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What's happening:
September:
16 Wednesday: Committee Meeting @ 7pm
17 Thursday: Middlies 3/4 Environment Day
17 Thursday: Biggies Environment Day
23 Wednesday: Kinder Bike Day
23 Wednesday: Garden Market at 3pm
24 Thursday: Prep Environment Day
25 Friday: LAST DAY TERM 3
October:
12 Monday: Staff only at school
13 Tuesday: First day Term 4 for Kinder - Grade 6
14 Wednesday: Committee Meeting at 7pm
19 Monday: First day Term 4 for Pre-Kinder
22 Thursday: ROYAL HOBART SHOW HOLIDAY
23 Friday: NO SCHOOL
The working bee list is pretty well all filled up with almost all families assigned to a job. Well done everyone!
As of this weekend there’s 3 weeks to go until we ask that you please complete your job(s). So by 4 October.
Don’t forget to write “completed” against your name. Let’s aim to have no yellow highlighting by 4 October!!
All indoor jobs will need to be completed on either Wednesday 30 September or Friday 2 October after 11:00am when Julie has kindly offered to be at school to provide access to the buildings. Please let Hannah or Isabelle know which of these days in the school holidays suits you best.
Please be in touch with us about supplies so we can have these ready for you.
A reminder that Working Bees are compulsory.
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From Julie
At the recent Growing Up program, staff and Family Planning educators talked with students about the importance of being able to be clear about saying ‘no’ and listening to hear if someone has said ‘no’ to us. This is a skill everyone needs to be able to master whether it be in order to keep ourselves safe or to help us parent our children better. Janet Lansbury has this to say about the importance of being able to say ‘no’ effectively and why children crave boundaries. Click HERE to view her website.
'The most loving way to say ‘no’ is directly, confidently and long before we become angry or annoyed. This isn’t about being harsh, and it’s definitely not punitive. It’s simply being decisive – projecting calm conviction.
Our children crave boundaries – permissiveness is unkind
There are parents like me (Janet) who would rather avoid setting boundaries. We fear that conflict or disagreements with our kids will amount to a net loss for us. You’ll stop liking me. You’ll leave. You’ll be too sad, angry, broken spirited. We’ll feel ashamed, doubtful, blame ourselves.
It can feel safer to swallow up our own needs and wants to avoid making waves, even though this invariably means we’re the ones left drowning in a sea of resentment, anger, self-pity.
At some point, if we’re lucky enough to recognize this demoralizing pattern, we might come to the realization that there’s nothing helpful, noble or loving about permissiveness. And with that comes the revelation that our children not only need the boundaries we offer them, they actually crave them. And sometimes, sometimes, our kids will even be so wise as to let us know. If you get even a faint whisper of this message, grab it and use it to fortify your heart forever for all the many moments you’ll feel reticent, uneasy, tentative, doubtful, torn, or afraid to stop your child and say some version of no when yes feels so much easier.
To children, our boundaries mean we see you, we love you, we care enough to make the effort, an effort that children always sense and appreciate. Never doubt that.'
Food for thought indeed.
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Music News
I continue to be encouraged and inspired by the children’s spontaneous reaction to music ….from the Littlies full body experimental dancing styles to the foot tapping and head nodding of the Biggies when they just can’t stop themselves. I also love the way we get to talk about all sorts of things to do with the world and life via music….from the way birds move in the Littlies to… how did Bob Marley die in the Biggies!
All classes have been working on some songs to sing all together before the end of Term and particular musical foci have been structure and texture in music and more recently pitch.
Littlies have learned a Wombat dance and the old classic She‘ll be Coming Round the Mountain. They have pretty well mastered right arm and left arm swings! Littlies have enjoyed using the xylophones for games about high and low sounds and playing a note to the beat of some simple songs. Creative work with sounds and movements was based around the theme of birds and the lucky dip dancing game revealed some great moves.
G 1/2 Middlies have learned a beautiful song called Snowgum and an unusual song about Parts of a Tree. We focused on structure in songs using terms like introduction, verse, chorus, coda. Lately the Jon Madin pieces like - I Wanna CCC , Pudding on the Hill and Shortnin’ Bread for xylophones and marimba have been played with gusto. The concepts of chords and harmony have been discussed as we learned to play Banuwa the African song learned earlier in the year.
G 3/4 Middlies have focused on recorder this term. Some have quickly picked it up or remembered from last year (G 4’s). Some have found the fine motor coordination, the need to work independently or organise their equipment more challenging. Hopefully by the end of term we will have a whole class piece to play! Alongside recorder we have learned a body percussion piece Alpha Four.
Biggies have completed a creative rhythm activity using a range of note values, performed a body percussion piece called Alpha Four. We learned about reggae music, chords and sang and played the song Don’t Worry be Happy. This lead to some great improvising on the xylophones and marimba.
I am hoping soon to share some recordings of our musical endeavours!
Shona
PHOTOS: G 1/2 Middlies playing Banuwa
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