Jitbug

08/03/2026

🌟🍎 FREE Professional Development for ECE Teachers — Christchurch 🍎🌟

📅 Saturday 28 March 2026
⏰ 11:00am – 2:00pm (Lunch provided)
📍 Multicultural Recreation & Community Centre
455 Hagley Avenue, Christchurch

Are you looking for practical strategies to support children through conflict and big emotions — while strengthening empathy, problem-solving, and self-regulation in your centre?

We’re excited to invite the ECE community to a FREE professional development workshop with Donna Stichbury (Christchurch).

🎓 Workshop Topic:
“Conflict Isn’t the Enemy — It’s a Teacher.”

This engaging session explores how everyday moments of conflict can become powerful opportunities for children to learn essential social and emotional skills — when supported with the right guidance.

✨ What you’ll gain during the session:
💡 Practical strategies for supporting children through conflict
❤️ Ways to nurture empathy and emotional understanding
🧠 Tools to help children develop self-regulation and problem-solving
🤝 Connection with fellow passionate educators

💛 Hosted by Jitbug — With Gratitude

This workshop is completely free as our way of giving back to the incredible ECE community.

ECE teachers do extraordinary work every day — supporting tamariki, families, and communities with patience, compassion, and dedication. The work you do often goes unseen, but its impact lasts a lifetime.

This event is simply our way of saying:
Thank you. We appreciate you.

This session is open to all ECE teachers — whether you’ve worked with Jitbug before or not. You are warmly welcome to join us.

🌱 Come along, connect with other educators, and leave with fresh ideas and renewed inspiration for your practice.

💫 Spaces are limited — the registration link is in the comments below 👇

19/02/2026

🌊✨ Grow. Connect. Transform. — with Kimberley Crisp in Papamoa Beach ✨🌊

📅 Saturday 21 March 2026
⏰ 11:00am – 1:00pm
📍 Papamoa Community Centre (15 Gravatt Road, Papamoa)

Are you ready to reignite your passion for teaching, deepen your connection with tamariki, and step into a year of wholehearted professional growth?

We are thrilled to welcome Kimberley Crisp — a truly inspiring early childhood educator, mentor, and changemaker — for an unforgettable professional development experience right here in Papamoa Beach.

With over 30 years’ experience guiding teachers, teams, and leaders across Aotearoa and beyond, Kimberley brings a rare blend of wisdom, heart, and deep insight into what truly matters in early childhood education. Her work invites educators to slow down, reflect deeply, and see children — and themselves — with fresh eyes.

🎓 What you’ll experience between 11am and 1pm:

✨ Deep, reflective learning that reconnects you with why you became an educator
💡 Inspiring insights into environment, ritual, relationships, and play
🤝 Meaningful kōrero with like-hearted educators
❤️ Practical ideas you can take straight back to your centre
🌟 A renewed sense of confidence and clarity in your professional practice

This two-hour session is designed to nourish both your thinking and your heart — leaving you energised, inspired, and ready to implement meaningful change.

💛 Hosted by Jitbug — With Gratitude

This event is proudly hosted by Jitbug — and it is completely free of charge.

This professional development session is open to all ECE teachers — not just past or present Jitbug relievers. Whether you’ve worked with Jitbug before or not, you are warmly invited.

Why?

Because teachers do an incredible job. Early childhood education is often a thankless and selfless profession. You show up every day with patience, heart, resilience, and dedication — shaping young lives in ways that truly matter.

This event is our way of saying thank you.

It’s an opportunity for Jitbug to give back, to acknowledge the mahi you do, and to help fill your cup — so you can continue pouring into others with energy, intention, and heart.

💫 Spaces are limited — secure your place and be part of a professional learning experience that truly makes a difference. Link to register is in the comment section below 👇

Jitbug joins early childcare relief teachers with kindergartens and early childcare centres. The Jitbug app features an algorithm that matches the most suitable candidates to the most appropriate jobs for them.

02/02/2026

Kia ora wonderful teachers ❤

We’re delighted to invite you to a FREE Professional Development Workshop with the inspiring Donna Stichbury, focused on Conflict isn't the Enemy - It's a Teacher

This workshop is open to ALL ECE teachers, whether or not you are a Jitbug reliever. It’s our small way of giving back to the ECE community and acknowledging the incredible work you do every day.😀

Donna Stichbury is deeply passionate about supporting educators to help children learn empathy, problem solving and self regulation through aided support. Teaching is demanding, and stress can so easily dim our inner flame. This session offers a space to pause, reflect, and be gently reminded of the power you hold as a present and prepared teacher.

Relievers, in particular, bring a unique and valuable energy into many teams — offering fresh perspective, encouragement, and life to the spaces you step into. We would love to honour that contribution.

Join us for meaningful connection, nourishing conversation, and an opportunity to recharge and reconnect with yourself and others.

An amazing lunch will be provided afterwards, and we would love to use this time to get to know you and personally thank you for the wonderful care you give to our children.

Spaces are limited, so please register early.
Date: Sat 7th Mar 2026 from 11am - 1pm
Location : Linton Park Community Centre - 16 Kamahi Place, Pukehangi, Rotorua.

Link to register is in the comment section below 👇

18/08/2025

Kia Ora lovely teachers!! We're back with a FREE PD Workshop with the talented Kimberley Crisp talking about REIGNITING THE SPARK.

This free PD workshop is free for all ECE teachers, regardless of whether you are a Jitbug reliever or not. This event is our way of giving back to the ECE community 🙏

Kimberley has a HeArT for reigniting the spark and supporting teachers to see the light within. Stress is the fastest way to extinguish the "flame".🔥

Being a teacher is not for the faint hearted, its for the FULL hearted.
We are giving from ourselves all day and we are in output mode.

Lets come together and have some nourishing connection - and cross polinate. ❤️

As relievers you have a potent position to literally breathe life into teams, sprinkle your spark and cross polinate with so many teams.

Come and hear Kimberley's poignant pondering around the power of the present and prepared teacher. Let's connect... recharge... reignite the flame and create a fire that burns from within.

PS: there will be an amazing lunch provided after. We'd love to use this opportunity to get to know all of you and thank you for the wonderful work you do for our children 🥰
Spaces are limited so be quick!

Link to register in the comment section below 👇

11/08/2025

09/07/2025

Donna Stichbury

Jitbug joins early childcare relief teachers with kindergartens and early childcare centres. The Jitbug app features an algorithm that matches the most suitable candidates to the most appropriate jobs for them.

08/07/2025

Hi all you lovely teachers!
This is a FREE Professional Development Workshop where we will have the amazing and talented Donna Stichbury talk about the INVISIBLE BACKPACK - How to uncover and unload. Donna Stichbury is a deeply compassionate and insightful Relationship Facilitator, dedicated to helping ECE teachers build calmer and deeper connections with the children in their care.
Donna’s mission is simple yet profound: to support adults to heal what’s inside, so children can thrive freely and authentically.

This event was originally meant for Jitbug relievers - past and present, as a way of saying thank you for all the hard work you have been doing for our tamariki. ❤
But we figured why limit to only Jitbug relievers when so many other ECE teachers are doing amazing work out there too! So this free event is open to all ECE teachers who wish to come along =)

If you are based in Tauranga/Papamora and available on the 2nd Aug 2025, this is the link to register
https://forms.gle/bUnTDdd1pBSmcXQXA

If you are based in Hamilton and available on the 9th Aug 2025, this is the link to register
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aSjYzT4wB2pKc96ec6tkak_rDO0_9Q8hEVCgy3GL0Xs/edit

PS: there will be an amazing and scrumptious lunch provided and we'd like to use this opportunity to get to know all of you and tell you all in person THANK YOU for all the work you do for our children. 🙏

Jitbug joins early childcare relief teachers with kindergartens and early childcare centres. The Jitbug app features an algorithm that matches the most suitable candidates to the most appropriate jobs for them.

11/06/2025

As we celebrate 10 years in business, we extend our heartfelt thanks to the incredible centres and dedicated relievers who have been part of this journey. Your trust and partnership have been the foundation of our success. To our head office team – your commitment and behind-the-scenes efforts have helped shape who we are today. Here's to a decade of growth, collaboration, and impact – and to many more years ahead ❤️🧡

29/05/2025

Kia ora kaiako!
We’re hosting an in-person professional development session, and you’re invited 🙌
Come connect, learn, and unwind with us – dinner included! 🍽️✨
Spaces are limited, so make sure to register your interest today. Don’t miss out!

✨ Link in bio ✨

15/05/2025

At Jitbug & Dynamic, we believe kindness isn’t just for one day—it’s something we live every day💕. Today, on Pink Shirt Day, we stand together 👬👭to support a kinder, more inclusive world—one where bullying has no place 😊

In the first photo, we asked AI to add in our remote team members… and let’s just say the results were interesting—maybe a bit too creative, 🤣😂lol.
Scroll to the second pic to see the version our actual humans worked their magic on ✨🙂
#2025

08/05/2025

‼️🔔ECE Expo time! We’re here, we’re excited, and we can’t wait to meet you. Drop in for a chat, grab some goodies, and learn more about what we do!‼️🔔