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7 REASONS FLEECE is perfect for 'Sleep Time'
SAVE TIME Fleece is light weight and quick drying so your laundry time is minimal compared to other cotton knit blankets. ECONOMICAL Jam Berry has customers who have had these blankets for 8-10 years. Our indestructible product! IMPACTFUL Our polka-dot blankets are one impactful way to upscale Sleep Time. Your kids & educators will love you for the joy they bring to a room. NO OVER-HEATING Kids won't overheat with our fleece sheets & blankets because of their light weight nature. PERFECT FOR SENSITIVE KIDS No allergy or sensitivity concerns compared with wool which can be itchy, plus its breathable. PROTECT KIDS FROM COLD DRAFTS Mesh on stacker beds can be drafty as they sit off the ground, keep kids comfortable and asleep at Sleep Time by blocking drafts with fleece sheets. ALL KIDS LOVE JAM BERRY FLEECE Kids love to rest with soft & snuggly spotty blankets. over 14 years we have made and shipped over 25,000 blankets to Early Education Centres in Australia.
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Feeling the love from the amazing Germine Braun
"We recieved our sheets sets and I just wanted to send a huge thank you!!!"
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Customer Love : Cassandra Villalva
'I have a very happy little boy here who has been trying to convince me all afternoon to let him put it on his bed at home'
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Why Polar Fleece makes an excellent mattress/bed protector.
I accidently discovered Polar Fleece has a high absorbency, and is super soft and comfortable, we are selling our fleece bottom sheets as mattress protectors or mattress toppers.
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Product Review - 100% Cotton Blankets
Inspired by our former life on the island of Aruba in the Caribbean, they do come packaged in calico bags instead of traditional plastic - We like to call this an eco-victory.
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Barnardos NZ: Good people doing good things
Barnardos NZ are lead by beautiful, socially minded professionals who truly have the interests of NZ kids at the forefront of their day – everyday
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Indoor Activity..that's just a bit Silly
We know you all have amazing educational resources…. However; something NEW always sparks the imagination.
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Laundry Tip Wash Weekly by using bags
Jenny & I speak with Early Education Director daily about their linen requirements. So we know what everyone is doing and all the options on hand. If you supply and launder your own linen, bravo - your parents will love that its all taken are of. We speak with parents too and they often don't even know the types of bed their child sleeps on at child care. You can cut down on daily washing of sheets by using drawstring bags. Step 1 - Add child's name to bag Step 2 - Start of week, put freshly washed linen in the bag Step 3 - Each day they child is present, the sheets get put on a bed. Keep the bag with their name next to the bed so you know which bed they sleep on. Step 4 - Return bedding each day to bag Step 5 - At the end of a week, wash everything....ready for next week
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Consultancy; A Director's Best Friend
In the last 12 months, Jam Berry has in started working closely with several Childcare Consultants in Australia. Nicole Wrattan from Leading Edge Childcare Solutions was the first consultant to reach out to us as a linen supplier. At Jam Berry, we deal with Directors daily, so we were curious about her consultancy role in the childcare industry. We witnessed some outstanding results. This is Nicole’s story. Nicole’s business Leading Edge Childcare Solutions is growing rapidly at the moment. She is currently working on some new builds including Childcare Centre projects called ‘Kids on Millers’ and Little Harvard Early Learning Campus Holland Park’ in QLD, plus various other projects throughout NSW, QLD and VIC. Nicole’s business also supports 9 childcare centre Approved Providers, Directors and Educators in the day to day management of childcare centres. EDUCATION BACKGROUND Nicole started out with a Diploma of Children’s Services from Tafe, then added a Diploma of Business Management from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and followed this with an Advanced Diploma of Children’s Services at Charlton Brown. CAREER EXPERIENCE With 17 years’ experience in the roles as Child Care Director, Program Facilitator/Co-ordinator of Children's Services, Certificate III of Children's Services Trainer and Assessor for Mission Australia, and a Child Care Consultant she is well rounded for the role we find her in today, heading up her consultancy business. HOW THE ROLE OF THE CONSULTANT HAS EVOLVED The wider community are expecting higher and higher standards in care and creativity for the next generation. The centre Director often carries this burden, and that’s where Consultancy can help. Childcare Directors are essentially running a business. They manage a team, and ensure all aspects of compliancy to the National Quality Framework and legislation are met. Directors are responsible for developmental outcomes of the children in care, they are required to manage communication with families, manage budgets and at the end of the day perform tasks that attract new business. Are there enough hours in the day? The Leading-Edge team have worked with over 30 Directors throughout New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland assisting with new centre set ups, open days, phone support, recruitment, policies, and forms, NQF support/mock assessment (to ensure that your centre meets NQF requirements), debtor management and improving your cash flow, improving your centres occupancy, wage/roster management, and programming. Locally, Nicole states ‘we project management new builds and renovations of existing services and playgrounds’. Working with so many centres gives great insight to the things that work well in big or small centres ‘we know how to make changes that give great results in enrolments without costing the centre a fortune’. Nicole says that most of all she ‘loves working closely with Directors to achieve fantastic business outcomes, as well as training and supporting the Educators in the National Quality Framework’. Jam Berry has worked with a few wonderful consultants in the past year. We have seen enormous growth in established centres, under the guidance of Consultants. Centres that once had vacancies can now barely keep up with demand. www.leadingedgechildcare.com.au nicole@leadingedgechildcare.com.au
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