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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Joeys Environment Night
Our Joeys were delighted to be part of an exciting environmental awareness night. ACT Conservation Volunteer Manager, Tatjana Schmidt, ran an evening of fun and educational activities. The joeys and their Joey Leader, Kerria, are already looking forward to Tatjana’s next evening, coming up later this year! We collected objects from our natural environment, and…
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Loving our Library
Our library was one of the lucky recipients of Lilli’s love and attention over the summer. The library underwent a massive re-vamp, starting from a huge jumble of over a thousand books, some on shelves, some stacked in piles, some stored in boxes under tables…. Our library now hosts what is undoubtedly the nicest (and…
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Foyer Renovation
After many hours of hard work over the summer, our foyer has been completely renovated. No more horrible cramped, dark, cluttered storage area. We have welcomed in a bright, open, cheerful, greatly enlarged space to work and play in. Each GAP child now has their own personalised area to store their personal items; Pfadfinder have…
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Thinking outside the box
The scouts and playschoolers all had a chance to ‘think outside the box’… and to think inside the box as well! We had a big delivery of cardboard to play with, and simple instructions: Build what you like! Suddenly, there were forts, castles, draw-bridges, sleds, horses, swords, tunnels, mazes and all sorts being built inside…
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Games at the GAP
A GAP activity update about playing board games and introducing children to early German classics.
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New Shed is Ready
The GAP children went on a little expedition around the hall, checking out all the renovations. Out the back of the hall, we found Saul from TotalSpan Canberra, up on the roof of our new shed, putting on the finishing touches. We waved to him and asked what he was doing up there. He replied…
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German Schultueten Tradition
Our 2018 Thursday/Friday class enjoyed their first day at GAP today. At the end of the day, the children all received Schultueten. It is a tradition in Germany that each child received a cone shaped Schultuete full of little presents, school supplies, and little items they will need for Kindergarten. Normally the Schultueten are organised…
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Schultueten on the First Day
As GAP opened for its 12th year of operation, an excited class of children received their traditional Schultueten. We are pleased to announce that there were no tears from the children all day. (We won’t mention the tears of one lovely mum, whose eyes were a bit wet with gratitude and relief as her daughter…
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Birthday Bucket Dump at Summer Camp
One lucky scout celebrated a birthday while at Summer Camp, and just happened to be involved in a water fight when this was discovered by the patrol leaders….
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Aerial Sock Wrestling, you ask?
One of the fun evening activities the leaders provided for Alpha Troop at Summer Camp was aerial sock wrestling. Two scouts would get into helmets and harnesses, and then stand up on milk crates so they were up off the ground. Once the scouts felt safe swinging in their harnesses, the crates were taken away,…