× For Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals

Are you working in early childhood education and care with young children and families who’ve been through a natural disaster? Have children in your centre been affected by a natural disaster through family, friends, or media reporting? Would you like staff and children in your centre to be emotionally prepared for such events in the future?

The Birdie’s Tree Early Childhood Curriculum helps young children cope with severe weather and natural disasters. The whole-of-centre approach builds children’s resilience by increasing their emotional literacy and strengthening their sense of social connection. Where children have been affected by a natural disaster, the curriculum aids recovery by helping children work through their experiences, and the ‘big feelings’ such events can cause. The curriculum also includes elements to educator to take care of their own emotional wellbeing through stressful events.

The curriculum is available through a package of centre-wide training, resources and support.