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- Principal Address
- Annual General Meeting
- Knowing Nullaki Environmental Science Art Workshop Excursion
- Knowing Nullaki Festival
- Virtue Focus - Patience
- Bush Kindy Photos
- Bush School Photos
- Karri Kindergarten
- Autumn Festival Photos
- A Note From The School Health Nurse
- Denmark Junior Netball
- Feedback Welcome!
This Principal address is written on behalf of our Principal and with her consent. Jacqui is away from school at present due to unexpected surgery, please join us with well wishes toward her restful, relaxing and nurturing recovery.
Whilst Jacqui is convalescing the principal@goldenhill.wa.edu.au email address is active, but we ask should you require immediate or an urgent response connect with our administration team. All are in contact with Jacqui and happy to assist.
Over the past weeks our best wishes have also been with community members needing to take time to care for themselves, and family members unwell. Thank you to the relief staff who have worked with Golden Hill in this time and a wholehearted thankyou to the flexibility of all GHSS staff working together through this time.
May the upcoming Term break be a nourishing gift to us all!
School breaks for holidays at the end of the school day Friday 8th April. This year Term 2 starts with the ANZAC day public holiday so students return to GHSS on Tuesday the 26th April.
Thank you to all of our Golden Hill community for donating so generously toward the season table at our Djeran - Autumn festival. Your gifts were received gratefully at the end of our festival by Hazel Moon, who distributes through the Denmark Community Collective. Thank you.
Our extended community was missed this year and we really wanted to share parts of the day with GHSS families - so each class performance was recorded AND the couragous Rope Bridge crossings have been captured on film. A heartfelt thank you to Rebekah (Archie and Mischa's Mum) who was our photographer for the day. We hope you thoroughly enjoy the photos that have been put together in this newsletter to give you a sense of the day.
Video recordings have been uploaded to a private youtube account and links sent to families for viewing, if you haven't recieved your childs performance or Rope Bridge crossing let us know.
Tegan
Knowing Nullaki Environmental Science Art Workshop Excursion
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Wed
27 Apr 2022 - 29 Apr 2022
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Wed
27 Apr 2022 - 29 Apr 2022
Cost: Nil
27
Wed
27 Apr 2022 - 29 Apr 2022
Cost: Nil
Classes 3 – 6 will be taking part in the Knowing Nullaki Festival in the first week back at school in Term 2. They will be participating in an Environmental Science Art Workshop with artist Angela Rossen and a Cultural Custodian. The students will be creating individual paintings and drawings and collaborating to create a painting that documents the plants and animals of the Nullaki (Wilson Inlet). The workshop is part of a whole community festival hosted by Green Skills.
All children in Classes 3 – 6 will need to complete and return the Permission Form (being sent home today) by the end of this term! We appreciate your prompt assistance with this.
Each newsletter we will be sharing a virtue that will be the focus in our school over the following three weeks.
What is Patience? Patience is quiet hope and trust, expecting things to turn out all right. Patience is being calm and tolerant when difficult things happen. It means showing acceptance when you or others make mistakes. Patience is doing something now so that later it will bear fruit, like planting a seed and waiting for it to grow. Patience is a commitment to the future.
Why Practice it? Without patience people want everything NOW. They complain when unpleasant things cannot be helped. They act mad when things don't go their way. When people practice patience, they can wait without complaining. They forgive others and themselves for mistakes. They make the world a kinder, gentler place.
How do you practice it? Practicing patience is accepting things you cannot control, like the way other people act, or even an illness or handicap you have to live with. Patience is waiting without complaining. When you are patient, you show gentleness when you or others make mistakes. You set goals and persevere until your goals are won. You picture the end in the beginning. You know that good things take time.
Signs of Success Congratulations! Your are practicing patience when you...
- Calmly tolerate a delay or confusion.
- Are willing to wait for things you want.
- Set goals and stick with them until they are finished.
- Do something now that will help you in the future.
- Accept things you cannot change with humour and grace.
- Are tolerant when mistakes are made.
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." John Quincy Adams
As we come to the end of our first term together in Karri Kindergarten, our group of twelve K6 and four K5 children have formed a class who work and play together, help each other and the teachers, and work through disagreements, upsets and challenges. Five year old children are at the peak of creative play and are involved in the growth process of play, rather than the final product. They may spend lots of time talking about and setting the stage for play without actually playing it out. Play is thought-out, and children will look around for suitable props `to play out their ideas.
Sometimes teachers and parents hear from six year olds “I’m bored”. This usually indicates that the child is in the midst of the “six year old change”. Previously the toys in the environment were the main stimulus for play, but now the inner world inspires play and she can choose which toys she needs. “I’m bored“ means the child has not yet worked out how to use this inner capacity, and doesn’t know what to do with his new feelings and awareness. When we see this in the kindergarten, we involve them in our work, for example helping to cut fruit, or sanding wooden toys. In this way they are able to experience the individuality of an adult engaged in purposeful work. The result of this is that imaginative pictures begin to arise within the child. One day he will run off with a new idea and be able to play again. It is important to let children go through this process, whether it takes days, weeks or months.
Children at this age are more dextrous than before, their formative forces concentrate in their limbs and they can learn to finger knit. The K6 children are divided into two groups and each has a dedicated handwork session once a week. They are also free to work on their handwork projects during self-directed inside play. The stitched placemats are almost all completed now and many five-finger-knitted scarves are nearing completion. French-knitted beanies are next. The simple toys and crafts we offer in our kindergarten, as in Steiner kindergartens everywhere, engage both the developing dexterity and the imaginations of five to seven year olds.
Some children do tend to look for more technical playthings. Although we don’t offer such toys usually, the children often create them from simple objects they find in the room. For example, a bus from chairs placed on the low table, or a fishing boat from the same table turned upside down. Our small group of boys has recently begun placing the wooden planks on top of the curtained play frames and love to sit atop (with a rule of sitting only and two at a time!). Children at this age enjoy being up high!
Children may also begin asking more philosophical and technical questions so we might think they are looking for scientific answers. However they can easily be overwhelmed by too early an intellectual approach when really it is their imaginative life they needs to be nurtured. In order to understand these concepts, we must first be able to picture them. A creative, imaginative answer, or even a questioning... ”well, what could it be, I wonder?” feeds this need.
As parents and teachers it is so important to allow children to develop at their own pace, unhindered by academic information pouring in to them from all sides.
The child is the creator of play in a Steiner school. Images created during circle time and story time, and images from their own life experiences serve as inspiration for this play. If there are rich images, they can create satisfying and appropriate play. When problems arise during playtime the children are given the opportunity to resolve them through interactive processes which develop faculties such as problem-solving and negotiation they will need for later life.
Warm wishes,
Denise
A Note From The School Health Nurse
Caring for Children with COVID-19
Dr Andrew Martin, a paediatrician from Perth Children’s Hospital, describes how COVID-19 can effect children and how to care for them at home in a short video for parents. Dr Martin explains that most children who contract COVID-19 manage well and can be safely cared for at home. Dr Martin explains that caring for a child with COVID-19 is very similar to caring for them when they have a common cold or mild flu. The video explains the signs and symptoms to be aware of for when to seek further help.
Please know that as a school we are always open to feedback should you wish to provide it. We are constantly striving to refine our processes and make improvements where necessary.
Feel free to contact us via phone (9848 1811), email - office@goldenhill.wa.edu.au or principal@goldenhill.wa.edu.au) or come in and make an appointment to speak with someone.
Positive feedback especially welcome!