🌟 A Huge Thank You from Forestview Kindergarten! 🌟

We’re so excited to share that our final fundraiser for the year — our Sunshine Coast Shopping Bus Trip held on Saturday, 8th November — was a wonderful success! 🚌🛍️

Thanks to the amazing support of our families, friends, and local businesses, we raised an incredible $2,120! 🎉

These funds will go directly towards updating our Kindy resources and help with many projects that will make a real difference for our little learners. 💛

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us, donated, and helped make the day so special. We’re so grateful for our beautiful community.

In this deeply personal reflection, Teacher/Director, Louise Stallard from C&K Forestview Community Kindergarten shares her own journey as part of the 2024 Metro North Coast Global Citizenship Community of Practice, as well as the many layers of the centre’s Global Citizenship story. 

Our Powerful Question: “How can we support families to deepen their understanding of education through a global citizenship lens where dispositions (Qualities of Character) and a greater awareness of a global citizenship identity is highly valued to support their child on their journey to become a global citizen.”

Please see link to story below.

Supporting families to deepen their understanding through a Global Citizenship lens C&K Forestview

 Forestview Kindy would like to say a BIG thank you to Paul Beutel Photography for a recent donation of $150!! 🤗 Your continued support year after year means the world to us!! It is local businesses like Paul’s that continue to make such a huge impact on our educational program here at Forestview!! And an even BIGGER thank you to Paul for delivering our amazing kindy portraits and group class photos. They all looked fantastic (and you certainly worked hard and did some silly things to achieve a few of those
smiles)!! 📸

Wow! What a Fabulous Time we all had at our FAMILY FUN DAY! 

A special thanks to the following people for whom our Family Fun Day wouldn’t have been made possible without:

👏 Lou and Mel for not only your continued support and hard work in all fundraising events, but for your constant dedication and passion for our children’s education ❤️
👏 Amanda, Shanni and the fundraising team for bringing this event together 💰
👏 Mrs Yuka and family for setting up such creative Japanese activities and their Karate display 🇯🇵
👏 Mrs Emma for decorating our children’s hair and arms today 🌈
👏 Kylie’s Creative and Debs Facepainting for making so many magical moments for our children today 🎉
👏 Coffee Express Bundaberg for serving us delicious beverages ☕️
👏 Harvey Family for making such delicious cupcakes to share 🧁
👏 Zunker Family for donating so many drinks and zooper doopers 🥤
👏 Marsh, Roffey and Williams families for running around early this morning and helping set-up 💪
👏 To the MANY, MANY businesses that donated to our raffle prizes, which contributed to its huge success 🎁
… and last but not least…
👏 To all our Forestview families that helped support our event by seeking prizes, selling (and buying) raffle tickets and attending our event today… THANK YOU!! 🌟🥰

🌟🎉 SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICATION!! 🎉🌟

We are thrilled to announce that after three rounds of applications, Forestview has been awarded a generous grant from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund! 🙌💰This grant, totalling $34,458.00, will make a significant impact on our community by allowing us to refurbish the children’s bathroom area 🚽🔧 The funds will be used to upgrade facilities, ensuring greater inclusion and privacy for all children. This refurbishment project is a crucial step towards creating a more safe, comfortable and supportive environment for all children in our care!! 🌈💖

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the Gambling Community Benefit Fund for their support!! 🙏

Works on the children’s bathroom will commence over the Christmas holidays. So keep an eye out for updates later on in the year as we embark on this exciting project!!! 👀

Thank you once again to everyone who has supported Forestview on this grant application journey!! 🎊👏

Something to celebrate.

Over the past 18 months our Educational Leader Mrs Louise and our C & K Pedagogical Advisor – Carolynn Ireland, with and alongside the Forestview Team have been working on a Leading Global Competence research project which culminated in the development of our centre poster – We are Global Citizen at Forestview Kindy (see below and around Kindy). Mrs Louise presenting her research at the ECTA (Early Childhood Teachers Association) conference last year and then a follow up article being printed in the latest ECTA journal which is shared with fellow early childhood educators all over the state. We are so excited to see our work being shared amongst our peers and hopefully, just maybe influence their thinking and actions in their daily practice as we all work to support our children to be competent and capable global citizens. Periodically you will see us reference our set of global citizen values (from the poster) in our learning stories on Storypark to help you make connections to our work in this area.

If you are curious or keen, the ECTA article has been attached for your reading pleasure.