T4 Weeks 1-2
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🍯 LIVE FROM THE HIVE … 🐝
👋 WELCOME BACK!! 👋
Welcome back to Term 4! As we draw towards the end of the year, here are a few things we know:
sun safety is more important than ever. Make sure your child has a HAT every day, so they’re free to play
lots of kids get end-of-year fatigue. We’ll always make sure there are peaceful activities on offer, and quiet spaces available for rest and chill time
we start to increase the Kindys’ independence, in readiness for Year 1 and we get ready to farewell some of our older children…
🎉 2026 RE-ENROLMENTS ARE OPEN! 🎊
Look out for Xplor comms from lunchtime Thu 23 Oct, plus an email from Xplor containing your re-enrolment link. Your link is active for two weeks only, and this year we’re asking parents to act within that window, to help us streamline admin and better manage waitlists. A quick re-enrolment is the safest way to secure the bookings you need for 2026.
If you have a new Kindy starting next year, that requires a separate, new enrolment. Next Thu (30th)—following the Kindy parent info Weds evening—you’ll receive an email from school containing the link for fresh enrolments.
🏃♀️ PLEASE LEAVE AFTER SIGN OUT 🏃➡️
As the weather warms up and the sun stays out for longer, we know it’s tempting but please minimise the amount of time spent on school grounds at pickup. Although it might feel harmless, hanging around for a chat with parents or children still in our care, or letting younger siblings run around and join in, it’s actually very distracting for the children still in our care, and makes it much harder for us to manage and supervise effectively.
To support us, please collect, sign out and then leave the school grounds straight away.
🚫 PARENTS IN CHILDRENS’ TOILETS 🚫
It’s important that parents don’t enter or use the childrens’ toilets. For the safety of all the kids who use them, these spaces are reserved for children only. Please ask a member of staff if you need help…
DID YOU KNOW?
We’ve launched two brand new activities this Term. A big thank you to our fabulous Educational Leader, Ana 🙏 💕
🤖 CODING CLUB 🤖
We had Christophe from the University of Sydney’s Physics Research team join us to teach us all about drag-and-drop coding! We’ve been using a program called Scratch to create our own code and upload it to the Edison Robots (version 3). So far, we’ve made them move with claps (so cool!) and even taught them to avoid obstacles using their clever sensors!
🇩🇪 CULTURAL EXCHANGE ✍️
We’ve teamed up with a school in Kiel (Germany) to exchange letters between students! We were the first to receive some letters and got to learn a little about life for our German friends, and to answer questions about our favourite foods, subjects, and what life is like in Australia. The children absolutely loved it — we had 17 eager participants of all ages in our first session, and some even included drawings with their letters! Here are a few of the letters, incoming and outgoing…
🐌 OUR GARDEN 🌿
Exciting updates from our garden!
We welcomed back our dear gardener Nelly, who has returned from teaching English in Indonesia! Nelly will work alongside David in the garden, and her return means we can now offer Gardening Club 3/4 afternoons per week. …and we’re currently trialling it on a Wednesday morning too!
Nelly’s been hard at work already, getting our Sensory Garden bed ready for our frog pond installation! With the children’s help, Nelly has already culled the persistent banana trees (roots and all) and dug the hole where the pond will be placed.
