Reddam Early Learning School
Newsletter 12th August 2022
Principal’s Message
By Christine Irwin
Dear Parents, Firstly, we want to give you a save the date for our, Family Breakfast to celebrate Fathers day Thursday 1 st September 2022 at 8am.
We look forward to having a member of the family come along to have breakfast with the children. It has been wonderful to see such a positive start to term 3. The children and educators have dived into their projects with much vigor and I have observed many experiments occurring in our classrooms. From measuring and pouring water to using our senses when playing with playdough and observing the layers of the earth. Dramatic play is still a big hit with the children and our team is constantly responding by providing learning spaces and resources to extend children’s learning. Camping and cooking in the home corner are fan favourites at the moment so you may see our pop-up tents in the upper playground this week. Children are also busy at the home corner kitchen dressed up as a caterpillar or fairy making dinner for their famlly. The Colours of the earth and surroundings are also being explored with beautiful learning environments provided for children to explore, where other classes are studying cultures and people around the world particularly focusing on our own multicultural community here at Reddam. Sensory play is visible in every classroom and continues to be a popular experience amongst the children. It is apparent that the children have been exposed to these kinds of experiences from stage 1 as they are very precise in their actions and strategies whilst manipulating the sensory material such as sand, rice, beans, goop, slime, playdough and shaving cream just to name a few. Sensory experiences are a wonderful experience for children as they are able to use their fine motor skills to manipulate the resources but also their emotional skills are engaged through the calming effect of squeezing sifting and sorting .