How one centre achieved excellence rating with the Backyard in a Box resources The dream of owning a childcare centre was hard fought but also very rewarding. As many peaks as I have had, so too have there been an equal number of pits. The deepest of these pits was transitioning from childcare into education […]
A little under a year ago Jenny Seow, Area Manager of Warooga Childcare Riverton and Southern River in Western Australia, embarked on an education for sustainability journey across two services concurrently. I checked in with her Centre Manager Shannen Blundell and her sustainability officer Amber Giles recently and following is an outline of their journey. What […]
And what do worms have to do with this anyway? Well, everything actually. Charles Darwin referred to earthworms as natures ploughs. Much like human engineers, worms change the structure of their environment. Worms aerate soils and breakdown dead organic matter in a process known as decomposition. Worms eat and pass organic matter allowing bacteria and […]
