Another month & season gone with so much to share with
you all. Thankyou to people who stop us in the street to let us know that they
like what we achieve, you really do make our day.
Before we rewind to all that happened at Minischool in
August, a reminder that Vacation care starts on Monday 22nd of
September. Places are available for 3-12 year olds with qualified staff from
9am-3pm each day (before and after hours available at a small extra cost.)
Vacation care days are $28 per day for non regular minischool pre-schoolers,
for the regulars, the cost remains the same as per usual. Ph 51862 for booking
and enquiries. Before, after & vacation care plus preschool all in one
convenient location.
Back to
August…
Welcome to our new children
Mitchell, Jai, Lachie and Freya. We look forward to lots of fun, games and
learning with you for the rest of the year and beyond.
Congrats to Mitch who lost his
first ever tooth. It was an exciting event for all.
We are inventing new gluten
free playdough recipes for Freya with some successes and some interesting
combinations.
Last month we began the first of our regular Friday
tennis sessions at the Cheryl tennis club. We thank super coach Danny for all of
those fabulous new games and gross motor/cognitive skills learned. Thanks to
our parents for their support of this project, we know that your children will
be benefitting from this training for years to come. The improvement in their
gross motor skills after 5 sessions is incredible.
While we are talking about improving gross motor
skills have you seen our new trampoline through the trees? Thanks to Norfolk
Land and Sea the children now have regular kindy gym sessions while having fun
jumping with Mandy and Cristina. We have acquired 4 bikes for Minischool with
and without training wheels, so there is much peddling fun around our garden
paths.
With our weekly walk from Shortridge road to the
school library each week plus obstacle courses at Minischool, we are getting
some all-round fitness.
Fine motor work has included beading, drawing,
cutting, pasting, tracing, squeezing and plenty more as we move towards
complete school readiness for our older preschoolers.
Our August themes and excursions included ‘manners
and hygiene’ to ward off any winter bugs and germs. Picnics and Anson bay and
Kingston. We took a trip to the Hilli
goat farm to feed Charlie’s 4 baby goats. Dress yellow for Daffodil day, a day
for hope and cancer awareness.
World photo day where we played with all of Cristina’s cameras to celebrate 175 years of photography.
Science week full of experiments and a visit to the NICS high school science lab where Mr Pinson helped us discover how to make slime and use science safely and fun. We loved celebrating book week, we learned all about the parts of a book and authors and illustrators and made our own books. Our favourite part of the week was the dress up book parade at the school where we chose to dress as characters from our favourite books and paraded with the rest of the school. Mandy and Cristina dressed as cuddlepot and snugglepie and took a gaggle of fancy dressed children for a walk up Queen Elizabeth avenue to many car toots and waves.
World photo day where we played with all of Cristina’s cameras to celebrate 175 years of photography.
Science week full of experiments and a visit to the NICS high school science lab where Mr Pinson helped us discover how to make slime and use science safely and fun. We loved celebrating book week, we learned all about the parts of a book and authors and illustrators and made our own books. Our favourite part of the week was the dress up book parade at the school where we chose to dress as characters from our favourite books and paraded with the rest of the school. Mandy and Cristina dressed as cuddlepot and snugglepie and took a gaggle of fancy dressed children for a walk up Queen Elizabeth avenue to many car toots and waves.
After school
care took us up to walk in the wild and back to play on the trampoline at Minischool.
There have been table tennis and handball comps as well as plenty of gardens
for hide and seek and adventures. We made a new friend in Isabel who was here
on holidays from Fort street primary school in the rocks, Sydney. Thanks for
coming to play with us on your holiday.
Providing afternoon tea each day has been a fun
challenge, one of our favourite recipes has been has been Hilli goat milk,
Farmer Lous pine smoked bacon and Island eggs mini quiches. Thankyou to all of
these local businesses for their deliveries to our door.
We received some postcards from N.Z and the U.K
from friends at the commonwealth games. Thanks for bringing us back some
souvenirs from the games and a beautiful Scottish book called ‘Wee MacNessie’.
Once the team from Framed ‘n’ Signed arrived back,
they were able to install our brand new rainbow signs on our fences. They look
terrific! Thankyou.
Our new bag ‘cubby holes’ are just what we needed
to store our bags and artworks. Thanks to Brentt Jones and to Crosscut construction
for this and our new science cupboard, music stand & storage shelves.
Thanks also go to Katie for spending time with us as part of your work
placement, you are a natural in the early childcare industry and thanks to
Saxon for donating your old toys to us, the children are loving them.
Photos from all of our excursions &
themes, our weekly tennis sessions, Cross country, after school and vacation
care are on both the facebook page and the blog. Most photos are put up weekly
on our Minischool facebook page, so keep checking in for new ideas and
inspiration.
Come and see us on Shortridge road (entry via the red
gate). We love our visitors.
Stop by and say hi!
Love from all of the Minischool team ♥
Minischool is a fresh, fun, inspirational & educational preschool
offered to 3 to 5 year old children of Norfolk Island.
Now including Vacation & After School care. Phone 51862 for any
information.
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