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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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 (Wer will fleissige Handwerker sehen? (sing along if you wish)) while the installers Carn and…
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Outrageous Picnic in Haig Park
The Monday scouts and venturers enjoyed an outrageous picnic in Haig Park. This wasn’t just any picnic! White table cloths, a candelabra, colourful table lights, classical music and black-tie waiter service were the order of the evening. All set up under twinkling coloured lights in the park at night. The scouts had each brought something…
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German Immersion Primary School update
Help the German Immersion Program Parents & Friends by completing their latest survey. The German Immersion Program Parents & Friends (GIPPF) have been very busy with their initiative: researching and working towards the establishment and implementation of a German Language and Culture Program in a new public primary school when it opens in 2021, comprising…
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Landscaping in Haig Park
In response to community consultation, the ACT government is trialling some changes to Haig Park. One suggestion was to formalise the walking tracks into paths. The Pfadfinder joey and cub scouts volunteered to help spread bark chips along one of the paths. Our Pfadfinder kids sure know how to turn work into FUN! Five cubic…
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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 was really fascinating and lots of fun! A special guest to the GAP went through…
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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 fish, fish eggs, snails, zooplankton, insects… What else gets into the water and how does…
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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 searching for animals. And guess what? We found some never discovered before! With the discovery…
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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 fun and healthy, and it meant less packaging was wasted and it was more environmentally…
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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 magic, and much more. The walk took us along a path lit by lanterns, to…
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Wiradjuri Echoes visit
Aboriginal Australian Duncan and his team from Wiradjuri Echoes visited us at the GAP, and we loved having them! Duncan spoke to us about Reconcilation Week and the Stolen Generation. We all agreed with him that children shouldn’t have been taken away from their parents. We talked about how we love our parents, and parents…