Goodstart Early Learning Labrador - Gordon Street

🌈🦷 Get Ready for a Super Smile Adventure! 🦷🌈

Calling all little smile champions! 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️ Tomorrow is all about happy smiles, fun learning, and tooth-tastic adventures! Our friendly dental heroes are ready to make dental care exciting, positive, and full of smiles. 😄✨

🏫 Our Dental Teams Are Visiting These Centres Tomorrow
📅 Tuesday, August 18, 2026

📍Educating Kids ELC Domain Educating Kids Early Learning Centre - Domain, Kirwan, Mt Low, Condon
📍Waldorf Little Learners Waldorf Little Learners
📍Seedlings & Co Bellbird Park Seedlings & Co.
📍Little Scholars SOEL Ormeau 2 Little Scholars School of Early Learning
📍Busy Learners E ED C Busy Learners Early Education Centre & Pre-school
📍Lowood E ED C Lowood Early Education Centre & Pre-school
📍Journey EL Dakabin Journey Early Learning Dakabin
📍Harmony E ED North Lakes (Play & Learn) Harmony Early Education
📍Goodstart EL Labrador Gordan St Goodstart Early Learning Labrador - Gordon Street

✨ What’s in Store?

🦷 Brush Like a Smile Superhero!
Little learners will discover fun brushing techniques, practise healthy habits, and learn simple ways to keep their teeth strong and sparkling. 🪥🌟

🎈 Happy & Gentle Check-Ups
With friendly faces, gentle care, and lots of encouragement, children can feel comfortable, confident, and proud of their beautiful smiles! 💖😊

💌 A Little Reminder for Our Amazing Parents
Please complete your child’s online dental-care consent form so they can take part in the fun and enjoy their special Smile Day! 🦷✨

We can’t wait to see those big smiles, curious faces, and happy little heroes! 🌈😁

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Strong relationships are the foundation for confident, curious learners 💛

Goodstart’s key educator approach ensures every child is known, supported and feels safe - through consistent, nurturing connections with educators and meaningful partnerships with families. These bonds help build wellbeing, resilience and a true sense of belonging from day one.

Discover how this approach supports your child’s learning journey: https://brnw.ch/2

Today we celebrated National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day ❤️💛🖤💙💚

We honoured and celebrated the rich cultures, histories, and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Through meaningful experiences heading to the local park and admiring the natural environment around us, making a traditional humpy shelter storytelling, art and connection, we encouraged all children to learn about and appreciate the world's oldest continuing cultures.

Together, we celebrate every child's identity, strength, and bright future.

Did you know we invested $65.5M into our social purpose last year, a 14% increase on the year before? 👏 At Goodstart, we're proud of the impact we have on children, families and communities. As a not‑for‑profit, every dollar we earn is reinvested to improve outcomes – from high‑quality learning and educator development to extra support for children who need it most.
Because when we put children first, the impact goes further 💛

The research is clear 📚 reading aloud is one of the most powerful things we can do for our children.

When we read with a child, we’re doing far more than sharing a story. We’re building the foundations for language, confidence, curiosity and a lifelong love of learning.

Decades of research shows that children who are read to regularly:

💛 Build stronger language skills
Hearing rich varied language in books exposes children to far more words than everyday conversation alone. This growing vocabulary helps them understand, communicate and make sense of the world.

💛 Develop early literacy skills long before they learn to read
Through stories, children learn how books work – that print carries meaning, that pages turn left to right, and that stories have a beginning, middle and end. These early understandings make learning to read feel familiar and exciting.

💛 Strengthen phonological awareness
Rhymes, rhythms and playful sounds help children hear the building blocks of language.

💛 Grow their comprehension and thinking skills
Talking together about a story, predicting what might happen, wondering how a character feels, and connecting events to real life helps children develop memory, problem-solving, and higher-order thinking.

💛 Experience connection, comfort and joy
Shared reading fosters calmness, closeness, and moments of joint attention. These warm interactions support a child's sense of security and belonging.

Most importantly, children who experience positive, engaging reading moments from a young age are more likely to develop a genuine love of books - something that matters even more than early literacy skills alone.

Reading is simple, joyful, and sets children up for success in school and life.

Here is a list of some of our favourites below 👇

A huge THANK YOU to Miss Maria for her 5 years of service. 🩵💜🧡
Miss Maria displays such kindness, respect, dedication and pure passion for role each and every day. Every child and family that walk into our centre absolutely love her, you can’t blame them. 🫶🏼

Labrador Gordon St is so lucky to have you Miss Maria - THANK YOU for all that you do and we are so proud of you. 💖

A huge thank you to Councillor Joe Wilkinson for supporting us to gain some additional climbing equipment to enhance our children’s muscle development, and for us to be able to provide our community a vegetable garden.
This has enabled us to supply our community with herbs and vegetables all year round. 🌽 🌿 🫑 🥬🪻🎍

To celebrate the final day of National Reconciliation Week, we went for a Walk on Country at the local park.
During our walk, we took time to observe the changes happening in nature and discussed the changing seasons. The children noticed the large bush at the edge of the park, which is bright green during summer but turns a vibrant red as the weather becomes cooler. 🪴🌳🍁
Miss Teena discovered some green leaves still hidden amongst the red foliage, giving the children the opportunity to compare the colours, textures and stages of change within the same plant.

The newest member of our Labrador Gordon St family came for a visit today. Miss Casey brought Baby Ezekiel in for some serious cuddles and to meet the rest of the crew!! 💙🩵💙 He is just perfect 🥰🥰