Dear Families and Friends of Golden Hill Steiner School,

Spring Clean Fair and Open Day What a wonderful Open Day and Spring Clean Fair we had a couple of weekends ago!  In spite of the early rain, the return of the sun brought many visitors to our school to enjoy a cuppa and cake or a sausage in a bun, browse what was on offer at our Garage Sale stalls and to visit our beautiful classrooms and meet with our teachers.

A huge thank you to those that made the effort to book and man a stall; to our parents for baking treats, serving cuppas and cakes and sizzling sausages, thanks!  I would like to make special mention of Teresa Stockdale for co-ordinating all things Sausage Sizzle; Katja Lamb for assisting with the groundwork and co-ordination on the day; Kylie for opening the shop; to the amazing staff of GHSS who assisted with preparations and then gave up their Saturday to man classrooms and stalls and to get the school looking its beautiful best so we could promote Golden Hill Steiner to both the converted and the curious - Denise, Sophia, Evie, Kristi, Lisa, Ashley, Renee, Kate, Theresa, Robyn, Ellen, Heather and Bruce; to Oona, Jody and Tegan for all the behind the scenes work leading up to the day - getting the word out, managing bookings, organising floats and the like; and Bill Hollingworth for taking a trailer load to the tip shop at the end of it all.

In the end we made $110 in stall bookings, $120 in sales of secondhand items, $595 on sausage sales and $555 on Tea, Coffee and Cake sales.  Once costs are covered I anticipate we would have made about $1000 to put towards the Kitchen Garden Classroom and we have also had enrolment enquiries as a result of the Open Day.  Congratulations one and all!

Administration Opening On Thursday we welcomed Mr Rick Wilson MP, the Hon Terry Redman MLA and Lisa Robertshaw from AISWA to the official opening of our Administration and Fire Services upgrade.  We acknowledge that this project was made possible from Federal funding in the form of a Capital Grant and a Low Interest Loan application through the state government. 

Many thanks to parent, Rosie Reddie, for adorning the building with her beautiful blooms for the opening and to all the school staff for ensuring that the space was looking its best on the day.  Hannah Halls did an amazing job of catering the function - thanks Hannah.  And Mike Hyder and an ensemble of the Golden Hill Fiddlers impressed guests with their beautiful music. 

It was wonderful to also celebrate with the past board members and founders of the school who were responsible for all the planning to get us to this point.  A fantastic result and a credit to all involved.

Class 6 Graduation Due to the restrictions on event numbers and physical distancing required under Phase 4 COVID-19 restrictions, our Graduation Ceremony for 2020 will be different to years gone by. 

Classes 3-6 will attend the ceremony and each Class 6 student is able to have a maximum of 4 guests attend. This allows for parents plus siblings and/or grandparents to attend. Could Class 6 parents please notify the school of the number of guests that will be attending the Graduation ceremony on the morning of Thursday, December 17th so we are able to gorup seating accordingly.

Class 1 students will still make a rose presentation to the Class 6 graduates at the end of the ceremony and Class 5 parents are still able to prepare the morning tea as the number of people allowed in the kitchen is separate to the number for the hall.

Thank you for your understanding in regards to this. The school looks forward to a time when we can return to all families being welcomed once again in recognising the graduating class.

High School Survey Last week I had the pleasure of visiting Steiner Schools in WA with Board Chair, David Stockdale and founding teacher and parent and current board member, Jen Fraser, to look at how they had implemented expansion into the secondary years.  Golden Hill Steiner School is on track to expand into the middle school years and to that end are gathering data from existing families on their intentions with relation to secondary schooling and if they would consider a Steiner Middle School option if it were available.  We are particularly interested in hearing from families of Class 5 students and younger.  If you are yet to complete the survey, please use the Survey Monkey link below to complete a survey for us.  Please note, you are only able to complete the survey once. 

Warmest regards,

Jacqui Hamblin

Principal