Moolanda Care and Learning Centre

🌭🔥 Sausage Sizzle Fundraiser Tomorrow! 🔥🌭

If you're out and about tomorrow, we'd love your support at our Sausage Sizzle Fundraiser at Bunnings Wangara!

Pop by, grab a delicious snag, and help us raise funds for our centre. Every sausage sold helps support exciting experiences, resources, and opportunities for our children.

📍 Bunnings Wangara
📅 Tomorrow
⏰ From 8:00am until sold out

Bring your family, tell your friends, and come say hello to our wonderful volunteers. We can't wait to see you there!

Thank you for supporting our community and helping us make a difference for our children. ❤️

🌿🌱 Outdoor Classroom Day 🌱🌿

We celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day by taking our learning outside and spending time caring for our beautiful garden spaces.

The children explored, discovered and connected with nature while helping to water, tend and care for our garden beds. Through these experiences, children develop responsibility, teamwork, an appreciation for the environment, and a sense of pride in creating and maintaining our outdoor spaces.

There’s something special about learning in the fresh air and watching our garden continue to grow, thanks to many helping hands. 🌱🌞

💐💛 A Huge Thank You 💛💐

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐞 and 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 for their generous donations to our Mother’s Day raffle. Your support helped make our raffle extra special and contributed to a wonderful celebration for our families

We hope all of our raffle winners have had the chance to enjoy their prizes and that everyone had a fabulous Mother’s Day filled with love, appreciation, and special moments

Thank you again to everyone who donated, supported, and celebrated with us 💛

The Benefits Of Outdoor Sleep Times For Children

Natural light exposure - This resets the body clock and adjusts with circadian rhythms, and you produce more melatonin for a more restful sleep, unlike artificial light, which interferes with sleep quality.

Increased immunity - Plants give off phytoncides to protect themselves, which humans can benefit from lower blood pressure and other health boosters.

Better functioning of body and brain - Higher quality oxygen will improve the functioning of the brain and body for better productivity, mobility, recovery, and more. Whereas stale inside air laden with carbon dioxide can lead to lethargy and a slower metabolism.

Reduced stress - Just seeing trees has been proven to reduce stress levels, as has listened to the sounds of nature and the outdoors.

Reduced illness - Air conditioning spreads germs and dries up children's sinuses, leaving them open to infection. One centre reported that over an 11-week period during winter (when colds and flu are usually rife), they only had a total of less than 1 per cent of absentees, which they attribute to outdoor napping

Improved learning - As children sleep longer, deeper and more serenely when outside, they're more refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready to learn when they wake. Their cognitive attentiveness, alertness, and awareness are higher compared to napping indoors.

Better physical and emotional development - Outside sleeping can increase children’s brain, bone, and muscular development, along with their social and emotional wellbeing.

A huge THANK YOU to our amazing educator Emma and her wonderful children for all their hard work in our front garden today! 💚

We really wish we had taken a before photo because the transformation already looks incredible! There’s still a little more work to do, but what has been achieved so far is absolutely amazing.

It’s through community involvement, teamwork, and people like Emma and her family that our centre continues to grow and thrive. Thank you for giving your time, energy, and care to help make our environment even more beautiful for our children and families.

We appreciate you so much! 💕

🌸 Happy Mother’s Day 🌸

Today we celebrate all the amazing Mums, Aunties, Grandmas and Important Carers who fill our children’s lives with love, care, guidance and support every single day.

We hope your day is filled with love, laughter, special moments and a little time to relax. You deserve to be celebrated today and every day 💐✨

Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Moolanda Care 🌸

Wishing all our amazing school-aged children an exciting first day of school! Have a fantastic day, make tons of new friends, and enjoy every moment. Remember, Moolanda Care and Learning Centre is here to support you with before- and after-school care whenever you need it.