Loan

Qualifications: Diploma of Community Services (Child Care)

Time in Child Care: Since 1993

What you love about working in this organisation:

One of the things I love about working for this service is working with a great educator team. Everyone supports each other and you can develop great relationships when you work as a team with the same goals. This reflects in the relationships we develop with children, they see how we get along and what respectful relationships look like and know this is how we treat each other in our room.

I am inspired by the way children learn. I listen to their ideas and the way they express them which leads to me learning something new about them.

I have been involved in many projects over the years I have been working here. One of the most important ones to me was the Circle of Security project that opened my eyes to ways to develop secure relationships and to work with challenging behaviours and the other more recent project was the Universal Access project. This project gave me insights into working with preschool aged children and provided me with ideas and new learning about the needs and strengths of the age group.