Forestview Kindy is always a busy place! We have many amazing programs, educators and ideas and love to share some of these with our wider community.
We are very lucky at Forestview to have Mrs Yuka run our ELLA (Early Learning Languages Australia) program and as such we get immersed in lots of wonderful Japanese culture and celebrations – from language, to special events and learning lots of Japanese culture.
The Tanabata Festival, or Star Festival is one of those important celebrations we participated in July, with families and the kindy children writing their wishes for the year ahead and then attaching them to bamboo (supplied by Bundaberg Regional Council staff at the Botanic Gardens). Those wishes then travel up into the sky and we can reflect and look forward to the year ahead.
Bundaberg Now wrote about how Mrs Yuka and Forestview were instrumental in the first festival in 2020 and this year the wishes were included in the gardens as part of the celebrations.
You can read the article here
