Gurumba Bigi, Bush Kidz Blacksoil is located amongst the rural back drop of Blacksoil, allowing for a relaxed atmosphere and providing access to nature and incorporating the natural elements into our curriculum. As a committed team of qualified Educators, we pride ourselves on having trustworthy, friendly, and warm relationships that enable Children, educators, Families, and agencies alike to have a sense of belonging.
Here at Bush Kidz, we encourage all children to have a positive attitude by encouraging them to participate in learning experiences that focus on having a greener and more sustainable future. We do this through our veggie gardens and fruit trees that our children tend to by watering daily and wedding when necessary.
We engage in an active recycling journey by creating scrap buckets to feed our chickens, ducks and turkeys, compost bins and recycling. We encourage the children to limit water waste, this will assist children and educators to embed sustainable practices in all areas of our outdoor environment and into our daily curriculum.
We also have our wonderful ever growing menagerie allow the children to have an awareness of living creatures and also foster the children’s capacity to respect animals within our environment.
We strive to build a genuine connections with the “Jagera” people; the traditional owners of this land, encouraging sharing of traditions and cultures via interactive workshop. From these workshops, we have implemented a “Kippa” – bush tucker garden and created murals using Ochre that are displayed throughout the centre, this allows us to embed awareness of our country’s cultural heritage and traditions.
As role models we always model positive and good behaviour, we respect all of our children as individuals and embrace and celebrate their family culture and traditions.
As a team, we pride ourselves on getting behind our local and wider community and raise much-needed awareness and funds for a range of different charities such as the World’s Greatest Shave, Day for Dolly, Breast Cancer Foundation, R U OK Day, Cancer Council, Animal Rescue, and Brave Hearts.
Our Educators use warm tones with all children, and we get down to the children’s level when any child shows signs of distress we show them genuine love, comfort, and support.
We have a relaxed atmosphere where we have conversations with our families and children and their values, ideas, and input is included in our curriculum and daily routines.
We build strong relationships with each child, we support their individual needs, all children are truly valued and accepted, and all Educators ensure that all children are able to have full participation in our routines, curriculum, and journeys that we embark on as a service.
Our meals are nutritionally prepared by our Centre Chef, these meals include the five food groups, and our mealtimes are a relaxed and unhurried time of day when the children and educators share a meal and have rich conversations. Children could partake in progressive mealtimes. All children are educated on the importance of healthy eating.
We thrive on and encourage all families and friends to be an active part of our service, we are proud of our warm, friendly, and open relationships, we respect and value family opinions and parental roles, and include all families in decision-making.
Families are informed of any changes that may occur, events, celebrations, or happenings throughout the service. Families are supported when needed and arrange support/guidance when and if needed with links to community agencies.
Each year we partake in the Ipswich Show, we enter the children’s artwork, designed, and created by both Educators and children, this allows us to continue to build relationships and engage with our local community.
We look forward to seeing you here as part of our Bush Kidz family, where we pride ourselves on providing lifelong skills in an atmosphere where children have a strong sense of being, belonging, and becoming.
