Category: Child Development
Over the last few years, there has been a significant increase in digital technology use with children aged 0-12 years (OECD, 2018), especially with the introduction of touch screen, icon-driven tables, and the increased popularity of computer games, and ...
Young children are growing up in a society that engages with digital technology on a daily basis, and therefore children are very comfortable and confident in a digital culture that is rapidly changing. Presently, there are many forms of digital technolog...
Australia, like other countries internationally, are experiencing steady growth patterns in children attending out-of-school hours care (OSHC) programs in response to parental demands for enjoyable, safe, supervised environments after school (Simoncini, C...
Why attending an early childhood service more than one day benefits your child Early childhood education and care services cater for the educational and care needs of children birth-5 years. Over the past decade, increased levels of evidence-based rese...
Michele Peden, our Pedagogical Thinker in Residence, has condensed 20 years of early childhood education academia, knowledge and experience into five strategies for parents, to help children transition smoothly from preschool to kindergarten. 1. P...
Big Fat Smile is delivering further support to educators and positive outcomes to families with the development and recruitment of an industry-first Pedagogical Thinker in Residence Role. We welcomed industry expert, Michele Peden, who was appointed to...
Remember the joy of squishing paint between your fingers, and applying it to paper with wild abandon? Or plunging your hands into a ball of clay to fashion some fantastic creature? As young children our creative capacities come naturally to us, uninhib...
Children at Bellambi Point Community Preschool will kick off Children’s Week with a brand new, eco-oriented outdoor play space as a result of recent work at the centre with funding from the NSW Government Community Building Partnership. “We are ver...