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MEET AMY TROTTER, FOUNDER OF THE VILLAGE PRESCHOOL & LONG DAY CARE, WAUCHOPE ✦ Amy is an Early Childhood Teacher, Approved Provider & the Centre Manager at The Village. She is a proud Wauchope local born and raised in the beautiful Birpai country.
✶ Amy Trotter
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e would ride motorbikes across our paddocks that adjoined my grandparents' paddocks, we climbed trees and ran around barefoot," Amy told us, fondly reflecting on her childhood. "My all-time fave was floating down the river on old tire tubes with my school friends.” She came from a family full of women. Her parents had three daughters, her elder sister has two daughters, her younger sister has two daughters and she has just married a man with two daughters. “My dad and brothers-in-law are a minority!" she jokes. "Being 'Aunty Amy' is the most important role in my life and it is important to me to be a kind, generous and strong role model for our 'little women'. My eldest niece, who I can't quite believe is old enough, has just joined my team as a trainee educator too.”
We asked Amy how long has she been an Early Childhood Teacher? Her response… “It was written in the stars that I was going to be a teacher in some capacity. My younger sister still complains about the numerous occasions where I forced her to be my student as I conducted classes at the ripe old age of six years old.
