Our Centre
Teddy Bears Educational Child Care Centre is a family business which was established in 1993. It remains under the same Provider and was relocated to the current site in March 2003. Our beautiful centre is a green oasis in the heart of the Tweed Heads South business district and boasts lush gardens, large outdoor play spaces with large trees for natural shading. Our extra large sandpit provides opportunities for children to dig, build, create and experiment with a pumping water course to add to the fun! Children have the opportunity to interact with our resident chickens, Noodle and Flash, who regularly supply us with fresh eggs for families to take home. We love offering children the opportunity to experience nature and learn about helping our environment so we also have a lovely vine spanning one of our yards which encourage the endangered Lace Wing butterflies, and vegetable gardens which the children care for as part of their educational program.
Generous size learning environments
We are so fortunate to have lot’s of space for little bodies to explore! All of our rooms are above regulations size which allows for plenty of room to move! Our love of nature extends to indoors as well with the use of natural fibres for art and craft and sensory experiences. Large windows in each room provides natural lighting which is great for young eyes.
Longevity of staff
A comforting issue for enrolling parents is the range of age of educators and the longevity of their continuing work at our centre. They express their relief feelings of seeing mature educators together with younger ones and: also hearing that some younger are parents as well. We do support our educators with a balanced home- work practice. For continuity, part-time educators often do extra shifts with addressing leave requirement. We aim to have familiar educators working on most occasions throughout the centre.
Community & social connections
Our centre displays gratitude from families with their provided gifts like our home-made coffee table. In family connection we have evolved names for of our environment with the Dalnan (peaceful/ calm) garden and Cavanbah room (meeting place). The preschool children lead our ‘Acknowledge to Country’ as a morning ritual and show pride in the process. We have resources that we can provide any family with tips from various therapists and we can refer children to community supports as required. We have been selected by ASPECT and Shaping Outcomes who worked alongside us in a learning progression for our educators and most importantly for connections with children.