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Dear Parents, This week marks our celebration of the Spring Festival which acknowledges the joys and beauty of nature around us. We are blessed to be surrounded by nature to help us recognize the new growth around us, and music and dance become a natural expression of the inner joy we feel at the hope of summer after the introspection of winter. We look forward to families joining their children on Thursday (and we hope for some glimpses of Spring sunshine!). The continued stormy weather we have been experiencing brings to mind this quote from Henry Van Dyke; "The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."
This Friday there is no school for children as it is a PD day for all of the staff of all of the Steiner Schools in WA. Silver Tree Steiner School will join our colleagues in a day of learning and inspiration, including being very fortunate to have a keynote address entitled “The Mission of Waldorf Education” by Harald Haakstad from Norway.
I would like to wish all of our children, their families and of course all of the wonderful Silver Tree staff a restful and safe holiday. I hope to see many hands making light work at the busy bee on the last weekend of the holidays and everyone back ready to begin our final term of 2013. Blessings, Donna Bieundurry
CALENDAR OF THE SOUL
From deep in my heart this world I love – The green, green hills, and the mountains above,
The sea so blue and the sunlight gold, And everything that I behold.
And I become stronger as I grow,
For all of God’s Angels are with me I know. Angels of water, fire, earth and air,
Always stay by me. This is my prayer.
Wednesday 25th September 2013
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Term 3 Dates 29th July - 26th September
Spring Festival Thursday 26th September Early Childhood: 11.00am – 12.30pm School Tour 1st November 9.30am to 10.30am
Busy Bee Saturday 12th October
Photo Day 22nd October Curriculum Journey Information Night 25th October
2013 Perth Waldorf School Class 12 Project Presentations Thurs 24 October & Fri 25 October Pilgrims Camp 11th November Pilgrims Graduation Night 6th December
School Email: [email protected] School Administrator’s email: [email protected] Bursar’s Email: [email protected] Community Development and Enrolments: [email protected]
Phone: 08 9295 4787 Fax: 08 6230 5381 (Please include area code) 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
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IN THIS ISSUE
CALENDAR OF THE SOUL
NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOM Early Childhood Chatter Koorrdejenangin News Wayfarers News
NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL Spring Festival School Photos GEMS
P&F ARTICLE RECIPE OF THE WEEK
COURSES/WORKSHOPS/ EVENTS/CLASSIFIEDS
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
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NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOM ___________________________________________________________________________________ EARLY CHILDHOOD CHATTER
EARLY CHILDHOOD SPRING FESTIVAL Thursday 26th September 11.00am to 12.30 pm. BRING LOTS & LOTS OF FLOWERS!! Imaginations at work!
A Catapult
A Picnic
And Ships
KOORRDJENANGIN NEWS Do you know what a niddy noddy is? Have you ever heard of a lazy kate? We hadn't either until Maggie Webb visited our class and spoke about wool, carding, spinning and weaving. In case you're wondering, a niddy noddy is what you wind your skein onto and a lazy kate is a piece of wood with pins that the bobbins are put onto. The children had the opportunity to card wool and feel its lovely lanolin texture as well as watch Maggie use her spinning wheel. Thank you so much Maggie for your visit and for sharing your love of this old art.
KOORRDJENANGIN NEWS Cont…
As a culmination of our gardening and farming main lesson, the class has begun writing blessing verses, inspired by their gardening, nature, farm and animal observations and experiences. Here are a just a few – oh so beautiful - with more to come next term. We’ve all had a wonderful term together and I look forward to seeing the children, refreshed and relaxed after a lovely holiday break!
Anna Brindal
Lennon with 8 day old Buckley. Thank you Lennon and Kristy for bringing Buckley to class and telling us all about looking after goats!
Blessing by Jasmine Casserly
Thank you for the animals
Thank you for the sea
Thank you for the food
And thank you for the bees
Blessings by Sam Casey
Bless this farm, as animals come and go
Bless the seasons, as they flow
Bless the trees, as they let animals rest
Bless my garden, as it gives food of its best
Bless my school, as it teaches me the best
Blessings for my farm by Shelley Jarred
As I awake, the warm sunlight streams across my farm
I smile, as my feet get wet in the grass
I listen to the trees, as they tell me stories of beauty
I feel like I want to dance and then –
I start to skip and twirl and all the while my voice rings
out
I blessed all today!
CRAFT
We've had a wonderfully crafty term at Silver Tree with some really beautiful projects being completed. Here's a tiny peak at what has been created by some of the children over the last few weeks in craft - where jewels of patience, persistence, and wonder are cultivated and absolute joy abounds when the children come to take their work home.
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Primary School Spring Festival
We warmly invite all Primary School families to our Spring Festival this Thursday 26th September. The festival has been planned so that parents who have children in Kindergarten can attend both events, with the Primary festival beginning just after the end of the Kindergarten festival. We ask that each child bring greenery and beautiful flowers to make garlands. We look forward to celebrating our festival with you and welcoming the spring! Spring Festival Program of Events
12:30 - Spring Story in the top classroom
12:45 - Garland making outside
1:15 - Spring bush walk on our property
1:45 - Music performances by children outside on green area
2:15 - End of day verses by all classes - end of festival (end of term 3)
NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL cont…
POSTPONED PHOTO SHOOT
Due to extreme weather and a large number of absent students due to illness, the photo shoot has been postponed until the 22nd of October 2013. THANK YOU
Krysten Leopardi for your very generous donation of cart and blocks for early childhood.
SILVER TREE GARDENING AND ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE NEWS
MINI BUSY BEE - The GEMs mini busy bee planned for Friday 27th September has been cancelled. Please help us beautify the school for everyone’s return at our Term 4 busy bee on Saturday 12th October, the weekend before school goes back.
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P&F ___________________________________________________________________________________ SCHOOL SHOP / CAFE
Café contact Sandra Pickering 0417 180 263 or [email protected]. Shop contact is Donna Legge [email protected]. The shop always needs volunteers to help run it, please contact Sandra if you can help.
WHIM FESTIVAL We need cake bakers on 27th October, please put it in your dairy. Kite Making - please add your name to the roster on notice board if you can help our Kite Making stall at WHIM. 27th October. See The Kite Professionals Kindy dads Dion or Charles if you can help or [email protected]
THANK YOU
For the donations already received for the Swap Meet (17th November). We hope this will be a healthy fundraiser for the P&F, so please bring along children’s clothes, household items, bags, adult clothes, toys - anything sellable, to the donations box at Silver Blossoms. Much appreciated. COMMUNITY PLAY MAT Thank you again to those stunningly created little works of art we are slowly receiving for the play mats we will be putting together. We have received a little knitted field with red poppies in it, a crocheted haystack made by an imaginative student, and a beautifully soft felted rainbow. THANK YOU. Our play mats are going to be gorgeous. One of them will be raffled at the upcoming QUIZ & AUCTION NIGHT. There is a collection box for the handmade items that will make up the play mats on GUMNUT KINDY verandah, or give your treasured piece to Debbie Targett. SWAP MEET
Time to de-clutter and get the old Feng Shui in order. Don’t throw out your unwanted items, please donate to our SWAP MEET stall on the 17th November. Collection box on Silver Blssoms verandah.
UPCOMING EVENTS FOR YOUR DIARY
CRAFT GROUP Tuesday morning after drop off - contact Debbie Targett for more information – [email protected]
HILLS GREEN OPEN DOORS 20th October (GEMS) WHIM FESTIVAL 27th October MUNDARING SWAP MEET 17th November QUIZ AND AUCTION NIGHT Date to be finalised
To be continued…
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RECIPE OF THE WEEK ________________________________________________________________________________ Please email Emma Ritchie your favourite recipes for publication in Silver Leaves at [email protected]
Zucchini Parmesan Balls • 2 zucchini • 1 egg • 1 tablespoon flour • 1 tablespoon grated parmesan • Pinch of salt • Pepper Grate the zucchini. Mix the grated zucchini, egg, flour, parmesan cheese and stir well until you get uniform mixture. Form the mixture into balls. Line oven tray with baking paper and place balls on the tray. Cook for 20 minutes at 220 degrees. Goes well with a nice green salad and homemade tzatziki dip.
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COURSES/WORKSHOPS/EVENTS/CLASSIFIEDS ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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.
WEST COAST STEINER SCHOOL - SPRING JAM CITY FARM, SATURDAY 19th OCTOBER, 5 - 10PM. A family night for you and your sprites. Put on your dancing shoes and bring your instruments to join in the live jam sessions with... The Black Diamond Trio on piano accordian, viola and cello presenting a mix of Tango Neuevo and nostalgic old style numbers www.blackdiamondtrio.com; The Dukes with Class 5's Bruce Warner on electric ukelele, 3 more ukelele's, sax and drums presenting a mix of classics from Leonard Cohen to Iggy Pop. Our very own fabulous Kath Kelly and Margret Meremdino join forces to lead a circle jamming session. And The Maverick Quartet, an all sax Jazz ensemble, finish the night off with a mix of groovy Jazz and Tango. CirQuest will be performing, and running FREE circus workshops till 7pm. There's a Hool-a-hoop making workshop at 5:15pm (for $5) where your child (or you) can make their very own Hool-a-hoop. Our lovely SPRING JAM CAFE will be selling delightful meals, drinks and sweets as well as homemade JAM. With a fantastic array of raffles, silent auctions, spot prizes, door prizes and more its set to be a Jam good time!! TICKETS as usual are great value - $20 Adult ($22 on the night) and CHILDREN ARE FREE (with a free drink on arrival) www.trybookings.com/DOZB. All proceeds go towards the Classroom Expansion Project
PERTH WALDORF HIGH THIS FRIDAY – 27TH September, 7.30PM, PWS Hall (NOT 27 OCTOBER AS IN PWS PABULUM) Public lecture: "Finding Identity in Today's World" a talk by Peter Glasby: joint General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Australia, a High school science teacher for many years at Mt Barker Rudolf Steiner School in South Australia and now School Administrator at Samford Valley RS school in Queensland. Talk: "A Journey Through Unusual Mental Experiences' by Ernst de Jong Sunday 20 October, 7.00pm, PWS Library Ernst De Jong is a Consultant Child and Adult Psychiatrist and Chairperson of PWS in its early years.
WILDFLOWER WANDER,DARLINGTON
Sunday 29 September - Learn a few plant names and enjoy the spectacular wildflowers of Greenmount Hill. Anne Taylor from The Wildflower Society will be leading a wildflower wander on Sunday Sept 29. Meet 10am western end of Padbury Road, Darlington. All welcome. Please bring a pen and clipboard if you want to take some notes. Strong footwear essential. Bring own hats, sunscreen etc. Enquiries: Anne 9299 7025.
GUILDFORD VILLAGE POTTERS Workshops for children, 9.30am - 11.30am, Cost - $22 2nd Oct - Toadstool houses 4th Oct - Cats & dogs 8th Oct - Dinosaurs 10th Oct - Birds The children will create the project piece AND have a go on the pottery wheel making pots. Contact [email protected] or 92492362
ASTRONOMY TASTER EVENING
Every Sunday during October 2013 (6, 13, 20 & 27th) the Gravity Discovery Centre is hosting an Astronomy Taster Evenings to be held at King’s Park. Due to popular demand we have four new dates to choose from – so be quick to
THE PERTH WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY
Invites you to the 2013 Class 12 Project Presentations at
Perth Waldorf School Hall Gwilliam Drive, Bibra Lake
Thursday 24 October 4.30pm Stephanie Diedler – Can Grimm’s Fairy Tales Affect a Child’s Development?
5.15pm Christie McIlroy – In a Blink of an Eye, it could all be Gone 6.00-6.45pm tea, coffee & dinner available for purchase
6.50pm Zakara Duval – What is Equine Therapy and What are the Benefits for People with Disabilities? 7.35pm Wylie Johnson – Is Fantasy Surrealism or Is Surrealism Fantasy?
Enquiries: Mark Phillips – High School Co-ordinator 94173638
THE PERTH WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY Invites you to the
2013 Class 12 Project Presentations at Perth Waldorf School Hall Gwilliam Drive, Bibra Lake
Friday 25 October
5pm Tashi Hall – What is Creativity? 5.45pm Zebedee Bygott-Dwyer – Can Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication be Utilised
in Education as a Remedy to World Violence? 6.30-7.15pm tea, coffee & dinner available for purchase
7.25pm Anna McVey – Can Planning and Architecture be Used to Revitalise Urban Communities? 8.15pm Michael Blundell – Is Peace Possible?
Enquiries: Mark Phillips – High School Co-ordinator 94173638
secure your place! Bring along your picnic, blanket and torch to enjoy an evening under the stars. Our experienced Astronomers will give you a guided tour of the night skies and an opportunity to look through telescopes. A great evening out! Prices from $25 per adult or $45 per couple. Call 9575 7577 or [email protected] for more information! SCIENCE IS FUN – FREE COMMUNITY FAIR On Saturday 16 November 2013 between 11 – 4pm the Gravity Discovery Centre is hosting a “Free” Science IS FUN Community Fair to celebrate our 10th birthday year. FREE HEALTHY LIVING, EATING & EXERCISING INFORMATION EVENING
This FREE information evening will provide women of all ages with great advice for healthy living, eating and exercising. Join us on the night for information displays, presentations, a cooking and belly dancing demonstration! Come on your own, with your sister, mum or group of friends. When: 25th September 2013, 6:00pm – 7:30pm Where: Midland Women’s Health Care Place, 4 The Avenue Midland RSVP: Bookings essential as places are limited. To RSVP for this free event, email [email protected] or phone 9228 7444 CHILDREN’S HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS
Children’s craft workshops are on again with Evie, India & Maizy ex-students of the Silver Tree. We will be running two craft workshops during the holidays for children aged 5-11 years. Friday 4th October, 10.00-12.00 We will be making a woven spring purse. Evie and India’s house: 4 Burkinshaw Road, Glen Forrest. Friday 11th October, 10-12 We will be making embroidered felt animals. Maizy’s house: 715 Glen Road Darlington. The workshops will cost $15each per person or $25 for two siblings. Please let us know if your child is interested Evie/India on 92989754 or Maizy on 92996161 or email to [email protected]
WARMTH SEMINAR This is the last EC Seminar in a series of seven and the theme is Warmth in all its Manifestations, from the big picture of warmth in the social organism to the daily practices of warmth in the spaces and circles that the EC teacher creates, as well as the way child observation is undertaken. Storytelling as an art of warmth will be a strong focus. Full or part time attendance is possible. 8th – 12th October with John Stubley, Judith Schipkie, Horst Kornberger, Paddy Frere, Patrica Dougall, Fiona McVey. Ph: 9331 1880 or Enrol now at www.rudolfsteinercollege.com.au
SEEN AND HEARD
October School Holiday Events consisting of Hip Hop Dance Workshops, Games Days, Girl’s Pamper Day and much more. For more information contact Seen and Heard on 9255 2570 or email [email protected]
PARKERVILLE CHILDREN AND YOUTH CARE – ANNUAL KIDS FUN RUN This event will be held on Sunday the 22nd of September 2013 at the WA Athletics Stadium in Mt Claremont. It’s a fantastic day where children have a chance to help other children in unfortunate circumstances. By participating in Spring Forward, the Kids Fund Run 2013, children can raise funds for Parkerville Children and Youth Care. This West Australian not for profit organisation protects, treats and cares for children and youth who have suffered trauma from abuse. Prizes are awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each category (Boys and Girls). For more information or to register your child for the run, please click here http://www.parkerville.org.au/spring-forward/race-details/ or contact Nathaniel Lee on 9295 4400 or email at [email protected].
YOGA CLASS Sunday morning yoga class in Morangup. Nurturing vinyasa/flow, beginners are always welcome. Contact Bonnie 0477 076 235 [email protected] or facebook 'Indigo Yoga Perth Hills'.
MUNDARING LITTLE ATHLETICS train on Mondays after school, with meets on Saturday mornings. The season starts on Saturday 19th October. Register online.
THINKING OF BUILDING ON YOUR LAND OR DEVELOPING YOUR LAND? You may need the services of a local licensed land surveyor and active supporter of the Silver Tree Steiner School. Please call Peter of Naturaliste Land Surveys on 041 145 0784 or email [email protected] to discuss. LOLIVERS TENNIS COACHING Book now for Our OCTOBER SCHOOL HOLIDAY TENNIS CLINIC! Tennis fun for children, age 6 to 16 years of all abilities. 2-4pm or 4-6pm every afternoon for the week 7 - 11 October (week 2 of the holidays). Heaps of games, prizes and fun, small classes, fully qualified coaches and great tennis! For more information, contact Lee or Lu on 9252 0209 or email [email protected] or visit www.loliverstennis.com.au
GUITAR LESSONS Graham Ralins has been working as a fulltime guitar tutor in the hills area for 25 years specializing in developing the love of music through music reading skills and strong technique. Lessons can begin from the age of six. Please call Graham Rawlins A.Mus.A anytime for further information. 0419 341 251 or email [email protected] MUNDARING CRAFTY CORNER are running a School Holiday Programme for October 2013. They are offering small craft classes during the holiday period. Classes are 2 hours and $15.00 per class. Monday, Wednesday & Friday (No Public Holidays). Set classes for each day, kits supplied. Bookings are essential – 6 per class maximum. Phone Carol or Fay on 9295 1710 or call into the shop at 3375 Jacoby Street, Mundaring. PATHWAYS FARM is a local not-for-profit organisation. Our volunteers have grown fruit and vegetables for fund raising since the early 1970’s. We avoid pesticides whenever possible, only using organically acceptable recipes if the natural predators are being overwhelmed. You can find us at the Silver Tree market each Thursday of the school term. Alternatively, our produce is available at our property, which is located approx. 2 ½ km down Mundaring Weir Road from Great Eastern Hwy. We are 171, or look for the large sign set in from the road on the left hand side. Our specialty is delicious apples and pears, with a selection of summer vegetables. Also, we have a large range of beautiful homemade jams, marmalades, chutneys, sauces and pickles. We can be contacted on 9295 1339 or at [email protected]
Growing into Colour A Painting Workshop with Jennifer Kornberger
Saturday October 26, 9.00am – 1.00pm at Silver Tree Steiner School.
Cost $49.50 all materials supplied. Only four places left!
Contact Robyn Smith [email protected] to book a place.
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