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Here you'll find updates and helpful insights from the team at Only About Children and our partnered industry professionals.
Health & Nutrition
The Importance of Good Gut Health in Children
The bacteria in your child’s gut plays an important role in keeping them healthy, both mentally and physically. Learn more about the function of the gut and how you can support your child’s gut health!
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Understanding School Readiness
Many families ask what they can do at home to support their child’s school readiness. Here, we discuss understanding school readiness and how to prepare your child for school.
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Top Tips to Encourage Independence in Children
Independence is an important way to build self-identity, self-esteem and confidence in children. It also allows children to feel a sense of control in times of stress, change and uncertainty.
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Loose Parts Play
Empty boxes, rope, string and pieces of wood. Packaging over toys. Your child will almost inevitably play with these items! This is known as Loose Parts Play and, with support, can encourage learning, growth and development in young children.
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Music and Childhood Development
Toddlers absolutely delight in exploring their world through their senses. Sensory play - play that stimulates any of a child’s senses - builds cognitive skills and influences how your child learns about their world.
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What’s unique about our Oac Grow curriculum?
Our Oac Grow curriculum is an innovative play-based curriculum that delivers intentional teaching in dynamic small group learning environments. Learn how our curriculum supports the development of growing minds.
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Practicing Mindfulness & Meditation at Home
Mindfulness and meditation are excellent techniques to help your child self-regulate their emotions and reduce anxiety during times of stress and uncertainty. Our Head of Curriculum Emma Forbes shares tips on how you can encourage and practice mindfulness and meditation at home with your child.
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A Respectful Curriculum
Our Grow Nursery and Toddler Curriculums are centred on respect for young children as capable, involved and self-initiated learners and human beings in their own right. We are influenced in our approach by Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) and Magda Gerber’s Educaring approach.Latest News
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What’s unique about our Oac Grow curriculum?
Our Oac Grow curriculum is an innovative play-based curriculum that delivers intentional teaching in dynamic small group learning environments. Learn how our curriculum supports the development of growing minds.
Health & Nutrition
New Spring Menu!
Developed in conjunction with our Dietitians, The Biting Truth, our spring menu has been crafted to ensure your child is eating a balanced diet and enjoying their favourite foods. Here are the recipes for our Carrot Cake Slice and Italian Veggie Packed Spaghetti Bolognese for you to make at home.
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