Preschool Staff

At East Lismore Community Preschool we strive to maintain the high level of staff experience, enthusiasm and commitment to caring, nurturing and responsive relationships - with families, children and each other. 

Management Committee

Our preschool operates under a community-based not-for-profit model of management. This means that we have a management committee (currently comprised of parents of enrolled preschool children) and, any profits made by the preschool are fed back into the service. Our preschool is an incorporated association. This is the preschool’s business structure.

The management committee is responsible for the overall performance of the organisation.  They determine the service’s mission and purpose, set the strategic directions of the organisation, that is, develop the service’s strategic plan, appoint and monitor the performance of the director/nominator supervisor, ensure staff are employed in accordance with industrial obligations, ensure compliance with legal obligations, ensure the ongoing financial viability of the service, monitor and evaluate the service’s performance against the strategic plan (including the committee’s own performance), enhance the profile of the service in the community and recruit and orient new committee members 

We will provide a program that is based on play, discovery, nature, creativity and caters for individual interests and learning styles.

Sonya Mcpherson

Director

Nominated Supervisor

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Bachelor of Social Science

Advanced Diploma Community Sector  Management

Diploma of Mental Health, Youth Work and Alcohol & Other Drugs

Janelle Murphy

Early Childhood Educator

and Group Leader 

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Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

Leanne Noakes

Early Childhood Educator

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Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

Lesley Bartholomaeus

Early Childhood Educator

Certificate 3 Early

Childhood Education

and Care

Julie Holdsworth

Early Childhood Educator

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Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

Tammy Lees

Early Childhood Educator

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Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

Emma Horley

Early Childhood Teacher

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Bachelor of Teaching in Early Childhood

Surrie King

Early Childhood Educator

Certificate 3 Early Childhood Education and Care

Amelia Murphy

Early Childhood Educator

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Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

Talia Levy

Early Childhood Teach

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Master of teaching (Early Years)

Kimberley Everingham

Early Childhood Teacher

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Bachelor of Education

Carla Molyneux

Early Childhood Teacher

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Certificate 3 Community Services (Children's Services)