Tag: parent communication

Mar

A world first for Kinderloop and Big fat Smile

Call of the Wild The word ‘Antarctica’ is not easy for a four-year-old to pronounce, but every single child at Barrack Heights Preschool in Shellharbour can say it! Thanks to Kinderloop, the preschoolers went on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to Antarctica from the comfort of their Illawarra classroom. Ingrid Maack from Rattler magazine reports. Did you […]

Feb

The changing face of child care – a UK perspective

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die. Ray Norda Change is a constant presence in all of our lives, but sometimes I feel in early years we have to deal with more change than most.  In England in the last five years we have seen the introduction of a whole new […]

Nov

Kinderloop in a Home Child Care setting

Home child care providers usually have some type of daily communication with parents.  The format of that daily communication varies greatly though. Some prefer to just give or receive a verbal update at drop off and pick up times, some use a written daily journal in a notebook, others send a quick email off in […]

Oct

Technology in Childcare, an Australian perspective

In all aspects of life, technology has made life easier. Why wouldn’t early childhood be the same? I think in years to come, we will look back at the debate of technology use in early childhood and wonder why it was ever such a huge concern? Children learn from example; they see their parents engaging […]

Oct

Child care and social media, is there a risk?

Social media is changing the landscape of personal and professional risk.  Using blogs, social networking and personal websites to communicate is now common place. Much of the appeal with social media is the relative anonymity and the speed with which information can be shared. Users can impart their views on any subject to a worldwide […]

Jul

Case Study

Corrimal Community Preschool For the past 8 weeks, BFS Corrimal have been using kinderloop to communicate with their parents and the results have been fantastic! Kinderloop case study Saving time and money Corrimal Community Preschool have been trailing kinderloop for almost 3 months now and the results have been fantastic. Averaging 25 posts per day, […]