2021 Term 1 WK 3-4

Thank you cards from Hive kids to front line workers

Making carrot cake with Lenka!

Morning focus…

HIVE’S 2021 NEWSLETTERS!

After a slow start to the year, our fortnightly newsletters are back. We’re super happy this year to have the most ever Kindys joining the Hive - about 75% of the whole year, which is awesome. WELCOME!!

Thank you to all the parents doing a great job of notifying us of absences - gold 🌟to you! This keeps worry levels down in The Hive, and helps you avoid the non-notification penalty fee…


🦠 🦠 COVID 😷 😷

Whilst Covid restrictions are still in effect, we all have to do our bit. PARENTS please remember:

  • use hand sanitiser inside gate/by iPad

  • sign in/out on iPad, remain outside Hive room, make eye contact with staff inside

  • Children cannot be dropped off at the gate - you must bring them to the Hive room

  • leave school ASAP after drop off/pick up - this is a school requirement

  • always maintain social distancing - use of a mask is welcomed


✅ ✅ SIGN-OUT PROCESS 👏🏽 👏🏽

For each child, every session, parents must sign in/out on the iPad:

  • log in using your ID and password

  • click ‘IN’/‘OUT’ for all relevant children (button turns green/red respectively)

  • click ‘DONE’

  • The screen will revert to the log-in window for the next person

  • if the process doesn’t work properly please alert a staff member at the time


🏖️ HOLIDAY PROGRAM 🏖️

HP will open for bookings in WEEK 7. Our growing numbers (yay!) mean we can once again offer a split program on some days. Due to the spread of ages within the Hive, we’re splitting slightly younger this time:

LITTLE BEES - YK & Y1 (optional)

BIG BEES - Y1 (optional) & Y2-6

essentially, the Y1s can choose which program they’d like to attend


WHEELS DAY on TUESDAY…

As Tuesday’s guided SKATE NOW lesson can only take 15 kids each, on weekly rotation, we’ve decided to expand, running our own WHEELS DAY session alongside. Children can bring their own wheels to school (skateboards, skates, scooters, bikes). This means every gets a go, even if they’re not in the lesson. The children doing the Skate Now lesson must have a signed waiver. Children joining the Hive’s Wheels day do not need one. It’s important that all children follow the rules, so that we continue to be allowed to run these sessions. Your support as parents is invaluable

  • wheels must be stored in correct designated areas of school during the day. Bike racks for all BIKES and SCOOTERS

  • HELMETS are compulsory - no helmet, no play

  • wheels can only be used during the designated Hive activity and must not be ridden during the school day


🛑✋OUR FURRY FRIENDS 🐶🐾

We love pooches as much as the next person, but rules are rules - and they’re there for a good reason.

“ Dogs are not allowed on school premises and are not to be tied on the inside of the school fence at any time either during or outside of school hours.”

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM SCHOOL
thank you for your cooperation

A reminder of the fun from our last Holiday program - medieval day!!!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Home-made mobile phones

Making paper aeroplanes

Resurrection of the Taj Mahal

Term 4 Wk 9-10 - Xmas party & end of the Year!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL!

So here we are at the end of the year! It’s certainly been a challenging one, but we’ve still managed to fill it with fun and smiles along with you - our Hive families. We wish every one of you a peaceful and relaxing break over the holidays.

Hive’s booking numbers are still affected since Covid, but we’re working hard to rebuild and we appreciate your ongoing support. Even if you’ll still be working from home next year, please consider sending the kids just one or two afternoons a week - we offer 3 hours of fun with friends, great activities, caring and experienced staff, nutritious snacks - and great value for money!

SUMMER HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Our Summer Holiday Program is filling up fast! Please book now to avoid missing out.
Hive will operate as follows:

  • OPEN: 17-18 Dec

  • CLOSED: 19 Dec - 3 Jan

  • OPEN: 4-8 Jan, 11-15 Jan, 18-22 Jan

  • CLOSED: 25 & 26 Jan

  • OPEN: 27 & 28 Jan

  • TERM STARTS: Fri 29 Jan

⚠️ ⚠️ Holiday Program hours are 0800-1700 ⚠️ ⚠️

🧢 👒 Every day bring hat, water bottle 🚰💦

✅ ✅ Sign in at iPad every day - NO GATE DROP-OFFS ❌ ❌

SIGN-OUT PROCESS

Some parents are forgetting to complete the final step of iPad sign-out. This means your sign-out doesn’t process at all, and leaves us with a roll-call issue and you with a $15 penalty on the account… 🙁

Please follow these instructions:

  • log in

  • click ‘out’ for all relevant children (button turns red, correct)

  • click ‘done’

The screen will then revert to the log-in window for the next person

🎄🎄 HIVE CHRISTMAS PARTY 🎄🎄

This was simply our biggest and bestest Christmas party EVEEERRR! 110 children had so much fun: fruity santa hats, cocoon baubles, bouncy castles, music & dancing, Christmas bingo, make-your-own gingerbread jars, homemade ☃️☃️ and an ice-cream from Santa himself. Phew!!

Term 4 Wk 7-8 Creativity & Fantasy Weeks

Kapla-tastic!

Christmas Crafting…

fully focused…

…and ta-daaah!

I’m wheely enjoying myself!

SUMMER HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Our wonderful Summer Holiday Program is now open. Please book early to avoid missing out… There is so much cool stuff going on - you’ll find something for everyone, and we’re always ready to give our new Kindys that extra bit of care, support and flexibility. We can’t wait to meet our newest busy bees!

⚠️ ⚠️ Holiday Program hours are 0800-1700 ⚠️ ⚠️

SIGN-OUT PROCESS

Some parents are forgetting to complete the final step of iPad sign-out. This means your sign-out doesn’t process at all, and leaves us with a roll-call issue and you with a $15 penalty on the account… 🙁

Please follow these instructions:

  • log in

  • click ‘out’ for all relevant children (button turns red, correct)

  • click ‘done’

The screen will then revert to the log-in window for the next person

* * DATE CHANGE * *

🎄 HIVE XMAS PARTY 🎅🏽

❄️ now on WED 9th DEC 🍭

🤶🏿 Book now, limited places!! 🎁

email us to join the waiting list

🐝 SENIORS’ CHARITY PROJECT 🐝

The Seniors group have agreed on a bee charity and are now busy researching the organisation further and developing fund-raising ideas. We hope to be ready to sell our wares late term 1, so we’ll keep you posted on progress!! It’s so good to see them working in little teams and managing their own time and workflow in these Weds afternoon sessions

WHAT HAVE THE KIDS BEEN UP TO…?

  • In BAKING CLUB the kids made delicious individual MIXED BERRY HAND PIES - super healthy and yummy, with some natural fruity sweetness

  • We’re getting into the seasonal spirit with a whole range of CHRISTMAS CRAFTS - we won’t say too much, just in case the kids are keeping their creations as a surprise…

  • We also enjoyed HAMA BEADS, and created out own FABRIC LETTER SIGNS, as well as the ever-popular MODELLING CLAY

  • In SPORTS CLUB we kept the kids busy with DODGEBALL, TENNIS, OZTAG and of course our Wednesday WHEELS CLUB is still super busy!

BERRY HAND PIES!

Term 4 Wk 5-6 - NAIDOC & Recycling Weeks

Prepping for the daily Kids’ Meeting

Plasticine Perfection!!

NAIDOC WEEK 2020

The NAIDOC 2020 theme - Always Was, Always Will Be. - recognises and celebrates that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. NAIDOC 2020 invites all Australians to embrace the ancient history of this country – a history which dates back thousands of generations.

GATE SECURITY

Thanks to everyone for pulling together whilst we wait for the gates to get fixed. The safety of the children is always our highest priority, so we appreciate your support in pulling the gate closed behind you every time.

AGM

Our AGM ran well on Friday 13th, with financial accounts approved, reports from the President and the Treasurer, appointment of new auditors and votes for the coming year’s Executive Committee role bearers. An enormous thank you to Olivia Wright, who stands down from the Hive Exec after almost two years of solid support and service. And a huge welcome to Selena Van Loon and Sanj Kinsella, who were voted in. Minutes and financial report can be found on our NEWS page.

SENIOR PROJECT - MARKET STALL FOR CHARITY

The current focus for our talented SENIORS group is a charity-based project, running on Wednesday afternoons. The kids have grouped themselves and shared out tasks, such as charity research, brochure, logo & product design, packaging !! The eventual outcome will be a stall at Bondi Markets selling whatever the kids come up with, all proceeds going to our nominated charity. The brief for this first project is simple:
🖤 💛 🐝 B E E S 🐝 💛 🖤

LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID

We’re supporting local artist Merran Hughes and Create NSW to thank frontline health workers for their efforts during the Covid crisis. Hive children will be decorating paper flags in the coming weeks, which will be hung in local hospitals through Christmas, to cheer up patients and brighten the days of those who’ve been so busy during this unprecedented time.

🎄 PARTY ALERT ! ! 🎅🏽

❄️ Hive Xmas Party - Thu 10th Dec 🍭

🤶🏿 Book now, limited places!! 🎁

email us to join the waiting list

WHAT HAVE THE KIDS BEEN UP TO…?

  • We embraced the RECYCLING theme by using some giant boxes to make wearable ROBOTS and also a brand new CUBBY HOUSE (nice one Edie!!)

  • ART & CRAFT during NAIDOC week was all about using our hands and natural materials, celebrating our connection to the world around us. We used twigs, leaves, sand and clay. We made aboriginal inspired hand prints on our new cubby house and heard multi-cultural stories.

  • In EXPLORE & DISCOVER we made our own beautiful-smelling BATH BOMBS and we worked with paper to make amazing ORIGAMI creations, exploring different angles and the strengths of various structures

  • We got busy with Archery, Basketball, Dodgeball and Soccer in SPORTS CLUB. The kids are never short of energy and we saw some great team spirit this fortnight

  • in our ever-popular BAKING CLUB the kids made BANANA BREAD with CRUMBLE and also their very own curlywurly PRETZELS! So much fun and extreeeeemely yummy 🧑‍🍳🧑‍🍳

⬆️ ⬇️ NAIDOC Week… ⬆️ ⬇️

Just hanging around… ;-)

I Spy… 3 little Kindys!

⬆️ ⬇️ Volcanoes!! ⬆️ ⬇️

Term 4 Wk 3-4 - Halloween & Commemoration Week

sugar skull.jpg

⬆️ ⬇️Hive constructions! ⬆️ ⬇️

WELCOME NEW KINDY FAMILIES

Enrolments have now opened for the new Kindy families joining us next year. WELCOME!! We can’t wait to meet you all.
Remember that your 2021 enrolment allows your little ones to join us in January for Holiday Program fun!! Watch this space for more details…

THANK YOU!!

…to Caleb’s mum, for gifting Hive a wonderful selection of board games. They sat in quarantine for a week and came out with perfect timing for all the ☔☔ this last fortnight.

🦇 🕸️ 😈 HALLOWEEN PARTY 🎃 🕷️ 👻

The party was a SCREEEEEEAM! A huge shout out to Edie for planning and to the whole team for making sure the kids had the best time, despite the weather! Check out some photos to the left and the right

🎄🎄Next up - our famous HIVE CHRISTMAS PARTY at the end of term 🎄🎄

PLEASE REMEMBER - THE KIDS NEED HATS!

This is a reminder that kids MUST wear hats to school and Hive. No hat = no play, and children will need to stay in the shade…

WHAT HAVE THE KIDS BEEN UP TO…?

  • 🌟🌟 Our SENIOR kids have been helping run children’s meetings and some of the club activities this fortnight. It’s a great way for them to build self-confidence, mix with/role model to the younger children and get a tiny taste of what it’s like to be an Educator. The whole gang have been great, with special shout outs to JADA and LOUIS for their energy and input 🌟🌟

  • Craft club saw us doing LOADS of prep for the HIVE HALLOWEEN PARTY, making bags for treats, designing sugar skulls, creating spider webs and more…

  • COMMEMORATION WEEK saw us making ‘Lest We Forget‘ lamps and stained glass poppies

  • WHEELS DAY is a big hit, with ramps and obstacles to spice things up for our adventurous wheelers!

  • We even fitted in some SPORTS between the various wet spells with team games such as volleyball, hockey and oztag

  • in BAKING CLUB the kids loved making their own mini pizzas, with home-made dough!

⬅️ Hockey Boyzzzz ➡️

⬅️ Hama Bead Heaven! ➡️

⬆️ ⬇️Baking Club is back!! ⬆️ ⬇️

Term 4 Wk 1-2 - Spring, Sculptures & Arts!

Guess who loved his smoothie?!

Our new fish house - Tanks, Neighbourhood!

2021 ENROLMENTS & NEW-LOOK PARENT PORTAL

2021 Hive re-enrolments are open! And this year things look a bit different. The parent portal has been upgraded and re-designed to work perfectly on your phone
Re-enrolment should only take a few minutes - just double check all family details, make sure Ezidebit details are accurate, submit updated medical plans where applicable and let us know any other significant changes.
Please let us know what you think of the new portal…

🐠 🐡 Two fish, four fish, five fish …HIVE FISH!! 🐡 🐠

A huge thank you to Beej, Ben and all our friends at Neighbourhood Bar on Curlewis, who have donated a TANK and FISH for our bees to enjoy! The kids are LOVING catching up on what’s happening in the tank every day, and with 6 different species in there, there’s looooads to see!

WEDNESDAY is WHEELS DAY in Term 4 ! !

WHEELS DAY is here again! Every WEDNESDAY 4-5pm, for all ages. No need to book in or sign waivers/permissions, as we’re running the club ourselves. Just a few rules:
> wheels must be stored in correct designated areas of school during the day
> kids cannot share wheels, for hygiene reasons
> HELMETS are compulsory - no helmet, no play
> wheels can only be used during Hive activity window 4-5pm

BAKING CLUB is BACK!!

Starting Week 3, we’ll be running BAKING CLUB on MONDAYS, for all years. This super popular club took a break due to Covid, but is now back with a few extra rules:
> vigilant hand washing (as ever)
> hand/face hygiene during food prep
> no shared equipment or ingredients
> all foods will be baked and must be taken home, not eaten/shared at Hive.

Thanks to Mia for continuing to provide exciting, delicious, nutritious recipes for the kids to work with!

🦇 👻 🎃 HALLOWEEN PARTY - next Thursday 29th 🧙🏽‍♀️ 🕸️ 😈

…it’s going to go OFF!!! There’ll be a tonne of great activities, fun games, craft projects and lots of yummy food too. Thanks Edie for all your planning! We’ve shipped in extra staff for the day and are already fully booked, with a waiting list.

Longer term, we’d love to be able to re-grow our Hive team to accommodate more kids once again, but for that to happen we’d need more, regular bookings. Even if you’re working from home, we reckon your kids would love an afternoon or two at The Hive - and the more kids we have, the more we can offer.

⬇️ ⬇️ Finally, a few more pics from the final, bubblicious day of Spring Holiday Program… ⬇️ ⬇️

Making Friendship bracelets

…AND WEARING THEM!

Happy Hive Friends!

Prepping for Halloween!

Term 3 - Spring Holiday Program

…was a roaring success! Thank you Lenka for planning and team for delivering another jam-packed, fun-filled program of amazing activities. The kids had an absolute ball! Lenka also managed to find time for a big birthday during the hols - Happy Birthday Lenka!!!

Thanks to our parents for understanding the need to slightly shorten our HP opening hours. Lower bookings since Covid mean our team has shrunk, meaning HP shifts are already longer than they used to be. The small number of children needing care at each end of the day, combined with the need to look after the welfare of the remaining Hive team (who don’t get a break during the holidays!) has led to the slightly shorter day. If term-time bookings pick up again, we can re-grow the team and lengthen our Holiday Program days.

💝💝 Happy Happy 40th Lenka!!! 💝💝

Very few words, just a smörgåsbord of fabulous pics from one of our best Holiday programs EVER!!!

Treasure-hunting Pokemon, exploration and adventures in COOPER PARK…

SLIP ‘N’ SLIDE on the front grass - soooo much fun!!!

A whole range of wonderful ART & CRAFT projects across the fortnight…

🐑 🐖 Fun with FARMER DAVE and his FARM ANIMALS 🐰 🐄

Just chillin in the HIVE ROOM…

Did somebody say GAMES TRUCK??!!

one of our favourite places - CENTENNIAL PARK

We brought in our very own 10m CLIMBING WALL - the kids LOVED it!

…and that’s a wrap!

Term 3 Wk 9-10 - Recycling Week & End of Term!

Where’s Wally?

Where’s Wally?

SPRING HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Week 1 of HP has kicked off in style, and it’s looking fun-filled and busy-bee - with only a few spots left on Tuesday and Friday. Week 2 still has some spaces, so don’t forget to make your bookings!

Remember:

  • we’re open 8:00am - 5:00pm during the holidays

  • children must be signed in on the iPad - they can’t be dropped at the gate

  • send RECESS and PACKED LUNCH every day

  • kids can bring their own WHEELS - HELMETS are compulsory

HIVE ENROLMENTS FOR 2021

In Week 2 of Term 4 we’ll open up 2021 enrolments to our existing Hive families, so please be ready to double-check details and resubmit your forms and update child profiles for all children attending the Hive. Further instructions will follow closer to the time.

CALL OUT FOR LARGE BOXES

The kids have LOVED making robot box outfits recently, so if you have any spare large boxes (big enough to fit a child inside with arm holes) then please bring them in - we’d love to make some more!! 🤖🤖🤖

HIVE KIDS UPDATE

  • We got busy with bottle tops in week 9, making pots out of all the recycled tops we could find.

  • Our younger bees also loved making dolls out of wooden spoons, with fabric for clothes and string for hair!

  • we’ve had tonnes of fun with Hama beads, marker pens, wooden blocks and recycled paper beads!

  • The Hive’s older kids get more inventive every week with their magnetic creations - this week saw Andrey and Diego make an amazing marble run

  • sports clubs were as busy as ever - including hockey, tennis, soccer, basketball and volleyball, to name just a few….

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Term 3 Wk 7-8 - Dads & Lads & Children's weeks

The Box Team in action

Eve’s fabulous creation!

Emmeline & Aliya with their colourful boxes

Mathilda’s handiwork

Tiana Two Box!

Isobelle & Ted do POGO!!

Soccer action!

Will it be a GOOOOAAAAALLLLL???

Will it be a GOOOOAAAAALLLLL???

AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE…

On Sunday 6th we said Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads & Lads out there who play a significant role in the lives of our Hive children. We salute you all and hope you enjoyed the various gifts that the kids brought home - they sure had great fun making them!

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In another moment of gratitude, Weds 2nd Sep was Early Childhood Educators’ Day and the Australian Government sent out this message:

“We recognise the extraordinary contribution of educators. Our educators provide an incredibly important contribution to the wellbeing and healthy development of our children.
This year has been particularly challenging for the nation, but educators have continued to support our working families throughout this pandemic. We owe them a great deal of gratitude for their work.
Today, and every other day, we thank our early childhood educators.”

Awww thanks, Aussie government!

SAFETY OF STUDENTS

Aligning with last week’s school newsletter, we understand that children might tell parents about issues or concerns arising during Hive but which have not been brought to the attention of our educators. We remind parents please not to approach other children, as there are more appropriate ways to deal with any concerns. Please contact Edie or Lenka if your child has told you of an incident they need support with and remind your child to always let an educator know immediately if something happens.

SPRING HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Bookings are OPEN and already filling up fast!! It’s the most jam-packed calendar EVER…
Book now to make sure you don’t miss out!

HIVE PICK-UP & DROP-OFF

Thank you to all the Hive families adhering to the new pick up/drop off requirements. We really appreciate your cooperation, which helps to keep us all safe and the Hive operational!

HIVE KIDS UPDATE

  • We got CRAFTY with paperweights, necklaces, travel mugs, origami, suncatchers and more…

  • We got SCIENTIFIC with chlorophyll painting, Clay Club and making fabric from natural materials

  • We let the CREATIVE juices flow with Book & Drama Club, cubby building and loads of FREE PLAY - check out the air hockey table made by Andrey and Diego!

  • …and we were SPORTY every single day, with oztag, volleyball, DIY obstacle courses, hockey, tennis and loads more!!

Andrey & Diego made their own AIR HOCKEY table. Super cool!

Tennis with Roman…

Tennis with Roman…

Making Sun Catchers

creative contentment :-)

beautiful work!

busy bees

a hive of activity…

look how cool the sun catchers are!

captivating…

Term 3 Wk 5-6 - Science & Book weeks

box head!

SMILEY CREW!

Science with Sydney…

FIZZY PAINTS? YES PLEASE!!

busy basketballers

HIVE NEWS

We held our staff meeting this week, discussing updated Covid safety, supervision techniques, staff training opportunities and loads of new ideas for kids’ activities - watch this space for some exciting plans for the daily program!

HIVE PICK-UP & DROP-OFF - NEW RESTRICTIONS

  • all Hive families to use Warners Avenue ramp gate

  • parents please use hand sanitiser immediately inside gate

  • parents MUST sign in/out on iPad, stay outside Hive room and make eye contact with staff inside

  • Children cannot be dropped off at the gate in the mornings - you must bring them to the Hive

  • parents should leave school ASAP after drop off/pick up

  • always maintain social distancing - use of a mask is welcomed

  • please avoid picking up before 3:30pm if possible - thank you

HIVE KIDS UPDATE

Two great themes this fortnight - Science & Books!
We loved all the kids’ Book Week outfits on Wednesday and we got busy writing &illustrating our own stories as well as creating our own comic books. We’re also trialling our own Book Club, which the kids are really enjoying.
For Science week, we experimented making Fizzy Paints using soda, vinegar and food colouring. Such good fun!
In sports, we had the best fun with basketball this week - some budding little pros at The Hive, for sure!!

SPRING HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Bookings will open next week - there’s LOOOOOOADS of fun to be had! Staying Covid-aware, we keep the focus on incursions, with just two excursions (by private coach) to local outdoor parks, where we’ll run our own activities.

Yay for the clay!
great work roxy 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

💕 SISTER LOVE… 💕

move over, thor! 🔨🔨

move over, thor! 🔨🔨

more magnet magnificence

more magnet magnificence

busy bees in drawing club