Centre Information

Centre Manager: Shannyn West

Address: 146 Elliott Heads Road

Phone: 41 511880

What’s in this edition?

o Welcome letter from Shannyn

o What’s been happening

o October Birthdays

o This month’s celebrations

o Upcoming events in October

Public Holidays this Month

1st October –Queens Birthday

Hello and Welcome!

Dear Parents, Families, Friends and Children of LEAD,

Welcome to our October Newsletter.

Early Childhood Educators Day

Thank you for making Early Childhood Educators day such a special day for all of our wonderful educators. We were

overwhelmed by the wonderful responses from families about our centre and amazing educators. Being an early childhood

educator can often be a challenging role, but having the tremendous amount of positive feedback felt very rewarding for

all the hard work that our educators put in.

Christmas Holidays

While it still seems ridiculously early to be thinking about Christmas, I am hoping to start preparing for the festive season

over the next month. If you

already know you will be away for the Christmas period, please let the centre know via email at your earliest convenience. This

will allow me to roster on

appropriate number of staff and, in turn, allow our educators to make their own plans for the festive season. Thanking you in

advance.

LEAD Bundaberg

Educators

Centre Manager

Miss Shannyn West

Nursery and toddlers

Miss Anne , Miss Gracie and Miss

Susan

Junior Kindy

Miss Jodi 2IC and Miss Zheanne

Pre-Kindy

Miss Sarah and Miss Larissa

Kindy

Miss Tiarna

Cook and Schoolies

Miss Sina

Relief

Miss Kristey

For the month of October we are focusing on…

Quality Area 1 Element 1.2.2 Responsive teaching and scaffolding

Educators respond to children’s ideas and play

and extend children’s learning through open-ended

questions, interactions and feedback.

Have your say!

This can be achieved by:

• educators intentionally scaffolding children’s understanding and learning

• educators making use of spontaneous ‘teachable moments’ to extend children’s learning

• educators responding to children’s learning dispositions by commenting on them and providing encouragement and additional ideas

• educators responding to children’s ideas and using their interests as a basis for further learning and exploration

• educators creating opportunities for peer scaffolding

• educators noticing children applying their learning in new ways or between different contexts and talking about this with them in ways that

build their understanding

• educators modelling mathematical and scientific language and concepts

• educators using language associated with the creative arts

• educators joining in children’s play when invited, taking on a range of roles and co-constructing

• materials, such as signs that extend the play

Documents to support this includes:

• documented reflective practice

• documentation and monitoring of children’s learning, development, wellbeing and engagement

• project or inquiry work where children are given the opportunity to take the lead in an investigation or collaborate with peers, teachers,

family members and other members of the community

Here’s What’s Happening in the

What a wonderful month! We have welcomed Ivy to our room, helped to celebrate Isla’s and

Stevie-Lee’s first birthdays. Watched while Isla and Stevie learnt to walk, cheered on Spencer

and Kassima as they learnt to crawl. We have learnt all about spring time, creating flowers,

nature collages, lots of gardening, explored our senses with mud and water play and most of all

had a lot of fun.

We have explored our own cultures and diversity within our room researching what different

countries and different backgrounds we all come from. We created a fun map of the world

complete with our photos, flags and string to help us visually identify where we all come from.

We looked at our different features and completions, creating photo books of ourselves for us

to look at.

As many of you are now aware Miss Gracie will be leaving our special room very soon, we are

all going to miss her smiling face each day, Miss Sina will be taking over her roll in the room and

we are all very excited. We have spent lots of extra time with Miss Sina over the past few

weeks to make this transition as easy as possible. As always please feel free to come talk to

either myself, Miss Gracie or Miss Sina about and worries or concerns you may have.

Thanks Miss Anne

Toddler

Time

Hello Families

Wow – nearly the end of year already and look how much our Toddler children have grown and

developed. We have witnessed children move physically from crawling to walking, from lying to

sitting to crawling. Language and communication are also developing both verbal and non-

verbal as all children have a very strong sense of belonging to our room and are confident to

express themselves. Winter is now here!! Although it can be quite cool outside it is still

important that we get some fresh air and escape the indoor germs, even for a brief time. Thank

you all for bringing such wonderful warm clothing allowing us to get out and explore what

Winter has to offer. It is a real privilege to educate and care for your children and although I

don’t always physically see our Koala parents due to my shorter working hours, I hope you are

enjoying the Communication Books as much.

Junior Kindy

Hello again

Over the last month we have been looking at all thing’s construction from hammers to the big dump

trucks. We have been doing lots of art using construction as the medium, we had fun banging on cotton

balls filled with paint and even making tyre prints on paper using the small tractors from our room. We

have enjoyed dressing up with our hard hats on and building with the blocks to make huge towers

together.

Over the next few weeks we are going to be exploring our sense of touch by getting busy with slime,

goop, play dough, and much much more. We all enjoy using our fingers to paint so let’s get messy

together and see what we can learn through the different textures we explore.

Don’t forget with the warmer weather approaching to pack cooler clothes, nappies and a sheet set for

rest.

Until next month …Miss Jodi and Miss Zheanne

Pre Kindy

This month has been very exciting in Pre-kindy as we have been exploring using more

technology to aid in our learning, the children are actively designing and creating their own

robots in adobe illustrator to create a puppet in the end. The children all have been exploring

their typing skills and continue to work towards spelling their names the computer and

identifying letters. Now continuing to October, we will be exploring about our futures and what

we think we will be learning next year in kindergarten. What a great month of learning we had

using technology to aid us in our discoveries!

Thank you

Miss Sarah

Lots of learning over the past month in the kindergarten room which has been fantastic. The

children have loved involving in some letter awareness with a variety of activities that allowed

them to practise recognising letters, identifying their sounds and even have a go at writing

them. They also loved being able to string together letters to create words and meaning from

these letters.

After this we had a student from Tafe in our room, Tushi. With Tushi the children delved into

learning about water conservation. To begin with they did not hold much prior knowledge on

this topic but showed great interest in learning why we should save water and how we could

achieve this. They involved in many activities inside and outside to help make our kindergarten

environment more water conservative. This lead is to learning about the water cycle which has

also been a hit. The children are becoming very good at understanding how the water cycle

works and have engaged in many experiments to help try to see the cycle.

As we move into term 4 of 2018 we will start exploring the future and where we are going to

be in 2019. This will predominately be looking at school to help the children get ready for

school and exploring what it might be like.

Until next time,

Tiarna 😊

Another fantastic month with the schoolies. As promised, it was a slime filled September. The

children experimented with different textures and best of all edible slime. Our 'all about me'

tree is still in progress and hope to have it up displaying the children's artwork soon. There has

been a great interest in art this month, so heading into October the schoolies will be letting

their creative minds run free. Scrapbooking with the vacation care schoolies has been a hit, and

the colouring in competition was closely contested. The winner was 1st place Adison and 2nd

place, Jai. Enjoy your prizes! I look forward to another exciting month! Miss Sina

6th October – Stevie Lee 1 year old

13th October – Lexii 2 years old

5th October – Chase 3 years old

14th October – Ethan 4 years old

29th October – Arthur 4 years old

2nd October – Amirah 5 years old

4th October – Cassidy 5 years old

22nd October – Emily 6 years old

10th Double 10 day, Republic of China – the national day of the Republic of China (ROC). It commemorates the

start of the Wuchang Uprising.

•23rd Diwali Festival, (dates vary each year), India - the festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over

darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair.

•31st Halloween, Canada, United States of American, Japan & United Kingdom - dedicated to remembering the

dead, including saints (hallows),martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.

Monday – Queen’s birthday public holiday centre closed

5th – Light the Night 6pm at Neilsons Park – Community event

15th – 19th Monday – Friday – Nutrition Week

24th Paint the town Read – LEAD display at Alexandra Park 9.30-11.30

26th Friday – Day for Daniel, Wear red for Daniel.

29th Monday – Grandparents or Special Person Day Morning Tea will be provided.

31st Wednesday – Halloween celebrations, Come dressed for Halloween

Exhibition – Happy Birthday Play School: Celebrating 50

Years

August 11 - October 7

Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, 1 Barolin Street

Bundaberg, QLD 4670 Australia + Google Map

free

Exhibition - Happy Birthday Play School: Celebrating 50 Years Dates: 11 Aug 2018 - 7 Oct 2018 Come

inside and find all your favourite characters: Big Ted, Little Ted, Humpty and Jemima, as well as the

Rocket Clock and all the windows. Happy Birthday Play School: Celebrating 50 Years brings our

childhood stories alive. This exhibition is for all ages.

BSA Water Park

October 13

|Recurring Event (See all)

Bundaberg Swim Academy 25 Fitzgerald St, QLD 4670

Norville, QLD 4670 Australia

$4.50 BSA Water Park The Bundaberg Swimming Academy Water Park is so much fun! We can

highly recommend this water park for your under 10's!

These chipolatas are wrapped in pastry bandages to make them spooky in a very cute, yummy way.

24 chipolata pork sausage

4 sheet puff pastry

3 tbs American mustard

1 egg (lightly beaten)

method

109 Elliot Heads Rd

Bundaberg Queensland 4670

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Monster Burgers (just in time for Halloween)

INGREDIENTS

4 slices tasty cheddar

1 tablespoon olive oil

600g pkt Coles Finest Australian Angus Beef Burgers

4 Coles Finest Charcoal Brioche Burger Buns, split, toasted

4 iceberg lettuce leaves

1 tomato, thinly sliced

Tomato sauce, to serve

4 cherry tomatoes, halved

8 black olives

Shoestring fries, to serve

METHOD

Step 1

Place the cheddar slices on a clean work surface. Use a small sharp knife to cut triangles from one edge of each cheddar slice to make

fangs.

Step 2

Heat the oil in large frying pan over medium heat. Add the beef patties and cook for 3 mins or until brown underneath. Turn the beef

patties. Cook for a further 3 mins or until patties are cooked through. Top the beef patties with cheddar.

Step 3

Divide the bun bases among serving plates. Top with lettuce, beef patties and sliced tomato and drizzle with tomato sauce. Top with bun

tops. Place the cherry tomato halves on top of each roll to make eyes. Cut tops from olives and place on cherry tomato halves to make

pupils. Serve with the fries.