lobethal community kindergarten - growing and learning
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LOBETHAL COMMUNITY KINDERGARTEN TERM 1, WEEK 4 2018. ISSUE 1
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LOBETHAL COMMUNITY KINDERGARTEN We acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the Peramangk people and we recognise their connection with the land. We will help
care for and respect this land together.
HOW TO CONTACT US Phone: 8389 6321 Fax: 83895153
email addresses [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/814597432013173/ Please note Facebook messaging can be
unreliable
SESSION TIMES Monday to Thursday
8.15am to 3.30pm
Please remember to keep to these
times to assist staff in set up and
pack up.
This term we will be having a
combined group excursion on
Friday the 16th of March, 2018.
8.30 to 2.30pm
Kindy staff spent the weekend at Aldinga
Beach reflecting and creating our site
Quality Improvement Plan which we will
share with you by the end of the term
SMS MESSAGING From time to time we will use our SMS messaging system to contact you. Please be aware however that unless we have asked for a reply we generally do not monitor the responses. So do not use this number for general messaging and communication
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Lee’s News
“IT IS THROUGH
OTHERS THAT WE
DEVELOP INTO
OURSELVES”
Vygotsky
Dear Parents and Caregivers, Welcome to our first “official” newsletter of 2018. I cannot believe how wonderfully smooth the transition into kindy has been for our children and families. It has truly been amazing! We have learnt so much together in just a few weeks. The children are all getting familiar with the routines and the flow of the kindy day. They are also beginning to grasp the boundaries and agreements set in place to help us all learn as much as we can in a safe and fun-filled way. We will continue our work around agreements, focusing on our three expectations at kindy. They are simple but certainly cover every aspect of safety and wellbeing within our program. They are as follows:
Keeping yourself SAFE, Keeping your friends SAFE, Keeping our belongings and equipment SAFE.
Essentially, our work is all about being kind, considerate and respectful. Caring for yourself, your mates, your kindy and the environment goes a long way to ensuring everyone can fully access all that our beautiful program can offer. I hope you have had a chance to take a look at our “Kindy Conversations” series on our Facebook page and YouTube. The introduction of this series is for us to be more inclusive of the needs of our families by allowing you to access the conversations around the what, why and how we operate our kindy. The feedback we have received has been extraordinarily positive (don’t worry, we won’t be quitting our day jobs to be YouTubers!) and we plan to produce loads more videos to help you learn about all things kindy from the comfort of your own home. We have loads of fun things on the horizon, starting with our participation in the Queen’s Baton Relay this Wednesday the 21st of February, where the BUGS group will cheer on our past scholar, Angus Fitzgerald as he runs from Lobethal P.S before heading to the Mill to perform Highway Number One! Frogs children are invited to come along and meet us at the Mill at 12.50pm and join in on the performance if they wish. We also have our Welcome BBQ and AGM this Thursday, which is a great opportunity for a chat with staff and for us all to get to know each other a little better. We would also love for you to stay and join us for our AGM, where we will present the annual report for 2017 and vote in our new GC for this year. If you would like to be involved in the running of our kindergarten, helping us identify and reach set goals and coordinate our fabulous fundraising adventures, all while meeting new friends and having fun, I urge you to join! We also have our Bunnings BBQ fundraiser coming up on March 3rd. A huge thank you to everyone who volunteered to help out on the roster. It was so great to see all the spots filled so quickly. Please remember to bring in your $5 donation as this will go a long way towards covering our outgoing costs which will increase our fundraising profits on the day! Staff spent last weekend together at a beach house at Aldinga, conducting a self-review of our site against the National Quality Standards. This review helps us to identify our strengths and areas for development, which in turn helps us to create our 2018 Quality Improvement Plan. We will continue pulling this together and refining our priorities and goals at our site Closure day on March 15th. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my staff team for their on-going commitment to being the best kindy we can be. Our staff go way above what is expected of them due to the fact they love our kindy, our families and the children we work with. I feel that we are all pretty fortunate to work and learn in such a vibrant, fun-filled environment where our staff truly love their work and care deeply about improving the learning outcomes and wellbeing for each child. I am looking forward to an amazing year of love, laughter and learning together. Thanks for your ongoing support of our program. Lee ☺
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Kindy Housekeeping
KINDY FEES FACEBOOK GROUP
Our 2018 Facebook group is up and running and already being
proved very useful. This is a private/secret group and members
require approval from staff to join. We are happy for Grandparents
to be part of this group so that they can also enjoy your children’s
kindy journey. You can add them but they will need approval, let
staff know if possible so that we know, who belongs to who. (Names
are often tricky to match)
Thanks
EMERGENCY CONTACT DETAILS
We need to keep our records up to date, so please remember to
advise us ASAP of any change of phone numbers or addresses.
We also need to ensure that anyone picking up your child is noted
on your child’s records with authority to collect.
CONVERSATIONS WITH KINDY
Lobethal Community Kindergarten now
has it’s own YouTube channel.
This has been set up to share useful
information regarding everything kindy.
We have 2 videos already up and running
and will be adding more in the near future.
This was to replace our cancelled
acquaintance night, but we feel it can be
so much more as it developed further. We
will keep you updated as we add more
video episodes.
https://youtu.be/97n-W9cmG5g
Episode 1 programming and planning
https://youtu.be/tNMUn-b-adI
Episode 2 Assessment & Reporting
LEARNING JOURNEY BOOKS
By now everyone should have taken their child’s Learning Journey Book
home. Inside there is a letter explaining this important document and
some of the things we require you to do.
We need these back ASAP (within the next 2 weeks) with all the
“homework” we have asked you to do. This is a really important part of
the start of our assessment and reporting cycle and we value your input
especially at this early stage of the kindy year.
CORDS ON HATS & HOODIES
Please note that is a DECD requirement that all cords are removed
from hats and clothing. Therefore if you have any of these please
remove the cords before sending them to kindy. Thanks
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Community News
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LIBRARY BOOK BORROWING
Thanks for your patience whilst we update our
system for borrowing.
We plan to have everything up and running in
the next few weeks.
Once we are ready to go we will let you know.
Kindy Clothing
New stock of T Shirts have finally arrived. Back orders will be packed
and distributed this week. If anyone requires any kindy clothing
please see Nic at drop off or pick-up to view what we have available
in stock. Payment is required at collection (EFTPOS or cash) Prices
are as follows T Shirts (size 4 or size 6) $15, Hoodies (size 4 or size 6
– VERY generous sizing) $25, kindy bucket hats (OSFA) $15. All
available waterproof pants have also arrived, I will endeavour to
have these distributed this week as well. There will be some pants
in stock for purchase at kindy (limited sizes and colours) from next
week if you didn’t get an order placed. Alternatively you are
welcome to order direct from the website www.muddlarks.com.au.
All children are required to have waterproof pants as part of safely
accessing our bush kindy program in terms 2 & 3, as well as being
access the outdoor learning environment here at kindy if it is wet.
If there are any issues that may be prohibitive to this, please see
staff.
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REGULAR STAFFING TIMES
Monday
Teaching staff – Lee Munn & Nell Ward
Support staff – Janice Jenkin, Nic Wood & Mel
Randall
Tuesday
Teaching staff – Kerry Harten & Nell Ward
Support Staff – Janice Jenkin & Nic Wood
Wednesday
Teaching staff – Lee Munn & Kerry Harten
Support Staff – Janice Jenkin, Nic Wood & Mel
Randall
Thursday
Teaching staff – Lee Munn & Kerry Harten
Support Staff - Janice Jenkin, Nic Wood &
Kylie Kleemann.
Friday
Alternate Fridays staff will be onsite for admin
and programming and planning.
From time to time we will have relief staff and
this will be noted on the white board at the
entrance.
EXCURSION FRIDAY 16TH OF MARCH
Preparations are underway for our upcoming
excursion.
We will be heading down to Normanville for the
day to enjoy a wonderful day filled with Beach
exploration.
Notes will be sent out this week. Please make sure
you return your form and payment by the due date.
This enables staff to plan and check child to adult
ratios and ensure the excursion is a safe and
successful experience.
Thank you to everyone who has taken washing for
us so far this term, we truly do appreciate you
taking the time to make it easier for us. We will be
setting up a parent roster shortly for the end of day
clean up also, so watch out for it near the sign in.
Also thanks to anyone who has collected small
boxes for us for the making table. The children
have really enjoyed making and we go through a
lot of boxes, So thank you.