C&K Roderick Street Community Kindergarten

Look who’s going to be at Riverlink tomorrow!

If your spidey senses are telling you to visit The Link this week, they're right! Here's what's on:
Thursday 30 July:
🕸️ Spider-Man Meet and Greets from 5pm to 8pm
🕸️ IsoTriv with a Spiderman themed round from 7pm

Saturday 1 August:
🕸️ Spidey Game Show from 11am - 2pm

Free entry, everyone welcome. Tag who you're bringing to meet Spider-Man! 🕷️

Over the school holidays there is still lots to do! We have been cleaning, sorting, tidying and re-arranging! We have been setting up for term 3, organising the demountable building while the new stairs for it were being built and catching up on our documentation. We have been coordinating our term 3 visitors and excursions, replying to emails and completing training and professional development. We have topped up the sand in our sandpit and refreshed the softfall in our fort area! Thank you very much to all of our amazing staff for the wonderful job they have done preparing for another term at RSCK! Take a look below at just some of the new provocations we have waiting for the children's return! Some cheeky little mice have moved in under our sideboard in the entry way! (Thank you very much to Genevieve for the gorgeous paintings inside the mouse doors! )

Term 2 went by so quickly! The children had a lot of fun exploring light using torches, puck lights, light panels, lamps, the sun and a projector!
Our nature table was full of different leaves, seedpods, flowers and bark. The children delighted in taking a closer look at everything under our microscopes! They spent time programming the Bee Bots and also enjoyed some cooking and gardening.
In the art studios and out in the playground, we practiced lots of mark making as we explored line and shape. Some children mixed paint to make new colours and others drew and painted from observation.
Outside the children enjoyed playing on the scooter boards, in the Tonka trucks and building their own obstacle courses. Bring on Term 3!

We had a lot of visitors to the kindergarten in term 2! As part of our commitment to sustainability, we invited Recycleman in to talk about recycling, Ocean from Urban Native Bees to install our new hive and teach us all about bees and Dragon Fields Farm to help us set up our black soldier fly farm, to process all of our food waste. Other visitors included the librarians from the Ipswich Children's Library, Trish and two cheeky rabbits from The Llama Farm, two ducks from Dragon Fields and a couple of friendly guinea pigs.

We also went on an excursion to the Ipswich Art Gallery to play with light and Group 2 began their bush kindy program. The Group 1 children will begin bush kindy in term 3!

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Wishing a very happy birthday to our amazing Group 1 educator Cheryl! We hope you have a lovely day. Thank you for all that you do for our kindy! 💕🌻💕

Today marks the beginning of National Reconciliation Week 2026. The theme for this year is “All In”, a call for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every single day. “All In” makes clear that reconciliation is not a spectator sport and that all of us must step away from the sidelines and take action to make change ✨👐🏾

C&K is dedicated to working towards a reconciled nation. As a proud ally to First Nations peoples, we are committed to sharing their stories, history, and ways of knowing and being. This commitment comes to life every day in our kindergartens and childcare centres, where First Nations perspectives, languages, and ways of knowing are woven into our children's earliest learning experiences 👣

At C&K, we’re All In. Reconciliation will not happen by itself, and it will not happen without all of us ❤️🖤💛 💙🤍💚

Happy Birthday to our amazing Director, Educational Leader, Nominated Supervisor and Group 2 Teacher Collette Doyle. Hope you have a wonderful day.

National Sorry Day acknowledges the Stolen Generations and the ongoing impacts of past policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

It is a time for learning, reflection and consideration of how understanding history informs current and future practice.

This means creating culturally safe spaces, listening to Aboriginal voices, and embedding respect, truth telling and belonging into everyday practice.

To learn more visit: https://www.reconciliation.org.au/national-sorry-day-2020/

Reconciliation Australia

As part of C&K Open Week we invite you to visit our beautiful kindergarten on Wednesday the 3rd of June at 3.30pm.