"The children know that we will celebrate Indigenous community all year round." Helen Moors, Centre Manager. The team at ELC Smithfield, one of our Lifelong Learning Centres located in Far North Queensland have developed a Reconciliation Action Plan in partnership with Narragunnawali.

It’s everyone’s job to protect children. This year Lifelong Learning Centres are teaming up with Bravehearts to take the pledge to protect children. 

With Spring just upon us, our team is always looking for new ideas and recipes to add to our seasonal menus incorporating new flavours and adding to our cultural diversity.

Lifelong Learning Centres are proud to participate in 2019 Early Childhood Educators Day, an annual event created by the Australian Childcare Alliance to recognise the work of Australia’s educators. 

Ignore the SuperCheap Ads, what Dad really wants is a beautiful homemade gift or artwork from their little lifelong learner. 

“No hat, no play, no school today!” We definitely don’t agree that a hat will prevent your child from attending childcare, however, as the weather starts warming up and the sun starts peeking in, it’s time to think seriously about sun safety.

Wondering how to convince your lifelong learner to eat their vegetables? We have a healthy and fun recipe to get them excited for greenery in their snacks!

Bookworms, has this week not just been your favourite week of the entire year? Book Week, it’s a time of year where the Children’s Book Council of Australia brings children and books together in a truly magical way, and we love the results.

Science Week has been and gone, but that doesn’t mean the fun and the learning has to end! We found a fun and educational experiment our children at Kids Academy Preschool took part in last week that we think would be loads of fun to try at home.

Recently our Asillo Bilingual Child Care & Learning Centre’s Kindy and Toddler friends became little chefs and helped create savoury muffins to enjoy for afternoon tea. 

Our Winter menu meal suggestion for today is some hearty beef cobbler, made with slow cooked chunky beef and vegetables and delicious cheesy baked bread dumplings on top.

We often talk about centres ‘Meeting’ or ‘Exceeding’ when talking about National Quality Standards, but what does that actually mean? 

Rocking a Red Nose never looked so good! Centres across Australia are putting on their dancing shoes and popping on their Red Noses today all in the name of Red Nose Day 2019.

Today, afternoon tea on our Winter menu is a quick and easy apricot oat coconut slice. We know your children are going to love it so we have tracked down the recipe and adapted it to make ten serves.

You may notice some collection points popping up at local Lifelong Learning Centres across Australia calling for plastic bottle tops and bread tags over the coming weeks. The project aims to breathe new life into often discarded pieces of plastic that may be repurposed for those in need.