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VACANCIES

ASHFIELD
The Infants' Home limited vacancies enrol now

CHIPPENDALE
Chippendale Child Care Centreenrol now

CONCORD
Endeavour Early Education Concord Open!! Enrol now.

PETERSHAM
Greek Orthodox Community Child Care Centre enrol today

ULTIMO
Believe Preschool Ultimo
4 Weeks Free Child Care!
Valid until Aug 30

To all families seeking child care for their children 3 years old or older (preschoolers), we have a special offer of 4 weeks free care! This offer starts now and ends on the 30th August 2019. Please note that this is for new enrolments and you must be enrolled and have commenced care by the 30th August 2019. As always, you are welcome to tour our cosy and homely child care centre anytime during weekdays or by appointment on weekends. Just call Becci on (02) 8540 6682

OPEN DAY

The Infants' Home
17 Henry Street, Ashfield
Saturday 31 August 2019
RSVP essential, 2 sessions
11:30 am - 12:15 pm

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

You can register for a tour here.
www.theinfantshome.org.au


CHECK OUT Local Job Vacancies


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RESOURCES FOR PARENTS


PROFESSIONALS FOR CHILDREN


ADDITIONAL NEEDS PROVIDERS
RESOURCES FOR CARE PROVIDERS
CHILD CARE DIRECTORY 

ANNANDALE
MindChamps Early Learning Annandale

ASHBURY 
Canterbury Community Child Care Centre 
Little Troopers Long Day Care Centre Ashbury

ASHFIELD
Ashfield Baptist Childcare Inc
Ashfield Early Learning Centre 
The Infants' Home

BROADWAY
MindChamps Early Learning Broadway

BURWOOD
ToBeMe Early Learning Burwood
Woodstock Child Care Centre Burwood

BURWOOD HEIGHTS
Elm St Early Learning Centre 

CAMPERDOWN
Camperdown Child Care & Pre-school

CHIPPENDALE
Chippendale Child Care Centre

CONCORD
Concord Occasional Child Care
Cubby College Child Care 
Endeavour Early Education Concord
Kids@Play-Early Learning Concord

CROYDON
Kiddies Kapers Learning Centre
Mini Skool
Robyn Taylor Child Development Centre

CROYDON PARK 
Love Of Learning Early Learning Centre
Kids@Play-Early Learning Croydon Park
Woodstock Child Care Centre Croydon Park  

DULWICH HILL 
Dulwich Hill Childcare Centre
St Maroun's College

FIVE DOCK
Caring4Kids Five Dock
Caring 4 Kids Five Dock Great North Road  
Garfield Street Children's Centre
Kids@Play Early Learning Centre Five Dock
ToBeMe Early Learning Five Dock

HABERFIELD
Marys Kindy

HOMEBUSH WEST
Active Kids Homebush West 
Get Set Grow Early Learning Centre
 
LEICHHARDT
Explore & Develop Leichhardt 
Jennys Kindergarten & Early Learning Leichhardt
Rose Cottage Childcare 
Styles Street Children's Community Long Day Care Centre

LILYFIELD
Bambini of Lilyfield
Emmerick Street Community Preschool
Explore & Develop - Lilyfield 

MARRICKVILLE
ikid Early Learning Centre
Kidzville Early Learning Centre
Lee's Learning Centre

MORTLAKE
Jenny's Kindergarten & Early Learning Mortlake

NEWTOWN
Active Kids Newtown

PETERSHAM
Greek Orthodox Community Child Care Centre

STRATHIELD
Albyn Road Early Education Centre
Lighthouse Early Learning Centre 

STANMORE
Jenny's Kindergarten & Early Learning Stanmore
Stanmore Kindergarten

SUMMER HILL
Rise & Shine Kindergarten 

SYDNEY
Active Kids World Square 
Lighthouse Early Learning Centre, 
World Tower Child Care 

SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK
Woodstock Child Care Centre Sydney Olympic Park
Woodstock Child Care Centre Opal @ Olympic Park

NORTH STRATHFIELD
Montessori @ North Strathfield

TEMPE
Betty Spears Child Care Centre

ULTIMO
Believe Preschool Ultimo
International Grammar School Pre-School


CARE IN OTHER AREAS

Sutherland Shire Local Child Care

St George Local Child Care

Parramatta Local Child Care

Liverpool/Fairfield Local Child Care

Camden Macarthur Local Child Care

Western Sydney Local Child Care

Canterbury/Bankstown Local Child Care

Eastern Suburbs Local Child Care

Ryde/Eastwood Local Child Care

Hills Local Child Care

North Shore Local Child Care
Northern Beaches Local Child Care
Illawarra Local Child Care


 
AUGUST 2019

Welcome to The Inner West Local Child Care & Services Directory newsletter. 

This month we welcome

read all about these great services below.

Be sure to check out all our Detailed Listings to find all the information you need to make the right choice for you and your family when selecting child care.

This month’s parent resource is entitled “Wondering how you can help prepare your preschooler to learn how to read, spell and write?” brought to you by Sonia Bestulic.  Children’s Author, Founding Director Speech Pathologist from Talking Heads Speech Pathology and Podcaster of Chatabout Children.

WIN, WIN... a $50 Itunes Gift Card.  To enter simply like us/share on facebook and email us with your contact details to go into the draw to win.

FEATURED SERVICES

Marys Kindy
We are a family owned and operated child care centre in the heart of Sydney's inner west that aims to provide an exceptionally high level of care and education for each and every child entrusted to us.

Mary's Kindy takes pride in offering more than just care to parents but a second home for their little loved ones. We are looking forward towards having you as part of our family.

We cater for children from 0 to 6 years of age.
Contact us for more information.


At The Infants’ Home we provide ‘each child, every opportunity’. We invite you to discover what makes our service special at our Open Day on Saturday 31 August 2019.

·      We have five child care centres located on our beautiful, extensive grounds. We encourage you to take a tour to explore our unique indoor and outdoor spaces.
·      Meet our centre directors, educators and allied health team who will share information and insights about our specialised education programs.
·      Attend a Q&A session to find out about the work we do and how this can positively impact your child and family.
·      There will also be food, children’s games and activities, and prizes to be won.

We will be running two tours on the day, we encourage you to register your interest. The Infants' Home will contact you to confirm a preference for the following two tour times:

11:30 am - 12:15 pm
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

You can register for a tour here.


Learning Links

If your child is showing signs that they struggle with learning, have social, emotional or behavioural issues, or are behind their peers with speech development or fine and gross motor skills, Learning Links is here to help.

We offer a range of assessments, including cognitive/IQ, academic skills, dyslexia, autism, ADHD, behavioural, speech and language, and occupational therapy. Our professionals can determine your child’s strengths, needs, preferred learning style and any appropriate interventions – an important first step in understanding how to best support them.

Following each assessment, you’ll receive a comprehensive written report to outline results as well as recommendations for your child.
Learning Links understands that every child is unique and has different strengths and challenges. That’s why we work closely with each family to provide guidance and the best possible program and opportunities for them to reach their full learning potential now and in the future. 

To find out more about assessments, contact our friendly Customer Care team on 1300 003 900 or visit www.learninglinks.org.au. Our Alexandria Learning Centre is located at Suite 3, Level 1, 140 Bourke Rd Alexandria NSW 2015.


Jenny's Kindergarten - Padstow 

Did you know Jenny’s Kindergarten has an open door policy, this means you can drop past anytime during opening hours and have a tour around our state of the art facility! 

Pop by, call or email us today to find out more information about enrolling your child.  jennyskindy.com.au   NOW ENROLLING FOR 2020


Little Travel Adventures….active, educational and multicultural incursions for 2-5 year olds.
 I have so much fun doing Little Travel Adventures and I want to share lots of information about each country with the children, so to keep running times around 45 minutes I have restructured each adventure to now only include 4 countries. Each adventure will still start in our homeland of Australia and include a different aspect of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, before exploring 3 more countries around the world.

 Introducing Little Travel Adventures NEW adventures:
 Adventure 1: Australia, China, Italy, and Brazil
Adventure 2: Australia, Japan, UK, and USA (Hawaii)
Adventure 3: Australia, India, Kenya, and Mexico
Adventure 4: Australia, USA, France, and Jordan
Adventure 5: Australia, Indonesia, Canada, and Greece
Adventure 6: Australia, Ecuador, Ireland, and Antarctica
Adventure 7: Australia, Egypt, USA, and Russia
Adventure 8: Australia, Fiji, Spain, and Peru 

For full Adventure descriptions please visit www.littletraveladventures.com.au
Travelling to childcare centres, daycares and preschools within the Sydney area, complimenting the Early Years Learning Framework.    For more information contact Kristy on 0412 688 170


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
Contact us for more information www.frontrunnerlearningcentres.com.au 
or www.frlc.com.au 


PARENT INFORMATION

Wondering how you can help prepare your preschooler to learn how to read, spell and write?

Ensuring your child has good speech and language skills is important. Also of critical importance is laying down some foundations for learning literacy at school.

So – be inspired and get ready to have some fun with the following activities!

Syllable Counting is learning how to break words up into their smaller parts. For example; “birthday” has two syllables, “birth/day”. “caterpillar” has four syllables, “cat/er/pil/lar”. Don’t forget the one syllable words such as “chair”.

The possibilities are endless when it comes to activities to build skills in counting syllables; here are a few ideas… ensure to make it enjoyable!

Get physical – clap it out… or skip, jump, hop!
Get musical – toy drums, guitars, keyboards, maracas etc… Are great to tap, strum, play, shake to the beat of the syllables.
Name items you can see in the room of a house, or whilst in the car, and count out the syllables.
Build a tower- take turns counting syllables using blocks; and build a tower as you go; the tallest tower wins.
Syllable word lists can be found easily on the Internet – practice counting syllables in words with 1-4 syllables.
If you aren’t sure where to break words up, remember that every syllable has a vowel sound.

Rhyming is a great way to teach your child new words and get them to think about how words can relate to each other.  It sets the foundation for your pre-schooler to learn about word families and the different sounds that letters can make. Rhyming words have a repetition of similar sounds e.g. rocket/ pocket; pie/ sky. Some activities include;

Sharing books that rhyme – the most obvious start! As your child gets to know the book; have them complete the sentence for you (fill in the missing word). You can make this fun, by substituting a nonsense rhyming word, and have your child give you the correct version.

On the go – point to items wherever you are, and take turns thinking of rhyming words. E.g. “tree… see!”

Place items on a table, have your child select the word that best completes your sentence E.g. If items include rock, hat, toy, ball; you then make up a sentence – “There was a large cat, who wore a large…???”

Roll a ball to each other, exchanging rhyming words with each turn.

Sing nursery rhymes!

Even if your pre-schooler comes up with a nonsense word, it’s okay, you just want them to get the idea behind how rhyming works.

Hearing the first and last sound in a word

Be sure to focus on the sounds heard (rather than letter names). For example; “Can hear a ‘ssss’ sound in ‘sun’? What else can we think of that starts with ‘sssss’“?

Use family names/ photos
Catalogues
Story books
Sound Scrapbook – create a collage of all things starting with a certain sound e.g. “m” page, “s” page etc…
Hearing the last sound can be trickier…

You may give a visual cue, and emphasise the final sound as you say it. E.g. “Room” (whilst pointing to your lips)

Remember to be clear when talking about sounds vs letters to your child. E.g. The letter ‘s’ makes a ‘sssss’ sound etc.

Sounding out words

This is not about the spelling of the words– it is about sounds!

Pre- Kindy; focus on words structures that have 2-3 sounds E.g. ‘go’  (‘g’ – ‘o’) and ‘cat’ (‘c’ – ‘a’ – ‘t’). With a word like ‘shoe’, there are 2 sounds, ‘sh’ – ‘oe’.

Use visual cues

Coloured counters
Fingers
Objects such as blocks
Use movement; steps, jumps, tapping, pointing, whilst saying each sound.
When ready, incorporate practice visually scanning LEFT to RIGHT with objects such as the counters, blocks.

I may as well say it again – HAVE FUN! – That is how kids (and adults) learn best! 

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