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Parent Handbook
2013
Quick Reference Information (please remove this page and put up on your noticeboard)
Periwinkle Preschool Ph/Fax: (02) 6685 8898 5 Sunrise Boulevard, AH: 0413 006 899 Sunrise Beach, E: [email protected] Byron Bay NSW 2481 W: www.periwinkle.nsw.edu.au
The Director is: Ellon Gold Your child’s teachers are: .............................................................................. Your child’s start date is: .............................................................................. Your child’s days are: .............................................................................. Preschool hours Monday to Friday: 9.15am–3.15pm Office/Accounts enquiries Thursday: 8.45am–12.45pm Newsletter submissions Email: [email protected] Parent Information Evenings (please diarise in advance) Orientation Evening: .............................................................................. Parent Information Night: 4th Wednesday of each term, 7pm–8.30pm Parent Management Committee Meetings Annual General Meeting: .............................................................................. First Thursday of each term month, 7pm–9pm Executive Committee Contact Details (copy from notice board) Name Phone No. Email ..................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................... .....................................................................................................................................
Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 1
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“The preschool years, the kindergarten years, (the years before formal
schooling) are the most important of all in the education of the child.”
“It is absolutely essential that before we begin to think, before we so
much as begin to set our thinking in motion, we experience the
condition of wonder.”
Rudolf Steiner
Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 2
Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 3
Contents
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Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 5
THE CENTRE
Periwinkle History
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Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 6
Periwinkle Philosophy
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Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 7
THE DAY-TO-DAY
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Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 8
What to Bring
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Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 9
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Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 10
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What To Do When You Collect Your Child
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General Information
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Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 15
THE PROGRAM
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‘If a child has been able to play, to give up his whole living being to the
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devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.’
Rudolf Steiner
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Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 18
THE PARENT COMMUNITY
The Role of the Parent
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Parent Information Nights
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Working Bees & Community Care of Periwinkle
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Periwinkle Preschool Handbook 19
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READING
The Essentials of Rudolf Steiner Early Childhood Education
Adapted by Ellon Gold for Periwinkle Preschool from an article by Susan Howard. Susan’s article was published in Gateways, the newsletter of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America, 2006, and is an abridged version of a chapter in Mentoring in Waldorf Early Childhood
Education, published by WECAN.
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Love and Warmth
“Children who live in an atmosphere of love and warmth, and who have
around them truly good examples to imitate, are living in their proper
element.”
— Rudolf Steiner, The Education of the Child
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An Environment that Nourishes the Senses
“The essential task of the early childhood educator is to create the
proper physical environment around the children.
‘Physical environment’ must be understood in the widest sense
imaginable. It includes not just what happens around the children in the
material sense, but everything that occurs in their environment,
everything that can be perceived by their senses, that can work on the
inner powers of the children from the surrounding physical space.”
— Rudolf Steiner, The Education of the Child
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Creative and Artistic Experience
“In order to become true educators, we must be able to see the truly
aesthetic element in the work, to bring an artistic quality into our tasks. .
. . If we bring this aesthetic element, then we begin to come closer to
what the child wills out of its own nature.”
— Rudolf Steiner, A Modern Art of Education
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Meaningful Adult Activity to be Imitated
“The task of the early childhood educator is to adapt the practical
activities of daily life so that they are suitable for the child’s imitation
through play. . . . The activities of children in early childhood must be
derived directly from life itself rather than being “thought out” by the
intellectualized culture of adults. …The most important thing is to give
children the opportunity to directly imitate life itself.”
— Rudolf Steiner, The Child’s Changing Consciousness
”Children do not learn through instruction or admonition but though
imitation. Good sight will develop if the environment has the proper
conditions of light and color, while in the brain and blood circulation,
the physical foundations will be laid for a healthy sense of morality if
children witness moral actions in their surroundings.”
— Rudolf Steiner, The Education of the Child
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Self-Initiated Free, Imaginative Play
“In the child’s play activity, we can only provide the conditions for
education. What is gained through play, through everything that cannot
be determined by fixed rules, stems fundamentally from the self-activity
of the child, the real educational value of play lives in the fact that we
ignore our rules and regulations, our educational theory, and allow the
child free rein.”
— Rudolf Steiner, Self Education in the Light of Anthroposophy
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“Giving direction and guidance to play is one of the essential tasks of
sensible education, which is to say an art of education that is right for
humanity. . . . The early childhood educator must school her observation
in order to develop an artistic eye, to detect the individual quality of each
child’s play.”
— Rudolf Steiner, Lecture of February 24, 1921 in Utrecht,
The Netherlands
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Protection of the Forces of Childhood
“Although it is highly necessary that each person should be fully awake
in later life, the child must be allowed to remain as long as possible in
the peaceful, dreamlike condition of pictorial imagination in which his
early years of life are passed. For if we allow his organism to grow strong
in this nonintellectual way, he will rightly develop in later life the
intellectuality needed in the world today.”
— Rudolf Steiner, A Modern Art of Education
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Gratitude, Reverence, and Wonder
“An atmosphere of gratitude should grow naturally in children through
merely witnessing the gratitude the adults feel as they receive what is
freely given by others, and in how they express this gratitude. If a child
says ‘thank you’ very naturally—not in response to the urging of others,
but simply through imitating— something has been done that will greatly
benefit the child’s whole life. Out of this an all-embracing gratitude will
develop toward the whole world. This cultivation of gratitude is of
paramount importance.”
— Rudolf Steiner, The Child’s Changing Consciousness
“Out of these early, all-pervading experiences of gratitude, the first
tender capacity for love, which is deeply embeddedn each and every
child, begins to sprout in earthly life. If, during the first period of life,
we create an atmosphere of gratitude around the children, then out of
this gratitude toward the world, toward the entire universe, and also out
of thankfulness for being able to be in this world, a profound and warm
sense of devotion will arise . . . upright, honest, and true.“
—Rudolf Steiner, The Child’s Changing Consciousness
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Joy, Humour, and Happiness
“The joy of children in and with their environment must therefore be
counted among the forces that build and shape the physical organs.
They need educators who look and act with happiness and, most of all,
with honest, unaffected love. Such a love that streams, as it were, with
warmth through the physical environment of the children may be said to
literally ‘hatch out’ the forms of the physical organs.”
— Rudolf Steiner, The Education of the Child
“If you make a surly face so that a child gets the impression you are a
grumpy person, this harms the child for the rest of his life. What kind of
school plan you make is neither here nor there; what matters is what
sort of person you are.”
— Rudolf Steiner, The Kingdom of Childhood
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Early Childhood Educators on a Path of Inner Development
“For the small child before the change of teeth, the most important
thing in education is the teacher’s own being.”
— Rudolf Steiner, Essentials of Education
“Just think what feelings arise in the soul of the early childhood
educator who realizes: What I accomplish with this child, I accomplish
for the grown-up person in his twenties. What matters is not so much a
knowledge of abstract educational principles or pedagogical rules. . . .
[W]hat does matter is that a deep sense of responsibility develops in [the
educator’s heart and mind] and that this affects her or his worldview and
the way she or he stands in life.”
— Rudolf Steiner, ‘Education in the Face of the Present-Day World
Situation’, Lecture of June 10, 1920
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Toys
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The Doll: One of the most important toys
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