Kindy Kapers

A huge WELCOME to all our families joining us for Kindergarten 2021!

Due to the unforeseen circumstances of 2020, we are unable to have on-site visitors.

Balmain Public School follows the current health advice and restrictions provided by NSW Health and the Department of Education.

Kindy Kapers has been designed to keep us connected, as well as to keep you up-to-date with communications relating to anything and everything Kindergarten 2021 at Balmain Public School.

If you're not already following us on Instagram, see ? link - during the school term, we aim to post on a daily basis, as well as include stories, where we share moments of the day (and these vanish after 24 hours). Some of our stories are saved as highlights...go and check it out!

If you have yet to see our exciting virtual Kindergarten visit, 'A Day in the Life of Kindergarten' on Instagram and/or website, it has been also been included in this issue.

Enjoy the inaugural issue of Kindy Kapers and we look forward to meeting you and your child/ren soon!

Maria Lambos - Principal

With our Google Translation integration, 'Kindy Kapers' can be accessed in ANY language. Simply scroll to the bottom of the newsletter to give it a try ?.

It is important for our Kindergarten 2021 students to be enrolled, in order to keep abreast of important information and programs.

If you know someone who has a child ready to start school in 2021, lives within the Balmain Public School catchment area, and has yet to enrol, please remind them to ENROL NOW!

https://balmain-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/enrolment.html

(feel free to share this newsletter with them...)

https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy/assessment-resources/best-start-kindergarten

More information and booking times to follow at a later date...

Pasi Sahlberg is a Finnish educator who has worked as a schoolteacher, teacher-educator, researcher, and policy advisor in Finland and has studied education systems and advised education leaders around the world. He has written and spoken widely about teaching and learning in school, teachers' work and school improvement, educational change, international education issues, and the future of schools. His book “Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland” won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for an idea that has potential to change the world. He is also a recipient of the 2012 Education Award in Finland, the 2014 Robert Owen Award in Scotland, the 2016 Lego Prize, and Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Resident Fellowship in 2017. He is a former senior education specialist at the World Bank (in Washington, DC), a lead education expert at the European Training Foundation (in Torino, Italy), a director general at the Finland’s Ministry of Education (CIMO), and a visiting Professor of Practice at Harvard University. He is a member of several international organisations, editorial boards, and advisory boards. His most recent book (co-authored with William Doyle) is "Let the Children Play: How more play will save our schools and help children thrive" (Oxford University Press, 2019) and forthcoming books "Finnish Lessons 3.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland” (Teachers College Press, 2021) and "In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish way to world-class schools" (Norton, 2021 with Tim Walker). He is Professor of Education Policy and Deputy Director of the Gonski Institute at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Twitter: @pasi_sahlberg.

https://pasisahlberg.com/bio-pasi-sahlberg/bio/