Harmony day

Every year Our kinder is invited to whats called Hramony day at one of the local schools. It where they do and learn lots of things about the indonesion culture. this year as Matilda was in 4 yr old she went along with her class. I decided to stay for the day too and was so glad I did. It was a great oppotunity to check ot another possible primary school lol. Anyway more about the day. they started off by having a lady in all her get up showing the kids a dance called the candle or plate dance. All the kids got to have a go too (with plates ofcourse , not candles.) then we moved onto puppets and cutting out and coloring in indonesion 'good' and 'evil' characters. Matilda chose a good lady and then went on to do a little puppet theatre. the kids were them treated to the grade 4's and 5's doing some traditional music with some very interseting musical instruments. The kids got to have a go at a few of the instruments and were shown by such nice students of the school. the finished with some story telling and acting out of the story. matilda loved the day.




I loved the school and the other day went back for a tour. I really think it is a goer for mtailda next year. It has 270 kids and is on such a nice big property. The prep classes are combined which is weird but they say it works. So whilst some of the time there may be 38 kids togtere they have more than enough teachers to cover it. They split up for art, music, p.e etc. The grades after prep all have about 20 kids which seems perfect. i have a few more schools to look at but think soo far this is the one to beat. We loved the private school Billinook but I am afraid of making such a financial commitment at this satge.