ELC Hats

Dear families,

As per our Sunsmart Policy, we are no longer required to wear hats. Hats will be sent home to wash and store but can everyone please check that they only have their child's hat at home and return any other children's or ELC spare hats.

Thanks

Thank You!

Dear families,

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Thursday morning for our annual Princesses Tea Party. We had such a lovely morning performing our concert and enjoying morning tea with you. We wish all of our Mums a very Happy Mother’s Day for Sunday.

“Mothers hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but hold our hearts forever” – Author unknown

Love the ELC children and staff

Princesses Tea Party

Dear Mothers,

We have finalised the numbers for the Princesses Tea Party -  and we can confirm that it will be held in the Piper Pavilion at 8:30am - 9:30am.

There is an expectation that the Langley and Wilkins mums help walk their children back to the ELC before they say their goodbyes for the day.

We look forward to a wonderful morning with each of you!

Thanks,
PAC ELC

Langley

Dear Langley families and friends,

What a start to Term 2! This week we said goodbye to Miss Stacey, who is now teaching in the Prep School, and welcomed Miss Sarah from the Mead Room. We have also welcomed some new friends, Theodore and Andrew to the class, so we have all been getting to know each other this week. For our new Unit of Inquiry this term, Home Sweet Home, we will be exploring different animal environments. Children began to discuss different animals they knew and where they live, such as the jungle, farm and sea environments.

Children also became lots of different animal characters with the puppet theatre, and increased their hand-eye coordination by digging for letters in the sand try. After hearing the very heavy rain outside, children loved watching the rain from the window, and since we were stuck inside, we decided to have an impromptu glow stick disco Friday morning.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Kerry, Emily and Sarah  

Reminders

Hi Everyone,

Please remember to take you children's drink bottles home at the end of the day to regularly wash and refill them.

As the colder weather approaches please make sure your child has warm clothes and appropriate shoes (gum boots can be brought also if the children wish to use them for puddle exploration). Hats are not required to be worn in terms 2 & 3.

If you need a school jumper please see the uniform shop and purchase on from them.

Thanks,
PAC ELC

Chapple Room

Dear Chapple Families and Friends,

 

We have huffed and puffed our way into Term 2 as we have started on our new inquiry topic “Home Sweet Home”. The children have loved the Three Little Pigs start to the theme and thinking about what makes a home. Our budding actors have had great fun with their story telling. We have also been on lookout for words starting with P.  

 
There is a change of day for some of the Specialist activities, a red note has been placed in the lockers.

We will welcome any boxes to continue our construction. Additionally if anyone has any construction experience or has some knowledge of animal homes it would be great for you to come in to talk to the children- even if you can lay a few bricks the children would love to see it.

Have a great weekend,
Martin, Kelly, Heidi, Renee and Ty

Wilkins Room

Dear families,

Welcome back for Term 2! We have been very busy exploring our new unit of inquiry, Home Sweet Home this week. We are looking at animal environments and what makes a home. We have been sharing fiction and nonfiction texts about animal homes, exploring the underwater environment in the sand trough, role playing with jungle animals and talking about all the different types of animals we know and here they might live.

We have also been exploring patterning at the light table and through our creation of painted butterflies. We have been developing our cutting skills using scissors with play dough and cooking up a storm in the home corner. The children have also been preparing for our Princesses Tea Party celebrations next Thursday and are looking forward to sharing this special morning.
Stay dry and warm this weekend!

Nicole, Karla and Jess

Cooper Room

Dear Parents and Friends of the Cooper Room,

It has been lovely catching up with our old friends this week after the holidays. The children have enjoyed sharing their holidays news and adventures over Easter.

“I go to the big beach. Mine got fish there,” said Harry

“I got fwee (three) eggs. That’s one, two ,fwee! I eat them,” said Archie

“We got to go to the beach. I played with Lily.” said Tommy

This term our unit of Inquiry is “Home Sweet Home”. We will explore our environment and look at how animals use it for their homes. We will also do some research on our homes. The children are bringing home their research sheets tonight which we hope will be completed together with families. We will be looking at the photos of our homes and discussing why we need hones, what we use them for and comparing them to the way animals use their homes.

 

This week certainly was a change of season and we loved the opportunity to rug up and play outside in the fresh air – especially in the puddles! With the rain around for the next few days at least please make sure the children have a warm change of clothes in their bags and pop their gumboots in for the fun rainy day play!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and don’t forget the Princesses Tea party next week! Tiara friendly hairdos work best!

Kind regards

Susan and Jain

Mead Room

Dear Mead Room families,

This week it has been all about reflection.  We have been thinking about Miss Sarah and how we miss her, but so happy for her at the same time – the Langley Room is so lucky to have Miss Sarah!  We have been thinking about Anzac Day and reminding ourselves that it was a day for remembering how lucky we are to live in a country like Australia, and we remember the brave men and women who have served and defended our country.   And we have been thinking about our families,  in particular our Mummy!  Next Thursday is the Princesses Tea Party and the children have been reflecting on all of the things our Mummy does with us and for us……… it's a long list!!

And we welcome new friends, reinforce current friendships and strengthen the Mead Room community!

 

Thankyou and have a wonderful weekend.

Melissa and Cristina

Information from the Langley Room

 

 

Dear Parents/Guardians,

 

I write to inform you that the Stacey Wybrew has taken up an opportunity to teach in the Prep School from the beginning of this term. Her replacement in Langley will be Miss Sarah Marotti from the Mead Room. Sarah has been working in the ELC for a couple of years now and is looking forward to working with students, parents and staff in the 2 year old program. Emily Downie and Kerry Rowbotham will continue their role as co-educators in Langley. Stacey will be available at different times to help with the transition this week.

I would like to thank her for her contribution to ELC life this term and congratulate Sarah on her new role.

We are currently seeking interests from our casual staff to replace Sarah in Mead to continue to work with Melissa Prest and an announcement will be made shortly.

 

Kind Regards,

Sean Watt

Deputy Head of School: ELC- Preparatory

Langley and Wilkins

Dear Families,

This week, one of the special events we had planned was to visit the Rainbow playground in the Prep school, unfortunately it was occupied at the time but we were lucky enough to go into the gym! We raided the bin full of balls and went crazy! Throwing them to each other and trying to get goals in the basketball hoops – with the help of our teachers. Miss Emily and Miss Kerry asked the children to line up on the green line, we had a running race! So much fun! So we did it again, four more times! We then gathered together to do some dancing and singing together, it was really nice to escape the class from for a little while. J

Have a great long weekend,

From The Langley Room and The Wilkins Room.

Emily, Nicole, Kerry, Karla, Renee and Emma.

Cooper, Mead and Mattingley

Dear Mead and Mattingley room families,

After hearing lots about the Easter bunny and making lots of Easter eggs using our chocolate playdough, we have welcomed a new celebration into our week - Anzac day! The children have listened to a variety of stories about Anzac day including one perspective from the families of soldiers. The children made beautiful poppy pictures using paint and pop sticks and finished the week by baking some yummy Anzac cookies which they will be taking home to share. We have started to make our table decorations for the Princesses tea party we hope to see you all there.

Next week term commences so children will be collected by their class teacher from the workshop and bought back into their own class room at 8:15. Enjoy the term.

Love Miss Bowden, Miss Sarah and Miss Gray

Edgerley and Chapple

Dear Chapple and Edgerley friends and families,

 

It has been another short, yet fun packed week for our little people.

The children have been very busy sprucing up the veggie and herb garden with the help of Mr. Ty, who happily shared his knowledge and experience with gardens with the children. There have been some sweeping, cutting, digging, planting and watering going on, not to mention, putting a STOP sign up to ensure the new plants are well looked after. We will continue to work on it next week and everyone is hoping for a bountiful harvest one day.

 

To commemorate ANZAC Day, we have been sharing stories and what we know about this event by watching the story of Simpson and his Donkey and listening to the Last Post". We have also been working on some beautiful poppy plants in our art and craft area as well as making ANZAC biscuits.  We learnt that it is important to know and remember what the great the soldiers did to keep Australia a safe country. Through our little PAC ANZAC Trail, we found out that our school has lots of Memorial places for our heroes.

 

We hope that you enjoy yet another long weekend and gear up for our upcoming Term.

 

Coney, Kelly, Ty and Rosalie

Cooper

On Monday the Cooper children started to make an Autumn tree. Miss White brought in some branches and put them into a large jar. The children glued scrunched up tissue paper onto the branches to make the leaves. We also made an Autumn leaf mobile to hang in the Cooper room. Thankyou to Alexander, Daniel, Luca and Ryan for bringing leaves in from home.

On Tuesday we went on a nature walk around the Prep school. While there we saw the men working on the playground digging up the ground with the digger and bobcat. We went to the Rainbow playground for a play.

On Wednesday we went back to the playground with the Mattingly and Mead children to have morning tea and a play. We then walked to the library to listen to Easter stories. Thank you to Daniel, Zander and Louis for bringing in stories to share with everyone.

On Thursday the Easter bunny came to visit the ELC. We had an Easter egg hunt in the garden.

Happy Easter!

Dear Families,

We hope you have an amazing break over the Easter period.
We will see you all back next week (we are open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)
Stay Safe and have a happy Easter.

The ELC staff.