📻 LIVE FROM THE HIVE … 📻

IS YOUR APP WORKING?
There are still a handful of parents who haven’t yet created their parent account and downloaded the app. Without this, you can’t sign your children in/out!
So, reminder - ALL parents should download the XPLOR HOME app. If you know your partner hasn’t yet set up their account, let us know and we will re-send the invitation. We can also help them out on the spot, at the centre...

🛎️ We are using the app for ALL parent comms 🛎️

‼️ Please TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS ‼️

👋 WELCOME TOM!! 👋
We’re very happy to welcome TOM onto the team! Tom joins us with experience of delivering kids events at a trampoline park, music tutoring and running parkour sessions. Many strings to his bow! His wonderful energy and infectious smile mean he’s going to be a great addition to the team. Welcome Tom!

🗓️ HIVE AGM - YOU ARE INVITED!! 🗓️
> Friday 22 March, 0900, Hive room
> Send in nominations for Committee positions by Fri 15th March:
- Prez, Vice Prez, Treasurer, Secretary - and any other roles you’d like to create and fill!!
> PLEASE COME ALONG on the day!! We’d love to see you there, whether you’d like to join the Exec Committee, become a general committee member, or just listen in as an ordinary member…

NEW KINDYS:
Our wonderful new Kindys are settling in so well! With 92% of the whole year enrolled, we have a great Kindy cohort attending every single session. 👍 For these first few weeks, the Kindys enjoy a tailored activity program, plus dedicated play and rest spaces. They’re also busy getting familiar with our regular Hive routines and exploring all the awesome resources we have for them to play with. We’re seeing lots of smiles and good energy - so it feels like an awesome start to the year! 🎉 🎉

ONCE YOU’VE SIGNED OUT…
Please remember to leave the school grounds as soon as you sign out. We know it’s tempting to stay and hang out at the play equipment - and it probably feels harmless - but in fact it presents several complications: it becomes harder for our staff to distinguish and effectively supervise the children who remain in our care. There’s also a risk to younger siblings, who might get caught up (or knocked down) by the games we’re running on the basketball court. The safety and security of the children in our care is our highest priority, and we thank you in advance for your support with this.

WHO’S AT THE GATE?
As mentioend, the kids’s safety is our top priority, and we want to be sure that we know who’s coming into the school. Please help us out by making your face visible when you buzz at the gate. It’s a little thing, but very helpful when we’re using the intercom.
Every single term, we drill both evacuations and lockdowns, once in the morning, once in the afternoon and once in the holidays. This way, we hope every child has chance to practice what to do in an emergency.

WORKS IN THE HIVE ROOM:
We have fantastic brand new child-safe bag hooks situated around the outside of the Hive room. This is great from an increased supervision point of view, and means there is no need for children (or parents!) to enter the school hallways during Hive pick-up.

We’re also completing work to knock through a ‘window’ between the Hive room and the newly established quiet area in the back room. This allows for a separate-but-connected quiet space for resting, reading - and even sleeping! Thanks to school for supporting for our need to make this modification, in order to enhance our supervision of the new chill zone.

🏖️ HOLIDAY PROGRAM 🏖️

Bookings for April HP will open in Week 7.

In the meantime, we’d love to hear what you thought of the Summer HP - please take just a few minutes to full out our Summer HP Survey. Your input will help us better meet your needs, and we love hearing what you think - good, bad and ugly! Thanks in advance for your feedback.

🐝 BEES OF THE WEEK 🐝

Shout out this week to ASHER in YK!

Asher is our Bee of the Week for demonstrating great
listening, practicing positive behaviour and setting
such agood example for all his Kindy friends.

Keep up the good work Asher!!

Mel - Food & Nutrition Lead

Our biggest year ever at the Hive means we’re so excited to introduce this new role and to grow our relationship with the lovely Mel, who manages the BBPS school canteen.

Mel will be preparing delicious, wholesome, good-energy foods for Hive’s afternoon tea, preparing the odd treat here and there and also helping us set up a Seniors Chef School. Yay!

Mel is mum to three boys who’ve come through the school, and so has been on the scene one way or another for over 12 years now! She knows the school and the kids very well, and is a wonderful safe pair of hands for feeding our Bees!