Articles by Adette Smith

Symbol of reconciled future IMAGE Aurora

Symbol of reconciled future

December 09, 2020

There is an art to embedding culture. In working to further ingrain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, the St Nicholas Early Education Centre at Cardiff has established strong connections with the local and wider community.

Kindness and compassion are catching on at Singleton IMAGE Early Education

Kindness and compassion are catching on at Singleton

January 22, 2018

Since the beginning of the year staff in the Learning Lions room at St Nicholas Early Education, Singleton, have encouraged children to demonstrate small acts of kindness towards their friends and carers each day. Our aim in promoting kindness was not only for the children to show kindness and compassion within our centre but to spread kindness into our community.

Thank you for keeping our community safe IMAGE Early Education

Thank you for keeping our community safe

May 22, 2017

As part of our community involvement, the Learning Lions were proud to show their support for our local SES volunteers on their national WOW Day on 10 May.

Clean Up Australia Day IMAGE Early Education

Clean Up Australia Day

March 07, 2017 Comments

On our first adventure walk last week, Oliver and Caleb noticed rubbish on the ground and told us that we needed to pick it up. Their interest in keeping our environment clean led us to participating on 2 March in the national "Clean Up Australia Day" initiative

St Nick's kids learn about spiny leaf insects IMAGE Early Education

St Nick's kids learn about spiny leaf insects

November 16, 2016 Comments

In March this year, one of our families kindly donated a pair of adult spiny leaf insects. We were given a male and female whom we named Twiggy and Twinkle.