Our People

Ange Bampetas commenced her career in the early childhood sector almost 15 years ago. Ange knew what she wanted to do from a young age, so she set out to achieve this immediately after leaving school. Ange holds a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care. Her experience over the years ranges from an Assistant Educator, Lead Educator and Centre Manager.

Anges favourite part of her position is working alongside educators and children everyday, supporting, guiding and educating them to be the best versions of themselves that they possibly can. Ange’s bubbly personality, industry knowledge and experience helps her to lead and manage our wonderful team and centre.

Ange can be contacted on [email protected]

Michelle Jovic began her Early Learning journey 13 years ago and holds a Diploma of Children’s Services. Michelle commenced her career in 2008 as an Assistant Educator and continued to develop her knowledge, progressing through various positions in the sector.

Michelle has enthusiasm for creating beautiful environments and experiences that allow children to be creative and imaginative; believing each child is different and therefore will have a different way of learning. Michelle’s greatest passion is supporting and guiding each child to meet their milestone; watching a child develop and blossom is definitely the most fulfilling part of working in childcare.

Michelle thrives working alongside fellow sector leaders and never stop learning new and exciting growths within the industry. Michelle is friendly and approachable and enjoys forming new relationships with families and being apart of the marvellous team at St Helena Early Learning.

Michelle can be contacted at [email protected]

Megan was born in the UK and moved to Australia when she was 8 years old alongside her family. Megan is very family oriented, and this led her down the path of becoming an early childhood educator and making her way into a Centre Managers Position. Megan strongly believes that children’s voices matter and she really values advocacy for children. The first 5 years of a child’s life shapes the trajectory of a child’s holistic development and Megan values holding a role in that for each child. Megan also has a strong love for nature which leads her to believe and understand that our environment including the outdoor classroom, is a child’s third teacher.

Megan has a niche for compliance and loves working alongside our team to ensure that we are operating at an exceeding level and maintaining the highest level of quality when delivering care and education to children. Megan is excited to develop and maintain strong relationships with our families within the St Helena Early Learning community.

Megan can be contacted at [email protected]

We believe that our Educators are our greatest asset.

They have the most important job in the world; caring for and educating our precious children, this why it is vital that we have a dedicated team of caring, committed and experienced Educators. At St Helena Early Learning our Educators will inspire our children with their energy, passion and creativity. They will care for our children with respect, love and encouragement. They will educate, guide and teach our children, they will empower, protect and challenge our children and they will interact, play and have fun with our children. This is our promise to you.

We will always support and encourage our Educators to never stop learning. We embrace all professional development opportunities and urge our Educators to further their knowledge, skills and experience personally and professionally.

We have amazing Educators that champion particular roles in our service, these roles include an Educational Leader, Sustainability Officer, Workplace Health and Safety Representative, Wellbeing Officer and an Indigenous Perspective Leader. These passionate leaders are committed to their role and really drive our curriculum, initiatives, experiences and quality in their area of excellence. They work with our team, families and children to ensure procedures and programs are embedded into our everyday practices and interactions.

Emma Lamendola commenced her career in Early Childhood Education 24 years ago.

She hold a Diploma in Community Services, Advanced Diploma of Children Services and Certificate 4 in Workplace Training and Assessing. Emma has held several positions in the industry, varying from centre level at a number of services to management level with corporate, private and community based operators.

Emma’s passion for children and high quality pedagogy is evident in her dedication and enthusiasm. Emma manages our centre operations and spends her time at our service developing, supporting, training and mentoring our educators.

Emma can be contacted at:  [email protected].

Ivona Lozanovski began her Early Learning journey 16 years ago and holds a Diploma of Children’s Services.

Ivona commenced her career in 2008 as an Assistant Educator and has since worked her way up within the industry, going on to hold various positions within the sector.

Ivona’s greatest passion is working alongside our industry leaders to support them in providing an enriching program and environment for our children that will provide them with the best possible early learning journey, our Early Childhood Industry has to offer.

Ivona can be contacted at [email protected]