Hello Everyone!
Welcome back to preschool for Term 2. This week we also welcome Keppel and his family.
We all had exciting and varied holidays. Julianna, Jo, Fran, Luuk, Willem and I went to the AAPAE Conference at Tamariki School in Christchurch, New Zealand, where we encountered new ideas, shared stories, looked at innovative schools and were made to feel totally at home and welcome by our friends at Tamariki. Gabriela went hiking and Chris is in Nepal, working at Heartland Children’s Academy. Michael will take Chris’ place until she gets back on Tuesday.
This Friday, 1st May, at 9.30 there will be a talk by Sydney Wildlife animal carer, Bev, who will talk about her work with baby animals. All are welcome. Please bring a gold coin donation.
This week we have followed up on the children’s ideas of what they would like to learn about this term and we have materials out for exploring the alphabet and numbers. We also have shapes and colours to play with on the light table.
I will be holding a fundraising sock drive in the next few weeks so don’t buy any socks, gloves, hats and so on until then! Look out for your catalogue in your child’s locker in the coming days.
Chris, Wendy and Fran will be holding a Conflict Resolution course beginning on Saturday, 9th May. It will run for 4 weeks. Look out for the flyer in this newsletter. See Fran or Wendy if you are interested.
Thank you to all the wonderful people who cleaned at the end of last term and in the holidays. Thanks, too, to Kath, who bought us a big store of paper from Reverse Garbage. If you would like to cut it up for use on the easels please come and see one of us.
Love from
Sue, Chris and Gabriela.
