The Nest Lake Hayes Estate Head Teacher Marianne Beer heads up a teaching team who are passionate about creating the best environment for children in their care to explore and flourish in.
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As I reflect on the past four years, I feel a sense of inner fulfilment. It’s quite remarkable how time carries us on a journey and how reflection is a beautiful representation of gratitude and growth.
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Fostering our teams own personal and Professional Development is vital to the growth and development of Gems environment.
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Most years we set the team a challenge whereby we allocate a set amount of cash for the challenge, set teams, and sometimes a theme. The idea is to create a resource that is needed, useful and beautiful for their environment.
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We all have times when we are stumped! We find ourselves wondering "where do we go from here".
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It was in my last week at Gems Lake Hayes Estate before moving to the new centre at Shotover Country that it dawned on me that the four years that I had been at the centre were the longest I had worked at one location in the twenty five years since I left University. I started to reflect on what had kept me so engaged and motivated?
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Reaching the end of the year, and provided that one’s batteries are not completely flat - I like to take a moment and reflect on the year that has been.
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We are hosting an evening with Nathan Mikaere-Wallis in association with Shotover Primary School which may be of interest to both teaching staff and parents.
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Here are a few shots from Farm School last week, hilarity at the mud puddle again with a full face plant by one of our small people.
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In collaboration with Shotover primary School we are working together to restore a wetland on the lower tier of the Shotover Country Subdivision.
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Norman is our tame alpaca. He was rejected by his mother as a tiny cria (baby alpaca) and has been hand reared ever since.
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