Category GAP

Twinkle toes artists

The children at the GAP got to enjoy some artistic experiences as usual last week, but this time only using their feet. Imagine using your toes to paint, hold a paint brush, or try to knead and shape play dough!…

A Fair Chomp

Some of the children at the GAP joined their teacher Lisa-Marie starring in an ActSmart video to share one of our tips about being green. By replacing our old bar heaters for more efficient reverse cycle heaters, we have reduced…

Our Solar Panels are on

Some say the Turner Scout Hall is a power house of energy and sunshine! That’s all the more true since our solar panels went on today. The children at the GAP sang a traditional German children’s song about busy tradespeople…

Frozen Rainbows

In Lisa-Marie’s latest lesson about colours and colour-mixing, the children had a great time painting with blocks of frozen paint. As the little blocks melted, we could paint and mix more and more colours into our works of art. It…

Environmental Scientists

The GAP children had an amazing time learning about water, with our resident environmental expert, Paul Doyle. We wondered, what lives in the rivers? Ducks, fish, platypus, swans, water fowl, yabbies…. What do those animals eat? Small water bugs, small…

Field Biologists at work

In the past weeks, the GAP children have been talking about sciences like biology, chemistry and geophysics, and performing fun experiments in class. The children are always keen to explore outdoors, so…. We ventured out into the field as biologists…

Rainbow Pizza

The Monday-Tuesday GAP class thoroughly enjoyed learning about colours and vegetables, with Lisa-Marie’s innovative lesson about making a rainbow pizza. We did this in small groups so that everyone had an opportunity to participate. Making our own vegetarian pizza was…