Goodstart Early Learning Point Vernon

🌟🎓 CONGRATULATIONS EBONY! 🎓🌟

We would love it if you all could take the time to celebrate our amazing School-Based Trainee, Ebony, on completing her Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care and officially finishing her traineeship! 💛

Ebony has worked incredibly hard throughout her traineeship, growing in confidence, knowledge and skills while building beautiful relationships with the children and becoming such a valued member of our Goodstart Point Vernon team.

We are so incredibly proud of everything you have achieved, Ebony! 🥰

Well done, Miss Ebony! We are so proud of you! 💛👏🎓

Celebrating 5 Years with Miss Kobi! 🌟

Today we celebrate an incredible milestone — 5 years of service with Goodstart Point Vernon! 💛🎉

Miss Kobi is such a valued and cherished member of our team. Over the past five years, she has brought her warmth, dedication, knowledge and genuine passion for children to everything she does. She has a beautiful ability to build meaningful connections with children, support their individual needs and create an environment where every child feels valued, capable and included. 🥰

If you see Kobi about the centre congratulate her on her 5yr anniversary with Goodstart!

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

🌈 Learning Through a Rainbow of Colours in Toddler One! 🌈

Our Toddler One children have been busy extending their learning and understanding of colour recognition, through a variety of meaningful, hands-on experiences. 🎨✨

Throughout the Toddler One program, the children have explored colours through, sorting and matching coloured items, creating colourful collages, painting, and experimenting with primary colours to discover what new colours can be made when we mix them together. These experiences have encouraged curiosity, problem-solving, creativity and language development as the children confidently identify and talk about the colours they see around them.

🎶 One of our favourite parts of our colour journey has been learning The Rainbow Song! The children have loved bringing their beautiful singing voices together, connecting with their peers and strengthening their colour recognition as they sing.

We are now taking this learning one step further by introducing sign language for the colours of the rainbow. 🌈🤟 The children are beginning to learn the signs for each colour while singing, providing another meaningful and inclusive way for them to communicate, express themselves and connect with one another.

We are so proud to see the children building on their knowledge each day and, most importantly, having so much fun while learning together. 💛

Our Toddler One room is certainly looking a little more colourful! 🌈🎨✨

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 👇

Our wonderful Miss Kayhla has returned from maternity leave this week and has also hit 5years of service at Goodstart Point Vernon. If you see her around the centre welcome her back and congratulate her on this milestone!

Goodstart Point Vernon is HIRING! We are looking for reliable, communicative, experienced, qualified and passionate CASUAL educators to support our Hervey Bay/Maryborough services- with Goodstart Point Vernon being your home centre. Opportunity for plenty of hours if available across multiple centres (4 centres between Hervey Bay/Maryborough).
MINIMUM of cert 3 qualification to apply.
https://careers.goodstart.org.au/job/HERVEY-BAY-Casual-Educator-QLD-4655/1361652366/

🍦☕ Stop by Kindy 2’s Ice Cream & Coffee Shop! ☕🍦

Our little entrepreneurs have been busy serving up smiles through dramatic play as they run their very own ice cream and coffee shop! From taking orders and handling “payments” to scooping ice cream and making pretend coffees, the children have been exploring the world of business while having so much fun. 💛

Dramatic play offers so many wonderful learning opportunities, including:
✨ Building confidence and communication skills
✨ Encouraging creativity and imagination
✨ Developing early numeracy and literacy skills
✨ Learning teamwork, problem solving and turn taking
✨ Exploring real-world roles and responsibilities

It has been amazing to watch the children collaborate, negotiate roles and engage in meaningful conversations while creating their own little café experience. We may even have some future business owners in our midst! 🍨🧁☕

What is your favourite icecream flavour?- Comment Below

At Goodstart Point Vernon, children’s safety is always our top priority. 💛

Practicing regular emergency drills helps children become familiar with important safety procedures in a calm and supportive environment. These drills teach children how to respond safely, listen to educator instructions, and build confidence during unexpected situations.

Emergency rehearsals also ensure our educators are well prepared and ready to keep every child safe and supported at all times.

By practicing together, we help create a safe, secure, and confident learning environment for all children. 🚨🧯

Our Nursery 2 (16months-2 years) children are becoming very confident in evacuation procedures through practice and resources to support neat and orderly participation.