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What a start to the term!! We have had an action packed start to Term 2 at the ELC – and had lots of fun!!
Our excursion to Birrigai was a real treat and always one of the highlights of the year on our Preschool calendar. It is a wonderful opportunity for students to spend time outdoors, exploring our beautiful Ngunnawal Country. As the children participate in the bushwalk on country, the staff at Birrigai share so much local knowledge with them about the plants and animals that live here. We found out all sort of things; how ants nests change colour from summer to winter, so that the ants can cool down or warm their nest; How wombats can find their way back to their burrow, even though they have very poor eyesight and we learnt that the Wedge tail eagle (Maliyan) is the totem animal of the Ngunnawal people. We visited the rock shelter overlooking beautiful bushland and sitting in a space visited by generations of Ngunnawal people as a place to stay and shelter.
Naturally the campfire was also a highlight – with each student having the chance to cook some damper on a stick, holding the damper carefully over the hot coals. This was a great introduction to safety around campfires. As the weather cools in Terms 2 and 3, we will set up our fire pit for some campfires at the ELC. Each year we review our risk assessment for using the firepit at preschool with both the staff and children. We will take time to do this in the next few weeks, before setting up the fire pit space. You are very welcome to take a look at this assessment and contribute to it as well, if you have any concerns regarding children’s safety around our Fire pit.
Enrolment Time - Feedback requested
The month of May is enrolment time for schools and ELCs in Catholic Education. Enrolments for Catholic Education Kindergarten or ELCs close on Friday 30th May, with offers of places sent out to families at the end of June.
As a service it is important that we improve on our enrolment process, to assist families and children have a smoother transition into preschool and school. Your feedback is essential to our improvement and valuable to us. We would really appreciate if you could spare a minute or two to let us know the parts of our enrolment process that worked well this year, and something that we could improve on.
Please use this link to provide your feedback.
Thank you!! Thank you!!! Thank you!! In advance ?
The program is based around the 4 GEM principles: Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy. We will be working through these strategies for building resilience and wellbeing with the students and engaging in activities that allow children to practice these principles. Classes will also be building routines into their weeks that provide students with opportunities to practice showing gratitude, empathy and mindfulness.
As a part of the project each of the classes has a soft toy Koala and Class Journal. These will be brought home by a different student to share with their families each week. The class Journal activities are based around the 4 GEM principles, with simple things you can do at home with your child.
If you would like to learn more about this initiative, you can visit the Resilience Project website using the link below. In the coming weeks we hope to share some webinars with you from this project, to support you as parents in building your child’s resilience and wellbeing.
The month of May is enrolment time for Primary Schools, and ELCs, within Catholic Education. Did you know you must apply for Kindy for 2026?
Our in area Catholic Primary Schools are both here at St Anthony's Parish Primary School and St Thomas the Apostle Primary School in Kambah. Please visit thier websites or the Catholic Education website for further details on these schools and online enrolment forms.
