👋 IMPORTANT PARENT REMINDERS… 👋

‼️ Please turn ON your HOME APP NOTIFICATIONS ‼️

It’s really, really important that your APP NOTIFICATIONS are switched ON.
If we accept a casual booking request from the app it becomes a confirmed booking,
and we will expect your child to attend.

If you switch NOTIFICATIONS ON: the app will let you know that the booking is confirmed.
(otherwise we risk a ‘missing child’ scenario and a penaltiy on your account)

Remember, you can always check your bookings calendar in the app:

A date with an orange ring, is an unconfirmed (requested via the app) booking
A date with a solid orange circle, is a confirmed booking

📆 T3 P&C MEETING 📆

The Term 3 P&C Meeting is coming up next week: Tue 20 August 7:00pm, School Staff Room.
Please feel welcome to pop along, join the conversation and get a feel for what the P&C is all about.

🧳 GOING ON A LONG HOLIDAY?? 🏖️

If you’re going away for two weeks or more, we can cancel your permanent bookings for that period, avoiding charges and recorded absences. It’s easy for you to submit a holiday request - full instructions and details on all APP booking functions are on on our website.

Please read the info - it’s there to make your life easier 🙂

📆 HIVE CLOSURE DATES for DEC/JAN 📆

For anyone planning December/January, we will offer Holiday Program on all the days that school is closed (apart from weekends & public holidays!) with the exception of these planned HIVE CLOSURES:

w/c 23rd December - CLOSED
w/c 30th December - CLOSED
Tue-Thu 28-30 January - CLOSED for staff training

We’ve listened to parent feedback and have reduced our total closure days, and will offer more Holiday Program days than in recent years.

LOST PROPERTY - SOCCER KIT

Does anyone recognise this mini soccer kit?

It was left behind either in Term 2 or during the last holidays and we’re sure someone must be missing it!

We’d love to find the owners, so please have a think, or ask around… 🙏

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

We've been making use of the (slightly) warmer weather this past fortnight by spending lots of time outside! We've had a magnatiles competition, created some wicked move club trailers and had multiple paper airplane contests... Below is just a taster of what we have been up to in our ACTIVITY CLUBS lately....

EXPLORE & DISCOVER: we experimented with layering different liquids, exploring a really big word called DENSITY. We also worked at cleaning some filthy old coins using a mixture of baking soda and vinegar, which was really cool!
BAKING CLUB: we made scrumdiddlyumptious winter apple and cinnamon muffins & wonderfully delicious palmiers. Click the links for the recipes, if you want to try them at home.
SPORTS: inspired by the Paris Olympics we've been super active, enjoying a mix of netball, gymnastics, soccer, archery, looots of running around, and some circus skills too!
ART & CRAFT: DIY spinning drums, seed flower art, ocean themed oil pastel pictures, winter trees, bumblebees, pipecleaner creations and more...
IN THE GARDEN... we spent a lovely afternoon hunting for slugs and were busy with weeding and watering in between. A special shoutout to Luca W (Y3) and Alexandria S (YK) for being so incredibly helpful in the kitchen at clean up time...

🐌 OUR GARDEN 🌿

Nelly and the green thumb team are doing so well in the garden!
We have heaps of KALE, CELERY, PARSLEY and CABBAGE, which we’ll put to good use!

🐝 BEE OF THE WEEK 🐝

This time we’re stoked to give a shout out to the lovely JULIET in Y3!

Juliet is beautifully kind and a truly positive role model to her peers. She has a special combination of emotional maturity and wonderfully bubbly, fun energy - which always lifts the space she’s in.

Go Juliet - you’re #WINNING at KID LYFE!!

😃🚰 STAYING ACTIVE 🥗🏃🏽‍♀️

5-12 year olds should ideally get 60min of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day, such as riding a bike/scooter/skateboard, active play, running or organised sports.

It should be a mix of things that make them ‘puff’, and activities that are good for their bones, like climbing, monkey bars, gymnastics, dance, running, skipping and jumping. The 60 minutes needn’t be done all in one go, but could be built up over the day.

At The Hive, we offer 30min of free play following afternoon tea, a full hour of sport/physical options from 4-5pm and group games or dance from 5:15-5:45pm every day. So, we’re doing our very best to help squeeze lots of physical activity into their weekdays…