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Kindy escapees run onto 70km/h road

Terrifying dashcam footage has captured the moment two children run out onto a 70km/h road after escaping day care in...

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13th March 2019 7:03 AM

The two kids can been seen approaching oncoming traffic. Picture: The Age

Kindy teacher’s gesture goes viral

A KINDERGARTEN teacher’s remarkable gesture has gone viral after she found out why one of her student’s wanted to leave...

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18th Feb. 2019 1:02 PM

After finding out the little girl was getting bullied for her short hair, she also chopped hers off too in solidarity.

South Burnett kindy closes its doors

CEO of the organisation, Louisa Jackson, said the decision to close the early learning centre has been made due to a lack...

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13th Dec. 2018 5:12 PM

CLOSED: The Lady Gowrie Wondai Community Kindergarten will not reopen next year.

New teachers put a modern twist on traditional education

Since starting in January, the kindy teachers have enjoyed working with the children, in what they describe as the most...

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14th Aug. 2018 4:08 PM

New Laidley Kindy teachers Bianca Beare and Anna Feeny

Kids get creative with ochre paint

Children at Tewantin Community Kindergarten learn traditional Indigenous art

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30th July 2018 10:07 AM

INDIGENOUS ART: Christine Stuart taught kindy children at Tewantin to paint with ochre.

Prossie kindy kids get firefighting

About 20 four-year-old kids got a tour of the new station and tried their hand at putting out imaginary fires.

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21st June 2018 1:06 PM

Auxiliary firefighter with the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, Glenn Croxford shows four-year-old Chloe Drinkwater how a firehose works during a Proserpine Public Kindergarten excursion to the new fire station in Proserpine on Tuesday.

Kindy marks half century anniversary

Around 100 past and present students, as well as committee members and community members attended the event.

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21st May 2018 1:05 PM

Yarraman Kindy founding members and first pupils Leanne Ensor, Eric Schloss, Joan Schloss, Linda Stern and current attending children, cutting the Kindy's 50th anniversary cake.

A new era of learning for the Kingaroy community

Vacant kindy building makes way for new distance education centre.

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14th May 2018 8:05 AM

Kylie van Schyndel and Laurel Cohen at the Kingaroy Kindy lease celebration and opening of 'The Centre for Supervised Distance Education.'

Mums celebrate their special day early at local kindy

Children from Gladstone's Birralee Kindergarten have celebrated Mother's Day early.

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12th May 2018 4:05 AM

Layla and Jacqui Parker at Birralee's Mother's Day celebrations.

Kids Choice help those 'away protecting them'

Just in time for Anzac Day, soldiers overseas will receive a care package from the children of Kids Choice Granville.

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12th April 2018 7:04 PM

Kids Choice Granville students Billy, Ayden, Jimmy, Phoebe, Zoe-Lee, Tennessee, Holly, Ethan, Ava and Zauntaye shows their support with thumbs up for our troops and donated 12 Anzac Day care packages.

Let the games begin: Kindy kids get in on Comm Games action

The Gold Coast may be too far away for everyone to visit, but that isn't stopping these kindy kids from letting the games...

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10th April 2018 2:04 PM

Shelby Anderson and Zane John, from Goodstart Andergrove, get into the Commonwealth Games spirit.

Mackay pre-school students to learn second language

Kindergartners will have the chance to learn another language.

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07th March 2018 6:03 AM

LEARNING: Mackay Kindy students Evie Mayfield, Angela Caicedo-Manchego, Stella Adair and Caitlyn Manning learning Spanish.

Kindy to prep a big step for little Hayley

Big step for young Proserpine girl Hayley Wilson this month.

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11th Jan. 2018 8:01 AM

PREP STARTER: Hayley Wilson will start prep this year.

New $2M Rocky kindy the perfect solution for working parents

It's one of few full time facilities in the region, with hours from 7am to 5.30pm.

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19th July 2017 6:07 AM

Lucy Vanheck at Heights College's new state of the art kindergarten which has just opened. She is reading to L-R Riley vanWaveren, Oran Woods, Emma Williams and Bailey Hall.

Kindy kids' new winter garden open

Complete with chooks, herbs and veges, and even a mud kitchen, Buderim Community Kindegarten's new space is idyllic

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18th July 2017 8:07 AM

NOT COOPED UP: Cate and Huson with 'the girls', in Buderim Community Kindegarten's new winter garden, for kids to play and learn in.

Mike Jackson performs at kindy

Australian children's performer Mike Jackson entertained children at the Pioneer Community Kindergarten

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27th May 2017 9:05 AM

Performer Mike Jackson entertains the children at the Pioneer Community Kindergarten.

WATCH: Ipswich kids try to say 'Costa Georgiadis'

Gardening guru shares his tips for winter during trip to daycare

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10th March 2017 6:03 PM

Parker Foster, 4, Sawyer Simmons, 2, Gideon Blair, 3 learning about dirt with Costa Georgiadis.

Early learning centre brings nature to kids

Nature-based play is on the rise, but what if you can't get troops of kids to the forest? You bring the forest to them.

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21st Feb. 2017 2:02 PM

CLIMBING MONKEYS: Billy Cross, Tao Burr and Angelique Passmans love the new eco-playscape.

First day at TACAPS Kindy full of fun

LILITH Johnson splashed around in a tiny river, Eloise Box rocked as high as she could on the swings and Makanaka Ngorima...

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02nd Feb. 2017 4:02 PM

How childcare accreditation 'drove me out of the job'

While the stress was more on our director, as educators we wanted to do the best job we could to ensure our centre was...

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16th Nov. 2016 5:11 PM

Mt hat goes off to all the staff at the two childcare centres on the Fraser Coast who have scored an excellent rating outperforming the national standard because from experience it takes a hell of a lot of work.

Special day for new kindergarten

St Brendan's Catholic Kindergarten recently held a ceremony to officially bless and open the new building.

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25th Oct. 2016 6:10 AM

Nash Paganoni, Lucy Hughes, Annie Rosenberg, Charlie Wilkinson, Carter English, Mason Davis, Billy Flanagan Laura Lindner, Matilda Kennedy and Cooper Ross look forward to cutting the cake to celebrate the official opening of St Brendan's Catholic Kindergarten.

Kindy kids raise drought dollars

AFTER role-playing their own cafe, Chinchilla Community Kindergarten students decided they wanted the next logical step was...

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19th Oct. 2016 12:10 PM

YOUNG HELPERS: Chinchilla Community Kindergarten students, Oliver Hendriksen and Eden Collett, present Nicki Stansbie from Drought Angels with a cheque for $120.50; the proceeds from their Kindy Cafe experience.

What's On: Celebration at kindergarten on Fraser Coast

THE Maryborough Community Kindergarten will be hosting a tombola on Saturday, October 8 at the Pensioners' Hall in Adelaide...

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01st Oct. 2016 2:10 PM

Kids Teaching Kids Day at East Street Kindy

East St Kindy - Kids teaching kids day.

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07th Sept. 2016 9:09 AM

East St Kindy - Kids teaching kids day - Olivia Souter,5, and Lachlan Isenbert,4, with some plants from the kindy nursery.

Kids Teaching Kids at East St Kindy

East St. Kindy in Hervey Bay had a day where the kindy kids became the teachers for brothers and sisters and parents.

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06th Sept. 2016 3:09 PM

Olympic excitement at Beck Street Kindy

YOU'RE never too young to get in the Olympic Spirit, according to the kids at Beck St Kindy.

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15th Aug. 2016 1:08 PM

Students at Beck St Kindy have been preparing for their Athletics Day.

FCAC Koala Kindy turns 10

Koala Kindy at the Fraser Coast Anglican College celebrated its tenth birthday with a special party.

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21st July 2016 10:07 AM

Koala Kindy at the Fraser Coast Anglican College turns 10. (L) Tory, Finn, Robbie, Ruby, Maddie and Annabelle with school principal Leisa Harper.

Mums pamper morning at kindy

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06th May 2016 6:05 PM

WATCH: Mums get pampered at kindy

THE children at C&K; Kindergarten on Shakespeare St pampered their mums at a pamper morning this week.

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06th May 2016 6:05 PM

Isabella Macdonald gives her mum Shannon Macdonald a make-over at her Kindergarten's pamper morning for mums.

Beck St Kindy keeping ANZAC spirit alive

THE 22 children at Beck St Kindergarten on Thursday morning paused their play to gather in front of their Anzac Remembrance...

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22nd April 2016 8:04 AM

WE WILL REMEMBER: Caroline Summerville and her granddaughter Georgia at Beck Street Kindergarten in the self-built Remembrance Garden.

Minister 'angry' Seaforth kindergarten has closed

MINISTER for Education Kate Jones said she would review how government funded state kindergartens, following the closure of...

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15th March 2016 6:03 AM

Two years campaigning for a high school in Calliope and it will be open in 2020. Minister for Education and Minister for Tourism and Major Events Kate Jones, MP. Photo Mike Richards / The Observer

Town proud as Allora Community Kindergarten turns 30

ALLORA Community Kindergarten celebrates its 30th year in education this year, with long-serving assistant Rowena Doherty...

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05th Feb. 2016 5:02 AM

TREASURED TIMES: Kindergarten assistant Rowena Doherty has been teaching kids like Nathan Griffin and Dustyn May at C&K; Allora Community Kindergarten for 28 years.

Hands up if you think your kindy’s a winner

TWO Fraser Coast early childhood centres have been nominated for a national award in excellence thanks to the happy...

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09th Dec. 2015 12:12 PM

Village Kids Childrens Centre - director Alicia Moody (centre) with children. Nominated for an award. Photo: Alistair Brightman / Fraser Coast Chronicle

Kindy kids relish reading challenge

FOR the first time, kindy kids were able to take part in the Queensland Premier’s Reading Challenge this year.

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04th Dec. 2015 5:12 PM

STORY SHARED: Belinda O’Brien reading her new book, The Monsters Inside, to children at the Early Learning Centre Norman Gardens, before they were presented with their Queensland Premier’s Reading Challenge certificates.

Senior Constable Clancy the Koala visits kindy children

Senior Constable Clancy the Koala, Constable Tim and Constable Amber visited a local kindy recently.

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12th Nov. 2015 4:11 PM

Senior Constable Clancy the Koala with Constable Tim and Constable Amber.

Allora Kindy kicks off reading with award Challenge

ALLORA C&K; Community Kindy is just one Queensland school getting excited about reading during the Premier’s Reading...

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24th Aug. 2015 5:08 AM

BOOKWORMS: Allora C&K; Community Kindy kids Benjamin Mason, Sophie Masters and Darcy Campbell are getting excited about reading.

Mrs G celebrates 25 years as a kindergarten teacher aid

Mrs G celebrates 25 years as a teacher aid at Murgon C&K; Community Kindergarten. The kindy will be celebrating its 35 year...

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23rd June 2015 6:06 AM

RIGHT: Diane Gscheidle, who has worked at the kindy for 25 years, and Toyan Pellinkhof.

Yarraman Kindy kids looking to you for help

THE kids and parents of Yarraman Kindy are knee-deep in kneading and baking in preparation for their cent auction on June...

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07th June 2015 6:06 AM

PLEASE SUPPORT US: The kids of Yarraman Kindy prepare for the cent auction.

Kindy wins our $5000 makeover competition

THREE-year-old Addison Lowery has started making a wish list of items to buy with the $5000 classroom makeover her...

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28th March 2015 6:03 AM

JOYFUL: The Calliope Kindergarten will be decked out with new gear thanks to the $5,000 makeover prize they won provided by the competition run by the Observer and Staples.

Seeing double: Four sets of twins in kindy class

PARENTS weren’t the only ones seeing double as 41 kindergarten students entered the gates of St Joseph’s Primary School at...

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04th Feb. 2015 3:02 AM

SEEING DOUBLE: There are four sets of twins starting kindergarten at St Joseph’s Primary School, Alstonville, including Cooper and Riley Braz, Madeleine and Reuben Donnelly, Flyn and Lachlan Smith and Eden and Oliver Kelly.

Thousands may miss kindy due to eligibility date change

AS MANY as 5000 Queensland four-year-olds could potentially bypass kindergarten and enrol in prep following an abrupt...

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16th Jan. 2015 6:01 AM

Kindy kids get to be teacher for the day

FOUR-year-old Lily Carroll brought her four-week-old brother to her kindy to show him what she’s learning as part of the...

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10th Sept. 2014 5:09 AM

Isabelle Penrose and Jasmine Sudholz enjoy the Kids Teaching Kids program was held at East Street Kindy.

Young children’s free spirits reign at Adeona centre

WORM FARM: Joy Oyama, a student at Adeona, checks on the health of a worm from the centre’s worm-friendly garden.

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30th Aug. 2014 12:08 PM

GARDEN FUN: Adeona Early Exploration Centre enjoying sustainability projects in their garden.

Kindy kids use floral fun to learn

FRASER Coast Anglican College’s Koala Kindy, in Wondunna, transformed into a sea of yellow to help Cancer Council...

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08th Aug. 2014 2:08 PM

Brayden Hinks, 4, from Fraser Coast Anglican College Koala Kindy with classmates Ishaan Kapadia, Ella Dean, Hayden Wigmore, Madeline Ayuya and Zac Turner.

Koala Kindy Tree Day

Fraser Coast Anglican College Koala Kindy kids had a great day working in their garden; planting trees and spreading...

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25th July 2014 5:07 PM

NAIDOC week a chance to share

NAIDOC week celebrations offered kindergarten children from Murgon the chance to learn about indigenous culture.

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10th July 2014 8:07 AM

Connor Blanch, 4, and Talani Fisher-Bond,2, joined in NAIDOC week celebrations at Cherbourg. Photo Tessa Mapstone / South Burnett Times

Kindy warms up for Dorothy visit

The Wiggles' favourite dinosaur Dorothy is bringing her friends to Kingaroy tomorrow for a dance party.

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20th June 2014 12:06 PM

DANCE OFF: Brydee Pszkit, 4, Lochlan Stephen, 4, Matthew Stead, 4 and Patterson Braithwaite, 3, getting into the groove.

VIDEO: Little farmers buy a bale for Aussies doing it tough

LITTLE Eugenie Lee showed her knowledge of farming life with an impromptu milking demonstration at her kindy yesterday.

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28th May 2014 6:05 AM

Chiselhurst Kindergarten children including (from left) Anastasia Whiting, Eugenie Lee, Eamon Pickering, Jack Rawlings and Anthony Knott show their support for farmers by supporting the Buy a Bale of Hay campaign.

Parents outraged at glass shards hidden in kindy playground

A SUNSHINE Coast kindergarten is turning to the community for support after its playground was laced with shards of glass...

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07th May 2014 7:05 AM

Staff at the community kindergarten arrived at the weekend to find jagged pieces of glass buried at the base of the slippery slide and at the play equipment landing areas.

Trendy kindy unites for the World’s Greatest Shave

CLIPPERED hair and brightly coloured locks are turning heads at C&K Kindy Southside.

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17th March 2014 8:03 AM

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