ELC NEWS

Happy Birthday to Tirzah. J and Marlow. D

Over the past five weeks, the ELC children, staff and families have been forming relationships and establishing a sense of belonging within their new ELC environment.  As stated in the Early Years Learning Framework, “Children’s lives are characterised by belonging, being and becoming. From before birth children are connected to family, communities, culture and place. Their earliest  learning, development and well-being takes place through these relationships, particularly within families, who are children’s first and most influential educators. (p.6)” 

Children have been proudly introducing their families to their class through family photos, stories and drawings.  This week the children have explored a special family, Jesus’ family. The Early Years Learning Framework has been updated this year, head to BELONGING, BEING & BECOMING (acecqa.gov.au). Our teachers and educators have been attending various personal development opportunities to help understand the changes and how to adapt the programs to reflect these changes.

This week I listened to a fabulous podcast by the Imperfects, Lael Stone discusses the topic ‘Creating Emotionally Intelligent Humans’.  Parents often inform us of the big emotions that occur at home, this episode may help shed some light as to why The Imperfects: Lael Stone - Creating Emotionally Intelligent Humans on Apple Podcasts

Fruit Shop

Our first Fruit Shop was a huge success, the children were very excited when presented with the opportunity to purchase their own fruit. This week’s Mystery Fruit was a whole watermelon, it was so big!

You no longer need to pack a fruit snack on Wednesdays. If you have fruits or vegetables growing in your gardens at home and would like to share, please do. Alternatively, if you see strange and exotic fruits or vegetables in the shops please let us know. 

St Jude’s Fete

The St Jude’s Fete will be on Saturday 18th March.  This is a great fun day to meet other families and raise some funds for the school. This year the ELC will be hosting the hairspray stall.  Many hands make light work, so we’d love for you to get involved.  More information on how to volunteer will come soon.

Mufti Day 

Mufti Day (non-uniform day) is on Friday 3 March (tomorrow!) for Turtles and Lobsters and Monday 6 March (week 6) for Stingrays.  The aim is to collect supplies and donations for our fete stall.  Children are invited to wear plain clothes and we ask that you donate a can of coloured hairspray and a gold coin.