End of Term 3 - Friday spring clean

A couple of messages about Friday 21st September - last day of Term 3.

From Kirsty: 

We're planning to have a spring clean / plant rejuvenation this Friday (last day of term.)

If anyone can spare a couple of hours from 1.00pm onwards to:

• sweep 

• re-pot some plants 

• fertilise and mulch the pots 

• generally give the plants a bit of spruce up! 

And... if anyone would like to donate some new plants to replace some of the hanging baskets - and other pots - please bring!

Remember it's early break up on Friday - 2.30pm. But come and stay on for another hour to help, and perhaps we can have a drink at the end - on the tidy terrace?!!
See you there!
Kirsty

From Nerida:

Thanks Kirsty for organising this. It sounds fantastic! I would love to hang out for an hour or two after work with you all. If you would like to celebrate with drinks and food, bring something along. We also need some indoor plants, as the succulents weren't coping and have been moved outside onto the terrace. So, if you would like to donate something, indoor ferns or other suitable plants would be much appreciated. Thanks everyone!

Take-home readers

You may be tiring of our take-home reader selection. If so, then it is time to swap some of ours for some of Triciclo’s! If you have some spare time, your help would be appreciated. We’ll show you where to go and what to do.

Friday Market 27 July - helpers needed!

Prep Bicicletta is rostered to run the next Friday Market on Friday 27th July. 

We need parent volunteers to help with the following things: 

• one person to pick up the sausages and bread (the school will pay),
• two people to arrive at 2:30 pm to heat up the BBQ and start cooking the snags by 2:45 pm so they are ready by 3:30 pm,
• lots of other helpers to arrive by 3:20 to staff the stall - set up your goodies to sell, work out prices, 
• people to help clean up afterwards, both the BBQ and the area around the market,
• and of course people to bring items to sell (edible or otherwise).

There will be a sign-up sheet up on the communications board on Monday - please put your name down to help. 

A few parents have requested that we buy some mechanised pencil sharpeners, so we are planning to buy these with the money you raise. If you have any other suggestions for how the money raised could be used, please let us know.

Tidying up on last day of Term 2 - helpers wanted

Friday 29th June is the last day of school for Term 2.

Could we please pretty please have parent helpers to help:

• clean up and sort out the atelier (it’s a huge job and we’re desperate for some help),
• sorting out the castle/imaginative play (we have a back stage area which needs to be sorted out and labeled, and excess items in the castle to be stored back stage) 
• take dress ups and smocks home to wash, 
• sort maths equipment, 
• sharpen pencils, 
• watering the plants on the terrace and feeding them some fertilizer (in the trunk) 
• and just generally helping to tidy. 

This would be a major help for the teachers and will help to continue to provide an orderly, clean and safe environment for the children.

Also note: early dismissal for children at 2:30pm.

Thank you Brett

Thank you to Brett for sweeping the terrace this morning, it looks so much better.  If you ever have 5 minutes in the morning we would really appreciate it if you could water the plants or sweep the terrace. 

Watering plants on the Terrace

Libby has made a Watering Checklist to help us keep track of the watering of our plants on the terrace. Please, if you have even five to ten minutes spare in the morning or afternoon, water some plants, focussing on one ‘group’ at a time, i.e. the hanging plants, back plants or front plants and then tick off the corresponding grid on the Watering Checklist. Our beautiful, inspiring terrace will only stay alive if we all take responsibility for it. Please and thank you.

Parent helpers - thanks

Thank you Libby for taking home a big load of pencils to sharpen overnight! A thank you also goes out to Jane for searching (as yet to no avail) for an electric pencil sharpener to make life easier. We encourage as much parent-help as possible, such as keep pencils sharpened so that children take pride in their writing and drawing. Whenever you have a spare moment, please pop in and take a seat with a sharpener!

Parent helpers

Thank you to all the parents who have come in to help us and run sessions so far.  We really appreciated the time that some of you put in to help us name and organise resources, and we were lucky enough to have a wonderful bracelet-making workshop in project time as well last week. If you have any special interests that you would like to share, or an activity that you would like to have a go at with the children please let us know and we will let you know a good time to come in.   

As well as project groups we really appreciate help with day-to-day classroom tasks such as helping organise our stationary, going through children’s readers with them and emptying the recycling. 

We would love it if someone could come in and help us with some laminating this week.  We have finished the children’s individual P.O. boxes and would like to have them laminated and up and running as soon as possible. If you are able to help us with this please let us know. 

We also need someone to help us empty our paper and cardboard recycling.  If you have a few minutes this week please drop in and we will show you where the recycling stations are. This is a job that needs doing on a regular basis – our Preps are too small to reach the big bins that ours get emptied into.

How parents can help

We greatly appreciate your help in the classroom. We would love for you to come in and help us with a variety of activities. 


We are particularly looking for parents to come in to:

• help set up the readers,
• do individual reading with children to give them confidence with their take home readers, and
• run workshops with the kids during project time.

We know that many of you have particular skills that you would like to share with the kids, such as gardening, languages and philosophy. You may also have a particular interest that you would like to explore with the children, or something that you are working on at home with your own child that you would like to introduce to the group. If so, please let us know when you would like to come in and lead a small group of children in this area. It doesn't have to be anything complicated, even reading a story to a small group, discussing and retelling it is a really worthwhile activity and we would love to have you here to share it with us.