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Age: 1.5 - 2.5 years approximately Number of Children in room: 12 daily Staff Ratios: We exceed regulatory requirements with a 1:3 ratio of staff to children
Welcome to the Gumnuts room We are aged from approximately 1.5 years to 2.5 years in this room and obviously require a lot of care and attention. Whether your child is the youngest or oldest child in our room, your needs are always catered for by our very dedicated staff. Our room is located to the right of the Centre’s front door, along the rampway and left at the top. We are the room located in the middle of the main childcare building – that’s where you’ll find us for the majority of the day! Our room opens at 8.00am and closes at 5.15pm daily. We are lucky to share some time in the morning and evenings with older and younger children for “family grouping”. This is a great time for us to see our siblings and experience some time with other age groups – good practice! We also welcome siblings to visit our room during quiet time in our day, and sometimes we even visit other rooms too. Most of the Gumnuts children like to sleep each day for approximately 1-2 hours in the middle of the day. Towards the end of the year some older Gumnuts children like to rest and/or participate in quiet activities during this time! So please respect our need for some solitude and mind your voice when entering our room – thanks. We are very friendly and love to catch up with our parents as often as possible, so please don’t be a stranger.
“On paper” familiarization The Gumnuts room is located in the top building to the right of the front door along the rampway and past the Wombats room. We share a common bathroom and outdoor area with the Possums room. In order for staff to create safe play spaces, we can offer an indoor/outdoor program which allows smaller groups to be using the indoor or outdoor area separately. We can provide excellent supervision if the group using the outdoor space is smaller. On occasion you will see all of us outside together, probably a result of the weather allowing us only small periods of time in the yard!! We sleep and/or rest in our playroom on the carpet area after all of the morning activities are packed away. The Centre provides all linen and bedding for your Gumnut child. Alternative arrangements are often made for children who become tired before the sleep time period. For example, if a child is tired at 11.00am, they can have the option to sleep first before eating lunch. It is simply a case of having 3-4 children inside so that the sleeping child can be supervised by staff. We share our bathroom with the Possums room. It is located in between the two rooms and it houses lots of facilities for the children. There are 3 toilets and 1 long sink for hand washing in our bathroom – the children use this area for toileting, washing hands and tooth brushing after lunch. There are also potty facilities available as well as a nappy change bench for those Gumnut friends who are in toilet training mode! Each child has a named locker in our playroom.
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