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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Lantern Walk 2018
Sankt Martin was seen galloping about on his trusty horse on Sunday night in Haig Park, amidst the many children and families with their beautiful lanterns, at this year’s German Lantern Walk. Many Spielwelt families and their guests rugged up and braved the authentic-German-winter night air, to join the festivities. There was music throughout the…
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Occupations
The children at the GAP have been learning about various occupations in our community. They enjoyed baking and selling their delicacies at the Lecker Baeckerei bakery, styling our teachers at Fritz Frisur’s hairdressing shop, selling goods at our grocery shop, engineering new buildings at our Bob der Baumeister construction site… … doing administrative work and stamping…
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Sweet Garden Surprise
We had a visit from some secret garden fairies yesterday. While the children were busy inside, a merry band of volunteers from Bunnings arrived and installed a sweet garden surprise outside for us! The Bunnings volunteers, under the direction of one of their activity organisers studying to work in early education, have been busy preparing…
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German Social Groups in Canberra
Did you know there are heaps of great social groups for German speakers of all ages here in Canberra? The Stammtisch meets once a month at Tilley’s. Tag-along children are welcome, too. Stammtisch is also on Facebook. There is a German Book Club which meets in its members’ homes, usually with a glass of wine to accompany good discussion about books.…
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Bake Sale: the Sweet Taste of Success
A big thank you to all those who volunteered their time and cooked, baked and donated lovely baked treats; and to those who volunteered their time to manage the cake stall last Sunday. We had a lovely sunny start to the day, and the event was a great success. All those lovely treats, beautifully packaged,…
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Sweet chefs at GAP
The Thursday/Friday GAP children have been busy refining their Austrian/German culinary skills. There are so many ingredients to learn the German names of, and to smell, examine, discuss, weigh, measure, stir, pour, and taste when baking at the GAP! The class really enjoyed making and eating delicious Kaiserschmarrn (literally translated as Emporer’s mess) and Apfelmus (apple…
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ACTSmart Sustainability Award Winner
Congratulations to all our families, children, scouts, teachers, coordinators, committee and scout leaders: We won! Spielwelt and our Pfadfinder scout group were the proud recipients of the ACT Smart Sustainability Award’s Energy and Water Star award for 2018. The award was presented by the very supportive ACTSmart team and the ACT Minister for Climate Change…
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Therapy Dog Visits
We were delighted to have visits from “Brown Dog” and his psychologist friend Matt, from Sage Psychology, for both our classes this month. After gentle introductions, the children decided it would be fun to have Brown Dog join them in the circle, so into the circle he went and sat down on one of the…
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Muttertag / Mothers’ Day 2018
The children have been busy at GAP preparing for Mothers’ Day, making beautiful bookmarks using items collected from nature. In one of our classes, the children started by glueing beautiful autumn leaves onto a big poster. The colourful group of leaves reminded us how the mums at GAP are also one big wonderful colourful community together,…
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Australian Aboriginal Visit
The Thursday/Friday GAP children were educated and entertained today by Duncan Smith OAM and his colleagues Lorraine and Jakida, from the Australian Aboriginal educational group, Wiradjuri Echoes. At first some of us were a bit shy, but we soon warmed to our guests as they had all sorts of fun things to show us and…