Since opening earlier this year, our team at Gowrie Oberon Kindergarten, co-located with Oberon Primary School, have developed a Buddy Program with the school where Foundation and Grade 3 students visit the kindergarten regularly, and kindergarten children visit the school in return.
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At Gowrie Docklands Kindergarten (GDK), children from one group had begun building their own Melbourne landscape, and it became the starting point for another group's exploration of what Melbourne means to them.
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Senior secondary students from 13 government schools spent five weeks finding out what a career in early childhood education looks like day to day, through the second phase of the Introduction to Early Childhood for School Students program.
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In July, a child in the Room 1 at our Gowrie Docklands Kindergarten site asked the educators why they can’t have real fire at the service. Rather than shutting the idea down, educators used it as a starting point for a longer project.
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Earlier this year our Carlton Learning Precinct (CLP) service received a Victorian School Building Authority grant to address acoustic issues in the outdoor areas and the kitchen corridor, where excessive noise had made it challenging for our children and educators to communicate.
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