Cootamundra Preschool
Useful Websites

Cootamundra Preschool utilise the information provided by the variety of websites below.
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Please feel free to use these websites to build on your knowledge and help support your parenting journey.

Starting Blocks provides parents with information about early childhood education and care.
​NSW Health continues to champion the health interests of children and young people whether they are at home, in the community or in or out of hospital. This includes health services for babies, children, adolescents, mothers, parents and families.
Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world. Two in three Australians (2 in 3 men and 3 in 5 women) will develop some form of skin cancer before the age of 70. The Sun Safety website provides fact sheets on how to prevent skin cancer for yourself and your children.
​Mission Australia's integrated nationwide services help people find safe and affordable housing, support disadvantaged children and families, empower troubled young people, assist people with mental illness and disability, and much more. Early intervention and prevention is at the heart of our work.
For over 45 years, Intereach has been working throughout the Riverina Murray region of NSW and northern Victoria to strengthen and support communities and to improve the social and personal wellbeing of children, families, older people, carers and people with a disability. Our purpose is to:
  • Strengthen and improve social and personal wellbeing for individuals, families and communities;
  • Promote and facilitate access, equality and social justice; and
  • Deliver services locally that are of quality and have value.
Kids and Traffic aim to achieve improvements in young children’s safety in the short term and develop safe community attitudes to road use in the long term by:
  • increasing awareness of the need for road safety education for children and their families
  • fostering developmentally, culturally and socially appropriate practices for the delivery of road safety education with early childhood educators and tertiary early childhood education students
  • ensuring that young children are given consistent road safety messages by both early childhood educators and families.
Healthy Kids supports the Munch and Move initiative that supports the healthy development of children birth to 5 years by promoting physical activity, healthy eating and reduced small screen time. The website also provides helpful fact sheets and healthy recipes.