Let's Get Grubby

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Learn about special offers for preschools and childcare centres in Council

Council and its waste contractor Suez are pleased to offer all the childcare centres and preschools within Council a 3-year subscription to the award-winning Get Grubby Program.

As well as access to the Get Grubby Program, eligible childcare centres and preschools will be able to receive up to $300 worth of credit to purchase any composting products from the Compost Revolution program for their centre.

What’s the Get Grubby Program?

The Get Grubby Program is an online self-serve waste and sustainability resource, perfect for preschools and childcare centres wanting to continue to grow and thrive through the ongoing Covid environment. It’s an integrated curriculum project that explores the key learning outcomes of the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care. Such as:

  • Quality Area 1 - Educational program and practice
    • Element 1.1.1 - Approved learning framework - Curriculum decision making contributes to each child’s learning and development outcomes in relation to their identity, connection with community, wellbeing, confidence as learners and effectiveness as communicators.
    • Element 1.2.3 - Child directed learning - Each child's agency is promoted, enabling them to make choices and decisions that influence events and their world.
  • Quality Area 3 - The physical environment
    • Element 3.2.3 - Environmentally responsible - The service cares for the environment and supports children to become environmentally responsible.

The program is created and produced by the dirtgirlworld and Get Grubby TV team and features 10 sustainability areas such as recycling, worm farming, composting, saving water and creating edible gardens, with inspiring videos, educators’ guides, activity kits, and much more.

The subscription fee usually costs each centre $1,500 but Council is covering this cost for all centres in the Parramatta Local Government Area for 2021, 2022, and 2023. So, sign up for this great sustainability education today and get grubby in your classrooms and playgrounds!

Sign up to Get Grubby

 

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