OUR TEACHING TEAM
We are very proud of our Grange Road Kindergarten team. Our caring staff members are a team of highly experienced and qualified early childhood professionals. They take their role in the development of our children very seriously and are passionate about what they do. Please take the time to get to know them. We encourage parents to not only take advantage of the parent/teacher scheduled meetings but to also take every opportunity to have an informal chat or make a time to meet.
Teacher Profiles
Savannah
Savannah is our 4 Year Old Blue Group Teacher. Savannah recently completed her Bachelor of Early Childhood Teaching but has worked at Grange Road Kindergarten for a number of years as an Early Childhood Educator while she was studying.
Kathryn
Kathryn is our 4 year old Yellow Group Teacher. Kathryn has a wealth of experience in working with children in an inclusive, play-based setting. She believes that building strong relationships with families is central in supporting children’s learning and development. Kathryn is married, with two children. She loves spending time in the country, and is passionate about the benefits of outdoor play in developing the physical, educational and mental wellbeing of children.
Sue
Sue is our 3 year old Red Group Teacher. She has had many years of teaching experience with both 3 and 4 year old children, as well as having the experience as a mother to her 3 teenagers. Sue aims to create a relaxed, yet enriched, learning environment for the children.
Hollie
Hollie is our 3 year old Green Group Teacher. Hollie has her Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and over a decade of experience working within community run, non-for-profit kindergartens and child care centres.
Hollie simply loves children’s curiosity, creativity and joyous energy that they bring to every kinder session. She considers it a great privilege to be a part of their learning and developmental journey. Hollie creates play spaces to enhance the learning environment. It is with this and through playful guidance, visuals, music and encouragement, her aim is to foster each child’s social, emotional, cognitive, physical and language development through a play-based program.
When she is not teaching she likes to cook, garden and go for nature walks with her husband, toddler and pooch.
Miriam
Miriam is our 3YO kinderPlus Teacher. She has a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and has had many years of teaching kindergarten aged children, predominantly in Bayside. She is passionate about play based learning and believes that children learn best when they are immersed in a safe, secure and nurturing environment. Miriam loves being a mum to her two boys and feels that the experience of parenting herself gives her more understanding and empathy for the families she works with.
Lalin
Lalin is our 4YO kinderPlus Teacher. She graduated from The University of Melbourne and has been working in various early childhood setting and supporting children as they explore and express themselves creatively through play base programs including creative arts, songs and stories and group times.
On the weekends, Lalin loves to go out to explore different eateries, walk around the neighbourhood and propagating plants.
Kirsty
Kirsty is passionate about play based learning, wellbeing and supporting children’s social and emotional development in holistic ways. This extends into supporting families and staff to work together to connect home and kindergarten. Kirsty enjoys working as part of a team, and making connections with others, including families, allied health and the local community networks.
Kirsty lives with her son, husband and cat. In her spare time, Kirsty enjoys reading, gardening and going to the gym and sometimes buying too many shoes!!
Educator Profiles
Andrea
Andrea is one of the 3 year old Red Group and 3 year old kinderPlus Educators. Andrea has a Diploma in Children’s Services and has worked as an Educator since 2006, working with both 3 and 4 year old groups.
She lives locally with her husband and adult son, who attended Grange Road Kinder. Andrea loves being a part of the children’s learning and development journey, watching them grow and blossom into independent young learners!
Jayne
Jayne works across Red, Yellow and 3YO kinderPlus groups. She has been in Australia for over 15 years and has two children. Jayne has worked at various kindergartens and has a Diploma in Children’s Services. Jayne is also a qualified hairdresser. Jayne is passionate about children’s yoga.
Kim
Kim is one of the 4 year old Yellow and 3YO kinderPlus group Educators. Kim has been working at Grange Road for several years now and has a Diploma in Children’s Services. Kim has a particular love of working with kindergarten age children. Kim has two children of her own.
Catherine
Catherine works across our 3 year old Green and 4 year old Blue groups. Catherine is also the Auslan Language Program Educator for the 4 year old Blue and Yellow groups. Catherine has a Diploma in Children’s services. She has over 20 years experience in children’s services. She lives locally with her family and has two children and a beloved Staffy.
Kate
Kate is one of our 3 year old Green, 4 year old Blue and 4YO kinderPlus group Educators. Kate has a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care. She aims to create a positive and nurturing learning environment for all children where they can flourish. In her spare time. Kate enjoys art, baking and gaming.
Beccy
Beccy is one of the 4 year old Yellow Group Educators, she has worked with children at a Diploma level for over 20 years and absolutely loves it. Beccy loves the way children explore the world with no apologetic questions just curiosity. She have two beautiful children and an amazing husband that I absolutely love spending time with. Beccy has been is Australia for 12 years.
Kelly
Kelly is one of our Green Group Educators and holds a Certificate III in Children’s Services. She has been working as a Educator for the past 13 years as well as running her own Sustainability workshops across kindergartens throughout Melbourne. Kelly has written and Illustrated 3 children’s books based on the environment and sustainability and won the Victorian Premiers Sustainability Awards in 2018 in recognition of her work in the field.
Louise
Louise is one of our 3 year old Red, Green and 4 year old Blue Group Educators. Louise has an Associate Diploma Early in Social Science in ChildCare, and has worked as an Educator in various centers, in various roles over the last 30 years. This is her third year at Grange Road and enjoys spending time with the children and developing their conversations and vocabulary.
Louise lives locally and enjoys traveling to NZ, going for walks and catching up with friends and family.
