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Earth Day: Promoting Environmental Awareness

Earth Day is an annual event, promoting environmental awareness and encouraging people to take action to protect our planet. Teaching young children about Earth Day can help them develop an understanding and appreciation for the natural world and inspire them to take action to protect it. There are many ways...
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Our Love of Food: Nutrition in the Early Years

While nutrition is an essential element for life, it represents so much more than simply fuelling our bodies. Our relationship with food is shaped during our early years, so developing healthy habits during this critical time should be of the highest priority. Where and how a child eats, is also...
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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...
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Bringing Research Alive in Nido Early Schools…

Nido Baldivis is a great example of how Nido brings alive Australian Early Development Census(AEDC) research in curriculum planning. Baldivis, taking local results, plus ideas from the children themselves, families and Educators, used this information to determine where to focus resources and staff development. Surprisingly, the Baldivis AEDC results showed...
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All Aboard The Nido Express!

Nido Hillarys has come up with an innovative solution to banish those tears when a child just doesn’t want to be dropped off… and add a smile to many faces! Boarding the Nido Express for a train ride to their room from the foyer, the Early School staff have introduced...
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Kindergarten: Every Day Counts

Why Kindergarten Matters Our brains develop rapidly during the first few years of life The first five years of a child’s life are crucial for their neurodevelopment, health and growth. So it should come as no surprise that the impressions we make on them during this period have lifelong consequences....
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Problem Solving in our Kindergarten Program

Problem solving is one of the most crucial aspects of child development. Most of the skills that we use to work through day-to-day issues are learned in our early formative years. A good kindergarten program is designed to nurture this learning, doing so in a fun manner that allows the...
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Why Come To Nido For Kinder?

Kinder, Kindy, Year K, Preparatory, Kindergarten… There are many names for these important few years of early childhood education. As many as there are, there are even more providers offering a kindergarten service. So why should you chose Nido Early Schools over the many alternatives? There is no better way...
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Helping Your Child Prepare For The Start Of Their Kindy Year

Starting kindy can be an anxious time for both children and parents, but there are plenty of things that you can do to ease the transition and set your child up for a happy time. Remember, parents are powerful influencers. You are a source of inspiration and a source of...
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Friendship Qualities That Are Being Developed In Early Childhood

Babies babbling away in their prams. Toddlers playing in the sandpit. Busy kindergarten children on the climbing frame and getting arty with their paintbrushes. These scenes are all part and parcel of everyday life where babies and children are growing up and starting to explore the world around them. Did...
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