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COMMUNITY FRUIT
Thanks everyone for all your support with our Community Fruit Break. We have had an abundance of different kinds of fruits and vegetables to share with the students during fruit break each day. The children are very excited to have a go at helping to cut up the fruit. To help build cutting skills the students are just cutting soft fruits at the moment, with staff cutting up things like apples and carrots prior to fruit break. When it comes time to eat, the students really enjoy being responsible and choosing when they are going to have their fruit break and the fruits that they will eat that morning.
During our community lunch time on Wednesday, we asked the students for ways we could make fruit break even better and got some great suggestions. JR suggested we get some circle mats for the children to sit on so they could sit around the mat and chat more. VW asked us to have a big mat and some small mats so they could choose to sit with a big group or a small group. We are going to purchasing some circle mats to follow up the student’s suggestions and help make our fruit break more of a time to chat ?!
We love our Preschool pets – the chickens and our rabbits! They bring lots of joy to the students and are a great way for our students to learn about empathy and caring for others. As the children have been settling into preschool routines, each of the classes have spent time learning about the chickens and rabbits. The students are encouraged to be quiet and gentle around our animals. Those who feel comfortable enough, are taught how to hold the animals, and we ask the students to always be sitting when they hold the chickens and rabbits at preschool. Some of the classes have been thinking about pets and what their idea of a perfect pet would be – even drawing their own perfect pets!
We are working on ways to embed lots of rich learning into the children’s experiences with the pets at preschool. We provide opportunities for students to learn about the needs of living things and our interconnectedness with the natural world. We spend time looking at stories about pets, and provide opportunities to draw, paint, sculpt and otherwise represent our pets. We collect our food scraps to give to the chickens each day – reducing our food waste at preschool. The students help to collect the eggs from the chickens and we use these eggs in cooking experiences. We also use straw from our chicken coop as mulch for our vegie gardens. We hope through these kinds of experiences we encourage students to care for the plants and animals in their environment.
ELC open day for 2025 preschool
Saturday 23rd March 10am - 12pm
Do you know someone who is looking for Preschool for 2025? Please invite them to join us or pass on our details so they can contact us.
We thank all the families who speak positively about our Preschool, as word of mouth is the best advertising for future enrolments. We have already had lots of wonderful feedback from prospective families about the positive reputation we have in the community, and thats thanks to you!!
Do you have any unused or no longer wanted kitchen items at home? We would love any donations for our Preschool program.
We are thinking plastic containers, funnels, seives, mixing spoons, spatulas, pots or pans etc. These items will be used to further extend our outdoor kitchen, sandpit, waterplay and anywhere else the children let their imagination take them!
Thank you in advance!
A BIG Happy Birthday to Lillian B, Sebastian, Madeleine W & Thea.
We hope you enjoyed your special day.
LUNCH ORDERS
Children at the preschool are able to receive lunch orders from the primary school canteen. When ordering food please order from the Early Learning Centre Canteen Menu only. Items ordered that are not from this menu list will be sent home in student’s bags and students will be given a suitable alternative from the canteen or our ELC kitchen.
The Early Learning Centre Lunch Menu includes wonderful options suitable to your 3-5 year olds. The full canteen menu is not an option as it is important that our preschool students are eating a healthy and balanced lunch while at Preschool and enjoying ‘sometimes’ foods when they are at home.
To order please download and use the Qkr! app. Once installed, find and click on St Anthony's Parish Primary School and create a profile for your child.
The Canteen is open Tuesday - Friday and orders need to be placed by 9:15am.
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