This Week’s Creations
Cauliflower Pizza
Today our Health Hub made a healthy alternative Pizza. The bases is made from Cauliflower. The best part is that it still tastes as good as the Classic Pizza you know and love. We did a google search to see how “healthy” ours is compared to our local popular pizza shop. Our whole pizza had…
Read MoreFLOSC HOLI FESTIVAL COLOUR RUN
The Holi Festival, is considered as one of the most revered and celebrated festivals of India and it is celebrated in almost every part of the country. It is also sometimes called as the “festival of love” as on this day people get to unite together forgetting all resentments and all types of bad feeling…
Read MoreCLEAN UP FOREST LAKE PROJECT! FLOSC EXPLORERS
At FLOSC this June, we wanted promote more engagement in the community for the children. During the whole month of June we wanted to get out in our community to promote keeping our community clean. We had children leave the centre in small groups to explore our community and clean up rubbish/if possible fix broken…
Read MoreThe Benefits of Risky Play
The Benefits of Risky Play: Risk in the playground is essential for children’s growth, creating challenges which allow children opportunities to succeed and/or fail based on individual reasoning and choices helping them to learn risk management. Hazards, on the other hand, are items or situations that a child is not expected to comprehend, see, or…
Read MoreFLOSC FARM UPDATE!
Here at FLOSC we have been spending a lot of time in our FLOSC FARM. We have been working hard on weeding and planting some lovely plants we got from the guys at Crossacres. We have also worked really hard at building our compost bin to start our composting adventure. Every afternoon a group of…
Read MoreFLOSC FARM
Last week we went and checked out Crossacres Garden Centre for some advice for our FLOSC Farm! The guys at Crossacres were so helpful and knowledgeable about what veggies would work best in our garden and even gave us some free flowers to kick start the farm. Thank you so much Crossacres Garden Centre we…
Read MoreOur Kindness Tree
“Kind words and actions can seem so small, but their effects are truly endless.” Here at FLOSC on Friday it was random acts of kindness day and we decided to ask the kids what kindness means to them. With all their beautiful responses we made a kindness tree which will continue to bloom with all…
Read MoreOur Heart Maps
A heart map is filled with different things that are important to us and make us happy. Here you can see our kids heart maps and together we made a heart map of FLOSC. The inside heart represents the children’s FLOSC heart map, and the outer heart represents the staff’s FLOSC heart map. This was…
Read MoreSeptember Vacation Care Wrap Up
September holidays saw the lovely spring weather make its first appearance and with that our Vacation Care program got underway. The first week of the program had many great days such as Alice in Wonderland day, 80s& 90s day and British day just to name a few. These days saw both children and staff really…
Read MoreGetting into Nature Play
Here at FLOSC we want to foster learning through observationally derived and self-directed play. we want to enrich our children’s lives by introducing to them life skills, knowledge and experiences that go beyond their school learning. We at FLOSC value nature, community and sustainable development and practices. We want our children to have a strong…
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