Georgie had a wonderful time travelling and having some very well-deserved family time over her long service leave. The children did miss Georgie however Fiona (our relief staff member) settled in very easily, she was well accepted by the children and the 2 groups programs continued happily.
As you would be aware Anna is now currently on her well-deserved long service leave. Fiona and Kim have assisted with the relief during this time. This has ensured the continuity and the high quality of our program continues despite Anna’s absence. We are extremely lucky to have such committed, well trained and well experienced relief staff.
It has been wonderful seeing new friendships and relationships being established and strengthened each week. The children are becoming far more comfortable and explorative in their play. We are noticing that the children have an awareness that they have a large contribution to how Kindy runs each week, encouraging them to take some ownership over their own learning. The children are feeling very comfortable to share their interests/ ideas and from there we are creating our program possibilities.
There has been interest in learning areas such as …
- planting seeds and discussing possible outcomes
- awareness of, interest in and caring of bugs and small creatures in our playground,
- investigation and learning more about further Yuggerbul words encouraged us to be more considerate of our nations first owners during reconciliation week
- attempting to write our own stories, with yellow group compiling a group project writing and illustrating their own book
- looking at how we can use a by-product from our campfire such as charcoal in a creative process
- Utilising the windy weather by doing kite and paper plane making.
- we’ve had our first cooking experiences in each group. We particularly love the sampling of the final product!
- We have introduced manipulative activities such as clay play as well as looking into at areas of stem such as magnet play and how gravity works with pipe play.
Throw in our weekly trips to Bush kindy where learning to play and interact in nature is continuing with new tools being introduced. We are becoming proficient in knot tying and rope usage, whittling, hand drilling and most recently sawing. Parent volunteers are integral to this program, not only for us to ensure adequate supervision but the skills and interests that the parents bring to help teach the children in this wonderful setting is amazing. We thank our volunteers for their generous time.
The staff are extremely busy behind-the-scenes preparing for our A&R process which will be occurring in the early part of next term. We do appreciate all the assistance that our committee can provide us to help prepare for this process.
We had a beautiful mother’s campfire event. It was fabulous to see everybody come together for our first community gathering. We are looking forward to many more this year.
Thank you to the two wonderful ladies Lauren and Emma for providing us with a fabulous family fun day and to the volunteers who assisted them on the day.
Thank you to Liz and Peta who are running our library borrowing experiences in the two kindy groups. I know many children are enjoying this.
