First Door - Early Childhood

What an awesome first day at the ACA QLD Conference with the opening key note by Dr Justin Coulson, then a fabulous story telling session with Leanne Logan (some of you will know from ‘The Story of Snake’ in our online course Transforming pedagogy*).

The great start continued with legendary and truly inspirational, Caroline Fewsler who ignited much joy in the room and shared many invitations for joyful pedagogy.

In between all of this joyful learning was meeting up with many great early childhood advocates and leaders that have been part of the First Door community for many years.

Cheers to you all and looking forward to seeing many more of you tomorrow!

*See: https://learn.firstdoor.com.au/courses/transform-pedagogy

Community. 💚

We’re so proud to partner with the wonderful service and team Kindulili Early Learning. 💚

First Door has a new creative role for a Content Learning Facilitator!

We're looking for someone who can:
1. Bring their expertise in current best practice and early childhood pedagogy to life.
2. Produce learning resources that spark curiosity and inspire educators and First Door students.
3. Create purposeful and engaging social media content, videos and graphics for fresh perspective, reflection and growth.
4. Make a positive impact on the early childhood sector through creative, meaningful learning experiences.

Is this opportunity for you?
✨ Work from home – from anywhere in Australia.
✨ Flexible hours, starting at 10 hours per week, with opportunities to grow.
✨ Purpose-driven work and collaboration with a passionate, values-based team.

Your next step:
If you're a Diploma or Bachelor-qualified early childhood professional with a creative spark, professional writing, and a passion for engaging learners, we'd love to hear from you.

Email [email protected] and tell us—creatively—why you're the right person for this role, addressing your skills/experience in the provided criteria. We'll then send you the full role description.

Or do you know someone who'd be perfect? Tag them below or share this post!

Learn more: www.firstdoor.com.au
RTO 40782

Last weekend was joy-filled with our fab team together on Bribie Island for our 5th annual team retreat.

Huge thank you to each of you for saying goodbye to your family to be together and for sprinkling laughter throughout the weekend.

It was wonderful to share so many fun experiences together: a festa dinner celebration, each of us driving a hired boat, a sea view lunch, discovering more about ourselves and each other, planning our next 1 year goals based on First Door values, and feeling nourished.

Cheers to each of you and to our year ahead together!

Please join us in congratulating the achievement of these dedicated educators for receiving their well-earned early childhood qualifications over the last couple of months. Here’s a few of their smiling faces and some proud photos.

Our team looks forward to celebrating with you at our next graduation celebration in November.
We are excited to see where this qualification takes you in your early childhood career, and your next steps for continuing your growth.

Three cheers to these fabulous and qualified educators!

💚 Talon Atkinson-Maul
💚 Hannah Higgins
💚 Jai Love
💚 Frances Ferguson
💚 Miriam Maslejova
💚 Danielle Wilson
💚 Rhiannan Thompson
💚 Layne Butt
💚 Jennifer Pukallus
💚 Sruti Deepak
💚 Anneka Roberts
💚 Charlotte Smith
💚 Ataia Hendy
💚 Elena Jerrard
💚 Kira Paterson
💚 Olivia Palmer
💚 Jennifer Forrest
💚 Kyeema Besgrove
💚 Rhiannna Thompson

www.firstdoor.com.au

Success story!
In one year this team has transformed in quality from ‘Working towards’ to ‘Exceeding the NQS’.

Huge congratulations Shaun, Laura and the team at Rosie's Early Learning - Mount Samson for your massive vision, passion and commitment to providing exceptional education and care.

This incredible achievement is a true reflection of your values, philosophy, and collaborative leadership.

We’re beyond proud to be your RTO partner and look forward to seeing your journey continue. 💚

Three cheers to you all! 🎉🎉🎉

Huge congratulations for this incredible achievement of the 5th Excellent rating at Bribie Island Community Kindergarten. 🎉🤩

Massive thanks from First Door and on behalf of everyone in the ECEC sector that gains inspiration from team BICKs exceptional philosophy, practices, environment, and leadership. 💚🌱

A special mention, big shout out and cheers to you Narelle, for consistently guiding your team to bring excellence into being, for leaning in to your community and for sharing the fabulous work you all do. 🎉🎉🎉💐

CONGRATULATIONS team BICK and community!

Team BICK are so very excited to be able to share that we have been awarded by ACECQA the Excellent rating for the 5th consecutive time.
The first and only ECEC Service in Australia to achieve this milestone.
There are so many people who help make BICK who it is and what it stands for and there are waaaaay too many to list individually. But, to summarise it’s our volunteers, our Intergen seniors and the oldies too. It’s the Bribie Island Community as a whole. It’s our colleagues near and far. It’s all those educators we have welcomed and opened our doors to, to share our program, practice, the environment and the BICK way. But most importantly it’s our jarjums and their families and the amazing irreplaceable, loyal and genuinely fully committed Team BICK that also includes our Management Committee……..so a MASSIVE and heartfelt thankyou to you all because without each and everyone of you this wouldn’t have been possible ❤️