A message from The President - Bundoora Pre-School...shells, sea creatures and natural materials to...

Dear Joey, Koala and Possum families for 2020,

For those of you joining our kinder for the first year, we warmly welcome you to our community. I am sure that we will get to know you as the year rolls on as there will be many opportunities to do so. For those of you returning with your child or children in 2020, I also extend our welcome and thanks for making our kinder what it is.

The team of staff that bring so much to our kinder are Marijke Mondin, Anne Harvey, Dani Andros, Gra-zynka Chochowska, Cathrine Krousoratis, Melinda Baines, Silvana Connell, Lyn Clarke and Olivia Beaman. The newly appointed Jean (Quiluan) Wu has also joined our team and we look forward to her working with our team as well as with our Koala group.

I want to extend sincere thanks to all of our returning and newly appointed committee members in taking on their roles for 2020. Without the efforts of this amazing bunch of people, parents and volun-teers, we would not be able to operate as we currently do. An Incorporated Association cannot run without a Committee of Management and I wish to acknowledge here the dedication of the following current Committee of Management members; Amy Armstrong, Alison Potter, Ashlee Acquarola, Su-zanne Astbury, Rebekka Kennedy-Lambert, Megan Wills, Michelle Prendergast, Lisa Lapadula, Ana-Maria Muresian, Jacquie Hughes, Tom Cugovcan, Riley Wills and our marvellous fundraising sub-committee members Paige Kennett, Karen Koutsodontis, Lan Nguyen, Dayna Rixon and Shana-Sandra Collins. I am honoured to be a part of the committed team that makes up our committee.

Please note the following upcoming events (yes, already!) on your calendar; Term one - Bundoora Pre-school Welcome BBQ Friday March 6th, 5.30pm-7.30pm with Charlie Silly Pants. The BBQ is shaping up to be a fantastic evening and I sincerely look forward to meeting as many of you on this evening as possible.

Any questions regarding our committee or governance of the pre-school, please contact me at [email protected]. If you have questions about your child’s kinder program, please speak with your child’s teacher.

I wish you all a wonderful start to 2020.

Kellie Anthonisz

Committee President 2020

A message from The President

February 2020 www.bundoorapreschool.com.au

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BUNDOORA PRE-SCHOOL NEWSLETTER — FEBRUARY 2020

K o a l a N e w s Dear Koala families,

Welcome to the Koala group! We are so glad that you have chosen Bundoora Preschool. It has been wonderful to get to know your children and we look forward to a fantastic year! As always we started the year off with staggered starts. It was very useful to be able to meet the children in smaller groups to give us more quality time to begin to build a relationship with each child and start to assess where they are in their learning journey. The shorter times also give those children that need it, more time to build up to the longer days. I understand that this can be difficult and confusing but it is such a benefit to the children, thank you so much for accommodating this.

To begin with we are fostering the confidence of each child to enter the playroom and separate from their parent or caregiver and select areas of play with reducing adult support. Throughout the term so far, we have endeavoured to establish clear routines with the children using both visual and auditory cues to help them begin to be able to predict what will happen throughout the kinder session. Some basic kinder rules are being introduced to the children through both group discussion and scaffolding interactions between small groups of children. These rules centre around showing respect for others and keeping safe. The children are encouraged to greet staff verbally, maintaining eye contact and to begin to develop the skills to interact in shared play with their peers.

Lots of activities are planned to help the children learn each others’ names and the names of staff which will help us all to develop a sense of belonging to the group. We have recently introduced a game to help learn our names. This game involves dancing to music like an animal pictured on a movement card and when the music stops, the children crouch down on the ground and close their eyes. I then cover up one of the children and we all have to make a big circle and see if we can work out who is missing. We will also have a book with all of the children’s photos and we use this as a familiarisation tool and also to consolidate a sense of belonging to the group. Many sensory experiences enable children to explore their senses and also help children calm their emotions as needed.

Experiences have been set up to allow for solitary and more interactive play, by providing a wide range of activities set for different numbers of children. This gives the less confident children the opportunity to participate on their own, or quietly next to a peer, while those children who are more socially confi-dent can work alongside and together with their peers.

Group time has been lots of fun. We have sung familiar songs and learned some new ones. Articulation songs which promote phonetic awareness and recognition of letters have been popular. The children are practicing the correct position of the tongue and the mouth in order to make the correct sound. We have also been introducing a number of different dance songs such as ‘I like climbing trees for apples’ and ‘Twist, wiggle, shake’. The children enjoy the fun of the movement and participate enthusiastically which helps to extend body and spatial awareness.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me,

Marijke, Grazynka and Jean


Welcome to the Possum Group at Bundoora Preschool. We look forward to an exciting year with you and your children. We have had a great start to term 1. The children are starting to get to know each other and their teachers too. At the beginning the program is planned to ensure that the children are not overwhelmed by too many choices and challenges. As the children become more familiar and confident with the experiences and environments, activities will be extended or added to in order to challenge and stimulate the children’s learning, development and thinking. As the children’s interests and skills develop, we will plan our program to cater for these focus areas. During the first few ses-sions of the year, the children are becoming familiar with routines, transitions and expec-tations. This can be a big task for young children and you may find the children quite tired after a session or at the end of the week. The children are busy concentrating and co-operating with the group while at kindergarten.

The children have had the opportunity to explore our beautiful outdoor area, enjoying fun messy play in the sandpit. The outdoor dramatic play area is busy with wonderful im-aginative play. The children have enjoyed the outdoor chalk boards, encouraging wonder-ful collaborative artworks. Learning experiences inside have included familiar activities such as play dough, easel painting, block construction, pasting and drawing. Educators introduced a colour recognition activity that required the children to select various items of clothing to hang on a washing line. This game also encouraged turn taking. We have been sorting coloured animals on number cards. Children were encouraged to pick the animals up with tongs to challenge their fine motor control. As well as the physical test this learning experience supported children’s skills in categorizing, comparing, problem solving and general mathematics. Educators have also created an inquiry table with shells, sea creatures and natural materials to encourage children to explore creatures that live under the sea and support imaginative play.

The children have participated in large group experiences such as story time and music activities. ‘Wet,Wet Washing’, ‘I Like Climbing Trees for Apples’ and ‘Put a Spot Over There’ are some of our favourite songs. We also enjoyed a CD story called ‘Baby Elephant Walk’. We read ‘Who Sank the Boat?’ and extended this into a dramatic play area with props and characters from the book. This has encouraged the children to retell the story in their own way. This is a wonderful way to support children’s language and cognitive development. It also helps create relationships between the children through sharing ide-as and using their imaginations.

Thank you to everyone for bringing back the ‘All About Me’ sheets. The children have loved learning about each other and have complimented our getting to know you games in the first few weeks of kindergarten.

We have talked about Lunar New Year and the way people celebrate this festival. This week we introduced an Acknowledgement to Country, which will be a part of our pro-gram each session. We talked about the importance of this ritual and the reasons for it. Throughout the year this will be extended and developed as an interregnal part of our curriculum.

Some reminders……Please apply sunscreen before the beginning of each session, don’t forget a water bottle each day and please label everything with your child’s name. Thank you.

Regards Anne, Cathrine, Melinda and Silvana

P o s s u m N e w s


Please remember to regularly check your child’s communication pocket for information flyers.

Pockets are located on the wall above the bag hooks in the bathroom area

J o e y N e w s

Dear Families,

It's been really, really lovely getting to know you and your beautiful children! The children are settling in really well. We look forward to Isabelle, Charlie and Delta joining our Joeys group as well which will be after they celebrate their 3rd birth-day in the near future.

The children are getting used to the kinder routines of inside play, group time on the mat, outside play and inside for a story before the end of the session. They are navigating the room well and exploring the indoor and outdoor environments with interest. They are learning our 'progressive fruit' routine and are encouraged to sit and have some fruit and choose if they would like a drink of milk or water. If children choose not to have fruit, we ask them to have a drink from their water bottle. We also put fruit on the drink trolley and wheel it outside and find children enjoy eating outdoors as well.

The children are doing a wonderful job recognizing their name when finding their badge. They are enjoy-ing Storytime with 'Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?', Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear?', 'Where is the green sheep?' to name a few. They are also enjoying singing and rhymes as Incey wincey spider, 3 little monkeys, 3 jellyfish, Baa baa black sheep, Here is a beehive, Everybody do this, Open shut them and more.

Thank you for having hats and spare clothes in the children's bags. Thank you to parents who have been in a position to be able to support our program by volunteering for the parent duty roster. Lastly, thank you so much for choosing our wonderful kinder. We are SO excited and looking forward to the many days ahead of watching and scaffolding your children in learning while they play!

Please do not hesitate to contact me or Grazynka with any questions or queries and we always welcome your input into our program. Any suggestions and ideas are always welcome!

Dani and Grazynka


Be SunSmart This Autumn! Summer may be officially over but UV levels have been consistently high with sun protection needed for most of the day. Have you seen the free SunSmart app? It shows daily sun protection times (when

UV levels are three or higher), UV levels and weather for your location. Please try to check the sun pro-tection times for your area each day so you can be sure you are being protected from UV when you

need to be.

Could everyone please ensure that your child has a named sun hat in their kinder bag until the end of April.

SunSmart Sunscreen reminder Clothing helps act as a barrier to UV reaching the skin. For those parts of skin you can't cover with clothing (e.g. face, neck, ears, lower arms and legs), please remember to use sunscreen. Sunscreen is like a back-up plan and should never be used on its own.

Remember to apply a generous amount of SPF 30 (or higher) broad-spectrum, water-resistant sun-screen to all exposed skin. Try to apply about 20 minutes before going outdoors and reapply every TWO hours (even if the label states four hours water resistance) or more frequently if sweating or swimming.

Check the use-by date and always store sunscreen below 30 degrees.

A very small number of people (less than 1%) may have an allergic reaction to some ingredients in sun-screen so it is recommended when using a new sunscreen to test it on a small patch of skin.

Sunscreens go through rigorous testing by the TGA to ensure they meet their SPF rating and provide the stated level of protection in a safe way. Research has shown sunscreens are an effective skin can-cer prevention tool.


http://sunsmart.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6dac4a110592affe29ac52024&id=fd8593462f&e=618071064b

http://sunsmart.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6dac4a110592affe29ac52024&id=a9743518f5&e=618071064b

Hold hands and don ’t run!

Please remember to always hold your child’s hand in the carpark outside kinder and ensure that they do not run out onto the car-park.

No Peeking!

While it can be very tempting to watch your little one through the window at pick up times, we ask that you please refrain from doing so as it can be a distrac-tion to the children.

Please be on time!

We ask that families make every effort to be on time to drop off and collect their children. It can be distressing and disruptive for children to be late for their session or left waiting at pick up time.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS


Fruit

A reminder each child is required to bring along two pieces of fruit for the week. If we require more we shall let you know.

Drink Bottles

Thank you to families for supplying drink bottles. Could you please ensure your child has only water in his/her bottle.

Kinder Duty

Thank you to those families who have already assisted. Support from parents and family members during the session allows for

greater diversity within the program and releases staff to meet chil-dren’s learning more directly.

When coming in for Kinder Duty, please ensure you sign in using the visitor sign in/out book, as well as wearing a badge or lanyard.

Please note all the Bundoora Pre-School policies are available to view in the parent library

Acceptance and Refusal of Authorisations Administration of First Aid

Administration of Medication Allergies Policy

Anaphylaxis Asthma

Child Safe (formally Child Protection) Child Safe Environment

Code of Conduct Complaints and Grievances

Curriculum Development Dealing with Infectious disease

Dealing with Medical Conditions Delivery and Collection of Children

Determining Responsible Person Diabetes

Emergency and Evacuation Enrolment and Orientation Policy

Environmental Sustainability Epilepsy

Excursions and Service Events Fees

Food Safety Policy Governance and Management of the Service

Hygiene Incident, Injury, Trauma and Illness

Inclusion and Equity Information Technology

Interactions with Children Nutrition and Active Play

Occupational Health and Safety Oral Health Policy

Participation of Volunteers and Students Privacy and Confidentiality

Relaxation and Sleep Road Safety and Safe Transport

Staffing Sun Protection

Supervision of Children Water Safety


The kinder is always seeking donations for all sorts of events and every day activities at kinder. If you are able to donate a box of tissues, a pack of sponges, a kilo or two of flour (i.e. for making play dough), a ream of paper, a pack of laminating pouches or something else which may be used in a craft activity, it is greatly appreciated. Please speak to the staff. Donations are a great asset to kinder and offer the children a great range of resources to use. Thank You!

Household Donations – Can You Help?


It’s an inevitable reality that our children get sick sometimes. We ask that families are especially thoughtful when it comes to the possibility of passing on illnesses to others who may come into contact with an unwell child.

“Minimum period of exclusion from primary schools and children's services for infectious diseases cases and contacts (Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2010, Schedule 7)”

https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/public-health/infectious-diseases/school-exclusion/school-exclusion-table

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FAMILY WELCOME BBQ This Friday, 6 March is the Bundoora Pre-School family BBQ!

We Look forward to seeing you there



Bundoora Preschool

COmmittee Members 2020

President

Kellie Anthonisz

Vice President

Alison Potter

Secretary

Amy Armstrong

Assistant Secretary

Ashlee Acquarola

Treasurer

Suzanne Astbury

Assistant Treasurer

Rebekka Kennedy-Lambert

Maintenance Reps

Tom Cugovcan

Riley Wills

BCCKN Rep

Lisa Lapadula

Grants Officer

Michelle Prendergast

Possums Group Reps

Megan Wills

Michelle Prendergast

Koalas Group Reps

Lisa Lapadula

Alison Potter

Suzanne Astbury

Joeys Group Reps

Ana-Maria Muresian

Jacqui Hughes

Rebekka Kennedy-Lambert

Fundraising Group Rep

Paige Kennett


Additional Dates for your

Calendars… Victorian 2020 Term Dates

AGM & Election of 2021 Committee

Thursday 19 November

Handover meeting

Thursday 26 November

Staff/committee dinner

Thursday 10 December

2021 Orientation Day

Friday 27 November

Committee Handover Meeting Thursday 26 November


Term 1

Tuesday 28 January to Friday 27 March 2020

Term 2

Tuesday 14 April to Friday 26 June 2020

Term 3

Monday 13 July to Friday 18 September 2020

Term 4

Monday 5 October to Friday 18 December 2020

Working-bee dates

Sunday, 16 February 2020

Sunday, 24 May 2020

Sunday, 23 August 2020

Sunday, 22 November 2020

Bundoora Pre School Committee of Management 2020 Meeting Dates

Thursday 20 February

Thursday 19 March

Thursday 16 April

Thursday 21 May

Thursday 18 June

Thursday 16 July

Thursday 20 August

Thursday 17 September

Thursday 15 October

Parents Please Note:

Copies of all committee meeting minutes are kept in the Parent Library and Kinder Policies are held in the Parent Li-brary at the Kinder. The Parent Library is housed on the shelves in the bathroom area. There is a small range of books available that parents/carers may wish to borrow. Please complete any entry in the ‘Parent Library Borrowing Book’. If you would like to leave a review of any books you read, please speak to staff.

Friday 06 March Welcome BBQ

Monday 09 March Labour Day

Friday 27 November Thank you BBQ

Photo Day 2020

Joeys - Monday 31st August AM & Friday 4th September 2020

Possums - Monday 31st August PM,

Koalas - Wednesday 2nd September

2020 Fee Due Dates Term One 2020 Fees now overdue

Term Two 2020 Fees - Due 13 March 2020

Term Three 2020 Fees - Due 12 June 2020

Term Four 2020 Fees due - 4 September 2020

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