Haven Calendar of Events
See highlights below from some of the events we celebrated at Haven this term.
Don't forget to check out our events for Term 2 and Julia's recipe at the bottom of the page.
Save the date for our Mothers Day / Special Person Afternoon Tea! 7th May at 3pm.
Further information to be posted on Storypark next week.
Haven Events attachment below for important dates to note across the year:
Term 1 Events !
🔴 Chinese Lunar New Year
2026 is the year of the Fire Horse, we celebrated by making dumplings in Forest, decorating lanterns and fire horses in Field and River. Sun room celebrated with a creative Lunar year themed sensory tub. HAPPY CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR 🐎
🟡 Holi
Wow, Forest room sure celebrated this festival of colour in style. The children had a ball using the Gulal powder to make themselves and their educators rainbow to honour this Hindu holiday. Other rooms celebrated with sensory tubs and beautiful art projects.
⚪ Butterfly Adventures
Butterfly Adventures is always one of our favourite incursions, such a lovely experience for the children. They learnt about the butterfly lifecycle, enjoyed some stories, and had fun dressing up as bugs and butterflies along the way. The best part is getting to hold the butterflies and see them up close, which the children absolutely love!
🟠 Harmony Week with Journey to Africa drumming
Thank you to all who came dressed in orange and participated in the activities to promote Australia's cultural diversity for Harmony week this year. We had many activities and art experiences set up, including a visit from Journey to Africa, the children absolutely love following the beat and joining into this fun and interactive Incursion.
🟣 NOWRUZ 🟢 ST PATRICKS DAY 🔵 EID
🟣 Thank you Soren & Elena’s Mums, Mahsa and Pari, and Paris from the Sun room who visited Forest room to teach them all about Nowruz 'Persian New Year'.
🟢 Thank you to Kieran's mum Niamh for teaching the Forest room all about St Patrick's Day. They loved singing and dancing along with you to celebrate.
🔵 Field Room celebrated EID this year by creating beautiful lanterns, star and moon garlands and banners to be displayed outside their room to honour this holiday.
🔴 CFA
Thanks to the Fire Fighters from Rowville CFA who brought the truck down for the children to see, they had an absolute ball using the hose and learning all about how to stay safe.
🟡 EASTER
Always a joy for everyone. Haven's annual visit from the Easter bunny was met with laughter smiles and lots of hugs and high fives. The children were the best egg finders this Easter bunny has ever seen. Happy Easter Everyone!
Upcoming Events in Term 2!
Events in Term two are:
- Earth Day (Theme: Our Power, Our Planet)
- ANZAC Day
- Mother’s Day/Special person’s event 7th May 3pm
- Road safety awareness week
- Food allergy awareness week
- National Simultaneous Storytime – “Luna Roo: The Kangaroo Baller”
- Reconciliation week (Theme: All In - A call for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every single day.)
- King’s Birthday (Public holiday, centre closed)
- Beanies for Brain Cancer
- Dental Health Checks *Registration required
Recipe from Julia
Ingredients
- 2 cups oats
- 1 cup self raising wholemeal flour
- zest of 1 lemon
- 100g butter
- 1/3 cup honey
- 2 grated apples
- 50g raspberries
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180c and grease and line a 17.5×22.5cm slice pan with baking paper
- Over a medium low heat melt together the honey and butter
- In a large bowl mix together the oats and flour and lemon zest
- Add the grated apple and stir though with the melted butter and honey until combined
- Stir through the raspberries and press the mixture into the slice pan
- Bake at 180c for around 25 minutes or until lightly golden and the top bounces back when pressed lightly
- When the slice is cool, cut into 15 pieces.