Announcement

Our amazing ‘Events Team’ of volunteer parents has put a “Capital C” in Community this year with two initiatives that model for our children the importance of giving, and taking care of each other.

A ‘Giving Day’ in late August saw an enormous amount of donated items from kindergarten families, go to young people in need, all gratefully received by Africause.

Wrapped in with our annual Christmas Party, the Events Team focussed further initiatives on those in need in our community.

A Christmas Raffle supporting MSFIN (Mums Supporting Families in Need) and a Christmas Toy Drive supporting Launch Housing.

The organisers were overwhelmed with the generosity of local Elwood businesses supporting our raffle through the donation of prizes.

Thank you also to all our families for their generous donations.

In Term 4 we have been busy exploring First Nations culture with a range of indigenous presenters. 

Local Boonwurrung custodian, Jaeden Williams, came to site to do a smoking ceremony and Welcome to Country with the children Storyteller Monty Boori Pryor, hosted a great storytelling, art, music and movement workshop and Sean and Lionel Lauch from Living Culture took the children on a bush walk teaching all about how the Indigenous people use the plants all around us…from bush tucker to weaving. Lionel played his Yidaki and his daughter Skyler taught the children some Australian Animal dances.

We are proud to acknowledge the Boonwurrung as the first people of this land on which we live, learn and play.

Each year the kindergarten celebrates books and literacy all week through the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s annual Book Week celebrations.
Children come dressed as their favourite story-book character and delight in the imaginative world of books and dress-ups!

This year’s theme was ‘Dreaming with Eyes Open…”

The poster featuring artist Jasmine Seymour’s illustrating talents captured this theme perfectly.

A wonderful week for all our children and families to celebrate.

We could not be more proud of our achievement!

The kindergarten was last Assessed and Rated by the National Quality and Assessment Division of DET over 5 years ago and was assessed as ‘Exceeding’ at that time.

In the intervening period, the criteria for the various classification levels were amended, essentially making it much tougher to achieve an ‘Exceeding’ rating.  The kindergarten has worked hard over the intervening years and following our visit earlier in February we were delighted to once again receive the “Exceeding the National Quality Standard” rating again.  This rating was achieved across all seven Quality Areas without exception – an outstanding result for our kindergarten!

It is always a pleasure to have Lionel Lauch from Living Culture visit us and take us on a guided walk through the foreshore, highlighting the significance of the local flora and fauna from an indigenous perspective. Each time we discover more about our own backyard and find something new. The children enjoyed sampling the bush tucker and learning about bush medicine. We practiced turning plants into rope and Lionel finished the day playing his Yidiki (didgeridoo) – with a mix of active dancing and quiet meditation.

The children at Lady Forster are clearly thriving, and are all over sustainability: the wormfarm and organic gardening – all on display”

Welcome …. Womindjeka

What a remarkable start to the kindergarten year at LFK!

After such a challenging year of isolation, it has been lovely to see children settling so well and easily into kindergarten life at LFK.

We warmly welcome all our 2021 children and families into the LFK community! With the new kindergarten year underway, our first newsletter of the year is available for download here.