Brenbeal Children's Centre

Last year, our 3-year-old learners took on a meaningful STEM inquiry project: “Saving Private Snail – How can we protect a snail from being crushed?”

After discovering a crushed snail on our walk to the local park, the children became inspired to find ways to keep snails safe. Over the course of three months, they explored, hypothesised, designed, built, and tested a wide range of designs using various materials. Their aim was to create a structure strong enough to withstand a person’s step while protecting the small creature inside.

Through hands-on experimentation and plenty of trial and error, the children developed creative solutions and deepened their understanding of problem-solving and design.

To conclude the project, the children reflected on their work, sharing their favourite materials and designs, and explaining their thinking.

This inquiry fostered key STEM skills, including planning, resilience, critical thinking, and creativity. We’re incredibly proud of the children’s dedication—and grateful to the families who supported their learning along the way!

**Community Fundraising**

With just a few days to go, if you're visiting Grilled Highpoint please support us via the community giving jar so that we can win $300.

Voting closes end of November.
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Families and staff of Brenbeal, past and present! Tomorrow, we celebrate 30 years of our beloved childcare centre. The party will start at 11:00am with a Welcome to Country.

It’s going to be an awesome day with lots of activities, food and music for everyone to enjoy. Please come along and catch up with friends old and new and celebrate how much we’ve achieved over the past 30 years.

Where: 8 Rayner Street, Footscray
When: 11:00am – 3:00pm Sunday, 10 September

Brenbeal turns 30 years old this September and we would love you to come and celebrate with a party for families and staff, past and present.

Please let us know you can come via the link or with the QR code in the attached flyer!

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/brenbeals-30th-celebration-tickets-680606832357

What a joy to see Brenbeal Children's Centre Manager Krystyna Soprun together with some of our little folk on the cover of the Maribyrnong & Hobsons Bay Star Weekly.

A wonderful front cover feature recognising Krystyna's 25 year milestone.

Read the digital issue https://maribyrnonghobsonsbay.starweekly.com.au/digital-editions/

**Celebrating 25 Years of service**

On behalf of the Committee of Management (CoM) of Brenbeal Children’ Centre we wish to announce the 25 year employment milestone of Centre Manager Krystyna Soprun.

Commencing in 1998, 5 years after the centre opened, Krystyna has been an integral member of the Brenbeal Community nurturing thousands of children and families and leading the centre to achieveing Exceeding’ in all seven of the National Quality Standard areas in 2022.

Read more about this milestone below and please join us in congratulation Krystyna.

Celebrating 25 Years of service. – Brenbeal Childrens Centre On behalf of the Committee of Management (CoM) of Brenbeal Children’ Centre we wish to announce the 25 year employment milestone of Centre Manager Krystyna Soprun. Commencing in 1998, 5 years after the centre opened, Krystyna has been an integral member of the Brenbeal Community nurturing thousand...

**LOOSE PARTS PLAY - COME AND JOIN US**

At Brenbeal we see ourselves as part of a big community, actively seeking ways to connect with organisations beyond the walls of the centre and as such, we are excited to announce 'Loose Parts Play' in partnership with the City of Maribyrnong.

Join Kinder Teachers Linda and Angela at the Clarke St pop up Park in West Footscray on Saturday 11 of February for Loose Parts Play. Explore how to use incorporate and use loose parts as part of play based learning an important

Saturday 11th of February
10am-12pm
Clarke St pop up Park in West Footscray (near the West Footscray Library)

All welcome and feel free to share with family and friends. Come along and play! It’s free and it’s fun!

https://brenbeal.org.au/loose-parts-play-come-and-play/

If you would like to learn more about our Kindergarten program, please contact us by telephone, 03 9317 8244 or manager(at)brenbeal(dot)org(dot)au and importantly you must register with the City of Maribyrnong to ensure you are on our waiting list.

**A No-Stress Book Week Celebration**

At Brenbeal, we believe the true meaning of Book Week is to celebrate stories. We also know our families are busy, so we opted for a stress-free event this year. No costumes, just books! We invited families to share their favourite books from home, and the response was wonderful. In every room, we had parents come to read to the children, and they all loved the opportunity to hear lots and lots of stories.

Here is sample of a very interesting story that Barriamal children (Kindergarten) made on their own.

Read about our No-Stress Book week here https://brenbeal.org.au/a-no-stress-book-week-celebration/

If you would like to learn more about our Kindergarten program, please contact us by telephone (9317 8244) or via email and importantly you must register with the City of Maribyrnong to ensure you are on our waiting list.

We've been working with Victoria University on the VU Play initiative, learn more about how we are supporting our local community https://brenbeal.org.au/collaborating-with-victoria-university/

We are pleased to announce that Brenbeal Children’s Centre is now both an Integrated and Sessional Kindergarten service provider (4 year old program).

Follow the link to learn more about our Kindergarten program.

Enroll now for 2022 and 2023 placement.

Changes to our Kindergarten program – 4 Year Old Sessional Kinder NOW available – Brenbeal Childrens Centre We are pleased to announce that Brenbeal Children’s Centre is now both an Integrated and Sessional Kindergarten service provider (4 year old program). Whilst there is no difference between the educational programs in Integrated (long day care) and Sessional Kindergarten, other than the length of d...