East Lismore Community Preschool

Today our new logo story telling has begun with the amazing SJ, Josh and Louise. The children were first to use their creative skills, imagination and playfulness to start the design process.

Next it’s the teams turn to play and then SJH Kreations will turn all of our experiences into something we might just have to vote on……..Watch this space.

Next Tuesday, 4th June, at 6pm is our AGM at the Preschool.

We really need your help; without you, the parents and grandparents of our children, our Preschool cannot run.

As a not-for-profit origination we have a Board just like any other. People often feel they don't know if they have time or knowledge to join, but you never know if you never try.

For any enquires please contact Sonya- [email protected]

Sometimes it’s about using what you have, in as many different ways as you can.

We’ve never spent so little and yet been so diverse and rich.

We are looking for someone to come and help out in term 3. Sonya is going on a long deserved holiday after seeing us through the flood and get us ready to start building.

If you would like to work with an extraordinary team who love to play, learn and think then this is for you.

www.seek.com.au

It was a normal sunny day at the beautiful East Lismore Community Preschool, when Matthew arrived to talk about photocopiers.

Who would have thought that this could lead to donation of $3000 to our building project. A local company, run by local families who had local stories of their own to shared.

A very big thank you to Matthew Wunsch and his partners.

FXBC Northern Rivers is proud to be a sponsor of East Lismore Community Preschool. FXBC Northern Rivers has been servicing the Lismore area for over 35 year specialising in Print Management with Fuji Film product. They have recently merged with The Office Experts Ballina another long standing Print Management and POS hospitality supplier.

Both are locally owned businesses with strong connections to Lismore and the local community. This Merging of business was instigated by the retirement of Tony Wunsch who started his career as a typewriter technician in Lismore in 1970. Today these business continue to serve the local community under locally ownership who are committed to help make our community stronger. Matthew Wunsch (Graduate of Wyrallah Road Primary School year of 1989)

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Staying connected and reaching out!

Our children are suffering developmental delays post-COVID and floods. Read what is happening with our newborns to five-year-olds in the Lismore App https://lismore.app.link/NrARt93EJJb and the Lismore App website www.lismoreapp.com.au.

We can’t wait to see you there.

East Lismore Community Preschool needs your help to get home.

We are working hard with BENNETTS to fundraise, we need to break ground and help BENNETTS get their shovels in the ground.

With community support, we can bring back the East Lismore Community Preschool.


If people wish to make a donation, the Preschool’s building fund bank account is BSB 082-707 Account Number 24-222-7400 Account name: East Lismore Community Preschool.

For more information about the project and how people can help contact Sonya McPherson on 0429 107 762 or [email protected]

https://lismoreapp.com.au/NewsStory/nsw-dept-of-education-working-with-east-lismore-community-preschool-to-get-more-funding/662cbf43ac35910029132593

The NSW Early Childhood Education are collaborating with us to find solutions on how to fund the large gap between our grant the building price.
We are looking forward to updating you with good news and a start date on the new building with BENNETTS.

Please keep sharing our appeal.

lismore.app.link

A huge thank you to those who have donated to our rebuilding appeal already, please keep our post going so we can get as much help as possible.

For our currently enrolled family we have an info session tomorrow night.

On Tuesday the 26th March at the Preschool from 6 pm to 7 pm our Occupational Therapist- Tegan and Speech Pathologist Bell will be doing a 15-minute presentation each, on what they do, how they can help, what questions you may or may not have thought about for your child and if we can help in any way.


We have chosen to use our funds to have them at the Preschool as we know families are waiting years to get access for screening and assessments, which is vital to the transition to Kindy and connection to the community.

It will be followed by a Q&A session, supported by Bec and me. We will have referral forms ready to go and set times if you wish to access the them.

We hope to see you there, any questions feel free to message.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to Sonya Mcpherson - [email protected]

Good Morning

A quick reminder that today is orientation only and all children return from tomorrow in their normal groups.

For further details check your email from the 18th of October for re-enroling families and new families, your email came on 22nd November if you're looking for it.

Our website is also a great place for all information and key dates.

Happy New Year, we can't wait to what 2024 brings.

We have a new addition being built to help with the heat and rain, which means lots more play outside.

Not long now and we get to see your happy faces.

Media Release

East Lismore Community Preschool

DA approved for new East Lismore preschool, new build to start next year.

The process of planning for the rebuild of the beloved East Lismore Preschool has been long and arduous but the beginning of the end is now in sight.

Lismore City Council has now approved the preschool’s Development Application, and the building of the new preschool will begin in early March next year. The build itself will be an 8-to-10 month process – and the preschool is hoping to be able to be operating in the new building by Term 2, 2025.

Preschool Director, Sonya McPherson, said “We would like to thank everyone in the community who have helped us get to this stage including the Council, the NSW Government who have provided the funding for the new building, and Thomson Adsett Architects the designers of the new building – and of course all our families and children and all of our staff and management committee. If it takes a village to raise a child, it has taken a community to rebuild a preschool.“

We successfully applied to the NSW Department of Early Education under the Crisis Fund for the new building and were awarded $5.2 million dollars. Council approved the Development Application in just over 4 months.

The new Preschool will be built 3.3 metres above the flood level after the CSIRO issued advice to build 1 metre higher than the highest flood. The new building, designed after extensive community consultation, has been designed around the trees that the preschool has nurtured over the last 20 years. This is important because the preschool is next to a koala corridor. The landscape design will include mostly local, native and food tucker-based plants. The DA included traffic plans and acoustic plans to ensure neighbourhood amenity.

Sonya McPherson said “We believe the new preschool will be a wonderful building that will enable all the future children in the community to receive the same quality of education and care as the previous generations have, with the additional security of knowledge that the building will withstand future floods.”
Ms McPherson also said “Finding ourselves in the position of having to be designers, and project managers of a new build, is not easy. I am a preschool director who has to do this work on top of my usual extensive duties in this role. We appreciate the community’s and the media’s interest in where we are up to with the new build but are unable to provide further information to the media at this stage. Those that are interested can follow our preschool page for updates along the way. “

It is with great excitement that I can share we have been successful in our Developmental application which has been approved by Lismore City Council.

We will be putting shovels in the ground in the first week of March.

This is an eight- to ten-month build and so we are working hard to be back in our new home for Term 2 2025.

We thank you all so much for the support, understanding and collaboration in helping us adapt and manage in the space that we currently call home.

Today is International Educators Day

The day we celebrate the incredible role our educators play in the lives of our children, families and community.

We are particularly blessed with an incredible team, who everyday come to work excited to see our children, learn with them and create a setting for them.
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NEW ENROLMENTS FOR 2024 ARE NOW OPEN !

Please copy and paste the link to your browser to apply.

The first round of offers will receive a letter on the 1st of November 2023.

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For all enquires please contact Anegal Richardson at [email protected]

Xplor Enrolment Form

Our lovely Sofia is having a baby- Congratulations.

We are looking for a Passionate Teacher for a Maternity Leave position, a half-term handover and a full year to teach in 2024. Above award wages, flexibility and considerable programming time.

Early Childhood Teacher Job in East Lismore, Lismore & Far North Coast NSW Bring your passion and Fun! Flexibility for work-life balance. Be part of a supportive, highly valued, progressive team of educators.

It is with incredible delight, relief and excitement that we share we have been successful in our Crisis Grant Application for $5.2 million to rebuild our beloved home.

Many thanks to all involved and we cannot wait for Lismore City Council to approve our Development Application, so we can put shovels in the ground.

Many thanks to NSW Early Childhood Education for the funding and the support along process.

Thanks to Prue Car MP for the approval of our grant.

There are many people who have been on the journey with us. ThomsonAdsett Architects who have designed the new building and held our hand the whole way, I thank you.

To the families that have stuck with us, in our temporary accomodation, thank you for believing in us.

To the amazing team that are East Lismore Community Preschool, we are nothing if we are not together.

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Absolutely LOVE this from Yellow Ladybugs! 🤣 Brilliant!

A very big congratulations to all, thanks for the opportunity to be involved.

Preserving history for greater tourism future The goal of turning a 19th century railway cottage into a museum is one step closer for Eltham Community Foundation, thanks to Greater Bank’s Community Funding Program.

Two big updates!

Last Friday we lodged our Development Application with Lismore City Council for our new Preschool. 6 months of hard work has led to this, we cannot wait to update you all on our Crisis Fund Application with NSW Early Childhood Education for our funding.

We are so happy to have received a Woolworths Landcare Australia grant to fund our Possum Park upgrade. After a wonderful parent and team contribution and working bee, we have a green, growing, learning, interactive and fun place for everyone to play and learn in.

Great initiative to brighten up our town.

ArtVenture: Transforming Empty Shop Fronts into Vibrant Art Exhibition Spaces ArtVenture is an initiative to transform empty shop front windows in the Lismore’s Business Centres into vibrant art exhibition spaces to revitalise the Lismore’s Business Centres. About the Program The program will repurpose vacant shop fronts in Lismore’s Business

Every year on 26 May, National Sorry Day remembers and acknowledges the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families and communities, which we now know as ‘The Stolen Generations’.

National Sorry Day is a day to acknowledge the strength of Stolen Generations Survivors and reflect on how we can all play a part in the healing process for our people and nation. While this date carries great significance for the Stolen Generations and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, it is also commemorated by Australians right around the country.

East Lismore Community Preschool stands with you on this day, to hold the truth-telling and to keep creating a strong future, together.

Oh no, someone is beating us; you can click a vote every hour on the hour!!! Yes, it is getting addictive waiting for the click 🤣.

Greater Northern Rivers We're giving away $3,000 every month to locals helping make the Northern Rivers Greater!

It was a pleasure to host with our beautiful primary school P& C.

Thanks to all the volunteers that brought this together.

The opportunity to connect and chat was really special.