Meet Our Wonderful Team

Rachel has had over 22 years of experience in working with children and families in a diversity of roles. She is inspired to develop programs that support children’s sense of self, confidence and independence through providing warm relationships and environments that support healthy and secure attachment.

The development of Rachel’s Place Child Care Centre as a hub for families has developed from understanding that connection to community and support in the early years of parenting and a child’s life are vital to their health and well being.

I have been working in early education for over 12 years. I believe play should be fun, exciting, spontaneous, hands-on, stimulating, relaxing, comforting and challenging. All children should be given an opportunity to learn from their decisions, including the opportunity to make their own choices, but always within the confines of a safe environment for the safety and well being of themselves and others.

My role as an educator is to help children reflect on their actions and make appropriate choices and I always strive to influence children by encouraging them to try to empathise with others.

Jessica is committed to providing children with love, care and education and has over 12 years of experience in early childhood settings.

Jessica plays and uses other instructional techniques such as storytelling and games to improve children’s social skills. She loves her job because of the culture of the Rachel’s Place centre and of course the children’s love and affection.

She has over 16 years of experience working with young children, both in the early childhood and counselling sector. Sabina firmly believes that a strong sense of safety and connection with parents and carers creates the optimal conditions for children to learn and thrive.

She is passionate about supporting parents and educators in creating positive relationships with children and overcoming challenges, using research-based tools, strategies and frameworks.

She is in charge of rolling out the Rachel's Place parent and Professional Development training for Teachers and Educators, helping Rachels Place vision to help other providers of child care and early learning.

You may have met Sabina already at the center or in the Virtual Community, where she hosted many virtual classrooms and facilitates parenting groups. Sabina is excited to play with the children and support families and staff at Rachel’s Place.

From this experience I developed the passion to work with children. When I came to Australia, I decided to work in childcare as I love children and the positive energy they have. I want to help them develop themselves, and it is a privilege to watch them grow. Please come and say hi when you see me.

Anya is with us 4 days a week and so far the kids are loving the way she engages with them and introduces new ideas and crafts.

She loves children and believes in their potential to become communicators by expressing themselves in their own unique way. "I am passionate about children and the way they naturally perceive and interact with the world. I enjoy providing learning opportunities where the children are able to express and discover."

Paola also runs our popular multi-age yoga class once a week: "I found in yoga a beautiful way to connect with myself and others. Teaching children how to be aware of their bodies, emotions and thoughts while having fun together has been challenging and very rewarding". "I'm looking forward to having a great year with your children!"

She believes that each child is a unique individual and as a qualified teacher, she will value and develop each child's strengths, interests, skills, abilities and knowledge to extend their learning.

She loves Rachel's Place because the staff know all the families very well and it's like one big family.

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She has been working in child care for 10 years, and enjoys working with children and being with them. She believes each child has their own potential. "I love spending time with children and helping them on their learning adventure".

In her spare time, she loves reading, to increase her knowledge, and listening to music so she can relax. Everyone enjoys the joyful energy she brings to Rachel's Place and her hard work and enthusiasm.

She also worked as a kindergarten teacher at an international school where she implemented curriculum, planned activities and supported children and their families. It was through this role that she was inspired to do more work with children. After taking some time out at a yoga retreat centre for 6 months, zenning out, she made her way back to Australian shores.

Since then, she has been studying a Masters of Teaching in Early Childhood and working at Rachel’s Place as a float educator working across all the groups and supporting the teachers.

She understands that children are competent and so encouraging a child’s sense of agency and vision is imperative in supporting their learning and progress through life. Each year, she takes her passion for learning and culture to work remotely with teenagers in Cape York on traditional Indigenous lands engaging in corroboree, dance and fishing.

Before that, she developed her childcare experience as she taught theatre classes for children in France, where she grew increasingly amazed at how creative and clever children are.

She believes that working around kids gives you important opportunities to grow with them every day (on top of being really fun), and cares about contributing to the creation of a friendly and nurturing environment for them.

At Rachel’s place, she can be spotted picking up toys from the unexpected places they end up in, and having fun rearranging the dollhouse as she cleans. She floats around and is always up for a chat, or for helping out with craft projects and other activities!

Working with children offers a chance to be creative, and is so rewarding, as every day is different and every child is so unique!

I aspire to learn more about about holistic ways to nurture children’s minds and hearts with my ongoing Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care.