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Preschool
At Preschool birthday celebrations traditions and rituals help ground children, allowing them to experience the rhythms of a year. Birthdays mark the special day and honour the child’s place in their family and their world.
A child’s birthday is a time of hope, a time of looking forward to a new year filled with fresh milestones and experiences. Celebrating another trip around the sun for a child is an opportunity for reflection and a chance to bring beauty, meaning and magic into their lives.
Happy birthday to Harriet, Arthur, George, and Axel for November.
~ The Preschool Team
Kindergarten/Boronia Room
Kindergarten’s Summer Christmas Festival will take place on Wednesday 11 December at 10am. Children come to school with their family at the later time of 10am. Please bring a plate of Summertime celebratory food to share for morning tea. The celebration will conclude at 11.15am.
The children’s Summer Christmas presentation brings the Kindergarten year to an end, so students can either head home or continue on to the primary school with their families for the end of the school year assembly.
This week the children heard the story of “How the Sun was Made,” a well-known dreamtime story. Lots of fabulous beeswax creations were made in response to the story.
The children’s seat covers for Class One are nearing completion and they are looking colourful, dynamic and very comfortable.
The Kindergarten Orientation Morning Tea is being held this Saturday 30 November at 10am for children and families coming into the Kindergarten for 2025. I look forward to welcoming our new families and children into our beautiful school.
Cheers,
~ Francine
Class 1/2
It has been a hot week, and the class has enjoyed lots of water play and frozen watermelon!
Our play performance on Thursday night was a hit; all the children gave their all and overcame many challenges to give their best performance. Our costumes were amazing thanks to our wonderful parent helpers, with the cute factor at an all-time high! Thank you to Nathan and Noah’s dad Adam, for filming the play, we will send out a link to the video for any parents or grandparents who may have missed the performance.
Next week we will start our final Main Lesson, Inspirational People. We look forward to hearing these stories as we hold reverence for this special time of year.
Let us not forget, we have our bushwalk and sleepover next week on Thursday 5 December. We urgently need parent helpers for dinner. Please get in contact should you be able to help out.
Many thanks,
~ Amy, Soumya, and Kath
Class 3/4
The term is flying by! Only two weeks left!
On Monday Class 3/4 caught the train to Sydney to go to Hyde Park Barracks. The children were taken in two groups and saw how the male convicts lived at the Barracks. It was a hard life of brick laying, eating hominy grits for breakfast and sleeping in hammocks packed to the hilt like sardines in a can.
Catching the train was also a big part of the day. We have the advantage of living in the mountains, but accessing these types of education programs can take a bit more effort sometimes. I would like to thank the parents that came with us. Thank you so much for your support as we walked from train to train and across roads to and from the museum. It made Meredith, Martin, and my job much easier.
We began our European Explorers of the Australian Continent Main Lesson. To go to Sydney and the barracks was a good little introduction to convict life. We have been picturing in our stories what Sydney would have looked like prior to colonisation: streams flowing where George St is now, yabbies and fish in the clean flowing water … My, how time changes things!
Have a lovely weekend,
~ Julie and Meredith
Class 5/6
My name is Arya, and I am in Year 6.
This week we did a lot in our play. Sets, lighting, sound, and projection of our voices. Elizabeth has been great with all her experience in movie making. She has taught us all these professional terms that they use in the film industry. We had to move the set around a bit, trying all the different spots. We learn to do PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting) to help us decide where to move the set.
In Math’s we did geometry. All the Year 5 students got their protractors which was exciting.
Have a nice weekend.
~ Arya Giordano, on behalf of Class 5/6
