GAP
Practical guidance, family resources and everyday moments connected to German-language early learning through GAP Playschool.
These posts help families understand the rhythm, routines, culture and community around early childhood learning at Spielwelt.
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What’s happening at GAP in Term 3
This term our lovely Teaching Team has lined up great incursions for our Mon/Tue and Thu/Fri classes, including fabulous music lessons with our wonderful educator Michelle, who specifically designs the lessons for children aged 3-5 years. Furthermore, we had our lovely Anke Maria from the Ginninderra Catchment Group visit the GAP. As part of their…
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Lantern Walk 2022 – Plan Your Visit
The Turner Scout Hall and surrounding Haig Park will come alive with bobbing lanterns, excited children, traditional lantern walk songs, families socialising and delicious food on Saturday 18 June 2022, from 4:30pm to 6:30pm. Bring cash for food and drinks: $5.00 per German sausage; $3.00 for a baked potato; $2.00 for each mug of Gluehwein,…
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Over 3000 Volunteer Hours
Pfadfinder Scout Group will be presenting a special Certificate of Appreciation to the parents and families of Spielwelt this week. Since 2008, Spielwelt parents have contributed over 3000 hours of volunteer work to improve the Turner Scout Hall, and the number of hours keeps growing. The hours include time spent planning, fundraising, managing capital works…
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Turner Scout Hall playground mural
The children returned to their programs to see that their playground had been completely transformed by the addition of a beautiful mural. Many thanks to Byrd & Hoon for this amazing and delightful addition to our hall. The Fachwerkhaus theme (from the west and south sides of the building) now carries on into the playground…
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Working Bees 2022
Many thanks to the GAP parents who came out in numbers to the working bees in January. We accomplished a lot, cleaned, cleaned, cleaned, inventoried, sorted toys, repaired equipment, maintained the buildlng, designed and planned. It is an exciting time of the year when a lot of the dreams on the teachers and committee wish…
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GAP turns 15
The GAP children enjoyed some delicious German cake after lunch today to celebrate the German Australian Playschool being 15 years old this year! We have had an amazing first 15 years. We started in Scullin with two staff, offering one and a half days a week. We now have a delightful facility in Turner, employing…
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A-Z of Spielwelt in 2021
Here is an A-Z for Spielwelt in 2021, created by our fabulous President Tobias! A is for ACT Health, who used our hall three times as a vaccination pop-up clinic. The staff even left behind a lovely note in German for us! B is for Bilingual Education Alliance seminars: our Präsident, Tobias, spoke at two ACTBEA seminars this year on “Raising Children in More than…
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Lesson on Solar Panels
The Thursday/Friday GAP class got to learn about solar panels today. Local electrician, solar installer and GAP dad, Matthew Upshall, came to tell us a bit about his work. He brought some interesting things to show us too. He told us about how people could make energy by digging up coal out of the ground…
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Award Winning Teachers
The Teaching Team at the German Australian Playschool has once again received a Certificate of Excellence as part of the Community for Children Awards during ACT Children’s Week. The nomination for making an outstanding contribution to young people in the community reads as follows: “The teaching team at the German Australian Playschool, comprising Friederike, Gerda,…
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Playground Corner Upgrade
After years of trying unsuccessfully to get some greenery to grow in the North-East corner of our playground, we called in Canberra-based playground expert carpenter and educator, Aaron from Pallet Play. Aaron’s background in early childhood education combined with his artistic talent, experience with playground creation and carpentry construction skills were the perfect skill set.…