Spielwelt German Parents Association is a not for profit organisation running children’s programs in German in Canberra 
Spielwelt German Parents Association is a not for profit organisation running children’s programs in German in Canberra
One of our dads, Ben, is the Chief Operating Officer of the Invictus Games Sydney 2018, which will be held in October. The Invictus Games is an international sporting event for injured or ill veterans and active service personnel. Ben visited…
At Spielwelt and Pfadfinder, we are keen to be green! So far, we have made over 50 changes to our hall and operations, to be more sustainable and do the right thing for the environment. As with everything we do,…
Pfadfinder have been learning about the clothing industry and how it affects the environment. The textiles industry is a huge polluter, so we thought up some ways we could reduce our impact. Watch this space! One easy way to reduce the…
As delicious as chocolate is, the committee has recently decided to knock it from our fundraising campaign despite its reasonably good return on investment. Aside from the obvious questions about modelling healthy habits for children, chocolate is a luxury the…
Our recent chilly mornings have put colour into our cheeks and piqued the children’s curiosity about winter, frost, snow, ice and all things frozen. (No, no, not the musical Frozen… that’s a whole other story!) Today the children created some…
When we were contacted by a Year 10 student from Canberra Grammar school, who spoke perfect German and was interested to put in some community service hours for his school with us at GAP, we said, “Ja klar!” And we…
The Thursday/Friday GAP class enjoyed having our German biologist early educator friend Anke Maria hop in to visit, bringing her educational toys from Frogwatch. We heard from her friend Friedrich der Frosch (a frog puppet) about some of the threats…