👋 LIVE FROM THE HIVE … 👋

SHOUTOUT FOR HELP

It's time to refresh our Hive uniforms. We're working with Gene, school dad and local cultural advisor, to work on an indigenous-inspired design - which will be produced by the kids! We're looking for anyone in the school community who could help us with either t-shirt supply or t-shirt printing. Please reach out to us here.

T2 Evacuation & Lockdown Drill Dates

Please note below our drill dates for Term 2. Regular drills are incredibly important for children and staff, to practice if there was ever a real emergency. As ever, we appreciate your support, and ask that you avoid dropping off/picking up children during the scheduled drill times.

Evacuations
Monday May 4th - Afternoon Evacuation Drill: Approximately 3:30pm until 4pm.
Tuesday May 5th - Morning Evacuation Drill: Approximately 7:30am until 7:45am. Evacuating to the Front Grass only.

Lockdowns
Monday 18th May - Morning Lockdown Drill: Approximately 7:30am.
Thursday 21st May - Afternoon Lockdown Drill: Approximately 3:45pm-4pm.

❄️ COOLER WEATHER ❄️

As the days continue to get shorter, and the weather keeps cooling, please remind children to pack a jumper for the end of the day. They are especially needed around 5pm fruit time, where we’ve definitely started to feel the chill!!

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

We’re embracing our new theme for the Term! “Under the Sea!”. Here’s what the kids have been up to this past fortnight!

ARTS & CRAFT: pipe cleaner octopuses (octupi?!), tinfoil fish, paper plate jellyfish, a GIANT paper chain octopus.. as well as chatterboxes, hama beads, jewellery, watercolours & oil pastels!!
EXPLORE & DISCOVER: ooblek, potions, slime, paper airplane comp and a giant bug hunt!
SPORTS: european handball, basketball, soccer shootout, netball, basketball, vouche volley, kick tennis and dodgeball!
BAKING CLUB: delicious ANZAC BICCIES!

🏖️ HOLIDAY PROGRAM 🏖️

A huge thank you to all Hive children and families for another incredibly fun Holiday Program! Our final two days were some of our busiest yet, a sign of an ever growing centre…

Watch this space for important updates about our July Holiday Program, it’ll come around sooner than you think!!

🐝 BEES OF THE WEEK 🐝

MARTINA (YK)

For consistently being a kind and helpful bee to the educators! Always stepping in to lend a hand during pack-up and transition times.

VALERIO (Y3)

For being a wonderfully curious bee and always asking thoughtful, inquisitive questions! Your eagerness to learn and explore new ideas brings so much energy to our day.

✨ STAFF UPDATES ✨

We have a few team members away this term, along with some important (and exciting!) updates about changes to our staff team!

Matt

Big congrats to Matt on stepping into his new role as Assistant Director! He’ll be working alongside Ana to support Sydney and help keep our Hive days running smoothly.
Don’t worry, Matt will still be leading our incredible Holiday Program and Sports program as he has been!

Ana

Ana will be on placement with Mr Leibel from Week 2 until Week 6, inclusive. You may still see her some afternoons, but a lot less than usual!

Evie

Evie is leaving us to explore the world from the UK, where she will be working as an Au Pair! We wish you all the best on your travels Evie, how exciting :)

Frankie

Frankie will be away for two months as she travels around South East Asia!

🐌 OUR GARDEN 🌿

We have been enjoying the first 2 weeks of term 2 in the garden. The garden has been looking beautiful with the new mulched pathways after a mammoth effort from the kids shifting and spreading 5 cubic metres of mulch in the school holidays!

We built a garden arch and planted some snow pea seeds at the base to climb up it. They can climb to 2 metres tall! The shelling peas we planted earlier are fruiting and the pods are fun to peel and the peas inside are so sweet!

We planted some cool season vegetables - cabbage, radish, and kale. We also planted some everlasting daisy seeds.

Plant profile: Old man saltbush is one of the most popular plants in our garden. It is a native plant that occurs naturally across Australia. The leaves have a yummy salty flavour and are rich in protein, antioxidants and minerals. They can be eaten fresh or dried and used as a herb. It grows quickly and gives us lots of tasty leaves that we snack on in our garden.

We also got our brand new signs, which the children helped design and draw! (See below)