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27
Aug

2024 MCH Gala Night fundraiser

      The long-anticipated Saturday 10th of August finally dawned and by 4pm over 25 MCH families gathered together at the Bardon Bowls Club for our Gala Night fundraising event, the biggest of the year. The venue was looking colourful with the children’s Social Butterfly display for #qldchildprotectionweek kindly installed by Margot (Sabrina). The Pizza van was busy creating

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19
Oct

Auction Items and Raffle Prizes

We are counting down the days to our Family Breakfast, on Sunday 22nd October at Grey Gum picnic area Mt Coot-tha, 9.30-11.30. Generously sponsored by Caroline Brown Property AUCTION We will hold an auction with clipboard bidding from Monday and a last call at 11am at the Family Breakfast. Auction items to be sold on the day include; 1. Nota

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29
Jan

Trivia night fundraiser

Trivia night fundraiser We did it!!! Thank you to the MCH staff, families & friends plus our INCREDIBLE donors that helped us put together our amazing Gala Fundraiser. Our Raffle, Auction and Trivia Night raised over $7,500!!!!!!! Thanks to the support from our community we raised $1740 in ticket sales. Thank you to our Trivia Night sponsors Main Sponsor –

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29
Jan

Environment and Sustainability Plan

Created 2022/ updated 2023       Montessori Children’s House Environmental and Sustainability Plan           Acknowledgement of Country Here is the land, The water, And the sky. Here are my friends and Here am I.   Hands up, Hands down We are on Aboriginal Ground   Nature Play Queensland   “A growing body of evidence indicates

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29
Jan

Montessori Children’s House Strategic Plan 2023

 MONTESSORI CHILDREN’S HOUSE STRATEGIC PLAN 2023 Our Vision To provide a kindergarten program that nurtures respect, curiosity, and imagination; inspires a passion for excellence; and awakens the human spirit.   Our Method We deliver a program and learning environment based on current best practice in early childhood education: Underpinned by both the Montessori Method, the Early Years Learning Framework and

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22
Oct

School readiness activities

This weeks transition game from our kindy group time. It’s harder than it looks to reorient yourself in a small space but the children are used to carrying their work on a tray between their friends work mats so they nailed it! You can easily make a mat like this. We just used a piece of thick cotton fabric and

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15
Sep

Measuring at the Montessori Children’s House

The children have been very busy exploring the mathematical concepts of measurement.  In the sandpit and water play activities we hear language like small and large, full, half full and empty, more, and too much, deep and not deep or shallow, and numbers as they count the shells they dig up. The children are also learning measuring language when they

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3
Aug

QCPW Art Trail artworks

A child asked ‘Where does colour come from?’ So we thought about the activities we could set up for the children to explore this idea. We did the celery and carnation experiment, used the light box and coloured counters and prisms, pipette colour mixing, and of course looked at all things rainbows. We read books like ‘red’, which inspired lots

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27
Jul

Montessori Nido Playgroup

The Montessori Infants’ House is excited to be offering a Montessori Nido Playgroup, on Tuesday at 11.30am. Nido (nest) describes the nurturing environment designed for infants and their Mother’s (carers) aged around 6-12 weeks up to 14 months old. The Nido Playgroup will begin at 11.30am for one hour, after our toddler playgroup. Our Nido Playgroup coordinator, Jo will be

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