning and caring about themselves, each other and the environment. At Playdays Acacia Gardens, we pride ourselves on offering only the best and encourage you to visit us to see for yourself the exceptional qualities we boast, including:
- Fully trained, qualified and experienced staff – well over the required ratios
- Delicious, healthy meals cooked fresh daily on our premises
- Individualised programming that embraces and develops the current interests of your child
- Individual diaries that keep you fully up-to-date with your child’s progress
- School Readiness Programs that provide a solid educational foundation for each child
- Playscapes that encourage creativity, team play and investigation.
Contact us for more information.
Go4Fun Healthy Kids Program is a fun and FREE program for kids aged 7-13 who are above a healthy weight.
Go4Fun runs during term after school, and gives kids and their parents a positive chance to learn about health and nutrition as well as participating in fun games and activities.
Go4Fun helps kids build self-esteem and confidence in a supportive environment, as well as helping to set in place long-term healthy habits for the whole family.
The program runs at a variety of locations across New South Wales each term, programs can be seen at
www.go4fun.com.au
Frontrunner Learning Centres providing professional tutoring in Frenchs Forest and Mona Vale for over 17 years. Our tutors are here to see that our students Get in Front and Stay in Front.
This is a place where tutors encourage, motivate and make a really positive difference. Of course our qualified tutors do more than just set tasks and correct the work. They engender a love of success in the now so that our students believe that they can achieve. Our tutors develop great attitudes that create great results. That’s why we are successful educators.
Frontrunner Learning Centres offer an initial free diagnostic educational assessment so you know exactly what your child needs in tuition. We facilitate real learning for school-aged children with the fundamentals that they need most in school. Students receive professional and caring help them in Mathematics, English, Reading, Spelling, Comprehension, Grammar, Listening, Speaking and Writing.
With the active support of paediatricians, speech therapists, behavioural optometrists, dieticians and other health care professionals the Frontrunner tutors provide a caring environment that’s helps your child achieve her or his own personal best and really enjoy success.
An integral service Frontrunner Learning Centres offer is Readbetter with Cellfield; much more than a simple reading programme.
Readbetter with Cellfield is a research based dyslexia treatment that increases visual and auditory processing speeds. It opens and establishes neural networks working to levels deep in the parietotemporal lobes, the occipitotemporal and the anterior system in the left inferior frontal area of the brain. Readbetter with Cellfield uses brain plasticity and clever computer science to synchronise information and deliver it directly where it is needed, quickly and efficiently.
We do more because we’re extensively and intensively trained and vastly experienced.
We do more than just tutor. We inspire. Contact us for more information www.frontrunnerlearningcentres.com.au or www.frlc.com.au
Literacy & Learning Centre is offering the Focused Footy School Holiday Program, which is a unique program that takes advantage of children’s love of footy and being active to encourage the development of important literacy skills.
The Focused Footy School Holiday Program is running in the second week of the July school holidays and is ideal for active children who are struggling at school, have learning difficulties such as reading or spelling problems, dyslexia, or ADHD.
When? Monday 7 June to Friday 11 June 2014, 9.00am to 3.00pm Where? Meet at the Literacy and Learning Centre Suite 4, 2 East Street, Five Dock (activities will take place in Five Dock Park). Ages: 8 – 15 years, Cost: $250 (for five days)
Over five days, children will be doing the activities that they love that involve FOOTY SKILLS – such as improving fitness, practicing ball skills, developing spatial awareness, and learning defensive and offensive skills. At the same time, they will be taking part in activities that reinforce and develop important LITERACY SKILLS – such as being taught basic grammar, identifying text types, and writing an exposition. They will create their own individual footy card, develop their own written fitness program, and gain awards for mastering new skills.
The program is run by two teachers who bring their unique experience and skills to the program. Teacher Kieran Black is also a professional Rugby Union player, who has run numerous skills training programs for children including the All Black’s Skills Coaching Camp. Specialist Literacy Teacher Josine Baz has worked in special education settings in NSW schools and is a Remedial Literacy Teacher at the Literacy and Learning Centre Both teachers are passionate about finding creative ways to encourage active kids to develop their literacy skills.
The program is suited for children of all skill levels and does not assume any previous knowledge or experience playing rugby. For more information call: 9712 8777 or email:
info@literacyandlearning.com.au or check out our page on Facebook
www.facebook.com/FocusedFooty
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PARENT INFORMATION
Daily routines: 6 - 14 months
Babies are all very different. These routines are a guide only.
Your child is strongly influenced by the environment, daily activities and routines. A predictable routine (sequence of activities) including a wind down period (for example, meal, bath, cleaning teeth, story time, brief cuddle and kiss, and into the cot/bed) helps your child establish good sleep patterns.
The feed, play, sleep routine is the core structure of a baby's day at any age. As your baby matures, day playtime increases and night patterns continue but without playtime.
Your baby is unique therefore their need for sleep and the time of waking varies. The following routines are a guide only as your baby's needs and tired signs /cues for sleep may vary from the examples below.
Some days things will go smoothly but illness, disruption to the family environment and/or extra busy days out can all affect your baby's routine.
By 6-8 months your baby's routine is starting to change. This is often a time when your baby is more active during the day and may drop to two day time sleeps. Base your routine on your baby's cues/ needs for sleep. If your baby is generally alert and happy your baby is probably getting enough sleep
By 6 months your baby can commence taking solids. It is also a good time to commence feeding your baby cooled boiled water from a cup.
Some ideas for interacting during awake time include:
- Floor play
- Music/ singing
- Story time/nursery rhymes
- Finger / toe games
- Toys - that move, make sound, colourful and vary in texture
- Cuddles
REMEMBER: it takes time for your baby to develop a predictable routine. This can be a fun time as your child develops new skills such as exploring their world. As your baby becomes more mobile it is important to ensure play areas are safe.
By eight months your baby may have moved to just two day time sleeps. If your baby wakes early or you need your baby to go to bed later, an additional sleep may be needed.
At this age babies may still be night waking or even start to night wake - this can be related to separation anxiety a developmental stage for this age. If this happens provide your baby with reassurance and try to resettle with minimal fuss.
Some ideas for interacting during play time include:
- Playing music, singing and dancing
- Providing moving toys/dolls /teddies
- Reading stories and using cloth books
- Singing nursery rhymes/cloth books
- Playing stacking games
- Playing with toys - that move, make sound, colourful and vary in texture
- Using pulling and pushing toys
- Visiting friends, local parks and play groups
REMEMBER: As your baby is now more mobile it is very important to ensure your home environment is a safe environment for your inquisitive toddler e.g. child proof locks
As your baby gets older he/she will progress to only one sleep per day - watch your toddler cues/ tired signs. The morning sleep will progressively get later in the day until it becomes a middle of the day or early afternoon sleep. Your child's tried signs/cues will help you identify their need for sleep
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