Princes ELC

PRINCE ALFRED COLLEGE EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

An environment designed to foster creativity, provoke questions, provide challenges and celebrate the achievements of young children. We foster the development of integrity, curiosity, confidence, compassion and Christian principles.We encourage relationships of shared responsibility and mutual respect. We believe in fun and the joy and importance of childhood. We ensure an environment filled with a sense of humour, love of play and exploration, and a sense of community.

Friday, August 19, 2016

Mead

Dear Mead Room families and friends,

For some time we have noticed our uniforms have a crown on them.  We have also observed crowns elsewhere in our ELC.  On our books, the front door, on signs, the teachers have a crown on their name badges – many, many places;
Tom T – It’s us, its Mead Room
Parker – It’s our school
Flynn – I’ve got a crown too
Oliwer – We do

We went for a walk around the school and found the crown everywhere.  We asked two Year 8 boys, Mitch and Jack, if they had crowns on their uniforms like us….. and they did! 
Ethan – It’s ELC and big school
Laura – all together
Mrs P – It’s all of us and the big school too – PAC is our place.

We had some theories about what that might mean.
James – We work together
Danica – We’re friends
Jaden – Help each other
We will continue to explore our crowns.

We are still deeply engaged in our Recycling investigation.
This week we have transferred some of our enthusiastic ‘3 arrow’ spotting to what we are doing in the ELC with our food scraps and leftovers.
We feed some of our leftovers to the chooks but some food goes into a green organic bin, we know where it goes – we take it and the paper recycling to the service yard…. but where does it go next? And what happens to the contents?  We wondered who we could ask;
Sam – Someone with a crown on their clothes!

We welcome two little friends to our Mead Room community – stick insects! We don’t have names as yet but we’re working on it!

Enjoy your weekend!

From Melissa, Elodie and Rosalie