Kornmehl
Terry Aizen – Director of Kornmehl
Family Day Breakfast
We celebrated our Family Day breakfast on Monday morning with 60 very excited children and 60 equally excited mums, dads, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. The atmosphere in the room was filled with a warm energy. We were delighted to welcome all our special visitors into the Pre-school to share breakfast and activities together.
We had a variety of carefully selected activities for our guests to participate in, from squeezing oranges, to box construction, drawing portraits, making a bead necklace, reading stories, building with Lego or blocks, winding wool around sticks and, of course, eating a yummy breakfast.
It was special to see everyone relaxing, having fun and spending quality time together.
Thank you to all our amazing parent volunteers, who made this event possible – Mrs Tammy Been and Mrs Mandi Pinshaw, who came in on Friday to cook and bake the delicious goodies we got to enjoy on the day. Thank you to Mrs Talia Ezekiel, Mrs Ariella Silvera, Mrs Romy Stuhler, who came in at 7.00 am on Monday morning to help get all the food ready. Your support is very much valued and appreciated.
National Child Protection Week
Sunday 3 September 2023 – Saturday 9 September 2023
This year National Child Protection Week continues to champion the message ‘Every child in every community needs a fair go’.
This message captures the essence of National Child Protection Week which aims to promote a safe and supported life for every child, now and into the future.
Read more about the theme here.
In 2023, the message that ‘Every child in every community needs a fair go’ is complemented with the theme “Where we start matters.”
- Where we start our lives in terms of where we live, the resources available to us, and the opportunities presented to us make a significant difference to our life outcomes.
- Where we start as a service sector in offering children and their families support and assistance makes a significant difference to life outcomes.
- Where we start as decision makers in addressing large complex policy problems such as child abuse and neglect, also has a significant personal, social, and economic outcome.
The aim of Child Protection Week is to bring together partners to focus on addressing the significant harms being experienced by children in Australia.
Early Childhood Educators Day
We acknowledged and celebrated all our wonderful educators at Kornmehl on Wednesday.
The purpose of Early Childhood Educators Day is to recognise and celebrate the work of early educators working in long day care, community care and Pre-school services, for their enormous contribution to the wellbeing and healthy development of the young children in their care.
Early Childhood Educators Day is a day to acknowledge the valuable work of the early years’ educators in educating and caring for tomorrow’s leaders.
Families at Kornmehl joined us in thanking all our wonderful educators by adding a message to our “Appreciation Booklet.”
Each educator received a gorgeous gerbera flower, a delicious morning tea, and access to the stunning messages received from Kornmehl families, acknowledging their commitment, dedication, and passion to Early Childhood Education. We are feeling extremely grateful to our wonderful Kornmehl community.
Post box visits
The Seashell, Starfish and Dolphin groups walked to the post box on Clovelly Road to post their Rosh Hashanah cards to their families to wish them a Shana Tovah. The children were very excited to pop their cards in the post box.
We discussed what we put on the envelope, and how the post man knows which house to deliver the card to, by the address written on the front of the envelope. We hope families enjoyed the excitement of receiving their cards in the post and opening them together with their child.
Rosh Hashanah
We have been learning about this joyous festival through many different, hands-on experiences. We realise that young children learn best when they can use all their senses and a variety of mediums to represent their knowledge and understanding about this special Chag. A still life experience was set up which included different apples, honey and a shofar. The children were invited to look closely at the apples and bee images and draw their observations.
A sorting, counting and fine-motor experience was set up in the shape of a beehive. The children used tweezers to place balls of nectar in the hive.
We have been engaging in reflective discussions, from sharing what we already know about Rosh Hashanah, to learning from each other’s comments and stories. One of main themes we have been focusing on, has been thinking about “acting in the best way that you know”. We reflected about the Jewish year that is coming to an end and thought about what we want to do better at. We discussed how we all make the wrong choice sometimes and how these become good opportunities for us to learn from these moments and make better choices next time.
