Morning Star Kindergarten Spring Festival is up first on Wednesday Sept 9th.Preparations are well underway for the Thora Campus Spring Festival in the last week of term on Thursday Sept 17th.  Save the date. Remember life is much too short to miss an opportunity like Maypole dancing in the spring!  As in previous years we will be offering the Living Classroom from 9.30 am. This is where parents get to experience first-hand what a day in the life of a Chrysalis student entails. You will follow your child through morning circle and their Main Lesson with, perhaps, a few special additions! If you are new to the school we will…

The Term 3 Assembly is this week on Tuesday Aug 4th at Maam Gamambiya (school hall) from 9.30am. Class 3 and 4 will be performing and Class 1 & 2 will be sharing their Spanish.The workshop which follows the assembly will be run by Alison Scheef, our Bothmer Gymnastic and Extra Lesson teacher, who will be speaking about the Movement Programme at Chrysalis.The Movement Programme at ChrysalisWhat do we do in Class 1 onwards in the form or Extra Lesson, Bothmer Gymnastics, games and sport. Why is this programme so important? Things we will cover in this presentation:Lets do some Bothmer Gym (best…

We are very pleased to announce that Kendal Marsland, mother of Ethan (Cl 7) & Freya (Cl 5) will be joining the admin team in a casual role. Kendal will be responsible for parts of  the enrolment portfolio while Joanna is away on long service leave.  Kendal and family came to Bellingen in 2011 from Adelaide, where she worked as a project manager on numerous environmental projects and most recently as a sustainability consultant to the Adelaide City Council. Her role was to facilitate and encourage companies in the CBD to adopt energy efficient practices. Prior to returning to Adelaide…

The next few weeks are full of meetings. We urge as many parents as possible to attend. The class meetings form a vital bridge between the class teacher and the parent body. They allow parents to get an overview of the term's lessons. They allow an extended conversation around issues of interest to the class and they allow a deepening of the class community. We really appreciate the effort it takes to go out on a school night, particularly for those parents who have multiple class meetings to attend. So thank-you in advance! For those new parents - the Morning…

One of the feature Main Lessons of the Chrysalis curriculum is underway in Class 7 this week. The Birthing Main Lesson is a brilliant example of the integrated Steiner Curriculum at it's best. Weaving strands of PDHPE, art, story-telling, music and science together, the Birthing Main Lesson is an introduction to reproduction as a pathway to self-knowledge.The content  introduces Class 7 children, who are in their early adolescence, to the biology of reproduction, beginning with changes at puberty, bringing an awareness of the responsibility for, and science of, conception. The marvel of genetic imprint, the miraculous story of foetal development, the…

We continue to be aware that there are continued cases of  whooping cough in the Coffs and Bellingen region at the moment. It is not out of fear that we keep updating and reminding people to be diligent, but out of a consciousness that we hold for the whole community.As whooping cough is extremely contagious and extremely dangerous to newborns and the elderly it is imperative that we become more aware as individuals within our community. Take some time to read the following so we can support each other in knowledge and foresight on behalf of our children and the…