Our Team

Chelsea

Bachelor of Education: Early Childhood and Care

I am the centre director at Read 2 Grow. I am very passionate about children development and developing the whole child.

I love seeing the joy children have when they arrive at Read 2 Grow and witnessing the delight parents have when they see how far their children come while in our care.

I love building strong relationships and connections with the children, their families and the community.

Rebecca

CHC50908 Diploma of Children’s Services

I'm the Assistant Director and Educational Leader here at Read2Grow. I love working in childcare as my days are filled with fun and laughter! Everyday is rewarding, with no day the same.

I'm part of a wonderful community that helps children to learn, grow and develop to their full potential and ability.

I love being able to give children that valuable start in life to a good education, while also helping to develop their social skills in a safe and caring environment that promotes learning through play.

Charlotte

Master of Teaching (Primary)

I am an Early Childhood Teacher currently working in the pre-kindy room. I completed my Masters in Primary Teaching and am currently working towards my Diploma of Early Childhood Education.

I have a passionate belief in educating the whole child and love watching children grow, learn and succeed.

Working in pre-kindy has been especially rewarding as I am able to help children learn the foundations of many important life skills that will help them to be successful in school, and beyond.

Dona

CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

I am the room leader of the toddler room at Read 2 Grow. When I enter the room they all come running to me and I feel loved by all the children when they give me hugs.

Throughout my background I have minded children and that is how my passion has grown. I love to be with the children and engage with them. I love to see them learn and grow within the Read 2 Grow environment. I provide welcoming, nurturing and stimulating play for all children.

Laura

CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care

I currently work in the babies’ room studying towards my Diploma.

I love seeing the babies grow and learn each day. Seeing them smile when they come through the door is my favourite part of the day.

Priya

CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

I am a Diploma qualified Educator with years of experience in this Industry. I currently work in the Kindy room at Read 2 Grow.

I believe in cultural diversity. I enjoy celebrating the benefits of diversity with each individual child and enable them to understand and acknowledge differences.

Each child is unique with different interests, backgrounds, and developmental stages. I strongly believe Environment plays a major role in the success of an early childhood program. I enjoy creating different environments in the room which enhance the children’s interests in all developmental domains. It gives them a great opportunity to explore their imaginations and learn in a play-based manner.

Teaching children is my passion. Children should be given choices, responsibilities, and opportunities to initiate their own learning.

Social skills, communication skills, physical abilities or challenges and learning styles of the children should be taken in consideration for a learning program.

The early years of child’s life are busy. I believe learning is happening all the time. Therefore, my goal is to make this ongoing learning experience safe, positive, and fun, nurturing the whole child as I strive to guide them into next stage of development with confidence in themselves and an excitement for continued learning.

Alana

Bachelor of Education Early Childhood and Care 0-8

Hi, my name is Alana and I work in the Kindy room as the Early Childhood Teacher. Within the Kindy room I run a school readiness program along-side our play-based curriculum helping and supporting children to be ready for school.

I am a qualified Early Childhood and Primary Teacher. I also hold a Bachelor of Science (Exercise and Sport Science). Within the Long Day Care setting I have previously worked as an Assistant Educator and Early Childhood Teacher. Outside of teaching my passion is sports. I love to keep active playing both football (AFL) and cricket as well as coaching football (AFL).

My personal philosophy on teaching and learning is that by creating a welcoming, safe, friendly, respectful, inclusive and positive learning environment I will be able to provide the best opportunities for children to develop themselves not only academically, but also emotionally, physically and socially.

I believe we learn through hands on experiences with educators extending and supporting children. By allowing hands on experiences children are able to be involved in inquiry, discovery, investigations and interpretation. I believe that each child learns differently, and learning should be presented in a variety of different ways with multiple opportunities given to learn a concept so that children have the best opportunity to learn a concept.

Denelle

CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care

I am currently working in the toddler’s room, while also working towards completing my Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care.

I love working in childcare because I enjoy watching children’s personalities grow and develop.

Ilaria

CHC30708 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care

Buongiorno, my name is Ilaria and I am Italian. I have been working with children for over 14 years. I am married and have a 12-year-old daughter. My passions are teaching, cooking and learning different languages.

I started at Read 2 Grow in the babies when the centre first opened and I had the opportunity to experience, Pre-Kindy and Kindy. I am now in the Toddlers room. I am a very friendly person and enjoy making the children happy.

I enjoy embracing their learning through our special Jolly Phonics program and also teach them some basic Italian songs and colours.

Cassie

CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

Hi, I’m Cassie and I’m a Diploma Qualified educator in the babies’ room. I have worked in child care since 2011 and honestly cannot imagine myself in any other job. Supporting and encouraging children’s learning and exploration of their world is so important and I love that.

I get to witness and celebrate each child’s discoveries and milestones. I believe that working collaboratively with families is key to providing the best quality of care for each child.

I love hearing about what families are doing at home so we can embed these interests into our programs. By doing so, I believe we can create an environment where each child feels comfortable, happy, included and respected as an individual.

Teofanisa

CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

I am a Qualified Educator in Babies Room. Creates a sense of community and belonging in the classroom and warm, accessible, dedicated, enthusiastic, caring educator.

The reason why I choose to work in Early Childhood Education and Care because it is my passion and I love little children; their interactions are of genuine value and I feel happy to work with the little ones.

I believe that all children are unique and have something special that they can bring to their own education, where they can grow physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially. Every room has its own unique community; my role as an Educator will be nourish each child mentally, physically and emotionally.

Educator develop their own potential and learning styles incorporate hands-on learning activities and individual work that engage and activate children's learning. Most of all the children should be safety.

Helen

Working Towards CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care

I am currently studying towards to my certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care. I also assist in the kitchen preparing the children’s morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.

I enjoy being involved in the early years of growth in children after raising four beautiful children of my own.

Brianna

Working Towards Bachelor of Education Early Childhood & Primary Teaching

I am currently in the toddler’s room, studying towards my Bachelor degree in Early Childhood and Primary Education.

I love working in child care as I love to see the children grow and be able to help them build their developmental skills. as well as have fun and enjoy their time exploring and learning.

Shaira

CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

I work in Pre-Kindy with two other lovely ladies where we share our thoughts and ideas in all aspects that will benefit the children under our care. We also make sure that children will remember the words or some of the words from our "Sound of the Week" as we use jolly phonics at Read2Grow.

At the centre, we do not just say the words that we learn from our sound of the week hence we use them in our activities with the children as it will give them more opportunity to remember.

Working in the childcare industry for years helped me a lot in different ways. The most fulfilling and satisfying feeling being with the children is observing them flourish and unlock their milestones and I feel proud knowing that I was or I am with them on that journey.

Dorothy

Graduate Diploma in Education (Early Childhood)

I am an Early Childhood teacher and work in the Kindy room at Read 2 Grow.

I love seeing children trying something for the first time and mastering new skills.

Brianna

Working Towards Bachelor of Education Early Childhood and Care 0-8

I am an assistant educator at Read 2 Grow. I am studying Early Childhood Education (0-8). I love childcare because it provides your child with the stepping stones to transitioning into school.

Child Care enables your child to further develop their social, emotional, physical, language (cognitive) and spirituality. I believe children need to be given time to learn through play.

I strive to ensure that your children are immersed in education that is interest driven. The ultimate goal for me is to ensure that your children are able to build a relationship with me.

I want your child to feel safe, secure and trusted, and I hope that you will feel supported, welcomed and calm knowing your child is in safe hands.

Amruta

CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood

I hold my certificate III and am a casual educator at Read 2 Grow. I chose the childcare industry because I love children, working with children will be filled with lots of fun.

Each child is unique, they can make me laugh and cry. I believe we learn from them lots of things. Children's world is really beautiful, I love to enjoy their beautiful world. It's really amazing to experience children's growth and their milestones.

I wish to share my interests of craft, art and cooking with children to make them happy. Interaction with children makes me more creative and active.

Salima

CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care

I work as a support staff educator and currently hold my certificate III in education.

Working with children really satisfies me. I enjoy helping them develop their minds for the future.

Sharni

Working Towards Bachelor of Education Early Childhood Studies

Hi, my name is Sharni and I am a casual educator at Read 2 Grow. I am currently studying my Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood studies, as I am passionate about working with children and having a positive impact on their life.

I love working in Child Care as I am involved in supporting and inspiring each individual child to have fun, grow and develop a lifelong love of learning.

Lynne

I am the food co-ordinator at Read 2 Grow. In charge of feeding the children.

I love encouraging the children to eat healthy and helping to develop an interest in food. Such as growing and picking food for the kitchen, giving recipes to parents, discussing food needs and likes with parents.

Lucette

CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care

I am passionate about each child being their own individual self and providing children with the opportunity to learn in their own personal way.

I am a big believer in spending quality time with the children to create meaningful relationships within the room to ensure the children are comfortable in their surroundings whilst offering experiences for the children to help their developmental needs.

It has and will continue to be a very rewarding career to be able to be a part of each child’s life as they grow through their time in childcare.

Meena

CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care

I am Meena Thiru working towards my Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care.

I am an experienced and passionate educator who has worked with babies to school-age children in the past. I believe in encouraging student agency by providing the best possible care to children and their families in a nurturing and child focussed environment.

I love to hear and sight the developing milestones the young learners are continuously engaged in.

Roya

CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

I believe that childcare plays an important part of children’s learning and development, especially when they spend most of the day in a safe, secure, fun and enjoyable environment.

I will provide opportunities to challenge, explore and enhance each child’s interests in all developmental domains such as social, communication and physical skills. I believe that each child learns through different varieties of play as each child is unique in their own personality and character, as an educator, I will observe and document each child’s learning to give an insight of each child’s skill levels and development.

This can also help parents where their child’s strengths and abilities

Natalie

CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

In the early childhood period of development, children are curious, full of wonder and need to explore to discover and learn. Every moment, children are learning important and exciting things for each stage for their lives.

I believe that children has the potential to bring something unique and special to the world, as an educator I will value and develop children’s strengths, interest, skills, abilities and knowledge to be able to extend children’s learning and development.

I believe that play based learning helps children develop and learn the best in a loving, nurturing, empathetic, calm, safe and healthy environment, children learn at the time with play and experiences to develop their developmental domains.

Julie

CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care

I believe that each child is an individual and as an educator, I will value and develop each child strengths, interest, skills abilities and knowledge to extend their learning. I also believe that children learn through play.

I will provide opportunities for children to explore, discover, create and imagine. I believe that environment plays a major role in the success of an early childhood program. It should enhance the children’s interest in all developmental domains.

In planning my program, I would strive for a developmentally appropriate, child centred atmosphere where children have the opportunity to master new challenges through activities and topic that are meaningful to them, thus building their self-esteem as they develop and learn.