Arisen in full splendour In power and might, My Angel is speaking In weaving of light: “Remember your homeland. From heaven you came. To lose its remembrance Would make you feel shame. “In light you were living Before your life’s birth. Now take of the gifts From this garden, the earth. “Each day growing stronger, Let Love be your guide. Your body the Temple Where God may abide” In the Light of a Child -Michael Hedley Burton
- Issue 17 • Week 6 • Term 4
- 12th November 2024
Upcoming Events Term 4
Monday 11th November
- C 4, 5 Surfing lessons
- C6 Leave for camp
Tuesday 12th November
Wednesday 13th November
- Ice Cream Day: Karin V & Carmen F
Thursday 14th November
- C6 Return from camp
Friday 15th November
- C1 2025 Meet the Teacher 2-3pm Rainbow Room
Monday 18th November
- C 4, 5 ,6 Surfing lessons
Tuesday 19th November
- C4 Norse Play Presentation 1pm
Whole School Strategic Planning Meeting 2pm
Wednesday 20th November
- Ice Cream Day: Jilly P & Kasia O
Thursday 21st November
Friday 22nd November
Monday 25th November
- C 4, 5 ,6 surfing lessons
Tuesday 26th November
Wednesday 27th November
- Ice Cream Day: Brooke B & Kristy P
Thursday 28th November
Friday 29thNovember
- Farewell to Annie 4-5pm
Monday 2nd December
- C 4, 5 ,6 surfing lessons
Tuesday 3rd December
Wednesday 4th December
- Rainbow Room advent circle 9-9:15am
- Ice Cream Day: Kym J & Alicia E
Thursday 5th December
- Adpot-a-Spot C4,5 &6 9-11:30am
Friday 6th December
Monday 9th December
- C3 Performance 9:20am & 6:45pm C3 Families only.
Tuesday 10th December
- Leap of Faith C1-C6 (weather permitting)
- Rainbow Room Christmas Story 2:30pm
Wednesday 11th
- Ice Cream Day: Jo D and Sarah M
Thursday 12th December
- K6 Graduation at 9am
- K4/5/6 Kindergarten farewell picnic at 9:45am Kindergarten end of term.
Friday 13th December
- C6 Graduation Assembly 10am
- C6 Graduation picnic lunch 12:30pm
- Last Day of Term for primary students
Week 6
Preparing for a Seven-Year-Old Welcome
Term 4 is galloping along with many interesting main lesson blocks in full swing.
The Class Sixes are currently enjoying a super horse-riding camp to celebrate their educational journey drawing to a close with us. It was a privilege to join them for the day yesterday and to reflect, while out on the trail, how far they have all come.
In the junior realm, we welcome K6 parents into the primary school on Friday to meet some of the staff who will surround their children in the years to come.
Teamwork makes the dream work in the educational setting, with many eyes, ears, hands and hearts sharing the care of students.
Our butterflies are now ready to enter a new phase of development and independence.
Having spent the first seven years filling their limbs with willpower, it is now time to allow the feelings, imagination and social life to take precedence.
It is those same growth forces used in the first seven years, that Rudolf Steiner termed ‘life’ or ‘etheric’ forces that now become available for the development of memory and more abstract learning in the primary years.
As guardians of seven-year-old children, we recognize and that a degree of independence is what the soul seeks, though there will be many hesitations and bumps along the way.
For parents it is also a time of change. Learning to find a new relationship to what it means to support your children in a new phase takes consideration and adjustment.
How can we join together, to provide children with a feeling of confidence amidst change?
This is where our teachers hold space and present themselves to the children as guardians of truth, beauty and goodness.
The imitative phase of development recedes slightly and a quietly emerging sense of self is promoted through carefully considered curriculum delivery.
Our curriculum is heavily vested in the arts as vehicles to illicit positive emotional response within the learning process.
Emotion and memory are intrinsically linked, as neuroscience will attest. So, in an artistic way we provide lots of little anchors to memory.
Direct instruction has a vital role but for the most part teachers in the primary years are striving to create a lesson environment that allows students to discover for themselves and build the independent thought they are seeking.
Children around seven essentially require the gift of us letting go just enough to build confidence, while remaining connected enough to know when our loving support is needed.
Best wishes to everyone,
Jacqui
Education Facilitator
Parking Awarenes
Dear Families,
Due to the increased activity around the school related to end of year performances, parent meetings and other scheduled events, PLEASE UTILISE BUS SERVICES WHEREVER POSSIBLE.
Parking at school is extremely limited and any pick up or drop off of students must be prompt, utilising the available bays. Remaining onsite to allow children extra time on the playground is not helpful to traffic management.
IF NO BAYS ARE AVAILABLE PLEASE DO NOT PARK ILLEGALLY ON WILDWOOD AND CAVES ROADS.
Teachers will happily remain with your children until you are able to secure a safe parking space.
We recommend making arrangement to meet the busses at a drop off location even if you live in close proximity to the school. This allows parking bays to remain available on campus for high need traffic.
The school is working diligently behind the scenes with government bodies, aiming to improve traffic conditions and we thank you for assisting us and for providing students with the safest possible transport conditions.
Thank you
Class 2 News
Term 4 main lesson started with students listening to stories about a woodcutter who stored his sticks in his shed. This shed had two rooms: one where he kept the loose sticks (the blue room) and another where he kept bundles of 10 sticks (the red room).
Over time, these stories evolved. The children drew in their books representations of the shed with its rooms and the sticks or bundles of sticks in each room. They used the colours of the shed and pictures to represent the different values number had depending whether they were in the red shed (tens) or the blue shed (ones). Over time, they discovered how to work out simple vertical additions and subtractions.
Over the following four weeks, the children explored and worked out how to recognise the value of a digit based on its place in the number (e.g. 24, the value of 2 is 20 and the value of 4 is 4) and how to use this understanding to support them working out simple additions and subtractions. The students worked together, in pairs and individually, always supporting each other and sharing their understanding with others.
We are now ready to explore how to use this shed to work out simple multiplications and divisions…but these have to wait until Class 3.
Yvonne
Ice Cream Day Roster
Community Notices
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