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Welcome to Teenie Weenies Early Learning Centre, we are conveniently located in Panania/Picnic Point.
Teenie Weenies is a private family owned and run child care centre dedicated to striving for excellence in the care and development of your child. Teenie Weenies is licensed to accept children from 2 to 5 years of age.
Our staff are dedicated, highly skilled and motivated members of our close knit team. You will find that all our staff not just your child’s room teachers will know you and your child. At Teenie Weenies we try to foster a “family” environment.
We aim to provide ongoing high quality care to 29 children each day while parents are working or studying, and we also prioritise the enrolment of children with special needs and families facing other circumstances, such as sole-parent families.
Teenie Weenies is divided into two groups, The Alphas and The Omegas (coming from the Greek alphabet A-Z). We separate the groups for various parts of our program to ensure experiences are developmentally appropriate, for example, lunchtime, music classes, excursions and experiences that may relate to a particular age. The children learn quickly what group they are in through a number of fun experiences during their first few weeks.
We welcome all enquiries and welcome the opportunity to show you our beautiful new centre.
Teenie Weenies provides a safe, nurturing, warm and inviting home environment.
The staff work in collaboration with families to build and foster a healthy learning environment. We promote an atmosphere that enhances meaningful play, where children feel empowered to be themselves and respect one another.
Staff will support and encourage opportunities for children to acquire social skills, creativity, problem solving and exploring, as well as facilitating an awareness of a healthy well being. These skills will lay the foundation for their future, as they become constructive members of our community.
Each of the staff have a group of focus children which they observe and develop programs for. At the start
of the year you will be informed who your child’s focus carer is. At the beginning, in the middle, and at the
end of each year, focus carers compile a developmental profile of your child.
This is done by observing each developmental area and filling out a progress summary thoroughly outlining all developmental areas. Through this, short and long term goals are set. Your help is valuable at every step of the planning process, as your knowledge and observations compliment and add to our awareness of your child.
Each focus carer records observations for their group of focus children, which may consist of photography, written records of children’s play and conversations, participation in routines and group experiences, and drawing/art & craft samples. These are kept in a portfolio, which is an important record of each child’s progress. We encourage children and families to have input and ownership of the portfolio- this may occur through borrowing the portfolio for a few nights, and adding information from home. The observations gathered are used as the basis for planning, and are discussed with staff members. Strategies are then develop to achieve the goals set.
Each carer concentrates on a small social group per week, and plans for their developmental needs and interests, develops ways of extending their intellectual, language, social, emotional and all other skills. You will notice your child’s name/friendship groups appearing on the program beside experiences planned specifically for them, around once per month. The program is then evaluated in light of the outcomes for the particular focus children and in relation to the group as a whole. An overall evaluation of the day is written up in the daily journal, which is displayed on the sign-in area.
We are planning to have a School Information night towards the end of the year, where we invite the parents of our Omega Group to discuss more formal School Extension Program (otherwise known as School Readiness Program). Parents discussed their feelings about their child/ren starting school together with staff and other parents. It’s a reflection of the partnership between parents and staff and the community, showing support, ideas and new learning.
