General News

The Management Team

An rare action shot of our extensively qualified & totally awesome management team at Erina kindergarten! We are so incredibly proud of the commitment & dedication of our management team in advocating children’s rights & continuing to excel in our practices of providing excellent care at Erina kindergarten.

Our management team is incredibly passionate about leading our growing team towards continued excellence in supporting each child’s values & providing ongoing support to each child in their own learning journeys. We will continue to support our staffs in their journey of continuous improvement towards exceeding the the national quality standards with the provision of Early Childhood education and care for children in our care at Erina kindergarten.

Child & Family Health

It’s really important to keep up with your child’s developmental checks. You can find these check-lists in your Blue Book.

Our free Child and Family Health services are open and safe for you and your child to attend to complete these checks.

Find your local Child and Family Health Clinic here.

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Playing IT Safe

Playing IT Safe has been designed to help parents and carers support their child’s learning in early learning settings, by providing access to resources and online play-based activities that they can play with their child.

Research and advice suggests that co-viewing and co-playing with children helps to keep them safe online because parents and carers are taking an active role in what children are doing online, providing modelling of safe practices and being able to talk to them about it.

Playing IT Safe provides parents, carers and their children with a safe platform to play online and learn about the internet. It is important that parents and carers undertake these activities with their child to build trust and an understanding of their role in supervising and approving the content children see and how they interact online (both now, and as they get older).

Online safety education needs to start at a young age to set up a foundation for safer experiences and interactions. When everyone is open and transparent about what they are doing online, they are able to talk and support each other.

The resources below, including our play-based activities area, are where parents and carers can begin the process of supporting their children to play online in a safe way.

For further resources and information to help keep children safe online, visit the ThinkUKnow, eSafety and AMF websites.

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Central Coast Covid Free

😷 COAST COVID-FREE 😷

For the first time since the pandemic started, the Central Coast has no known active coronavirus cases.

The Central Coast Local Health District says all 117 cases have been released from daily follow up.

Over 16,100 tests have been carried out.

What a great achievement, Coasties! Lets keep up that social distancing.

People with even the slightest symptoms are being urged to get tested.

Welcome Elise

Hi everyone,

Now that I have an email address I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself as I know many of you have noticed me floating around .

A bit about myself, I grew up in Melbourne however have lived on the coast for the past 17 years with my husband and now two children Emma 12 and Jude 7.

My journey working within the early childhood sector began back in 1994 when I worked as an assistant educator in an Out of School Hours Care program. As my passion for working with children grew, I studied to complete my Diploma and in 2005 completed the Bachelor of Teaching Early Childhood Studies. Over the years I have had the pleasure and experience working as Lead Educator, Early Childhood Teacher, Hospital Play Therapist, Professional Development Facilitator for Gowrie NSW and Manager across a vast range of children services.

The key roles throughout my career have helped me to grow and evolve into a strong advocate for children’s rights and exceeding early childhood practices that support both the emotional and spiritual development of children. I am passionate about leading teams towards developing an early childhood curriculum and environment that values each child as capable and competent and as an individual supporting them on their own learning journeys.

I am looking forward to meeting and working closely with each of you, in supporting your journey of continuous improvement towards exceeding the National Quality Standards with the provision of Early Childhood Education and Care for children.

Shape Dominos

Engaging shape dominos games with Miss Wendy in the #emus room at #erina #kindergarten. The wonderful Miss Wendy & Miss Kiara are always actively engages in with the students to help to build a bond with the children and strengthen their sense of belonging and identity. Great job team #emus!

A Sensory Experience

Our active #Erina #kindergarten #koalas room run by the wonderful team leader Miss Jo & Miss Brooke who are always so engaging in their room setups & experiences so sensory and fun for all involved! The trinket table was very popular today. Making spiders & robots. The students all displayed their use of imagination and creativity skills great job team #koalas keep up the great work!

Gumnuts, Camera, ACTION!

Some action shots of our #gumnuts munch and move initiative at #Erina #kindergarten we did some yoga with Miss Teya which involved lots of dinosaur poses were by far most popular ones! Great work team gumnuts!

Awarded for always making us laugh

A big congratulations to Miss Tash for being voted educator who always makes us laugh at #Erina #kindergarten! Miss Tash is caring, fun loving educator at Erina kindergarten & we are proud to have you as a member of our team! Keep on making us smile Miss Tash!

Awarded for most patience

A big congratulations to Miss Ellie for being voted for educator as having the most patience at Erina kindergarten! Miss Ellie is a valued member of our team at Erina kindergarten. Keep up the great work Miss Ellie!