New day care director

Amanda Lester has been made the director of a local day care centre.

Ms Lester was chosen as the director of the Umina Kids Club.

Umina Kids Club is due to open in February and claims to be the largest purpose-built child care centre on the Peninsula, catering for children up to five years old.

Ms Lester has a Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) from Macquarie University.

She graduated in 1993 and has worked full time at Forresters Beach Child Care Centre ever since.

Ms Lester is a member of the A Reggio Emilia - Australia information exchange, and has had articles about our ways of programming published in their "The Challenge" journal which is distributed to all members Australia wide.

Ms Lester said she joined the information exchange group after researching about Reggio Emilia for the past seven years.

Press release, November 29 Glenn Hale, Umina Kids Club