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‘As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.’Antoine de Saint-Exupery I found this quote quite interesting as it got me thinking how teaching is really about enabling the future through our children’s education and how the crisis in the early learning workforce is going to impact on the…
How a little book about ‘self identity’ can be the catalyst for gender identity conversation Firstly, apologies for my long silence. My adult daughter and I got caught in the Northern Rivers floods and were forced to drive back to Melbourne, via a detour through Lismore; would you believe! It was extremely upsetting and I…
New Ideas with Ginnie & Pinney Over the holiday period I realised I wanted to share how the Ginnie & Pinney materials can be used differently, so here are a few ideas which will hopefully broaden children’s learning and increase their curiosity. The more we can stimulate children to be curious, the better. That old…
Firstly Happy New Year. I really hope you have had a very good and restful break over the New Year. Particularly after such difficult times we have endured in 2020 and 2021. Let’s hope 2022 bring us health, peace and some normality to the school year. I thought I would like to start the year…
Hi! Christmas is just around the corner! Can you believe it? I’m sure a lot of you have started preparing for Christmas. To make your Christmas even more fun, here are couple of Ginnie & Pinney Xmas colour-in sheets for you! Colour them, cut them out, hang them in your Christmas tree, stick them on…
Hi everyone. How do you like our new website? We think it looks great and want to do a shout out to the clever designers at Department of Creative Affairs, Leigh and Dane. You may not know but Ginnie & Pinney started many years ago when Winnie and I worked with academics in China where…
How are you all going in lockdown #6 in Victoria and continued lockdown in NSW? I have been struggling to find something to write about that will give you all a bit of inspiration and some practical ideas you can do with your young children. Mostly, the activities I am suggesting need either a parent…
Updated: Aug 18 I have been thinking a lot about what to write for this next blog and the issue that is foremost in my mind is how children and their parents, teachers and carers are coping over this last lockdown. If you are living in Victoria or in NSW you are in the thick of…
I was in the middle of writing this Blog about being bossy when the doors shut tight for our 5th lockdown in Melbourne and the continuation of the lockdown in Sydney so I needed to take a moment to acknowledge all of us shut into our homes again and want to say that we are…
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