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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Fire Fighter Visit
Our annual fire safety inspection turned out to include a whole lot of fun and education for the children at the GAP. We were invited to explore the fire truck and ask a lot of questions. The fire fighters were very pleased to hear that we had quarterly fire drills and that we are “blitz…
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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 friends, and we like to share and be fair, so we gathered all our eggs…
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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 session, incorporate our favourite topics like friendship, kindness, resiliance, affirmation, inclusivity, adaptability, respect, compassion, being…
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Another sustainability award from ACTSmart
We were suprised and delighted to be acknowledged once again at the ACTSmart Sustainability Award ceremony this year. Last year, we won the Energy and Water Star award, and this year we received “highly commended” for the Small Business award, presented by ACT Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Shane Rattenbury. Spielwelt has made over…
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Youth led, adult supported
Pfadfinder has been offering more and more opportunities for our youth members to lead our scouting activities. As the youths progress from joeys to cubs to scouts to venturers to rovers, they are given more input opportunities and chances to practice their leadership skills. This doesn’t happen without adult support, however, and on the scouts’…
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German Immersion in Primary
Calling all parents and friends of the German language who are interested in setting up a German immersion program in an ACT primary school! We are looking for committee members, teachers, parents, individuals and organisations who are interested to make this happen. Read about the aims of the German Immersion Program Parents & Friends group,…
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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 Educator of the Year award in 2018. Almut kindly agreed to visit us at GAP, meet…
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Handmade Teddies
One of our beautiful mums hand-crafted these adorable teddies for us. They are the perfect size for each child to take one to snuggle at rest time. As we are keen to be green, we noted with great delight that the teddies were lovingly created from re-purposed colourful woollen gloves. The children and teddies joyfully…
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Leaders Honoured
Some of our Pfadfinder leaders and adult helpers were recently formally acknowledged for their leadership, enthusiasm and dedication. Our Joey leader (Kerria), Cub leadership team (Baghira and Gerald), and Scout leader (Nala) were each the very deserving recipients of Children’s Week Awards for their unwavering contribution to Child Development and Support. An excerpt from one…
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On The Cutting Edge
We love to be on the cutting edge at the GAP. So when one of our new families, recently arrived from Germany, shared with us that children in some German kindergartens are learning to use sharp knives to cut their fruit, we decided it was time to start our own knife skills lessons. What better…