👋 LIVE FROM THE HIVE … 👋

HOLIDAY PROGAM

A big thank you to all our wonderful staff who worked so hard during Holiday Program to make sure the kids had the BEST time. We had record bookings this time, and everyone had a BLAST! Well done team Hive! 👏 👏

❗PARENT REMINDERS❗

Remember that we’re now operating a weekly billing cycle rather than fortnightly. This week, you’ll be charged for last week’s care. Next week, you’ll be charged for this week’s care. And so on…
Term 4 (and Term 1) are NO HAT NO PLAY, due to the UV index. Please remember to send your child with a hat every day. We’re a SUN SAFE centre, and any child without a hat must stay in the shade. If you’ve lost a hat - please check the lost property chest opposite the entrance ramp
Please make sure the children hop off their wheels as soon as they’re inside school grounds, and park up in a designated area
If you have any CRAFT ideas or recommendations, or - even better - would like to come and workshop a skill or talent of your own with the children - please get in touch with ANA, our new Educational Leader
A reminder to please leave the school grounds as soon as you’re signed out. The kids can’t stay and play after sign-out - it interferes with the supervision of the children still in our care. 🙏

SHOUT OUT FOR…

For next year’s OCEAN LOVERS’ FESTIVAL we’ll be submitting entries to the Litterarty competition. The brief is to make artworks from collected rubbish, so we’re asking families to send in their (clean!) waste:

soft plastics, aluminium foil, egg cartons, wire, plastic chocolate wrappers, lolly wrappers, disposable knives/forks etc

TERM 4 PAID ACTIVITIES

We have a jam-packed schedule in Term 4, including a return to the Pavilion for Seniors’ CLAY CLUB and the introduction of PLAYBALL SOCCER for our Kindys.. We listened to your feedback and - wherever possible - we’ll keeping the schedule consistent from term to term.

TUE - Soccer YK
WED - Skate YK-6
THU - Clay Y3+
THU - Soccer Y1+

EMERGENCY DRILL NOTIFICATION

Every term we drill our emergency procedures, alternating between lockdowns and evacuations. Our Term 4 drill will be an evacuation, on the afternoon of Monday 11 Nov. We’ll remind you again closer to the date, and will ask you to avoid picking-up for a specific 45min window. It’s important for everyone’s safety that all children experience the whole drill, and we’re grateful for your support with this.

🧟 👻 Hive’s famous HALLOWEEN PARTY! 🧛 🎃

…will be on Mon 4 Nov. If you already have a Monday booking: no action required. We’re also accepting casual bookings: first come, first served, so submit your booking request via the app NOW to avoid missing out.

We’ll have loads of fun activities and games, an INFLATABLE, face painting and of course - the chance to dress up and give your Halloween costume a second outing for the year!!

👐 HAND HYGIENE 👐

When arriving in the mornings, regulations require that the children must clean their hands. If they’d like to play outside straight away after sign-in, please give them a squirt of sanitiser at the iPad. Otherwise, they can head inside to the sink… Thanks in advance!

FREE STUFF - COMPOST BINS

We have 3 large compost bins with lids going spare from The Hive. If you’d like one, please email Ellie ASAP…

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

We have dived straight back into school time fun these first two weeks of Term 4 …and the countdown is ON for Summer! Our program this fortnight has seen lots of input from the children... each week we have one session where the kids can come and share ideas and contribute to our exciting programs. Here is what we've been up to in our ACTIVITY CLUBS:

ART&CRAFT: cellophane rainbows, 3D sea creatures, 3D alien heads, vision boards, cellophane jellyfish, seed hedgehogs, cupcake liner butterflies,and rainbow painting. Our morning crew has also really enjoyed experimenting with watercolours!
BAKING CLUB: Healthy banana and oatmeal muffins and yummy yo-yos!
SPORTS: Run for your life, golden goal, cops & robbers, tug of war, kickball, soccer shootouts and lots of dodgeball!
EXPLORE & DISCOVER: bug hotels, invisible ink messages, nature weaving..
we've also been busy at work creating our LITTERARTY crafts for the OCEAN LOVERS festival AND we had our first TALENT SHOW which was a blast!!!
SENIOR CLUB: our seniors have been hard at work designing and making our very own Games Wheel for fruit time games, as well as an exciting robotic arm!

📆 2025 HIVE RE-ENROLMENTS ✅

Re-enrolments for existing Hive kids will open next week, Week 3
- (new Kindy enrolments open in Week 5 - Mon 11 Nov)
You will receive an XPLOR email inviting you to complete the process, which will include your session requests
Your invitation link is live for 2 weeks only, so please re-enrol promptly, for best chance of successful booking requests
Re-enrolment is quick - check the pre-filled info, add anything new, delete anything out-of-date, detail your booking requests > submit!

🐝 BEE OF THE WEEK 🐝

This week, a big shout out to CLAY in Y2 for demonstrating
beautiful emotional intelligence and consideration towards others, during group games.

It’s so lovely to see these characteristics developing in children,
and a real reminder of the value of great role modelling!

Go Clay - we think you’re amazing! 👏 👏 🎉 🎉

🐌 OUR GARDEN 🌿

The worms are working their wonderful magic in our three compost bins. We have brussel sprouts on the way, some beautiful chamomile flowers, and the usual army of fabulous, helpful gardeners! Go Nelly & the team!