Total Care Early Learning Centre

Today we pause to honour and remember the brave men and women of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps 🇦🇺🇳🇿

On ANZAC Day, we reflect on their courage, sacrifice, and service 🌹 and give thanks for the freedoms we enjoy today because of them.

Lest we forget.

We’re excited to share a new step forward in our commitment to sustainability at the centre! 🌱♻️

Today we are proudly introducing our Total Care Can Club! We now have a dedicated recycling bin located at the front of our service where families and staff are invited to bring in their empty bottles and cans. These items will be collected and recycled, helping us reduce waste and care for our environment together.

Even more exciting—every contribution will make a difference! All proceeds raised from the recycling initiative will go directly back into the centre to purchase new resources for the children. This means that your small, everyday actions can help create meaningful learning experiences and enhancements within our environment.

This is a wonderful opportunity for us to work in partnership with our families, while also teaching the children the importance of sustainability, responsibility, and caring for our world.

We can’t wait to see our community come together for this fantastic initiative—thank you for your ongoing support! 💚

Safety is always our priority! 🚒🔥

This afternoon we conducted a practice fire drill at the centre, and we are so proud of how confidently and calmly the children followed our procedures. Through regular practice, the children are becoming familiar with what to do, helping them feel safe and prepared in an emergency.

These drills are an important part of our commitment to maintaining compliance with safety regulations and ensuring the wellbeing of every child in our care.

Well done everyone! 👏

🌏 Together We’re Building a Sustainable Centre 🌱

At Total Care, we are proud to be a sustainable childcare centre and we believe that caring for our environment starts early — and works best when we do it together.

We invite our families to help us reduce waste by donating clean, safe, reusable items from home that we can repurpose in our learning spaces. These materials become powerful tools for creativity, problem-solving and imagination!

♻️ What Can You Bring In?

• Cardboard boxes & tubes
• Bottle lids & plastic containers
• Fabric scraps, ribbons or wool
• Paper towel rolls
• Old pots, pans or kitchen utensils (no sharp edges)

Please speak to educators if you’re unsure whether an item is suitable.
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🌱 Why Sustainability Matters

By reusing everyday items, children:

• Learn to care for and respect the environment
• Develop creativity and critical thinking
• Understand that materials can have more than one purpose
• Build a sense of responsibility and belonging

These experiences help children become confident, informed and environmentally responsible learners.

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💚 Our Sustainability Station is located on our Balcony near the office!

Thank you for supporting our sustainability journey!

Every small action makes a big difference — and together we are showing our children how to care for their world.

🌍 Reduce • Reuse • Reimagine 🌍

What an incredible opportunity to connect on a global level 🌏✨ 🇨🇳
Today we had the pleasure of meeting with the owner and director of a 500-place early learning centre in China. It was such an inspiring conversation, sharing ideas and experiences around programs, quality practices, leadership, and the differences in regulations and early childhood frameworks across our two countries.

We loved networking, learning from one another, and seeing how, no matter where we are in the world, the heart of early childhood education remains the same — children, relationships and quality care 💛

We are especially excited to be starting a pen pal exchange between our children, creating a meaningful way for them to learn about different cultures, build connections and develop global awareness from a young age ✉️🌱

So grateful for opportunities like this that broaden our thinking, strengthen our practice and remind us that early learning truly has no borders.