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NAIDOC Week at Winyu
While the official celebrations for NAIDOC Week have been postponed until November due to COVID-19, educators and children at our Winyu Early Childhood Service went

National Reconciliation Week 2020 at Spence Children’s Cottage
Throughout National Reconciliation Week 2020, the children at Spence Children’s Cottage have been learning about and exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures.

National Reconciliation Week 2020 at Winyu Early Childhood Service
Throughout National Reconciliation Week 2020, the children at our Winyu Early Childhood Service have been learning about and exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

National Reconciliation Week in our Children’s Services
At YWCA Canberra we value the importance of reconciliation and commit ourselves to the participation and movement towards a more equal, just and unified country.

Floriade at Winyu
With this year’s Floriade taking a different approach, the ACT Government kindly donated the tulip bulbs and annuals seedlings to the community, so we can

Kindness at the cottage
We are lucky to work with so many kind and generous people. When the families at Spence Children’s Cottage found out that we needed more

Nature Play week at Spence Children’s Cottage
At YWCA Canberra we are proud to have on board an excellent team of educators and carers in our early childhood education centres and school-age care programs.

Celebrating Holi Festival
At YWCA Canberra, we are committed to building strong and positive relationships with people of all ethnicities and backgrounds. One of the ways we do

Conder kids help to tidy up the environment on Clean up Australia Day
On Clean up Australia Day, pre-schoolers from the Conder Early Childhood service participated in a community clean-up to help clean up rubbish found outside their

Fairley commemorates National Apology
Thursday 13 February marked the 12th anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generations for the decades long government practice of removing Aboriginal children from

Conder kids learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling
Our Early Childhood Services are committed to Reconciliation and work to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural knowledge and understanding into their everyday practices.

Nature walk with Conder Early Childhood Service
Last week at our Conder Early Childhood Service, the nursery room went for an afternoon nature walk to explore the local community. The carers and

Celebrating our Early Childhood Educators
Yesterday we celebrated Early Childhood Educator’s Day and thanked our Educators for their wonderful contributions to the education, wellbeing and healthy development of the young

Book Week 2018
The 18th – 24th August is Book Week, a week that brings children and books together and celebrates the act of reading. This year our

Social Justice at Rosary School Age Care
Over the past few months, children at Rosary School Age Care program have been exploring the concept of social justice, and thinking about what it

Marshmallow towers at Macquarie School Age Care
At Macquarie School Age Care, we have been very busy investigating with our science themed program! We began with a team building activity called “marshmallow towers”.