Males in Early Childhood Education

A new Connect Community is available for men working in Early Childhood Education.  This community is designed to help and support males working in Early Childhood Education in Western Australia.  The community is intended as an open resource of support and discussion.  For further information please contact Dean Gill or search Connect Communities - Males in Early Childhood Education. 
Please pass this on to any colleagues that may be interested.

PGWA Aboriginal Play and Learning Forum

The 2016 forum reflects on how we can work in ways that value parents and carers as a child’s first teacher.  It looks at the importance of families and their communities in raising healthy confident children and how we need to work and learn together to get children ready for school.  The day will also share the journeys of people who have graduated from Tertiary studies, who currently attend school and who are getting children ready for school. 
 

Harmony Day at Sawyers Valley PS

Yesterday the Early Years team celebrated multiculturalism and difference by asking the children to trace, cut out and decorate their hands. We assembled the hands to make a Harmony Day Tree. The children reflected on how the tree looked so interesting and beautiful because all of the hands were different and were guided to make some parallels with the importance of individuality and difference in groups of people. We brainstormed their responses to the sentence starter "Many different hands make..."

Hills K-2 Educator Network Session

Hills K-2 Educator Network Meeting:
Tuesday 5^th April 2016

You are invited to our Term 1 Network Meeting.

WHEN: Tuesday 5^th April
WHERE: Sawyers Valley Primary School Early Learning Centre
TIME: 3:30 Cuppa and Registration
           3:45/4:00 Session begins.

TOPIC: Early Years Updates and Sharing

We will be sharing some updates on Phase 2 of the WA Curriculum and new resources that are available to support teaching, learning and development in the Early Years.

Bring along a description of a sensory experience or provocation that you have found to be engaging in your learning environment. Please type and print out some copies (10-15) so that everyone can take a resource home with them. A proforma for this can be found in the Library.
 
You can register for this event using the IPL Online Calendar. If you do this it will be recorded for TRB registration purposes. Participants can also sign in on the day.

Hope to see you there!

Our second SHWACC (previously SHACC) workshop for 2016 will be held on :

Date: 31/3/16

Time: 4-5 pm

Venue: Greenmount Primary School (follow the signs to the library)

You can register for this session via the online calendar.Our focus for this session will be on developing school HASS and Science operational plans. Please bring along your school's operational plans (completed or works in progress), suggestions for developing operational plans and any questions you may have.

Nibbles and refreshments provided.

Hope to see you there.

Carey Stewart and Cynthia McGlew
SHWACC Co-ordinators