C&K Roderick Street Community Kindergarten

09/10/2026

Wishing Mrs. Walker from Group 2 a very Happy Birthday! We hope you have an amazing day 💕

04/10/2026

Things have been happening at kindy over the September holidays. Despite the dry weather, our garden beds are flourishing! Our outdoor art studio is ready for Clay exploration and the low table at the front of our room is waiting to display the children’s art, constructions and stories. Our games shelf is loaded and we have a school set up in near the back door. There are new puzzles and books available for the children to discover. Mr Craig our maintenance person has been working on a number of different projects over the last two weeks, in order to get our kindy ready for term 4. One of our kindy families has been working on a special wind tunnel which we are very excited to use with the children! Thank you to our entire Roderick Street Kindergarten team. 💕

17/09/2026

This term we have delved even further into Storytelling with the children. The teachers have done some amazing professional development around oral storytelling with Sally from Wunderled and nature storytelling with Tania from Nurture in Nature. One of our lovely kindy Mums is currently making us a storytelling cape and we have been adding to our story resources. We are becoming a lot more confident telling stories rather than just reading them. With a little help from story prompts, the children have been inspired to retell our stories and to create their own, in small groups and as a whole class! While down at bush kindy recently, we were telling a story about some dingo pups and as the children howled, the local dogs started to bark! Our new little mouse doors have been the inspiration behind many mouse stories and we have explored some familiar fairy-tales. Lately the children have worked together to create their own beautiful stories! Take a look at some of the photos from our language and literacy explorations below.

16/09/2026

Over the last few years we have been exploring the theory of loose parts. We have added to our outdoor resources, built a loose parts shed and researched playwork principles. This year our Director attended the Outsiders: Play Advocates conference and was very inspired. Angus then visited our kindergarten, met the team and delivered some great loose parts professional development. On Monday, Angus spent the morning building some pallet structures with the children. Sheets and mats were put in place by the children. A roof was quickly added to a McDonalds, shelves and pets were arranged in a fairy house, pots and pans were collected for a cafe and clothes were hung up in a very tidy home. Every one of the pallet structures has been utilised by small groups of children since that morning and we can't wait for the end of the week group to make the new pallet structures their own as well! So may ideas and so many possibilities! Thank you Angus Gorrie!

15/09/2026

This year at RSCK we accompanied children from both kindergarten groups down to Smith Park, for some bush kindy adventures! We also held our annual Family Fun Day at Kholo Gardens, so that we could share some of what we do at bush kindy, with our families. Early in term three, the Group 1 children met one of the Smith Park Bush Care volunteers and learnt about what they do to protect the local environment and to help it to flourish. Towards the end of term three, the Group 2 children invited Jason to join them on one of their adventures and listened to him play his didgeridoo in the bush! He talked about different bush tucker and investigated the beautiful blue quandongs with them.

This year the children really enjoyed exploring the puddles left behind after early winter rain. They delighted in inching along some fallen trees, looking for fungi on tree trunks and listening to the many bird calls that echo around the park. The children frequently watched the native bees fly in and out of their log home and explored the sandstone rocks where ‘dragon dust’ was discovered.

The ground is uneven at bush kindy and full of leaf litter, rocks, branches, and plants to navigate. Smith Park really is the ideal environment for developing the children’s strength, balance, coordination, and motor skills. Bush kindy also enhances the children’s curiosity, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.

We are so grateful to the volunteers that work at Smith Park and we have seen a transformation there this year! We love taking Jason with us to bush kindy and plan to have more of his visits at the park next year. He has been visiting our kindy for the last eight years throughout term 3, and we really value the time that he spends teaching the children more about Aboriginal culture! With the warmer weather coming, we have had our last visit for 2026 and I am sure the children will remember their time at bush kindy for many years to come. Friends of Smith Park

29/07/2026

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! 🕷️

08/07/2026

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! )

07/07/2026

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!

07/07/2026

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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01/06/2026

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! 💕🌻💕