Moolanda Care and Learning Centre

🌿🌱 Outdoor Classroom Day 🌱🌿

We celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day by taking our learning outside and spending time caring for our beautiful garden spaces.

The children explored, discovered and connected with nature while helping to water, tend and care for our garden beds. Through these experiences, children develop responsibility, teamwork, an appreciation for the environment, and a sense of pride in creating and maintaining our outdoor spaces.

There’s something special about learning in the fresh air and watching our garden continue to grow, thanks to many helping hands. 🌱🌞

💐💛 A Huge Thank You 💛💐

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐞 and 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 for their generous donations to our Mother’s Day raffle. Your support helped make our raffle extra special and contributed to a wonderful celebration for our families

We hope all of our raffle winners have had the chance to enjoy their prizes and that everyone had a fabulous Mother’s Day filled with love, appreciation, and special moments

Thank you again to everyone who donated, supported, and celebrated with us 💛

The Benefits Of Outdoor Sleep Times For Children

Natural light exposure - This resets the body clock and adjusts with circadian rhythms, and you produce more melatonin for a more restful sleep, unlike artificial light, which interferes with sleep quality.

Increased immunity - Plants give off phytoncides to protect themselves, which humans can benefit from lower blood pressure and other health boosters.

Better functioning of body and brain - Higher quality oxygen will improve the functioning of the brain and body for better productivity, mobility, recovery, and more. Whereas stale inside air laden with carbon dioxide can lead to lethargy and a slower metabolism.

Reduced stress - Just seeing trees has been proven to reduce stress levels, as has listened to the sounds of nature and the outdoors.

Reduced illness - Air conditioning spreads germs and dries up children's sinuses, leaving them open to infection. One centre reported that over an 11-week period during winter (when colds and flu are usually rife), they only had a total of less than 1 per cent of absentees, which they attribute to outdoor napping

Improved learning - As children sleep longer, deeper and more serenely when outside, they're more refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready to learn when they wake. Their cognitive attentiveness, alertness, and awareness are higher compared to napping indoors.

Better physical and emotional development - Outside sleeping can increase children’s brain, bone, and muscular development, along with their social and emotional wellbeing.