Terry Aizen, Director Kornmehl

Father’s Day Breakfast

We celebrated our Father’s Day breakfast on Monday morning with 60 very excited children and 60 equally excited dads. The atmosphere in the room was warm and filled with so much energy.

Dads and their children enjoyed a scrumptious breakfast prepared by a few very capable mums. Thank you to Anna Tabachnik, Lisa Shalem,Leona McGee, Ilana Bonimovich and Sarah Kumerfeld for their help in preparing the breakfast. It was delicious and almost every last piece was consumed by our hungry kids and dads. Thank you must also go to Sharon Miller and Gail Stein for shopping for all the ingredients for Father’s Day and to Debbie Lawrence and Candy Mervis for the delicious baking. All your help is very much appreciated.

After breakfast, it was special to see the dads relaxing with their children by either reading a book, building with blocks, playing in the sandpit or outside, participating in woodwork, having a back massage or designing an abstract construction using straws and sticks.

Each dad received a beautiful Kippah as a special gift as well as a personalised card and heartfelt message.

Rosh HaShanah

We have immersed ourselves in the beautiful festival of Rosh HaShanah.

The children have been learning about the different types of apples and have done a mindfulness exercise tasting different kinds of honey. We have been learning about bees and looking at them very closely and learning about the important work that bees do.

This week all three groups walked to the post box on Clovelly Street to post their Rosh HaShanah cards. The children were very excited to pop their cards in the post box.

We visited the Shofar factory on Tuesday and all made a shofar to bring home and learn to blow.

Thank you to Andrea Healy for baking us a delicious honey cake to enjoy on Friday at our Rosh HaShanah celebrations.

The Dolphins discussed what they would like to get better at for the New Year:

Ellie – “I want to get better at doing my handstands.”

Leah – “I want to get better at being my brother’s friend.”

Jessie – “I want to get better at making friends.”

Leo L – “I want to get better at riding my bike.”

Savannah – “I want to get better at staying in the lines when I’m drawing.”

Ariella – “I want to get better at listening when the teacher’s talking ’cause I talk to my friends and I don’t want to distract others.”

Tali – “I want to get better at baking.”

Isaac – “I want to get better at being in the line when I’m walking to Bush School.”

Dalia – “I want to get better at being friends with all my friends and friends with the ones I’m not friends with yet.”

Luca – “I want to get better at not hurting people.”

Early Childhood Educators Day

On Wednesday, we acknowledged and celebrated all our wonderful educators at Kornmehl.

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.

Families at Kornmehl joined us in thanking all our wonderful educators by adding a love heart or star to our Appreciation Wall. Each educator received a gorgeous gerbera flower and a certificate acknowledging their commitment, dedication and passion to Early Childhood Education. I am proud to say that many of our Kornmehl Educators have been at the Pre-school for more than 15 years!

Parent feedback:

Nicole Smily: “Emanuel educators are the best in the business and we are beyond blessed to have you nurture our children on a daily basis. Your work is invaluable and priceless.”

Tony Gellert: “Thank you and your special team, Terry, for all the hard work you all put in! You create a wonderful environment for the kids to feel nurtured and shine.”

From the students:

Zella about Renee: “I love that she takes care of us and lets us play a lot. She is so kind. Her love is loved! She teaches us about fairies and plays the guitar, so we can sing.”

Dalia about Alex: “She teaches me hard things to do. She gives me company, like a friend. I love that she is so kind.”

Alicia about Justine: “She lets me hold her hand when my Mummy is going. She plays with me and I like to draw with her. She is nice and kind.”

Jonathan L about Lindi: “I like to sit on her lap. She helps me when I am sad. She makes cards with me.”

Ariella about Claudia: “I like giving her hugs. I like playing with her. She is kind.”

Aviv about Heather: “I like hugging Heather. She makes me happy by helping me to do things.

Elianah about Laura: “I like playing with her. She lets me paint. She is kind.”

National Child Protection Week

National Child Protection Week has been co-ordinated by NAPCAN,(National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect), with the support of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. The campaign aims to engage and educate all Australians to understand they have a part to play in keeping our children and young people safe from violence, abuse and neglect.

NAPCAN works to promote the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. “Protecting children is everyone’s business.”

National Child Protection Week is a wonderful opportunity for everyone in the community to think about how we can work together to keep all children safe. 

Importantly, we want to remind everyone that:
• We ALL have a part to play in protecting ALL children
• Even small actions can help to improve a child’s future
• By building stronger communities, we are creating safer environments for our children.

How can I start playing my part to protect children today (and every day)?
• Be a good role model for children
• Be kind to children, parents (and yourself)
• Take the time to really listen to children and believe them if they tell you something
• Learn about what help services are available so you can support others if they need help
• Don’t judge other parents and families; remember that we’re all trying our best
• Look out for all children, not just your own
• Be a friendly, helpful member of your local community
• Don’t be afraid to ask for help or to ask someone if they need help.

Teachers play their part to protect and care for children and young people in their community by building relationships with their students and showing that they respect and value them.

Parents play their part to protect and care for children and young people in their community by showing how to have respectful relationships.

Happy Birthday

We wish a very happy birthday to our administration, assistant Maria Moses. We hope you had a very special day.