{"id":1279,"date":"2022-08-30T01:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2022-08-30T01:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:32:28","slug":"preschool-news-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/2022\/08\/30\/preschool-news-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschool News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We celebrated NAIDOC Week when we returned to preschool for term three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We know and acknowledge that the First Nations People were the first people to live in this country and have lived here for thousands of years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The children were invited to paint a copy of the Aboriginal flag. They had to look closely at the flag to work out where to place each colour on their page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We talked about what each of the colours of the flag represents: black represents the Aboriginal People of Australia; red represents the red earth and the spiritual connection the people have with the land; and yellow represents the sun, the giver of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We danced to one of our favourite songs, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red, Black &amp; Yellow<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Wendy Notley. Happy belated NAIDOC Week to all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The preschool would like to thank the Kangaroo Valley community for its continuing support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you to Nat Harker and her team of volunteers for organising the \u2018Rock and Roll Community Dance\u2019. A great night was enjoyed, boosting positivity and providing fun after so many difficulties have beset the local community. The preschool very much appreciates the $2,000 donation from the proceeds of this event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congratulations to B. Sladen, the lucky winner of the Preschool Firewood Raffle! Thank you Brad Hawthorne for donating the firewood and organising this fund raiser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacinta Perry<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>image: the Meeting Place<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated NAIDOC Week when we returned to preschool for term three. We know and acknowledge that the First Nations People were the first people to live in this country and have lived here for thousands of years.\u00a0 The children were invited to paint a copy of the Aboriginal flag. They had to look closely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pre-school"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Kangaroo Valley Voice","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice","push-errors":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}