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Kool Kids Helensvale prepares children for summer storm season

With exposure to severe weather events such as summer storms known to have a significant impact on children’s physical, mental and learning development, families, carers and educators are encouraged to prepare early for the upcoming storm season.

2025-12-19 07:30:23

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Curiouser and Curiouser: What Alice helps us see about who should teach

This article follows on from my earlier piece, Who should work with young children?, where I explored how the dispositions we value in those who work in early childhood education, shape not only who enters the profession, but how the work itself is imagined. This is where that thinking has brought me.

2025-12-19 07:15:35

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Celebrating 10 years of workplace excellence as the sector’s leading Employer of Choice

In 2025, KU Children’s Services proudly celebrates a milestone achievement, KU has been recognised as an Employer of Choice for the tenth consecutive year. Since first receiving this prestigious acknowledgement in 2016, KU has consistently demonstrated its commitment to fostering a positive, people-first workplace culture across every level of its organisation.

2025-12-19 07:00:09

by Fiona Alston

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When did it start to go wrong?

Looking back at the changes in how we deliver early learning since the 1990's, I'm back tracking what sent us down the proverbial toilet. Trying to think objectively about it , it's evident to me that when the focus shifted to parents instead of children everything we did and how we did it changed. The more early learning became competition for warm bodies, the bigger the shift in who really mattered at kindy.

2025-12-18 08:00:46

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Let’s not lose the word 'Children'

Across the early childhood profession, our language is constantly evolving. We reflect deeply on the words we use; how they shape identity, how they frame relationships, and how they influence the way children experience their world. Yet one quiet shift has been occurring in our sector, almost unnoticed: the gradual move away from the word children.

2025-12-18 07:45:13

by Fiona Alston

In The Field LATEST STORIES

Kool Kids Helensvale prepares children for summer storm season

Curiouser and Curiouser: What Alice helps us see about who should teach

Celebrating 10 years of workplace excellence as the sector’s leading Employer of Choice

When did it start to go wrong?

Let’s not lose the word 'Children'

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