👋 LIVE FROM THE HIVE … 👋

KINDY BIBS…

We’re preparing for our Kindy kids’ transition into Y1, with a slow phasing back of the red bibs. They’ll wear them through to the end of the year for the busy 3pm transition time, but we’ll now start taking them off earlier and earlier in the afternoons. Feels like a small thing, but for the kids it’s a real indicator that they’re growing their responsibility and independence, getting ready for the move up to Year 1, and feeling confident that from next year, they’ll make their own way to Hive roll call at the end of the school day!

ASSESSMENT & RATINGS VISIT

This week we underwent an Assessment & Rating process with the Department of Education. They assessed us across all seven Quality Areas and were onsite for two days. We work hard to achieve high quality outcomes for your children at The Hive, and of course full compliance with the Laws & Regs. The assessor confirmed we’re ticking all compliance boxes and will now take a few weeks to produce a report on our Quality performance across all areas, including:

Educational Program & Practice
Children’s Health & Safety
Relationships with Children, and
Partnerships with Families

We’ll share the results once we get them!

GATE BUZZER

The buzzer sometimes misbehaves, and doesn’t ring when pressed. Here are our tips:

press firmly in the middle
listen for ring tone and look for white circle light around camera - if they’re missing, it didn’t ring
keep your face in view - if we can’t see you, we can’t let you in!
if all else fails, call us on 0450 896 686

👨‍🍳 🎨 🎲 WHAT HAVE THE KIDS BEEN UP TO? 🏏 🧸 🧪

This fortnight has been a busy one, we've been doing lots of our activities in the sunshine and embracing SPRING in lots of different ways in our ACTIVITY CLUBS:

ART & CRAFT: Paperweave bumblebees, yarn butterflies, cherry blossom trees, tissue paper flowers, pet sea animals and pompom caterpillars
BAKING CLUB: We made fresh chicken rice paper rolls and strawberry crumble bars - deeeeelish!
SPORTS: We played passionate games of kickball and toppleball, experimented with spikeball rules, competed in handball tournaments and practiced our (already brilliant) soccer skills for our game against WAYS in Week 9 - go the Hive!!
GARDENING: Our garden bees were busy harvesting the last of our winter veggies to make space to plant spring veggies! Among them were cabbages, celery, kale, peas and spring onions. We also cut down our bunch of bananas which are now safely ripening outside our bee box.

🏖️ HOLIDAY PROGRAM REMINDERS 🏖️

Early Bird pricing ends this weekend, midnight on Sunday 15th Sep. After this, add $10 to the price advertised on the calendars
YK-1 book LITTLE BEES | Y2-6 book BIG BEES
Monster Jump (30 Sep) and Taronga Zoo (1 Oct) are almost FULL
Remember to complete the excursion permissions form, regardless of your bookings
As per Ts&Cs, you must cancel 7 days before the session, to avoid being charged

🐝 BEES OF THE WEEK 🐝

Our special bee of the week award goes to MAXIME in YK! He’s been incredibly team-spirited this week, helping Educators at afternoon tea to serve the veggies and pack away. And he’s been really enjoying collecting all of the yellow cones after free play time. Way to go Maxime!
Learning Outcomes:
1.4 Children and young people learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect
2.1 Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary as active and informed citizens

These positive opportunities for helping can also be helpful diversions from an escalated situation, giving children time and space to regulate their feelings within in different, positive scenario and moving them towards a better understanding of themselves. These moments can bring a real sense of self and improve feelings of wellbeing.
Learning Outcomes:
1.1 Children feel safe, secure and supported
1.3 Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities and a sense of positive self-worth
3.3 Children are aware of and develop strategies to support their own mental and physical health, and personal safety

🐌 OUR GARDEN 🌿

We’ve been finishing up the harvest of our winter veggies, to make way for some spring planting! We had a huge haul - including kale, cabbages, celery, peas and spring onions!