Category Mental Health and Well-being

Setting Routines at home

Here are our tips for setting a routine at home, now that the family are working and schooling from home. * Set a routine schedule for the kids; it helps make things predictable for the children.  * Communicate with your…

Lantern Walk 2019

What a wonderful winter walk we all enjoyed. This year’s traditional German lantern walk was a magical evening. Many volunteers helped to put the event on: providing food, drinks, shopping, cooking and serving on the BBQ, cleaning, providing the audio/visual…

Ostereier suchen

The GAP children enjoyed a traditional Easter egg (Osterei) hunt in the park. We reviewed the German words for each of the colours we found, and counted them all up. There were “ganz viel” (lots)! We love to be good…

Mental Health initiative

Spielwelt has recently established a relationship with BeYou, a national mental health initiative with an enormous number of resources for families and teachers, to promote and protect children’s mental health and well-being. At Spielwelt, we promote healthy messages throughout each…

German Author Visit

The children in our Thursday/Friday GAP class thoroughly enjoyed a visit from Almut Weiler Andersen, her daughter Hannah and teddy-bear Rosa. Almut is a native German-speaking preschool teacher working in Sydney, and she was the national winner of the Early…