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Thank you to everyone who came to the community consultation evening on Monday night. We had a good number of people turn up and all in all it was a very productive evening. We had a lot of ground (ha ha) to cover on the night and therefore ran a bit late – so thanks to all the babysitters at home!
We managed to set some priorities in relation to the landscaping and to talk about some of the areas that needed our most urgent attention.
I will be feeding back to Corkery Consultants a summery of the night so that they can amend the plans appropriately.
Today we have had a very long meeting with our architects to work through the design details, the tender process and our budget. Phew…3 hours!
We have short listed 5 construction companies that we have agreed to ask to tender the project and the documentation for this will be ready in about a week.
Our timeline is very tight and our goal for main construction work to begin in the October school holidays is looking increasingly ambitious. We may, however, undertake some of the preliminary landscape works and at least try and aim for the demolition of the old classroom. The exact timing for this will not be known until we have our tenders back.
We are also working towards starting some of the work for the NSP (Nation al School Pride) initiative in the school holidays - upgrading the bathroom in the main building and adding skylights in Wendy and Olivia’s.
See you around…
Jess
(jkimber01@bigpond.com or 0411220111)
Posted September 3rd, 2009
in Building the Education Revolution
by juliannam
Hello Currambena!
THANK-YOU
- For a great café last Friday the grapevine tells me it was a lovely afternoon with heaps of people and plenty of yummy things to eat.
- To our Buildteam and to all those who attended the evening to discuss the landscaping of the new playground.
- To all our teachers for all the time and care you have put in for each and every half hour parent interview.
2010 Calendar
The first draft has come out and is now in the final refining stages so please be ready to order next year’s fabulous Currambena calendar celebrating 40 Years of Inspired Learning!
NITS
Current livestock numbers are at critical mass in some classrooms and becoming a rather tedious bother for parents.
So the suggestion is that the parents of each class get together, pick an agreed weekend and everyone do the big wash. To get a good hit you will more than likely need to do two weekends in a row.
Activities coming soon…….
Dance social Friday 25th September
We have a bush band booked!
If it is still cold we will start up Steve’s firepit so either way it should be a hot September night.
So a big circle on the calendar please.
REMINDER
The traffic warden seems to be coming each day so take care where you are parking and for how long.
With love,
Julianna
Posted September 3rd, 2009
in Coordinator
by juliannam
Posted September 3rd, 2009
in Photo of the week
by Newsletter
Dear Parents,
We have completed most of the interviews. Thank you for all coming in and spending time with us talking about your gorgeous children.
NITS ARE BACK. We would like everyone to make a concentrated effort to do some nit treatment this weekend. It is the only way we can get rid of them.
This week we have a student teacher called David, he is from Bathhurst and is with us for 10 weeks, so welcome David.
We are studying ‘u’ and ‘v’ this week, and writing for an audience. The older children are working on personal projects. In Maths we are continuing to explore numbers to 20 and the older children have been investigating time.
For the rest of the term we would like to study “Sustaining our environment” and particularly Tambourine Bay. We would like to go down each Wednesday morning for the next few weeks and collect rubbish. We will contact the Lane Cove Council to see if we can be involved in some bush regeneration. David has some fun projects to investigate on Tuesday afternoons. We need old stockings if you have any for our experiment. Please send hats each day and also walking shoes for Wednesdays.
We plan to go to Coney Island at Luna Park on the 1st of October. We will go on the ferry from Greenwich and back.
Remember the Meeting: Your child and High School is on the 14th of September from 7pm til 9pm.
Take care
FRAN
Posted September 3rd, 2009
in Fran & Jo's Class
by franm
Hi Everyone!
Yesterday we had a mammoth class meeting and many decisions were made. I am so proud of how reflective and thoughtful all the children are. They really worked hard to understand and respect other people’s perspectives. We made some decisions on excursions, pack away time and many other issues. Speaking of excursions, I have booked a visit to the observatory for Thursday 24th September starting at 6:00 pm (yes the night before the school social). We have a booking for a limited amount of people which means I need to find out if all the children will be attending so that I can figure out how many adults can come. Please could you let me know a.s.a.p. if your child/ren will be attending. The children also voted that they would like to have dinner at school before we go and they have decided upon sushi and Crust pizza. I will get menu’s from both places and order whatever the children want before we all walk up and collect it. I will ask all children to bring a some money for their own dinner but the observatory will come out of our excursion fund.
I have also booked our class camp to Mowbray Park for Wednesday and Thursday the 9th and 10thDecember. I would like to start gathering numbers of parents who think they will be coming with us so please come and tell me about this as well.
This week a student teacher from UTS has started her two week prac in our class. Her name is Ruby and we welcome her into our class and into Currambena.
We are still learning about telling time in maths and Ruby has begun to teach them all about the calender also. It is really important with such subjects as this that they practice practice practice so any possible time that you have at home please ask them to tell the time or discuss the date.
Our personal interest projects which are (loosely) due at the end of this week are looking fantastic. We will be hanging them all up this Friday for display so please come and check them all out. Next week we will start thinking about ways to present all the information to the rest of the class.
Lastly, NITS ARE BACK! There are a few scratching heads in the class so please check your child for nits and treat accordingly.
That’s all for this week, have a good one!
From Olivia.
Posted September 3rd, 2009
in Olivia's Class
by oliviam
Now it really is Spring … or so we’re told! It has felt like it for a while now!
Last week’s Soiree for Moses Aaron’s farewell to story-telling was a great success. He was immensely impressed by the quality and enthusiasm of the children’s performances and we all had a great deal of fun, singing, reading stories and poetry and listening to Moses tell his last stories as a professional story-teller. The children who have heard him before had their old favourites to request and we all jumped in fright at the scary story of The Golden Arm. Thank you very much to Aarhon for filming the event. We will all look forward to watching ourselves!
This week we are writing stories again and poetry, practising handwriting, completing spelling and maths text book pages, revising area and volume, conducting more science experiments and working on our play writing and personal projects! The meditation group on Monday is working really well, enjoyable and impressive! The piano players were very impressive at School Meeting last week, too. We do have such a talented group of children at our school!! There will be more performances this week, too. Come along at 9:30 if you wish to be part of the audience… School Meeting is first, of course.
Unfortunately, nits seem to be around again in their hordes! If everyone could do a treatment this weekend we might have a chance to be nit free for a while.
Enjoy your week.
Love Wendy
Posted September 3rd, 2009
in Wendy's Class
by wendyp
Hello Everyone
This week we have been talking about and drawing buildings and skyscrapers. Amazing block constructions and their related drawings are appearing in preschool. We have also been singing Spanish songs and listening to Latin American music.
As part of our exploration of buildings we will be going on an excursion to draw the cityscape with Chris Rochester on Thursday and Friday morning, the 3rd and 4th September 2009. We will leave at about 10.15 am and return again by 11.15 am. We will be walking down Longueville Rd to the corner of Woodford and Kenneth Rds in Longueville, where there is an amazing view of the city. We will draw what we see and also play in the park behind the tennis courts. Michael will be coming with us on Thursday and then staying for the day in preschool so that I can do some admin work after the excursion. There will be a permission form on both Thursday and Friday morning. Please sign them!
There will be a Latin American Music Show in Preschool next Wednesday 9th September 2009 from 10.30 – 11.30 am. The cost for this is $8.00 per child. Please pay one of the teachers a.s.a.p.
We are still having children arriving at preschool before 9.00 am. We are only licensed for children from 9.00 am onwards. We also use the time before 9.00 am to set up the room, prepare materials for the day, have meetings and write in journals. We are unable to surpervise children at this time and would really appreciate everyone respecting this and not dropping their children off until 9.00 am. Thank you for your kind cooperation with this!!
Next Friday 11th September 2009 Kath and Keppel are coming to make sushi with preschool after School Meeting. We need a few more sushi mats for this so if you have any please bring them in next Friday. Thanks!!
The silkworms have hatched so if you have a mulberry tree please bring in some leaves for them as our tree is quite small.
Thanks for the glass tank and the storage box, Susan and Matthew.
Love from
Sue, Chris and Gabriela.
Posted September 3rd, 2009
in Preschool
by sueg
Dear Currambena
All our little ponies in preschool have vanished. They have ‘PS’ written on their tummies or their feet. If you’ve taken them home please bring them back soon. We miss playing with them.
From Scarlett, Lucy, Rosie and Paisley in Preschool
Posted September 3rd, 2009
in General
by sueg
