The End of a Fabulous Term of 'Living & Learning' together

This week is our final week together for Term 3 before our Holiday Program commences. Term 3 has been full of beautiful connections amongst our children, families, buddies and external providers.  We have celebrated Father's Day with 40 of our dad's and significant male figures, joined in the schools Book Week Parade, teased our taste buds as we have eaten through a rainbow of goodness, joined our Stage 3 buddies at Big School, launched some thinking around botany and planted 40 new plants into our garden, explored characterisation through storytelling, listened deeply to nature, met with Tommy and Temaana our new Aboriginal friends, written letters to Bunnings for their support with our Community Garden............... and these are only a few examples of the living and learning that has taken place at Curiosity this term.  Wow, what a term!

"All people - and I mean scholars, researchers, and teachers, who in any place have set themselves up to study children - have ended up discovering not so much the limits and weaknesses of children but rather their surprising and extraordinary strengths and capabilities linked with an inexhaustible need for expression and realization"  (Malaguzzi, 1998, p. 79 cited in 'Unearthing Why' by Britt and McLachlan).

Our children are without doubt a creative and expressive group of learners who seek clarity on their thinking and resource this in wonderful ways.  It is amazing to see children build relationships with materials and use them to bring expression to their thinking.  

The children of Curiosity are not limited by their imaginations and competencies, they are only held from expressing themselves when 'we' the adults put limitations on them.  I wish to thank our educator's who see the 'surprising and extraordinary strengths' of your children and work alongside them in some of the most powerful and genuine ways.

As this term of learning draws to a close, I look forward to the mysteries and wonders that will be explored in our final term together for 2024.

May God's blessings and health, safety and laughter be with you all as we enter into the holiday season.

Jacqui