Welcome to our monthly Newsletter! We are all looking forward to another wonderful month here at Bush school. April came with lots of excitement. Our Prep room started visiting their friends from Nazareth House. This will be ongoing throughout the year. Prep also ventured out into our community for an excursion to Anzac Park on the 24th April 2025. Our children proudly laid some wreaths they had made at the gates. This was to Honor, celebrate and to remember all those who have served our country so proudly. For those serving, Our Poppins community say’s ‘Thank you’. We also held an ANZAC day BBQ for all the children that attended the centre on Thursday. The Sausages were delicious, and our children loved them. Thank you Miss Nellie for cooking the sausages. This month, May we are holding our Photo week from the 19th – 23rd. We have changed the month this year to do autumn leaves as our background in the photos📸. Steps Vision Screening will be coming on the 27th May to do free vision tests for our 4 -5-year-old children. If families are interested a local lady is holding a walk to support bladder cancer on the 18th May (please see attached leaflet with newsletter)
Nazareth House Prep Excursions
The Prep children have reunited with their favourite Nazareth house residents this year through the wonderful program we started in 2024. The idea for this program was inspired by an ABC docuseries ‘Old Peoples Home for 4 Year Olds’. If you have a chance to watch this, I highly recommend as it highlights the importance of intergenerational care programs and the benefits for not only our children but the elderly community. This has been a passion project of Miss Eliza’s for over 12 months now and we are delighted to offer this opportunity to the Prep group this year. The lasting impression these visits have had on the children is evident as they excitedly tell their educators, peers and parents who they are going to go and visit and special memories they have created with the residents. I believe this will only extend this year as the children have grown, so has their confidence. This was evident within the first visit we had to our elderly friends as the smiles and energy was infectious. The children were so excited to see familiar faces and update them all on their lives after 5 months without visiting. It was also wonderful to hear feedback from the carers of Nazareth House who explained how much they have truly missed seeing the children’s faces and how they have noticed a difference in the residence when they do not receive visits from our Poppins community. Our first visit was centred around the Easter celebration, so we are looking forward to our next visit where we can focus more on extending our relationships
