👋 LIVE FROM THE HIVE … 👋

🤒 🦠 🤢 WATCH OUT - THERE ARE BUGS ABOUT… 🤢 🦠 🤒
There are soooo many viruses and bugs around at the moment. They’re spreading really easily, and we do ask anyone whose child is sick to please keep them at home, or come and collect them just as quickly as you can. We’d love to maintain a level of protection for other children at The Hive and for our staff too - we have several staff holidays coming up this term, which means we can’t afford for anyone to get sick!

🏠 YOUR HOME APP 🏠
For best performance, please remember to check for and action any app updates - this will ensure you have the easiest sign-in and sign-out experience at the iPad…

⚫🟡🔴 RECONCILIATION WEEK:
As mentioned below, we’re so glad to have the Big Bees working collaboratively on Hive’s new Acknowledgement of Country. There’s a lot of thought going into it, and we’re looking forward to hearing what the children come up with.

EMERGENCY EVACUATIONS:
Every term, we conduct emergency drills. We cover a morning session and an afternoon session each time, and we change the days and times each term, so that we have the best chance of covering all children and schedule scenarios. We also alternate between lockdowns and evacuations.
It is so important that the kids take part in these drills and become familiar with what we need from them in the situation - this helps everything run smoothly when we have a real time emergency.
In Jun 2021, a fire at the school meant The Hive had to emergency evacuate 70+ children over the road. This acknowledged textbook evacuation was thanks to the professionalism of our team and the fact that the children had been regularly drilled in how to respond to such an event.
Thanks in advance for your support to ensure that your child participates in our drills, and for avoiding pick-up during the notified drill windows.

BEST FUN FACTS
The kids have been enjoying bringing their most interesting and fun facts to The Hive. Our big whiteboard is there for them to write it up big, and share with all the other bees. We’ve learned a lot, had some giggles, and sparked some very interesting conversations!

📝 POLICY REVIEW - REST & SLEEP TIME 🧐
The Hive policy currently under review is REST & SLEEP. This link, will take you to the policy, a short summary of any updates, and a space at the bottom to submit your feedback. The best policy review process includes all stakeholders - and that includes YOU, our Hive families. Please take a couple of minutes to review and feed back. 🙏 Thank you 🙏
>>> And remember - all our policies are available to you on our website.

🙂 WELCOME BACK EDIE!!
After a couple of weeks off, we’re very happy to have Edie back in the pack. We missed ya, lady!

👨‍🍳 🎨 🎲 WHAT HAVE THE KIDS BEEN UP TO? 🏏 🧸 🧪

Meanwhile, in our ACTIVITIY CLUBS...

ART & CRAFT: we've embraced the cool change with winter themed crafts such as winter lanterns, glitter icicles and snowy day collages
BAKING CLUB: cornflake and oat fruit biccys and delicious scones
SPORTS: soccer, hockey, tug of war, Just Dance and a new favorite - topple ball!
EXPLORE & DISCOVER: the adventure playground has been getting a lot of use recently, the kids just love exploring the space under the trees and looking for bugs!
SENIOR CLUB: The senior kids have been busy researching and crafting a custom acknowledgement of country, which will become the official one that we use at The Hive! The project has been both informative and fun, and we'd like to give a shout-out to Franca M in Year 5 for her incredible contributions 🖤💛❤️

🏖️ HOLIDAY PROGRAM 🏖️

Syd has been busy pulling together an awesome program for the kids in July. Now that our Kindys have found their feet, as the year progresses, you’ll see more excursions and high energy options on offer to the Little Bees!

Bookings will open tomorrow (Thu 6th), with early bird pricing available until midnight Sunday 23rd June, so be ready to book and make sure you don’t miss out!

🐌 OUR GARDEN 🌿

Over the past two weeks, our dedicated garden bees have been hard at work planning our sensory garden. We've created designs for our signs and sampled some of our existing plants to explore their sensory delights! Our bees are so curious about the variety of plants in our garden that they've come up with the idea of writing little information cards about each one… Bravo!

🐝 BEES OF THE WEEK 🐝

This week, we’re ALL about these two Year 4 legends!!

NOA & ALIYA consistently bring a positive attitude & great sense of humour, a willingness to help out around the centre and a general dose of AWESOMENESS every time they’re here.

We’re huge fans of their joie de vivre.

Don’t go changing, girls…! 💕 💕

ALICYA - EDUCATOR

Alicya joined our team in Dec ‘23 and has been a huge asset ever since. She recently returned from a year of travelling: her favourite place was Mexico, where she tried a temazcal sweat lodge! She has a passion for the outdoors and has taken groups of kids camping, canoeing and hiking.

Ali is currently studying to be an early childhood teacher and is aspiring to open up a bush kindergarten after graduation.

World Environment Day - June 5th

This day encourages awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries. The World Environment Day 2024 campaign focuses on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience under the slogan “Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration.” You can learn more here.