CCSA Children’s Services Award 2009

The winner of the 2009 Children's Services Award is Armidale Community Preschool.

Armidale Community Preschool has maintained its preschool programme and the highest standards of management, despite having to rebuild after a catastrophic fire. Armidale Community Preschool’s committee received their award at our regional training in Armidale in September.

As the recipient of the CCSA Children's Services Award, the preschool received:

• a cash prize of $500.00
  
• a $500.00 voucher from Modern Teaching Aids
• a framed certificate
• an article highlighting their achievements in our 40th anniversary special publication, which will was distributed to over 11,000 early childhood services across Australia in July 2009.
  

Previous winners of the award are :

2008
Jeff McDonald
Valla Community Preschool
Valla

2007
Claudia Tolhurst
Edgeworth Child Care Centre
Newcastle

2006
Meryl Allworth OAM
Holbrook's Children's Centre
Holbrook

2005
Daryl Taylor
Singleton Heights Preschool
Singleton

2004
Andrew Swan
Hobbit Preschool and Long Day Centre
Armidale

2003
Maureen Spicer
South Grafton Multipurpose Child Care Centre
Grafton

2002
Sue Nicholls
Tottenham War Memorial Early Childhood Services
Tottenham

2001
Robin Riedl
Yarran Early Intervention Centre
Central Coast

2000
Ken Keith
Parkes Early Childhood Centre
Parkes

1999
Liz Renshaw
Euroka Children’s Centre
Blaxland