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TERM 2 Week 7

Monday 23rd MAY 2016

"The healthy social life is found

when in the mirror of each human soul

the whole community finds its reflection,

and when in the community

the virtue of each one is living"

From Verses and Meditations - Rudolf Steiner pg117

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** Dates to Remember **

PUBLIC HOLIDAY - NO SCHOOL Monday, 13 June

WINTER LANTERN FESTIVAL - Cassia Friday, 17 June 6.15pm

WINTER FESTIVAL - RSB Wednesday, 22 June 9-10.00am

WINTER FESTIVAL - Primary Thursday, 23 June 5.45pm for 6.00pm

start

LAST DAY OF TERM 2 Friday, 24 June

FIRST DAY OF TERM 3 Tuesday, 26 July

** School term dates **

Term 1 - (10 wk term)

Student start date: Wednesday 27 January

Student end date: Friday 1 April

1st term holiday 4th Apr - 8th Apr (1 week) does not include Easter

Good Friday 25 March + Easter Monday 28 March


Student start date:Tuesday 12 April

Student end date: Friday 24 June

2nd term holiday 27th June - 22 July (4 weeks)


Student start date: Tuesday 26 July

Student end date: Friday 30 September

3rd term holiday 3rd Oct - 14th Oct (2 weeks)


Student start date: Tuesday 18 October

Student end date: Friday 16 December



Fair Day

Wow! What a fantastic day. On behalf of all the teachers, staff and children I want to

congratulate and offer a huge THANK YOU to our wonderful parents for their

amazing work in bringing together this marvellous event. So much happens behind

the scenes in large ways and small and all contributions come together on the day to

create an atmosphere which beautifully represents the values of our school. I hope

the new format made the day less onerous and more enjoyable for everyone who

participated. The children spoke incredibly fondly today, during assembly, of their

experience on the weekend and they are genuinely proud of the efforts their Mums

and Dads who make it all come together.

The new format provides a learning experience between the old and what the future

has to offer. Notwithstanding this, it will always be the quality of the people behind

the processes that lead to successful outcomes and in that regard I believe we are

blessed with an outstanding community who can pull together at the right times for

the sake of their children.

Bell Shakespeare Visit

Last week we had a visit from the Bell Shakespeare Company. Friday’s performance

was a delight. Four highly talented actors performed an adaptation of ‘A Midsummer

Night’s Dream’ (Bottom’s Dream) which the children thoroughly enjoyed. There was

much hilarity and the children were greatly inspired by the professionalism of the

production and the skill of the actors. Our own budding thespians were greatly

intrigued by the stagecraft they witnessed and asked many interesting and relevant

questions at the end of the performance. In return the actors spoke highly of our

audience who were attentive, appreciative and responsive, not always the reaction

they get in different places. All in all a great treat for everyone.

Regards,

Brian Dodd

Principal



** BELL SHAKESPEARE **

Bell Shakespeare performed two shows for Classes 4, 5 & 6 last week,

declaring the children to be a wonderfully engaged and receptive audience. It

was such a treat to see the talent and stagecraft of 4 wonderful actors, who so

willingly shared their love of Shakespeare and their love of acting with our

children. The children asked great questions and in turn gained insights into

the world of acting and what it really takes to get to their level through study,

persistence and getting over the nerves. 2 out of the 4 actors were born in NT,

one right here in Alice Springs! Our children are beautifully inspired. Bring on

our play season!

Megan Hatton

Class Teacher

Alice Springs Steiner School

** The Pink Building **



The “Pink Building” is one of the original school buildings and has lots of

stories and memories for many students, parents and teachers. It is now time to

make room for new classrooms so we are keen to hear from anyone who would

like to share their stories or memories or photos of the “Pink Building”.

Please contact Di Newham (Governing Body member) on 0429 598946

Thanks!

** AUTUMN FAIR **

Thanks from the heart....

I wasn't at all certain on Saturday if we would be having a fair following the

tremor that rocked my bed in the early hours. I thought well even if we have to

operate out of a crater, in the oval, the show will go on. And indeed the show

did go on, thanks to the hard work you all did.

A few months ago, we started climbing with passion and love to organise the

school's biggest annual event and it has been a lot of fun. We will lose a

number of dear and valuable people this year that I have had the pleasure of

working along side over the last few years. Each year they give themselves and

more; You know who you are - Thank you!

We are so very much in the reflective phase and I am certain many of you have

brilliant ideas and suggestions to ensure its success for future years. So we

welcome those ideas and intend to create an appropriate forum for that

purpose. We need to hear from you, I already have a plethora of ideas of

how we could/would do it better.



I truly hope you all had a great day. It's by no means over, we will start planning

and processing to get it ready for next year. So please feel welcome to join in

with that. It is a golden opportunity to form rich and invaluable friendships. And

did I mention, it is a lot of fun!

Thanks a million to the parents, staff, governing board and friends of The Alice

Springs Steiner School for a wonderful day!

Kind regards

Zoe Fisher

(behalf of The Fair Committee)

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POSTER DELIVERERS

If you are one of the kind people who traipsed around town delivering Fair

posters, I sincerely thank you for your effort. It would be helpful if you could

send me a quick email listing the places that said “No” and any new places you

found that were willing to put up our posters so that I can update the lists.

LEFTOVER PRODUCE

There are 22 one litre cartons of low fat UHT milk for $1 each and

16 Pure Harvest unsweetened malt/gluten free soy milk $2.20 each

Regards,

Jenny Buckley

Publicity and Marketing

[email protected]

0408123283

** FAIR PHOTOS **



** Playground Equipment Fundraiser **

All future funds are to be used to improve our Playground Equipment, across the school.

** SCHOOL PHOTOS **



School Photos are scheduled for September 12th & 13th.

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE DETAILS TO COME!

** CLASS 3 Building Project **

The Fort

Class 3 is the time to learn about farming, trades, measurement, money and the art of

building.

The Project

Class 3s aim this year is to build a timber Fort for the school playground, for all children to

climb and play upon.

The fundraising

We will be using fresh produce from the garden to cook and sell yummy food.

~ PESTO ~

$7 for 200g of biodynamic basil and garlic pesto.

If you'd like some, please purchase from the Class 3 room.

~ SOUP TUESDAY ~

Next week's flavour is PUMPKIN

Class 3 children will cook a delicious pot of soup and bake

delicious bread rolls as a lunch order through the winter terms.

Please pre-order and pay for your soup with Yvonne in the office

no later than every Friday.

$5 per bowl with a roll.

Thank you so much,

Zara



** MUSIC **

Hi All,

I hope you’ve all had a great week.

The Fair

I hope everyone enjoyed the fair!! I was extremely impressed with all those students

who busked at the fair, you all sounded wonderful and added a lovely ambiance to

the fair!! Well done!!

Well done also to the Quintet, the two pieces you played sounded wonderful and I’m

sure everyone who listened to your performance enjoyed it!!! Well done!!

The Winter Festival

Our attention now turns to the Winter Festival, where the orchestra will again be

performing the second movement from Vivaldi’s Winter. The orchestra has already

started working on this piece and it is sounding good. I’m sure we can make the

performance this year just as good, if not better than last year.

Until next week,

Emma



** RUBY SALTBUSH **

HATS

Remember to bring your child’s hat we wear them all year.

ANGEL DOLLS

Please bring in your embroidered Angel doll. I have the stuffing and would like to

start sewing them up.

This week we started making felt necklaces. It was hard work. The needle had to be

pulled through the felt, then the felt had to be pulled along the wool. We were very

busy and we were able to maintain our concentration for quite a while.

Outside, we made grass and mud soup. It was lots of fun. First we cut the grass with

scissors. Then we put the grass it into the pot and using a large spoon we stirring the

soup. We had lots of fun discussing what could go into our soup and how to mix the

ingredients.

Have a good week,

Fran & Asta



** CASSIA ONE **

Dear Families,

The gentle breezes and chilly mornings in the last several weeks has livened us all.

Outside play has been a busy affair with sawing and sanding, digging great big

holes, making glue and constructing in mud play, gardening, swinging and climbing

the mulberry tree and lots and lots of running, playing games and having cuddles

with peanut the guinea pig. Inside play is a buzz with grinding nuts and stone,

playing with water in the kitchen, children snuggling into our dolly corner and playing

with dolls - undressing and dressing them. We’ve had children fishing and being

dogs, cooking, having foot baths, colouring in and craft. Always lots of construction

with blocks, cloths and play stands. Lots of scenes taking place in the River Corner

with cloths and props. We were lucky to have Jed and Eliza tell us about each scene

they built and Sonny and Alex tell as a Gnome Story. If children have set a scene

and would like to share their story with the class, I always support this by singing

“River Corner Story” and the children gather and sit around as the children say,

“Once upon a time….”

It’s very special and all the children enjoy listening to see how the story unfolds.

We had children working on their craft on Friday sitting outside around Edith basking

in the sunshine. Thank you Edith (Kaden’s Nanna) for rolling wool for the children’s

crafting projects.

In circle we have lots of movement, speech and singing. The children are enjoying

the challenge of utilising a bean bag around their bodies, over their heads, through

and around their legs, catching and throwing and balancing bean bags on their head

while walking, clapping, being on tippy toes and stomping. We’ve had Old Father

Yabby finding juicy toes, we’ve been jumping over stepping stones, listening to mice

tapping on our wee front door, playing peek a boo with a cheeky Bilby, looking

through our garden gate and waving to our friends upside down, lots of star jumps,

arms horizontal and vertical, pretending to be ants in ant hills and taking turns being

poor little ducks being stuck in the mud. These are great ques to ask your child about



their morning in circle. They have loved this circle, lots of challenges, balancing,

focus, singing, speech and lots of smiles and giggles. For me, a major work out!

A big thank you to all the families that bring in plants, flowers and things from nature

every week. The nature table and our dining table always looks lovely. We have a

few spots left, please put your name down.

One of the verses the children love saying:

There’s a mouse, there’s a mouse, and he comes to my house. (Tiny ‘m’ near

mouth)

He’s tap, tap, tapping at my wee front door. (Use two fingers to tap on palm of each

hand)

But when I finally open it, he isn’t there at all. (Look down and slide toes apart then

back together)

Please bring an Apple every Friday. We had several banana’s show up, we can’t

slinky banana’s, and I wish we could!

HIKE TOMORROW. Long pants and a hat.

Have a wonderful week.

Warmly,

Cherie and Neens

** CASSIA TWO **

• WHAT A LOVELY FAIR AND WHAT A GREAT LAWN SALE!

• THANK YOU TO ALL IN CASSIA AND OUR GREAT STALL

COORDINATORS.

• Snapshot of last week: Pax’s mum, brother, grandma and great grandma

came to school on Monday and Tuesday mornings. They are also Ngala’s

nanna and aunty. Together we went for a walk and picnic, picked eremophila

freelingii leaves (arrethe) on the hills and made bush medicine. We ground the

leaves and soaked them in nourishing oils. The next day we heated this and

added local beeswax. The room was filled with the astringent smell, well-

moisturized children and happy contented faces as we all enjoyed the

company of extended family, playing, eating, drawing and working together.

All the Cassia classrooms now have this lovely rubbing cream available to use

for sore muscles, minor abrasions and bruises. Thank you to our visitors!



We also took in the story of little red riding hood, painted rocks for the fair at

the instigation of the dear children who badly wanted to contribute too(!) , ate

our dried apples, and exercised our whole body at circle time doing tricky

things with beanbags.

Love from Susanne and Jemma

** CASSIA THREE **

"This week there is no newsletter contribution for your class."

** CLASS ONE **

On Friday we had a visit from two beautiful Chilean ladies, what a treat we

had with Marionette and her sister Carol coming in to share some

language, fashion, culture and sweet treats to eat from Chile. We danced

two traditional dances, asked how to say lots of things in Spanish, some of

my favorite requests were: in Spanish, how do you say: Guineapig ? Can I

have a sandwich? You have a beautiful dress. Socks? Toes? Gracias

Marionette, Carol and Ammon.

Thank you also to all the class one families for helping on the class one

pancake fair stall! What a delicious success!

Blessings on our week,

Trudi



** CLASS TWO **

Congratulations one and all on a magnificently beautiful fair, it was a

splendid day, full of joy and deliciousness, I hope you all enjoyed

yourselves. Class 2 families you did us proud with the fabulous tea and

cake stall full of delicacies made with so much love. Thank you to

everyone for all your hard work, especially Adlin and Dustin for your

extremely efficient, attentive and convivial job coordinating the stall. Your

great sense of humour and graciousness are much appreciated, gracias.

Class 2 children, well done for your super performance, you were

amazing!

This week we leave the world of Sticky's maths adventures to embark on a

new main lesson ' Saintly Lives'. We begin with the story of Buddha, on his

journey of enlightenment....

Best wishes

Adelaide



** CLASS THREE **

Thank you families for all you contributions to make the fair such a

wonderful day!!



Some comments from the children..

Nellie, "the pancakes were really yummy"

Monique, " I liked the lawn sale and the craft stall"

Pasco, "the bow and arrow I bought was really good because the strIng

was strong and tight so the arrow went really far. I also got some really

good books at the lawn sale. I like books."

Marley, "I loved the bacon and egg roll,"

Danny, "I loved the bacon and egg roll too!"

Trent, "I liked the bow and arrows,"

Callum, "I liked the maze"

Jessie, "I love everything about the fair!!"

Regards,

Zara

HARVESTING THE 'GORDS' TODAY

** CLASS FOUR **

What a wonderful time was had at the fair! The magic of this day for the

children is so apparent in their faces. Many, many thanks to all parents for

their hard work before and during the day. Thank you also to those who

brought along last year's building projects for the display.



I was so proud of the class and their performance of Banjo Patterson's

'Mulga Bill's Bicycle'. Such a long poem to memorize is no mean feat, and

to deliver it with such passion and enthusiasm was a real pleasure to see.

I was pleased with the delivery of the Apusky Dusky song too. The

children managed well with their various instruments and both melody and

harmony parts.

Back in the open classroom I was also very proud of the Class 4 display of

work. The paintings, crafts and bookwork were favourably commented on,

and interested people kept wandering in all day, asking questions.

In friendship

Katy

** CLASS FIVE **

Thank you all for your wonderful effort in making the fair happen! It was a

great day and the kids enjoyed themselves immensely. What a rich story

is being woven into their childhoods through the fair. Thanks to all who

helped with the bow and arrow making, stall set up- especially the Maze,

manning our stall and making the notorious juggling balls. A special

thanks needs to go out to Dustin and Adlin, Terry, John, Ben, Rohan and

Kathleen.

I hope everyone enjoyed a relaxing bath or sleep after it all! I certainly

was horizontal for a while. Till next year- we are on curries!

Last week the children enjoyed two performances by the bell Shakespeare

company. They were completely outstanding and the children saw just

what you can do with so few props and great acting.

We begin our ancient Egypt main lesson this week which the children



have been so keen for. At the end of the week I will send home their

research project which will be due in the last week of school.

Have a lovely week!

Saludos,

Bess

** CLASS SIX **

A huge thank you and congratulations to all the wonderful Class 6 parents,

students, siblings and friends for such a successful fair. The curries were

delicious, the set up and pack up amazing, the cakes and baked goodies

scrumptious, and the welcoming committee were wonderful. In fact, I was

very proud of the way Class 6 took on the role of the welcoming

committee. They had a roster to fill and a job to do. Some students went

above and beyond expectations this year with extra shifts and

volunteering to help at other stalls and at pack up time. Thank you Class

6. I was also very proud of the children in their performance as I’m sure

you were too if you had a chance to see them.

To bring our Business Maths Main Lesson into the real world, Class 6

went to NTLINK last week. Libby Prell and her wonderful staff offered us a

great opportunity to crunch some real numbers and get a perspective of

what business really involves. With high-vis vests on, the children were in

the yard counting stock and doing the math, with numbers longer than

phone numbers! It was hands on learning at its best, and the children

were completely engaged. A huge thank you to Libby, Nicole and

Charlotte from NTLINK for all the preparation and time they gave us, as

well as the well-devoured morning tea they provided.

This week we will return to Ancient Rome to follow some of the triumphs of

Julius Caesar. It is timely to return to Rome as projects start coming in to

be presented to the class. Please help your child/ren tie up loose ends

and practice their presentations. Everyone has to present before Friday

week (June 3). If you would like to be with us for your child’s presentation

please email me to book a time.

I will be away with the Alice Springs Region U12 Boys soccer team in

week 9. Melissa Kerl will be with the class from Monday to Thursday, and I

will be back in time for the Inter-school Athletics Carnival on Friday June

10 (more info on this next week).

Megan x



** MORE FAIR PHOTOS **

Our Steiner 'Recycling Team'

Little Kids activites

Curries



** TENDER **

The Alice Springs Steiner Association is seeking tenders to buy and remove the old

Class 6 double demountable.

This building is being sold and removed to make way for a new double classroom.

The terms of the tender are:



• The building is being sold in a “as is, where is” condition. The school offers no

warranty or guarantee as to the condition of the building.

• The successful tenderer is to remove the building by 4th July 2016

• The site is to be left clean of any debris.

• All removal costs are to be met by the successful tenderer.

• The building includes: 2 split system air conditioners and 1 evaporate system

(it has not been used for several years).

It excludes the water tank.

• All tenders will be treated as confidential.

** DENTAL **

The Department of Health (DoH) provides a FREE dental service to all children

attending primary school. If your child/children require a check-up or treatment,

please contact Flynn Drive Dental Centre on 89516713 to make an

appointment. A parent or guardian MUST attend with their child/children.



** 2017 St.Philips Enrolments NOW OPEN **

Appliations are now open for Year 7 (2017) Enrolments.

Please visit the St.Philips school reception to pick up an information pack.

For further information contact:

Carol Leesong - Registrar

e: registrar@[email protected]

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