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Wednesday 29th October 2014 Edition 372
695 Roland Road, Parkerville WA 6081. Phone: 08 9295 4787 ABN 48 417 551 865 School Email: [email protected] School Administrator’s email: [email protected]
Bursar’s Email: [email protected] Community Development and Enrolments: [email protected]
If a child is absent please ensure a note is delivered to the teacher or an email is sent to the school explaining the absence.
News for the Silver Tree Steiner School
Community
Dear Parents, One of the many strengths of our school is our wonderfully dedicated and caring staff. Every person who chooses to work at Silver Tree shows a striving to improve the educational life of each child in our school. One of our talented and hard-working Early Childhood teachers, Kristy Brookes, who has taught the Kindy 6 Rainbow group each Friday morning, shared her last Friday Kindy morning with this lovely group last week. Kristy has brought a caring gentle rhythm to her Friday group and shared many wonderful learning experiences with the children, including a special Kindy 6-only bushwalk, creating straw and wool animal sculptures, making wholesome pizza for morning tea, fun songs, six year old stories and of course some fantastic opportunities for play. Kristy has handed her Friday Rainbows over to Karolina for the rest of this year to prepare for the impending arrival of her new baby! I am sure the Rainbows will look forward to sharing morning tea with Kristy and the new arrival. The Silver Leaves newsletter is a wonderful way to find out snippets of what is happening in the classrooms each week, but perhaps you would like to know more about the learning that takes place in each of the Primary year levels? Please join the Primary teachers on Friday evening as they take us on a journey though the Primary Curriculum, registrations can be made via email [email protected]. I look forward to seeing you there. Blessings, Donna
Term 4 Dates Tues 13th Oct – Tues 16th Dec Mid Term Break Fri 14th Nov – Mon 17th Nov Darlington Arts Festival Class 4, 5 and 6 Performance Sunday, 2nd November Main Stage – Meet @ 10.30am Wayfarers Camp 27th – 29th October Teddy Bears’ Picnic Lillypilly & Gumnut 30th October Acacia 31st October Alchemists Parent Night Wednesday 5th November 6.30pm Lightkeepers Play Thursday 6th & Saturday 8th November 11am Dental Van Screenings Tuesday 11th Nov – 11.00am.
Contents
Calendar of the Soul 2
NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOM
Early Childhood Chatter 2
Alchemists News 3
Lightkeeper News 3
Koorrdjenangin News 3
Wayfarers News 4
Silver Tree Craft 5
NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL
Congratulations 5
Darlington Arts Festival 6
2015 School Term Dates 6
Wanted–Items for New Classrooms 7
Recipe of the week 7
Article 8
Courses/Workshops/Events 10
Classifieds 10
Term 4 Calendar 11
Curriculum Journey 12
Bank Details for Payment Bendigo Bank BSB: 633 000 A/C #:137 169 512
Donations to the Building Fund - Tax Deductible Bendigo Bank BSB: 633 000 A/C #: 140 071 069
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CALENDAR OF THE SOUL _____________________________________________________________________________
The light that is streaming through air all round,
Which, sparkling and gleaming and gleaming, now warms the earth’s
ground
Reveals the stars’ handwork where flowers abound.
And, wondrous and radiant, an Angel I see.
He shines with God’s light and he smiles upon me.
It is I! He it is whom I one day will be,
In my heavenly mantle, from darkness set free!
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NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOM ______________________________________________________________________________
EARLY CHILDHOOD CHATTER This week the Rainbow children recycled used paper to make beautiful decorated sheets of handmade paper. Mel, mother of Carla and Remi, generously gave of her time this afternoon (Monday) to work with the Rainbow children. It was a glorious afternoon. The children drifted in and out, joining in the various preparatory tasks of tearing and chopping the waste paper. Each child made a piece of paper and most helped with the cleaning up as well, so they will all be experts on her next visit. The Kindy care children dropped in too with Sheoaka. The older children played with them very gently and they too had a crack at diving their frame into the paper pulp. Mel plans to return on a couple more occasions to finish this project. Thank you Mel for your help. Please feel free to collect your child’s slippers now, as the weather is warm enough most mornings for us not to need them. The same is probably true for the raincoats. Hats, however, are a necessity. Please make sure your child has one every day. The plans and logistics for the new kindergarten building continue, most of it done by volunteers, who can be seen measuring and fence lines, drawing plans and having meetings. Our thanks go to all those who give so generously of their time in this area. See you all at the Curriculum Journey on Friday. Remember to let Hayley know if you need childcare so we have enough babysitters. Thank you and see you there. Jo
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TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC Spring is here and the days are warmer and drier, so this is the time for picnics. Lillypilly and Gumnut will be having a “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” this Thursday, 30th October. Acacia kindy will have theirs this Friday, 31st October. Each child may bring ONE teddy bear / favourite soft animal (no bigger than the youngest child in the class please) to kindergarten on that day.
ALCHEMISTS NEWS
ALCHEMISTS PARENT NIGHT 5th November 2014
6.30pm
LIGHTKEEPERS NEWS
LIGHTKEEPERS CLASS PLAY Thursday 6th November
and Saturday 8th November at 11am All parents are welcome to attend.
KOORRDJENANGIN NEWS
The Koorrdjenangins have been very busy over the last two weeks, working on some amazing projects for their Christmas craft market. They are using all the skills they have learned in class over the last few years, as well as some brand new ones! Keep a lookout for some amazing artistic, hand crafted gifts that will be available to buy and take home in the last few weeks of term!!
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NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOM cont… ______________________________________________________________________________ WAYFARERS NEWS
Last Friday was a mammoth day for the wonderful Wayfarers who were at Perth Waldorf School bright and early for the 2014 Greek Olympics. Congratulations to all the class fives for your spectacular efforts over the day in all nine events: javelin, discus, wrestling, marathon, sprint, middle distance, relay, chariot racing and long jump. The sun shone, the competition was fabulous, training was put to the test and new friends were made. The students from four different Steiner schools in WA were mixed up together to form city teams - Athens, Sparta, Delphi and Corinth, and with the emphasis on participation - we all had a ball! Thank you Wayfarers for the heart and beautiful spirit you put into the event. Class sixes were loud and enthusiastically vocal in the cheering of their classmates! It was a special, memorable day. Thank you parents for driving children to the venue, and Katie, phew, thank you for the sewing and lovely medals.
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SILVER TREE CRAFT We are so lucky at Silver Tree to have such a beautiful, considered and consolidated craft program. It's built on a dedication to encourage aspects of learning such as persistence and will power in the children, together with a focus on co-operative learning, sharing of ideas, and appreciation of nature’s resources and a love of creating beautiful things.
In a pragmatic sense though, there is very real evidence emerging to suggest that it supports the physical growth of our children. Matti Bergstrom, a professor and neurophysiologist from Sweden believes that activities such as traditional craft work, are critical to the overall brain development of our children. He argues that the density of nerve endings in our finger tips is enormous and if these are not used in childhood we become “finger-blind”. The rich network of nerves becomes impoverished and this represents a huge loss to the brain, thwarting a child’s over all development. Matti likens this kind of damage to blindness. Age-old traditions understood the need to work creatively with fingers and hands but in Western society today we are losing this knowledge rapidly.
Craft for me is a deeply nourishing part of the Steiner curriculum. We hold our craft lessons in a circle, in the symbol of community. As each child works on a project they bring new bursts of creativity that enriches the experience for everyone involved. Craft then is about devotion. It is a space that so beautifully holds the ‘reverent’ and the meaningful. It is so much more than the end product. It is a process of blossoming for the students and a journey of challenge and triumph. Melissa, Craft Teacher
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NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL ______________________________________________________________________________
CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Vivian, Trinity, Jameela and Luna on the birth of Manaia Rangimarie Kaiarahi. Welcome to the world little one.
Congratulations also to Andrea and Dylan Trout, and big sister Hayden (Playgroup) on the birth of your beautiful daughter and sister, Harper.
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DARLINGTON ARTS FESTIVAL Silver Tree Class 4, 5 and 6
Will be performing on SUNDAY 2nd NOVEMBER
11:00 - 11:30am - MAIN STAGE Darlington Arts Festival
(Please be at the stage at 10:30am)
WALK TO SCHOOL DAY Our Walk to School Day last week started with the problem of navigating an increasingly agitated mother kangaroo separated from her baby by a fence. Everyone was very concerned for the terrified baby kangaroo which in its panic could not find the gap in the fence. Fiona guided the children in a wide berth round the baby, then gently encouraged it to hop along the fence line to the gap. To our relief, mother and baby bounded away into the bush, and our walk could start! Silver Tree children listened to an interesting talk by Bronwyn who had brought along snakeskins, feathers, cockatoo-nibbled gumnuts and other bush treasures, then we were off. What a stunning walk we had through the bush. This photo says it all - what a way to start the day! Thank you parent volunteers who came along to hold hands and keep us all on track!
2015 SCHOOL TERM DATES
2015 Term Dates
Term 1: Monday 2nd February – Thursday 2nd April
Term 1 Mid Term Break: Friday 27th February and Monday 2nd March
Term 2: Tuesday 21st April – Friday 26th June
Term 2 Mid Term Break: Friday 29th May and Monday 1st June
Term 3: Monday 20th July – Thursday 24th September
Term 3 Mid Term Break: Monday 31st August and Tuesday 1st September
Term 4: Tuesday 13th October – Friday 11th December
Term 4 Mid Term Break: Monday 9th November and Tuesday 10th November
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ITEMS FOR NEW CLASSROOMS Calling on all parents and friends of Silver Tree for donations for the new classrooms in 2015. We are looking for items appropriate for the Kindy and Class 1 age children, such as;
Any wooden toys such as Stove, Fridge, Wooden blocks, animals, spinning tops
Dolls and dolls cot, doll clothes in natural materials
Small and Large wicker baskets
Outdoor play equipment such as spades, shovels, spoons
Curtains
Nature table (hall table)
Wooden Tables
Wooden Shelves
Dress up capes, crowns
Children size table and chairs (wood)
Felt animals, gnomes
Hand-made puppets
Any furniture or items that you can donate we would appreciate, if you are uncertain, please call or email the school and we can let you know.
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RECIPE OF THE WEEK ______________________________________________________________________________ Email Emma Ritchie your favourite recipes for publication in Silver Leaves at [email protected]
CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
2 Medium sweet potatoes peeled and chopped 1/4 cup of raw cacao powder 1 and a 1/4 cups ground almonds 1/4 cup raw honey 1/2 cup dates Pinch of sea salt Preheat oven to 180c, line an 8 x 8 tin with baking paper. Boil sweet potatoes for 5 mins, then blend, add everything else and blend till smooth in food processor or similar. Place in tin and bake for 25 mins. Cool and eat!
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ARTICLE _____________________________________________________________________________ Ana Daw, ex-pupil of Silver Tree, has been nominated as a finalist in the Australia Young Gardener of the Year Award. To follow is the article run about Ana’s amazing garden in the November issue of Gardening Australia Magazine. Congratulations Ana!
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COURSES/WORKSHOPS/EVENTS _____________________________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER: The articles, advertisements and community notices in this newsletter are provided as a
service to the school community. The carrying of an article, advertisement or community notice does not
imply endorsement by Silver Tree Steiner School.
SCENES FROM AN UNSEEN WORLD
A ritual for place a dramatic event not to be missed presented by The Life Map Students of Rudolf Steiner College
Sunday 7th December 5.30 pm or Friday 12th December 5.30 pm at Silver Tree Steiner School. Suitable for audiences 15 years and over
‘Here the Earth is inventive, prolific. She fashions her ideas out of fire and salt and wind, stitches all her garments with the strongest light. Her memories are kept in the blood of trees.’
RUDOLF STEINER COLLEGE PRESENTS THE TIME MAP Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy 2015 - A transformative journey, enrolments open now.
Rudolf Steiner created a number of maps that can help us understand the life cycles of the world and how they relate to our own life. These maps encompass the past and the future. They orientate us, enabling us to work constructively now. They are the essential, guiding tools for teachers working in Steiner Education and anyone who wants to work creatively in the world. In this part-time course participants will learn the art of intuitive thinking, develop their capacity to think in pictures, distinguish styles in art and understand the religious and philosophic impulses working in different times. They will explore the history of ideas, the great stories, myths and artworks that have shaped the world, as well as their own biography. Students will learn how to write imaginatively and develop artistic expression in speech, tonal awareness, movement, painting and sculpture. In 2015: Tuesday evenings at Silver Tree School, Parkerville, plus two Saturdays per term (concurrent course at Bibra Lake on Wednesday evenings). For more information visit www.rudolfsteinercollege.com.au or contact Jennifer Kornberger [email protected]
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COURSES/WORKSHOPS/EVENTS LITTLE STARS THEATRE SCHOOL Little Stars Theatre School in the Midland / Hills Area holds classes in drama, dance / movement, singing, each week, for students aged 2 ½ to 16 years. Please email [email protected] for further information or call 0433 782 576.
JAIN108 MATHEMAGICIAN Jain’s approach at looking at the patterns of number and geometry are quite aligned to the insights and indications of Steiner. Jain specialises in tutoring and teaching children of all ages, including adults and is the author of 20 books about sacred geometry, "the mathematics of life itself". Jain shares his wisdom in a way which allows people to embody the learning by engaging both the left and right hemispheres of the brain. His workshops are highly experiential and lots of fun. Jain will be visiting Perth in November as he is increasingly in demand overseas. Please visit his web site http://www.jainmathemagics.com/default.asp to get a feel for what he is presenting. Workshop offerings for adults, teens and children. If you have any further questions please call Freya Sampson who is co-ordinating his visit on 0413 343 879.
LOLIVERS TENNIS COACHING Book now for TERM 4. Tennis lessons for children, age Kindy to 16 years of all abilities. Saturday mornings and Tuesday afternoons at Darlington or Friday afternoons at Helena Valley/Boya. Heaps of fun, small classes, fully qualified coaches and great tennis! Evening adult tennis training courses too! For more information, contact Lee or Lu at 9252 0209, email: [email protected] or visit www.loliverstennis.com.au
THE STORY CIRCUIT – Please note incorrect date printed previously
Traditional Storytelling for Adults - presented by the Storytelling Guild of Australia (WA) This month's Story Circuit features the well-loved Nigel Dickinson telling a selection of spooky and otherworldly tales. Nigel is joined by the Silver Tree's Melissa Harvey telling her favourite Greek myth “Ariadne, Theseus and the Minotaur”; the yarn spinning Kel Watkins with "The Phantom Bullock Drivers" and the fabulous Raelene Bruinsma telling and singing another exert from the myths of Inanna.
Friday 31st October at Soul Tree Cafe, Shop 2, 3-5 Railway Prd, Glen Forrest. Doors open 6:00pm for dinner, Show starts 7:00pm. Please arrive early.
Tickets are $12 / $8 Storyguild members. Please note: Children under 15 will not be admitted
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DONATIONS FOR BALI WANTED PLEASE Robin Lim is an internationally-recognized midwife, well-known author and talented poet. Her non-profit Indonesian birthing and educational clinics have saved hundreds of lives and delivered thousands of babies over the last decade, serving the poor and medically disenfranchised citizens of Bali and, far away, in the tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh, Sumatra. After 13 years of service and frequent financial challenges, "Ibu" (Mother) Robin and her organisation remain indefatigably committed to changing the world, one gentle birth at a time. Some of you may be aware of Robin Lim (2011 CNN hero of the year) and her Bumi Sehat birth centers in Indonesia. If not look her up, she is amazing! I will be taking a bag of supplements to the Bali clinic and am asking for your help to fill it. The request is for women's and children's multi-vitamins and spirulina, any brands are better than what is available there. You will be supporting a really worthwhile foundation so thank you for helping if you are able. Also if you would like to donate good quality clean clothing, please pop it in the bag and it will be given to children who really need it. Thanks again, Bonnie
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Silver Tree Steiner School Calendar – Term 4, 2014
Term 4 2014 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Week 1 13th Oct 14th Oct 15th Oct 16th Oct 17th Oct 18th Oct 19th Oct
Craft Group School Photos
Faculty Meet
PAD Meeting 7.30pm
Week 2 20th Oct 21st Oct 22nd Oct 23rd Oct 24th Oct 25th Oct 26th Oct
Kindy Entry Interviews
Kindy Entry Interviews
Kindy Entry Interviews
Faculty Meet
Kindy Entry Interviews
Class 5 Greek
Olympics Kindy Entry Interviews
Week 3 27th Oct 28th Oct 29th Oct 30th Oct 31st Oct 1st Nov 2nd Nov
Wayfarers Camp 27th Oct – 29th
Oct
Craft Group Teddy Bears
Picnic. All Staff Meet
School Tour. Teddy Bears
Picnic. Curric Journ.
Darlington Arts Festival
Darlington Arts Festival
Week 4 3rd Nov 4th Nov 5th Nov 6th Nov 7th Nov 8th Nov 9th Nov
Alchemists Parent Night 6.30pm
Class 2 Play 11.00am Faculty Meet
PAD Meet 7.30pm
Class 2 Play 11.00am
Week 5 10th Nov 11th Nov 12th Nov 13th Nov 14th Nov 15th Nov 16th Nov
Dental Van Screens.
Craft Group
Faculty Meet
Mid-term Break
Week 6 17th Nov 18th Nov 19th Nov 20th Nov 21st Nov 22nd Nov 23rd Nov
Mid-term Break
Faculty Meet
Week 7 24th Nov 25th Nov 26th Nov 27th Nov 28th Nov 29th Nov 30th Nov
Class 6 Graduation TBC
Craft Group All Staff Meeting.
School Tour Plant Fund Raising Feast
Week 8 1st Dec 2nd Dec 3rd Dec 4th Dec 5th Dec 6th Dec 7th Dec
Faculty Meet
Week 9 8th Dec 9th Dec 10th Dec 11th Dec 12th Dec 13th Dec 14th Dec
Craft Group Faculty Meet
Week 10 15th Dec 16th Dec 17th Dec 18th Dec 19th Dec 20th Dec 21st Dec
Last Day T4. Advent Fest.
Kindy Graduation.
For Craft Group please contact Sharna 0410 792 929
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS Wednesday 17th December 2014 – Friday 30th January
2015. Term 1 commences on Monday 2nd February 2015
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CURRICULUM JOURNEY
