Embracing our inner Orange: Every Week is Harmony Week at Nido!

Harmony Week 2023 was a wonderful celebration of our multicultural country. Orange is the signature colour of Harmony week – and we encouraged all our children, parents, and carers to wear shades of orange and get involved!

With nearly half of all Australians being either born overseas or having a parent who was, our Nido classrooms are privileged to be brimming with diversity. Our committed Educators also represent this beautiful blend of culture – something that made our Nido Early schools perfectly placed to pack Harmony week with multicultural activities that promote our core values of respect, inclusiveness, and equal opportunity.

During our Nido celebrations, we:

Used music: We brought the world to Nido by listening to and savouring harmonies from around the world
Told stories: It was the perfect opportunity to discover stories, fairy tales, and fables from across the globe
Ate our way across the globe: What better way to celebrate diversity than with delicious food? Parents helped their little ones prepare dishes that represent their ancestry – or plates with a range of orange foods to match the theme of the week
Played our way around the planet: We immersed ourselves in such classics as Ounch Neech, an Indian and Pakistani game of tag, Pass the Parcel from the UK and the traditional Philippine jumping game of Luksong Backa
Learnt how to say hello in different languages, used maps to identify each other’s origins and learnt about our classmates’ family traditions

At Nido, Harmony Week presented the ideal opportunity to highlight the values, beliefs, and languages of all our families and celebrate all the advantages that such diversity brings!

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Hi Georgina,

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the recruitment of Centre Directors and Educators to join the expanding Nido family.

With so many open roles in the sector at the moment, I think we should be talking about the differences that really sets Nido apart. From my own experience, they are not always obvious from the outside, but when you get to meet the Nido family you really feel it.

Leaving my previous employer, who I was with for over 10 years, was not an easy decision. I had interviews with a few different companies, before finding my home at Nido.

I remember walking out of that initial interview, literally with tears in my eyes, I knew I had finally found what I had been looking for.

As you mentioned, honesty and integrity are critical and a given, our Services, resources and environments speak for themselves, and candidates merely need to look at our website to understand how engaging and wonderful they are.

We really need to focus more on what a Centre Director and an Educator will experience at Nido;

Authenticity; At Nido they will get honesty with heart
Trust and understanding; At Nido you are treated from day one, as competent and capable
We have the opportunity to inspire Educators and children to reach their full potential and change their worlds for the better, this still delights me everyday
At Nido you can make your mark in the world and are given the respect and autonomy to do what you love and truly make a difference
Collaboration – we are one team, far and wide we inspire and challenge each other
Nido is a family, for me, I have the overwhelming sense of belonging at Nido, my people and my home, this is what drew me to Nido in the first place

I am continually driven by our purpose;

To provide our Educators with the training, environment, motivation, and empowerment to deliver exceeding quality education to children, partnering with families, and giving children a voice and the opportunity to lead wonderful fulfilling lives.

I love that we seek to make quality early education available to everyone, regardless of their economic position. That we focus more on suburban children and advocate for their rights, Nido is truly a movement and not one to join without knowing you will need to put your heart on the line every single day.

Mary Oliver asked “What will you do with your one wild and precious life”, I cannot think of anything more fulfilling than what I get to do every day at Nido.

Kind regards,
Danika x