"An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man; the enhancement of his value as an individual; and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live."   - Maria Montessori

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We hope this finds you well.
 
Here we are on Week 10 of Term 3 - this was CCALFA’s first full ten-week term working progressively with our founding families, parents and children.

It has been beautiful to see friendships and connections found, settled in, and blossoming amongst our young learners, as well as our budding community of parents and teacher-mentors on site.
 
It has been a joy to see our young learners’ interests, curiosity, and skills grow – along with their focus and commitment towards seeing their work mature and arrive at completion in all the various creative modalities they are exploring – as we feature some images here below.
 
As teacher-mentors, we too have grown so much in this process – we feel honoured with the vulnerabilities your families and children have entrusted in us. And we continue committed towards being present with and serving the highest good in your child each day - to the best of our ability. To support their joy in creation, as well as help them build in themselves resilience, patience, natural focus, commitment and drive, and the joy and sense of playful experimentation exploring an interest creatively.

Core Values. As our team has matured, we have also been encouraging that sense of kindness, care, compassion, and mindfulness – towards each other and as reflected in their work, and how they handle materials. Process without purpose and core values, is a lost endeavour.
 
Community and our Commitment. This is a wonderful sense of community and partnership with you, our dear parents. And we continue to be committed towards working with you to support budding friendships in our children, to continue to cultivate and introduce progressive skills and techniques in all their identified interests - with the intention of optimizing your child's potential and their holistic well-being.
 
Welcome Brian McDonald, and acknowledging our dedicated teacher-mentors
 
We are very excited and pleased to welcome Brian McDonald a new collaborator into our teaching faculty – Brian will be running our Carpentry and Wood Working module. It has been a pleasure welcoming Brian and wife Shelly to our creative community last week.
 
Brian is a certified teacher with trade qualifications, teaching carpentry in Caloundra High school for the last 17 years. He is passionate about helping others reach their full potential, by providing good role modelling, information and practical guidance – READ MORE and get to know Brian here
 
We’d like to take this opportunity to acknowledge, our dedicated mentors on site – Jenai Hooke, Sarah Richards, and Robert Wilson – for your creativity, dedication, and commitment to CCALFA’s vision, and investing your time and creative genius towards building the CCALFA community.

Our program continues throughout the year… Note for public holiday Mondays - Friday make-up days

Please note that our program continues each week, and throughout the year except on public holidays/ a short break over the December public holiday period.

If you are currently enrolled as our regular members, please note our program continues over the next two weeks of school holidays. Should you need to go away, kindly just let us know at info@ccalfa.com.au -- and we will note any credit unused over the next two weeks for a future nominated date - this can be a day other than your regular day.
 
September 2022 - Holiday Program
 
Our program is opened up for the school Holiday Program on the two Mondays and Tuesdays over the term break – that’s 19-20 September, and 26-27 September. This means that our core timetable continues with the addition of some guest modules (at no extra cost to existing members).
 
Wednesday continues to be a regular day (this day is not open as a holiday program).
 
This is a good challenge for our mentors, and opportunity for current children and families to meet and work with new friends and families. View our holiday timetable and BOOK HERE.
 
Term 4 Enrolment OPEN
 
Term 4 commences on Tuesday 4 October. PLEASE NOTE – Monday 3 October is a public holiday (Labour Day). As announced on our website terms and conditions – any Monday that falls on a public holiday – will have the Monday program running on the Friday of that week – SO PLEASE NOTE: We are running the Monday program on the Friday of that week, Friday 7 October.
 
Enrollment is open for Term 4, view our timetable and book here.
 
TWO Booking/ Fee Options
Kindly note that you have two options for purchase:
(1) A weekly direct debit option; OR
(2) and lumpsum 10/ 20/ or 30 class passes – depending on whether your child is attending one day, two days, or all three days during the week.

** Please make sure to wait to be redirected back to our website to complete your intake form – AFTER your payment is processed via PayPal.
 
 
REVISED Market Day to Thursday 8 December EOY Celebration
 

We have decided, with the children and parents from this term – to reschedule our market day towards the end of Term 4 – on Thursday 8 December. Our young learners have been busy and excited developing their concepts on what to create and offer to sell at their market stalls.
 
Introducing Merrie Steventon: Poetry and Acting/ Emotional Connection and Release
This is a sneak peak on a wonderful new mentor joining our team, Merrie Steventon – Merrie is a diverse creative in the field of visual arts, pottery, and theatre. Merrie will be properly introduced in our next newsletter. For now – we are very excited to have Merrie on board, to work with us towards our end of year theatrical performance on market day. We are working towards a theme that consolidates our current theme of “Spark Joy”, mindfulness, and the universal spirit of sharing and giving – that is the true essence of the festive season, and which resonates and reflects CCALFA’s core values and sense of culture and community.
 
More information on this will be coming up soon! Stay tuned :)

Kind regards
Nic Anderson - Founder, CCALFA
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Onsite Private Tutoring with Sarah Richards. Sarah Richards, CCALFA's on site tutor, is pleased to formally launch her private tutoring service. **This service is separate to the free onsite consultation you are eligible for as part of your standard rate attending CCALFA - i.e. homeschooling parents are eligible to consult their homeschooling plan with Sarah anytime, as part of your standard rate fee/ attendance fee.

Private Tutoring is a separate service at a dedicated time - and this is organised directly between yourself and Sarah Richards, on behalf of your child. Please contact Sarah directly via her email here.
 
Price per hour for a one on one session - $45 
Price per hour for a group session - $20 per child, minimum of four children
Please contact Sarah directly via her email here.

• Social activities, daily tasks and routine assistance
• Self-care and emotional-expression through Art Creation
• Guided movement and emotional regulation through Yoga and Gardening
• Sensory integration and adaptation through Clay work/ Hand-building
• Learning, Listening and Taking action - from beginning to end of task completion through all our activities, which also include machine sewing and other hand sewing. 

 

• DIVERSE MODALITIES. The day rate includes a diversity of 4-5 hands-on creative activities in that one day [the list of modules includes - carpentry, hand-building clay, sewing (machine and hand), electronics, bike mechanics, nautical knots-macrame, yoga, gardening and permaculture, music, weaving] View our timetable here.
• ONE LOCATION. This diversity of 3-4 modalities in a day is efficiently located at one venue, on acreage - at 12 Tecoma Road Palmwoods
• OPTIMISED TIME FOR PROGRESSIVE CREATIVE LEARNING. One location means less driving time + optimised time to learn several different creative and practical skills.
• PROGRESSIVE CREATIVE LEARNING OVER TIME. CHILDREN NEED TO REST IN THE PROCESS. We are not a day-care/ one-off drop-off centre. Our syllabus provides progressive learning (practical creative skills) for each modality, layering over a period of time.

If you believe in this vision, and would like to support it, we need your help. Here's how you can help us:
1. Calling for Volunteers (More hands make light work) - If you have -

• a skill-set or creative skill you wish to share/teach and give back to community regularly in this way, contact us. We will organise your blue card at no cost to you.
• you are a modern-day elder with skills you wish to pass on to young learners, contact us
• a business who wishes to educate young learners on your trade + promote your business, come and do a guest session we will announce you in our marketing - contact us
• Parent volunteer - onsite "Time-Keeper + Grounds-Keeper" - snack time is self-directed (the child is free to have a snack when they are hungry anytime between 9.30am-10.30am. This is for 10-15 minutes - we need a parent volunteer to help us round children back to continue with their work; lunch time is 11.30am-12:00pm. Play is 12:00pm-12:45pm. Duties include calling out/ announcing lunchtime :) and rounding people back for the afternoon module commencing.
• Help with Pack-Up. Packing up at the end of the day is a big job. Over time, we encourage kids to look after their materials, and set up and packing up/ returning materials and equipment where they belong will be part of their work habit. But for now, any volunteer/s to help pack up and clean/ clear/ reset for the next day - would be a big help - this is Studio 1, Studio 2, Gazebos 1 and 2, Garden Gazebo and Garden beds; and the Big Tree House/ Play area. P.S. We have found most kids to be mindful and good, they put rubbish in the one rubbish bin located in Studio 2. On occasion, we get destructive kids/ or unmindful of their environment - we encourage you to speak with your children ahead of time, to be respectful and mindful of their environment. No rubbish on lawns, and equipment and furnishing are good to be respected and remain in place/ returned to their rightful place.

2. Donations:
Materials Donations: Thank you to all those who have donate materials. We have very limited storage space, so we can't accept all donations. What we need are - (sewing) cotton fabric; macrame rope; (clay) BRT Clay and Stoneware 10 (Clayshed Kunda Park); pottery molds; pottery tools; (art class) art materials, drawing paper, watercolour paper, acrylic paints, watercolour, pencils, pastels, charcoal, conti, easels; (carpentry) good treated pine, hard wood, drills, carpentry tools; (gardening) coir, potting mix

Monetary Donation: We thank all those who have kindly donated to support CCALFA. If you have none of the above materials lying around, and still wish to help this initiative, you can always give a monetary donation here.

We are currently raising funds to (1) insulate Studio 2; (2) purchase more pottery wheels and equipment; (3) build a big shed on site (we are quickly running out of space as we grow - we need space to be able to offer more activities on site.

We will be starting to offer specialized workshops and courses for adults/ teens on Thursdays-Saturdays this year. Our future plan includes a shed that will house a few more rooms/ studios to accommodate all the creative activities and presentations this hub will be running and producing; which includes offering indoor regular yoga classes as part of community practice.

This shed will include a small ancillary cafe and gallery - for all young learners/ future entrepreneurs to have a go at selling what they've created at CCALFA; to have the venue to present their business model; a commercial kitchen to be able to bake and sell their creations; and the small cafe, for young learners to have a go at customer service/ taking a food order. If you share this vision, contact us on how you can help; or donate here.

What's on THIS WEEK

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