- Gan Gani Kindergarten Fig Tree Pocket
- 07 3378 9233
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- 691-695 Fig Tree Pocket Road, Fig Tree Pocket QLD 4069
We provide a warm, safe and nurturing community for families from all backgrounds.
We encourage and welcome involvement at kindy. Whether it be joining the committee, volunteering at the kindy for a day or even pausing to pick up and share in Challah or admire your child's latest creation.
We strive to ensure that each and every child in our care feels cherished and nurtured.
We instil a sense of respect for and awareness of all cultures with an emphasis on our First Nations’ cultures in our children and work closely with Indigenous Educators to embed this in our curriculum.
We embrace diversity, welcoming all children and families, their cultures, traditions and backgrounds.
We encourage open, honest and reciprocal communication with families so that kindy is an extension of the home and are active in connecting with community groups.
We are supported by a range of affiliates who contribute to the kindy in a variety of ways. We are incredibly grateful for the support of our community. If you would like to provide support to the kindy, please contact us to discuss.
Thank you to Councillor James Mackay, Walter Taylor Ward and his team, especially Pip, for supporting our kindy in so many ways.
We are grateful for all of your support, most recently the upgrading of the accessibility to the kindy for wheelchairs, mobility walkers and prams (promoting inclusion to all within our community) and the support of our first ever Annual Community Fun Day including a special reading of Hairy Maclary.
The recent Waste Smart kindy presentation was extra special with the gifting of waste smart and sustainability books which the kindy kids LOVE!
We also acknowledge the support in 2019 to help celebrate Gan Gani Kindergarten’s 30th anniversary.
Thank you to the Brisbane City Council for the following:
Community Facility Disaster Relief Payment to assist with the damage suffered at the kindy from the significant rain event in February / March 2022.
Gan Gani is grateful for the support received over many years from Damien Lacey Plumbing. Most recently Damien and his team undertook significant works to improve the drainage and to help mitigate flooding should we experience another significant rain event.
Damien is renowned for his community spirit and for giving back, thank you for your support and generosity!
Our native bees who took up residence in a crack in one of our footpaths were able to be safely rehomed into a beautiful new bee hive. This was all thanks to the Maiwar Community Grant, received in June 2022.
Thank you to Michael Berkman MP and his team!
RACQ Foundation generously supported the kindy following the significant weather events in Queensland as a result of a grant application by the kindy.
The funding was used to address drainage issues, both below and above ground, which impacted the outdoor play facilities following this extraordinary amount of rain. This work was carried out by Damien Lacey Plumbing and his team.
A shout out to the Mandalay Progress Association who continue to bond our special little community through local events.
Thanks to the talented craftsmanship and generosity of the wonderful teachers and students from the
St Edmund’s College Manual Arts Department, Gan Gani received a new cubby house to enjoy in 2019.
St Edmund’s built and donated the cubby and we are so very grateful. We are also incredibly grateful to Shane from Brown’s Delivery Service who did not hesitate to rise to the occasion and assist our kindy in the delivery of the cubby house.
Gan Gani is grateful for the support received over many years from Bright Consulting. Most recently they were kind enough to donate a new mobile phone for the kindy.
Birdie’s Tree is a suite of resources to help families prepare for, cope with and recover from a natural disaster or disruptive event. Birdie’s Tree particularly helps support mental health and emotional wellbeing for expectant and new parents, babies and young children.
While the stories were originally written for children aged 0 to 4, we are finding they are helping children who have experienced disruptive events, up to at least mid-primary school age.
Most Birdie’s Tree resources are available for free, click on the links or pictures below. There are flipbooks and animations or videos and the resources are available in many languages.
Gan Gani is a community kindergarten offering early childhood education. We use play-based emergent curriculums and provide a hands-on learning environment.
Our multicultural curriculum is welcoming to all cultures, traditions and backgrounds and incorporates a unique focus on Judaism, honouring our founding communities and Jewish families.
Our large and spacious outdoor areas, well equipped facilities, and single unit premises offer a quiet sanctuary to our children to allow an uncompromised focus on their development, education and wellbeing.
Gan Gani Kindergarten acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which our Services are placed, and pay our respects to the elders, past and present, who have raised children, taught them about the world around them and bestowed on them the gift of culture and language.