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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Musik mit Mirjam
The Monday/Tuesday GAP children had a fun visit from Mirjam recently. Mirjam comes from Switzerland, speaks German (and French), and is a talented musician and music teacher. She even used to be an assistant teacher at GAP, and kindly took time off her work at the Austrian embassy, to return to the GAP and give…
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Botanic Gardens Excursion 2018
The Thursday/Friday GAP class enjoyed an excursion to the Australian National Botanic Gardens. We savoured our morning tea out in the fresh air under some fragant gum trees, looking around in wonder at all the greenery, spotting birds, insects, plants and ponds. Our enthusiastic early-childhood-education-trained German-speaking guide soon met up with us and took us…
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Fire Inspector’s Visit
The GAP children enjoyed a visit from the fire-fighters today. No, the fire-fighters were not there to extinguish the large number of candles on our Director’s birthday cake… but rather, our annual fire safety inspection was today. (You know you have a great job when good looking fire-fighters visit you at work every year for your…
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Gruen, Gruen, Gruen…
There is a German children’s song about colours that starts, “Gruen, gruen, gruen, sind alle meine Kleider; Gruen, gruen, gruen, ist alles was ich hab.” (You can enjoy hearing it by clicking here.) Well at Spielwelt, we love being green too! This post celebrates and acknowledges what we have done to date to be GREEN,…
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German Easter Celebrations
The Thursday/Friday GAP children particularly enjoyed celebrating German Easter traditions. The children have been busy over the last week or so, creating and decorating an Osterbaum (Easter tree), crafting their own colourful cardboard egg-cups, dying hard-boiled eggs all different colours, creating adorable bunny ear head-bands to wear, and today we topped it all off searching…
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Enjoying our new taps and sinks
Over the summer holidays, Paul from JimFin Gas Fitting & Plumbing was very busy installing all sorts of treats for us. We are now enjoying a new junior toilet in the girls washroom, and double children’s sinks in both washrooms. Paul visited us today to put on the finishing touches we requested, by installing another…
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$20 feasts for Pfadfinder
The challenge was on. Each patrol was given $20 and let loose at the shops. The idea was to shop and cook a meal for themselves, for $20 or less. They were also allowed to use any salt, spices or sauces they found at the scout hall. Their scout leader was delighted to see a…
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Federweisser Fest 2018
Saturday’s Federweisser Fest was a big hit with the crowds who came to enjoy the good food, wine, music and company. From all accounts, the Federweisser (young wine) fermented especially for Spielwelt by Alex McKay of Collector Wines, was absolutely delicious, and a great treat for connoisseurs of such things. Folk had a huge variety…
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Pfadfinder welcome German exchange students
Pfadfinder had the pleasure of welcoming 21 German exchange students to Canberra on Monday. They are here on exchange for a week with Canberra Girls Grammar school, before moving on to a school in NSW. Pfadfinder held up our Welcome to Australia banner outside the scout hall when the students’ bus arrived. Inside the hall,…
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Outdoor Classroom
At the GAP, our teachers don’t wait for Outdoor Classroom Day to take our eager students outdoors to learn. We spend time outdoors every day! Apart from our own playground, we often have picnics and take walks into Haig Park (adjacent to our hall), or further afield to the local playground. Getting there is half the…