Shearwater, the Mullumbimby Steiner School
Ph (02) 6684 3223
349 Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby, NSW 2482
  • Home
  • About
    • Welcome
    • Our Mission
    • Our Community
    • Our Board
    • Why Shearwater?
    • Working at Shearwater
  • Information
    • School announcements
    • COVID-19 FAQs
    • Calendar
    • Parent Study Group
    • Student Wellbeing
    • The School Year
    • The School Day
    • Communication
    • School Policies
    • Safe on Social Media
    • Annual Report
    • Strategic Plan
  • Education
    • Early Childhood >
      • Playgroup
      • Preschool
      • Kindergarten
    • Primary School
    • High School
    • Senior Studies
    • Eurythmy
  • Enrolments
    • Enrolling your Child
    • Early Childhood Enrolments
    • Student Exits
    • Enrolment Forms
  • Fees
    • 2022 Fees
    • Paying Fees
    • Financial Assistance Program
  • Noticeboard
  • Events
    • Shearwater Wearable Arts
  • Contact
    • School contact details
  • Library
  • Blog

Playgroup

18/11/2020

 

​We are all so happy to be back at Playgroup. It is wonderful for the parents to be able to come together again, sharing the challenges and joys of their parenting journeys and realising they are not alone.

Term 4 is an important term with some of the children showing readiness for Preschool - packing up the toys is done with gusto, as is setting up for juicy fruit time, and our little cottage is full of big, strong voices, singing, telling stories and sharing the events of the week. Some of the older children are creating little puppet shows themselves, retelling our much-loved Playgroup stories and bringing some of their own.

In these last weeks of the term, we are going for little walks over to the Farm and to Preschool, in order to familiarise the children who will be taking their first big steps away from home next year. It is wonderful to see these older children helping the little ones, building a train track, packing up or simply nursing one of the babies.  

We are all very busy, with some wonderful toys being created by the parents, such as this little wild Brumby (pictured above), made with hand-felted fleece. One of our fathers brought in some little pots and soil, so the children could take rosemary cuttings from our garden to grow at home and remember Playgroup by.

Our first painting activity for spring combined lemon yellow and cobalt blue to create green. The children added leaves, grasses and flowers, collected from our garden, and laid it all out on the wet paper before painting over and around the plants, to create lovely shapes and patterns. 

It is a bittersweet time as some of us will soon say goodbye. But I am always happy to have a visit or a wave over the fence. Seeing the little bright faces ever so proudly going off to Preschool is a gift in itself.

Carina Halliday
Playgroup Coordinator

Comments are closed.

    Categories

    All
    Alumni
    Art
    Ask The Board
    Camps
    Early Childhood
    Environment
    Eurythmy
    Festivals
    High School
    Library
    Performance
    Pet Day
    P&F
    Primary School
    Sport
    The Farm

    Archives

    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    June 2016
    September 2015
    September 2014

    RSS Feed

© Shearwater The Mullumbimby Steiner School