Pink Day!

On Friday the 10th of October, children and staff at Charley's Place celebrated Pink Day to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research.
We 'stole' a box of pink ribbon fund raising merchandise from a local retailer and raised a brilliant $102.00 by selling it. Great job everybody!

Staff and children alike had a great time making everything pink.

Springing into Summer at Charley's Place

This fortnight:

· Charley’s Place is undertaking the childcare accreditation process earn a Quality Assurance rating through the National Childcare Accreditation Council. We are currently participating in Step 2: Self-Study and Continuing Improvement. See over for more information.

· Parents, please ensure that your child has enough healthy food for a whole day at Charley’s Place – we are always busy and the children do get hungry. There are some ideas for healthy snacks over the page.

· Getting closer to summer the weather is warming up and hats, sunscreen and water bottles become even more important. Please ensure that you provide these daily for your child so that they can get the full benefit of our outdoor program.

Goodbye Jaye!

We are sorry to say goodbye to one of our originals this week. Jaye has her last day on Friday and we will be very sorry to see her go. Jaye has been a permanent fixture in the Outback since we opened. Best of luck for the future, Jaye. We’ll miss you!

NAIDOC Day

The NAIDOC Day Celebrations were a great success in conjunction with Trudy Tronc and Len Lawton – Some of the children got to sample some great foods – such as crocodile and emu sausages.

They listened to Dreamtime stories and did aboriginal paintings and learned how to build a ‘Gunya’.

A great time was had by all and we are grateful for the opportunity to learn so much about indigenous culture first-hand.

Stop, Drop & Roll!

We had an extra-special fire drill this morning, with a visit from the Chinchilla Rural Fire Brigade and Blazer the Koala to teach us all how what to do in case of a fire.
Everybody got to see inside the fire truck and we all heard the siren!
Thanks very much to Chinchilla Rural Fire Brigade for giving the children an experience they'll remember for a long time to come.

Happy Birthday Charley!!!

Charley's Place Early Childhood Centre is one year old today!
We have had a huge party with a big green cake to celebrate an awesome year. We've come a long way from first opening our doors, incorporating family day care and vacation care into our centre, now employing 17 staff and associating with 8 independent carers in the Chinchilla community.
We love watching the children grow as they progress through the different rooms and develop into interesting little people, with a sense of pride that we have contributed.
So happy birthday to everybody at Charley's Place! Here's to many more years.

Happy Easter!

March has been an exciting month at Charley’s Place with loads to do, see and keep up with.
We have had a couple of fundraisers this month with the Pie Drive raising over $900 and Book Club earning the centre a swathe of new books for the children to enjoy. Great work, everybody!
Congratulations to Christine for completing her Certificate III in Children’s Services – Well done, Christine! Best of luck for your Diploma.
Staff and carers have attended a special workshop on SIDS prevention this month. This is especially important for those staff working with younger children and babies, and we all learned something.
Welcome to our new staff member, Charis Cameron. Charis comes to us from the child care centre in Miles and we look forward to working with her very much.
Just a reminder, please don’t alter or add your child’s name to the Sign In/Out sheets at reception without speaking to admin or myself first. We are subject to strictly regulated staff:child ratios and the room rolls are arranged to adhere to these. There have been times in the past where it wasn’t a problem to fit an extra child in, but as we are fast reaching capacity, there is less leeway. Thank you for your assistance with this.