Childcare Centre & Preschool in Turramurra
Handprints Turramurra caters for 48 children over three classrooms. There are multiple outdoor areas with large trees, little hideaways, a pergola and a wraparound balcony. These spaces are designed to meet a variety of play needs with flexible use in mind for different types of weather. There are large windows with plenty of natural light flowing into the centre and home like features including floating floor boards and warm coloured cabinetry. Turramurra Preschool
Turramurra is rated “Exceeding”
Handprints Turramurra has been rated EXCEEDING after only a year of operation! Well done to these amazing people. Handprints Turramurra is a beautiful, exciting and wondrous learning environment that officially exceeds the national quality framework!
Handprints Turramurra is a wonderful space for children, families and educators and reflects our Philosophy through the physical and social environments. We will continue to use high quality teaching strategies including utilising small groups so children can learn from each other as well as their teachers and an indoor/outdoor flexible program.
Our Turramurra educators and children have also begun venturing out on excursions for children of all ages. They visit the local growers’ market and the playground down the road, to ensure children are building connections with the community and learning to live in the real world. We value a slow increase in numbers of children into the service, giving the educators the time to get to know each individual child and family, and ensure we are finding ways to value their personal experiences and family culture within our environment.
Handprints Childcare Centre Nursery Program
Our Nursery spaces are based on secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships. Our educators are attuned to children’s individual thoughts and feelings and it is their mission to get to know each of our youngest children as individuals as well as a part of their own family units. We respect parents, as their child’s first teacher and we want to create cohesive relationships with families to ensure that children’s individual family culture’s are represented in the classroom. Through secure relationships between educators and family’s children develop confidence, while feeling respected and valued. The children in the Nursery classrooms learn to appreciate connectedness and interdependence as learners, and to value collaboration and teamwork. Turramurra Childcare
We believe that it is our holistic approaches that make our Nursery rooms different. Our educators pay close attention to children’s social, emotional, physical and cognitive learning as they plan experiences for children based on their interest and needs. Educators meet with parents regularly so that parents can have input into their children’s goals and developmental focuses in the classroom. While educators may plan for children toward a specific outcome, they see learning as open ended and flexible and allow children to find a love for creativity and self-assurance in their own ideas as they work towards these outcomes or goals. There is no right or wrong in our Nursery spaces, just integrated, holistic and connected learning that enhances children’s capacity to understand and make sense of the world around them.
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