Community Stories
Stories, memories and everyday moments shared by families, volunteers and the wider Spielwelt community.
These posts help show the people, relationships and traditions that make Spielwelt feel lived-in and connected over time.
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Spielwelt’s covid-19 response
The ABC news live COVID-19 coverage each day is a great place to keep up to date with the latest news in this rapidly changing and developing situation. Spielwelt has decided not to wait for ACT schools to close. We are taking action earlier as a precaution, especially given the knowledge of what our extended families in…
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Karneval is postponed
A 2020 community update announcing the postponement of Spielwelt’s Karneval event during COVID-19 social-distancing measures.
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We love the Arboretum.
We love the Arboretum so much, we have been a couple of times this year. We even helped launch their new network of trails and discovered there is more to the Arboretum than the fabulous acorn playground. We scrambled over big boulders and up the sides of steep hills, adventured into forests we hadn’t seen…
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Oktoberfest is coming!
“November is the new October” for our Oktoberfest. We will have all the usual fun, music and great food… together with better weather, we hope. Families and Friends of Spielwelt and the German language are invited to our Oktoberfest. Turner Scout Hall. Sat 9 November 2019. 4:30 pm to 10pm. Check out the link below,…
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The joys of volunteering
We really appreciate our volunteers at Spielwelt. Our parents (and of course the children) are what make our community so wonderful. While the organisation certainly benefits from volunteers, it would seem that the volunteers benefit themselves. For example: Each term, a parent volunteers to wash the hand towels for us. (We save trees and give…
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Haig Park Nature Playground
We absolutely adore the new nature playground that has been installed in Haig Park as part of the Haig Park Experiments. We really hope it is allowed to stay. Please urge the ACT government to let this amazing nature playground stay here in Haig Park. It’s awesome. And ask them to build more of these…
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German Story Night 2019
Story Night was another lovely event at Spielwelt this year. Children and their families enjoyed sharing delicious food for dinner, while chatting and playing in the playground. We then moved indoors for the main attraction: the songs and stories. Paul got us all singing “Meine Haende sind verschwunden”, with the actions of course, and accompanied…
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Oktoberfest 2019 for families
A 2019 invitation for Spielwelt families and friends to celebrate Oktoberfest with German food, community and family activities.
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Twinkle toes artists
GAP children explored art with their feet, painting, shaping play dough and sharing lots of playful conversation.
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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 carbon footprint and now save ourselves over $1000 a year. As our young GAP…