Lisa St

Lisa St

Our award winning teachers

This week, the GAP teachers were presented with award certificates from the 2018 Children’s Week Awards.  The teaching team had been nominated for a Child Development Award, for significantly improving young people’s opportunities to learn and grow. The inscription accompanying the…

Outdoor Classroom Day 2018

The children at GAP enjoyed participating in a global initiative called Outdoor Classroom Day on November 1st. We enjoyed some time to explore the trees, sticks, grasses, leaves, pine needles, bits of bark, insects, fresh air and sunshine in our surrounding…

Pfadfinder visits Cotter Dam

A selection of Pfadfinder joeys, cubs and scouts enjoyed a very informative evening tour of the  Cotter Dam, with tour guide Kate of ICON Water. Kate, with the help of a blue rope to represent the waterway, an enormous map…

Story Night 2018

What better way to spend a warm spring evening than at the annual German story night?  The evening kicked off with outdoor play and a light dinner before we all ventured inside for the story telling.  Children and adults alike…

Visit from Inner North Playschool

In Term 4, the Monday/Tuesday GAP class hosted the children and teachers from Inner North Playschool at GAP for a day.  We all enjoyed the experience, and learned a lot from each other. We welcomed our new friends and showed…

Preparing for Kindergarten

From Term 4 onwards, we start preparing our older children for their transition to Kindergarten at ‘big school’.   We offer more ‘reading, writing and arithmetic’ in their day, and predictably there are children who prefer to play outdoors, and other…