Debbie Bright - Child Care Coordinator and Playgroup Assistant
Hi, my name is Debbie Bright. My role with family day care includes being a Child Care Co-ordinator (CCC), playgroup assistant and providing resource equipment to our Child Care Workers (CCWs).
As a CCC, I regularly visit CCWs in a support role, ensuring regulations are followed and monitoring children’s development.
On Thursdays and Fridays Tracey and I run playgroup for CCWs and children in their care.
Resource boxes (toys and equipment) are lent out to CCWs as needed or requested, to enhance or “value add” to program activities.
Julie Antidormi - Chld Care Coordinator and Early Intervention Coordinator
My name is Julie Antidormi and I am a Childcare Coordinator with Maitland FDC. I am about to start my 13th year in FDC and I continue to be passionate about the quality of care our Childcare Workers provides for the families and children of our local area.
My role is to visit Childcare Workers on a monthly basis to monitor the quality of the care and to also offer support, encouragement and resources to Childcare workers. Visits are unannounced and I am constantly impressed by the quality of programs Childcare workers offer to the children in their care. As an Early Childhood professional I see the value in the small group interactions which allow for individual attention and it is one of the reasons that I chose FDC for my own children.
My job is made easier by the professionalism of our Childcare workers and their ability to embrace change. Our Scheme is required to be part of the Federal Government Quality Assurance Program & I assist Childcare Workers in setting goals and looking at ways to continually improve on the wonderful services they currently operate.
It is a pleasure for me to visit the children in our Scheme and to watch them grow and develop in such warm, stimulating and caring environments.
Tracey Holz – Playgroup Leader and Creative Coordinator
Hi, I’m Tracey and my roles at MFDC include running playgroup sessions, in home story times, providing story time suitcases and helping in admin. I started out in childcare working in a preschool in 1981, and spent 15 years there before joining MFDC.
In home story time involves visiting Child Care Workers (CCW’s) and their children in care to hold story/ music sessions. These run for approximately 40-50 minutes and can include a story, read or told rhymes, fingerplays, songs, movement, instruments, and drama. I use many varied props during these sessions, including puppets and boxes full of surprises. A follow up activity related to the session is left for the children to do. Maitland Family Day Care provides these services to further develop your child’s literacy, numeracy and social skills.
Story time suitcases were put together based on 3 to 4 topics. There are 4 suitcases that are lent out to CCW’s to use as a group session with their children. They contain a soft mat to sit on, many stories, music, instruments, rhymes and props. The CCW’s keep them for 2-5 weeks which is quite flexible and a snapshot of the experience is recorded by the CCW in a scrapbook included in the suitcase. This contributes to our ongoing quality assurance and also gives other CCW’s ideas of what they can do with the suitcases’ contents.
One of our Storytime Suitcases
I also run playgroup sessions 3 times a fortnight at the scheme with the assistance of Debbie, one of our Child Care Coordinators. Playgroup goes for 2 hours and provides an organized playgroup program for CCW’s and children who wish to attend.
Playgroup offers a variety of different opportunities and activities to meet the cultural and developmental needs of children and CCW’s. These activities include self help skills, encouraging imagination through music, dance, and drama, literacy skills, visual and expressive arts, messy and sensory play and social skills.
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