Week 10? Where did all those weeks get to?
Our student teachers, Josh and Alyce, finish up this week and we wish them all the very best with the rest of their studies. They have both made important contributions to our learning and I am sure they will both be excellent teachers when they finish their course. We all hope they’ll come back and visit before the end of the year.
Our excursion to CSIRO on Monday was a great success. The Creative Chemistry workshop began with some seemingly magical demonstrations and then the children began working through a possible 11 different experiments set up around the room. They were all completely absorbed in this for almost 90 minutes. I did interrupt them at one stage to introduce Zac’s aunt, Emma, who is a scientist working in the Food and Nutrition branch of CSIRO. Emma told us about one of her current research projects into the effects of transportation on apples and eggs and other fresh foods. Emma is also an ex-student of Currambena and a wonderful role model for aspiring scientists in our group! ( Emma was in my first Currambena class so it was great treat for me to see her, too!)
On Tuesday, we had a performance from the Australian Theatre of the Deaf. The three actors used very entertaining mime to tell the story of a traveller to other cultures. They were great to watch, as were the children’s faces! Fascinating to have two different theatre companies visit these two weeks.
We are now making some useful progress on our own play and, of course, rehearsal will start in earnest when we return from the holidays. Please ask your children about their costume ideas and help them if you can! The concert is just three weeks into next term.
This term I have been running a meditation group as one of the PDHPE options on Monday afternoons. It has been a very interesting time, with a range of ages of children learning and practising a variety of meditative techniques and usually including a feelings check-in and a guided visualisation at the end. Some of the children have been drawing their visualisation images… I hope one or two will make it into the Newsletter! Most of the participants have reported increased feelings of calmness and some have been using the techniques to assist them in sleeping at night.
REQUEST!! Once again there is an ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF LOST PROPERTY around the school. PLEASE make sure you take it home or it might all go to St Vinnies over the break.
ANOTHER REQUEST!! Is there anyone who would like two delightful pet rats for the holidays??? Let me know if you can help.
AND ANOTHER! Could EVERYONE please treat all hair for nits over the holidays so we can start next term nit-free!
Many thanks to Alex Golovin for doing slave duty with me this past two days! It has been fun to have his company!
And lastly, our group voted to have a party here at school on Friday afternoon. The idea is to bring a food offering themed by a time or place of your choosing. This will be after lunch, so small sized food platters would be good.
Have a great holiday everyone! Love, Wendy
