Brooklyn Early Childhood Centre

Haere Mai and Welcome to Brendan, both Hugos,  Jack, Saul and Sebo . 

STAFF NEWS:

The whole team have been working hard on reviewing and resourcing their curriculum areas.  The system of review does take some time but it is well worth the wait with the changes arise out of the interests and needs of the children and the ideas of the teaching team.  The centre is looking fantastic and in making such informed decisions the children are getting maximum benefit from the changes.   Some of these include:  a brand new storage shed, a playhouse now in a permanent setting, a giant phone, easy access storage for the animals, cars, blocks etc, puzzles and games rotated in the block area, nature table display board, new playhouse/tent to give the children a private space to play in, new sleep music and a soon to be installed sunshade!

Storage solutions once the back room ventilation issue is sorted will allow for safer storage of equipment and resources and rotation to refresh all areas.

Thanks to all those who participated in the Parent Teacher Chat sessions, they were a great chance to discuss the children with Parents/Whanau.  We will be asking for feedback in the end of year survey and look forward to the sessions again in 2012.

TEACHER ONLY DAY – 25^th October 2011 is a planning day – the centre will be closed on this day to allow for team planning to take place.

CENTRE HOURS

8.30 am open  

2.30pm expected parental arrival.

Centre vacated by 2.45 to allow for staff non contact discussion and clean down.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

BECC EMERGENCY CELL NUMBER IS: 027 8123247 

If your child is sick at the centre we will contact you immediately to control/reduce the spread of illness, please make sure your contact details are up to date, if you have changed your place of employment or moved house we need your up to date numbers straight away!!!

CIVIL DEFENCE SUPPLIES – keep bringing in those civil defence emergency supplies!!! Thanks Richard for organizing this job! 

COMMITTEE
We are trialling e-mailing invoices from this month.  Paper copies will still be placed in your child’s pockets.  Any feedback on this would be appreciated.

Thanks to all of you who attended the AGM last month.  We rely on your input greatly being a not for profit centre. If you’d like to know more about joining the fundraising or getting more involved please call Roz on 380 1206 to discuss or see a teacher!

Welcome Sue our new Centre Manager via WCCCA and all the new committee members.  There are lots of interesting and creative fundraising ideas going round at the moment – get ready to get involved!!!

Again thanks to all those outgoing Committee members and all those who volunteered their time over the past year!

BECC Strategic Plan will be released for consultation.  This is something that the whole centre must work together on as a planning tool. Centre Philosophy soon to be reviewed.

Book Mending – Is there anyone who could take some books that need mending from time to time to fix for us???  They do suffer wear and tear from time to time.

THANK YOU

Sophie for organizing the shed to completion.  Thx Jeroen/Anthony/Erik for building the shed and David and John for painting it.   Also thanks to Geordie dulux for supplying the paint from Dulux.  We have certainly been very lucky to have received so much support from Dulux.