Brilliant-online-magazine-June-2022

SUSTAINABILITY STARTS YOUNG AT TG'S CHILD CARE

✦ TG’s children are proud of the gift of making a difference to their environment and community.

TG's Child Care has sustainability

integrated into its very DNA. As a familiar and well-loved name across Australia, TG's Child Care has been trusted by families for more than two decades as the stewardship of their children's future.

Actually, TG's children are the stewardship of the planet's future.

For TG's, it is vital to foster values, attitudes, skills and behaviours that support sustainable development. By showing children how to embody care and respect today, TG's is helping children to create a better environment and society for tomorrow.

At TG's, sustainability means sharing knowledge with the children about the difference they can all make in caring for the environment and their communities, leading the way in embedding sustainable practices into their centres and making it a natural, daily practice, creating an inclusive and diverse environment supported by ancient indigenous wisdom.

TG's sustainability has three core areas - social (families and community), environment (planet) and economy (businesses).

Social

TG's partnership with families and the community enriches each child’s learning journey. They take part in Uralla’s Thunderbolt Festival, Armidale's Autumn Festival and Wauchope's Lasiandra Festival. TG's is always showing up as a positive, supportive and contributing member of the local communities.

As part of their Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to boost their sustainability values and help children go even further in eco and social intelligence, TG's has been incorporating indigenous programs into their curriculum. This is how the childrenn learn their connections to their past, their culture, their community, their environment. It serves as a guide for them to go forward to make a better future for their planet and their communities.

Environment

TG's children are intellectually and socially eco-intelligent. Children are entrusted with the responsibility (and joy!) of caring for the vegetables in TG's gardens. They build an appreciation and understanding of nature. It gives them an enormous sense of pride realising they have the knowledge, experience and opportunity to make the world a better place starting right where they are at TG's.

TG's natural and safe environment allows the children to develop their independent and creative young minds, as well as engage in collective thinking with their peers. This is where children build relationships with each other, identify their own strengths and share their gifts with everyone around them. The feelings of love, care and respect flow through TG's award-winning gardens and playspaces.

Economy

When TG's Child Care Urangan was being set up, it was a great opportunity for real life learning. The children in the community could see how the centre went from an empty building and land to the beautiful TG's they go to everyday where Playing is Learning for Life. Children learn to appreciate their communities as a valuable source of sustainable business and economic support. TG's children visit local businesses and learn to appreciate their trade. TG's centres in turn support and promote the local businesses.

Sustainability is a natural way of being at TG's. TG's is giving the children all the 'tools' they need as they take bold little steps towards their bright futures. They are learning that with each step they take, they are growing up to be citizens of the world and leaders of our future, leaving their own unique gentle footprints in the history of the planet. What they do now can help generations have a better future.

TG's Urangan Beach Kindy

Eco - Intellegent children