High Quality Early Childhood Education and Care is only possible if delivered by dedicated management and passionate educators. This epitomises the Clovel family, all of whom are committed to ensuring all of the children who spend their days at Clovel enjoy a strong sense of belonging and feel welcome and loved. Our passionate educators overall quest is to ensure all of our children participate in a play-based learning program based on what each individual child loves to do, is good at and interested in to ensure each child has the vital building blocks in place for a successful school life and beyond.
All of our wonderful educators are professionals who hold Early Childhood Education and Care qualifications in one of the following qualifications.
Early Childhood
Degree
Diploma in
Children’s Services
Certificate III in
Children’s Services
Currently studying
vocationally via
correspondence
Founder
and Company Director
Founder
and Company Director
I started my childcare journey with my husband in 1977 when our two beautiful adopted children started school.
I was looking for a way that I could share my philosophy of love and learning with others. The first Centre we opened was Clovel Merrylands and it’s grown to comprise of 9 small early learning centres across Western Sydney. I believe that “it’s love that makes the world go round” which is the foundation on which our Clovel Family and centres are built on – a strong sense of love. To ensure this philosophy of love and learning is extended throughout the Clovel Group, I continue to mentor and educate a handpicked group of Educator’s along with caring for, developing, nurturing and educating thousands of children that all make up the Clovel Family.
Educational Leader
and Compliance Co-ordinator
Educational Leader
and Compliance Co-ordinator
Hi I am Theresa, I joined the Clovel family in 1997. I am an advocate of Early Learning in Children and pride myself in the day to day operations and programming of each Clovel Early Learning Centre.
I am committed to providing a quality educational environment for every child in our care, ensuring they have a sense of belonging to the environment in which they learn and play. I believe my experience and knowledge forms the foundation of my passion and commitment to each of the Clovel educators ensuring that I am supporting and encouraging them to be the best educators they can be. My overall goal is to ensure the educators in my team are inspired and motivated, and to ensure that all the children have lives enriched with love, care, happiness and growth. which is the foundation of Clovel where we are leading Australias children to their future.
Company
Director
Company
Director
I joined the Clovel family in 2013 after working in Human Resources in both small business and corporate Australia. My passions are children and my family and being Lyn’s daughter, it was a natural career progression for me to join the family business.
I have a genuine interest in people and am inherently optimistic when it comes to solving any workplace issues and working at Clovel, has enabled me to form extended positive personal relationships with our team. It’s important for me to ensure that the business philosophy remains strong and that we continue to provide quality early education for the children. Whilst also ensuring a fun and educational workplace for our team that fosters inclusivity and career growth – I want them to feel motivated to come to work and enjoy being part of the Clovel family.
We have a real focus on treating our people with respect, helping them develop personally and keeping them accountable to the commitments we make as a team.
Nominated
Supervisor
I have been working at Clovel since 2009.
I began as a trainee and have had an amazing journey of both learning and teaching that has led me to becoming a Nominated Supervisor. I love interacting with and educating each and every child as they learn through play with our wide variety of activities covering all areas of development. I feel it is an enormous pleasure to not only love teaching the children and watching them grow and learn, but to also have the pleasure of learning along with the children. I love that I can build great relationships and bonds with all the children I spend my days with. As a leader, I love to challenge myself to find new and efficient ways to get things done. I love to teach and guide the staff and try to be a role model to my colleagues. I pride myself on being as helpful as I can, always trying to give others a hand wherever and whenever I can.
Nominated
Supervisor
I have been working with Clovel since 2012 and I’ve loved every minute of it.
To me, it is an absolute blessing and privilege to be able to help shape little minds, watch the children grow, develop their personalities, and gain great knowledge and skills that they will take into their ‘big’ school years and beyond. When you work with children and in a team environment that is full of love, happiness, adventure and many different personalities, there is not a single day the same as the one before, and that is what makes this job unique and unlike any other. As a Nominated Supervisor with Clovel I take pride in my ability to not only lead the children in their learning but also to lead all of our educators in their learning as well as they move through their studies and gain more and more experience caring for, developing, nurturing and educating the children each day.
Nominated
Supervisor
I always knew I wanted to work with children.
I joined the Clovel family and began my career in 2002. I wanted to make a difference and especially for those children who are less fortunate, to provide a second home, to give as much love to them as I could. I really enjoy watching the children grow and develop, hitting all their milestones and celebrating all their successes. Every day is a different day, always fun with many laughs and hugs along the way. I love to watch the imaginative and creative skills the children utilise to turn what one would think was nothing much into something fantastic and go to places you never dreamed you would go - and the children absolutely love it. I love watching the big smiles and getting warm hugs every morning and afternoon. You know you have made an impact when you see their happy faces and you feel the bonds you have created. As a long-standing educator and Nominated Supervisor with Clovel I also reflect on my own years of learning and being trained in the Clovel way and how valuable that experience has been for me. Thus, I am very conscious of ensuring that I am the best leader and teacher of other educators that I can be to give them the greatest chance to thrive as educators with Clovel and our Clovel children.
Nominated
Supervisor
I joined the Clovel family in 2002. Growing up I struggled with my learning and most of my teachers didn’t change their teaching style to the way that I learn.
It is such a rewarding job – in fact I do not consider it to be a job. I consider it to be a pleasure to be able influence and shape the minds and lives of the young children who are within my care. Every day is a new day. I am not only able to teach the children, but they are also teaching me as they shine through their different stages of development. Through this I can see them start to walk or struggle with a puzzle, and then it happens, the smiles on their faces as they master new skills makes me proud to be a part of their lives. The children never fail to bring a smile to my day. I also feel blessed that as a Nominated Supervisor not only to I have the pleasure of caring for, developing, nurturing and educating the children I also have the opportunity to replicate these features with other Clovel educators. It gives me a warm sense of pride to watch the educators I lead and teach shine in their interactions with the children we spend our days with, their families and their Clovel colleagues.
Nominated
Supervisor
I joined the Clovel family in 2009. I love being an educator as I enjoy being part of the children’s’ lives and helping them grow, learn, develop and give them the vital building blocks that they will need to take into their school life and beyond as they grow into the young men and women they will become.
I became an educator to assist in the development and learning of children and I’m driven by my desire to make a change for children when it really matters, in the first 5 years of their growing bodies and learning minds. I enjoy doing fun and educational activities with the children, but most importantly, I just love playing with them. As a Nominated Supervisor with Clovel I also take great pride in leading my team of educators by example and encouraging them to approach each day with the passion I believe is vital to achieving our Clovel goals of ensuring each or our children have a love of learning that will hold them in good stead as they enter school life and beyond.
Nominated
Supervisor
I joined the Clovel Family in 2015 and have worked my way up from trainee to Nominated Supervisor during this time.
I love working and providing the foundations for the children to grow and learn and to build them up for the next stages of their lives and beyond. I have seen many smiling faces come through the Clovel Family, starting as babies in the Cottage, moving to the Day Nursery as toddlers and then transitioning to Granville as preschoolers. It’s an amazing feeling watching the children grow and achieve milestones throughout their lives and knowing you have been a fundamental part of their most important developmental years, the early years. It brings me great joy and warmth knowing that I can make a difference to the children that are going to be running the country one day, knowing I helped them achieve their goals. As a Nominated Supervisor I know that I am where I am today in my early childhood education and care journey very much in part due to the fabulous Clovel leaders and teachers who guided and supported me through my own learning journey and as such I take pleasure in replicating that which I myself was so fortunate to have experienced with the educators I lead and teach.
Nominated
Supervisor
I joined the Clovel family in 2013. When I was young my teachers always went above and beyond with my education.
I feel so fortunate and grateful for their support. They inspired and motivated me to put that dedication forward to the next generation. I love being able to assist the children in their growth and achieve their goals. Their smiles, giggles and spontaneous conversations fill my heart each day. From a leadership perspective, as a Nominated Supervisor, I aspire to go above and beyond for my Clovel educators just as those teachers in my school years did for me because I know what a great impact they had on my learning and I want for them to be the best educators that they can be.
Nominated
Supervisor
I have been an early childhood educator since 2014 and I believe that every child is unique.
My favourite teacher adapted to my learning style, and it made the world of difference to me. That teachers love and kindness inspired me to be an early childhood educator. I am living proof that if more teachers showed these qualities, we would have greater hope for the future of our children. I hope all the children in my care will remember an educator that cared for them, guided them through a high-quality child centred education, showed them love, kindness and never gave up on them. I also ensure that I fully support all of our Clovel educators to be the best educators that they can be and I make sure I adapt my training skills to each educators learning style as I know that is the best way that I can support them in their learning.
Operations Co-ordinator
Operations
Co-ordinator
I have been part of the Clovel family since 2018 and I absolutely love it.
I really enjoy helping others, organising and improving systems so working in the office has been really fun and satisfying for me. I took on the role of Operations Manager at the beginning of 2022 and love the challenge of a more demanding role. It has been a really rewarding experience for me. I love the values that Clovel stand for as a company. In working closely with the management team, it really warms my heart how much dedication and love they each put into looking after every member of staff and every child in the Clovel family, I'm really proud to be part of such an amazing team.
Enrolments Co-ordinator
Enrolments
Co-ordinator
My other responsibility at Clovel is Enrolments Co-ordinator.
I have worked within the Clovel Family since 2002 as an Educator so talking to prospective parents about why they should choose Clovel for their children was an easy transition and to ensure they enjoy their exciting early years education and have their vital building blocks in place for school life and beyond. I am the first point of contact for new parents when they call to enquire about our services. It’s my easy goingnature, knowledge and love of early education that ensures that parents are given the information they need to make this very important decision for their little ones.
Choosing your child’s childcare and early learning centre is one of the biggest decisions you will ever have to make for your child. If you have more questions for us or would like to book a tour of one of our centres, please fill out our form and we’ll be in touch!