The Hills Learning Centre

You are invited to our All Abilities Gala Day and Open Training session with the CommBank Pararoos at Wanderers Football Park!

Register your details to be in attendance for our Exclusive Event on Saturday 31 August: https://wsw.football/4d5j0Gl

This week saw the introduction of our July School Holidays Forensic Teddy Bears Course! Who did it? The children has a fabulous time using all their forensic tools to discover the culprit.

Held across the country from 7-14 July 2024, NAIDOC Week will celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This year’s theme chosen by the National NAIDOC Committee, is Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud & Proud.

The theme honours the enduring strength and vitality of First Nations culture – with fire a symbol of connection to Country, to each other, and to the rich tapestry of traditions that define Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Credit: https://www.naidoc.org.au/

A fabulous ‘Paint ‘n’ Sip’ staff bonding afternoon - secret talents and budding artists in the making🤩🤩🤩 a great way to celebrate the end a busy and successful term.

Just a reminder that the last day of normal timetabled sessions for Term 2 is tomorrow Saturday 6th July. Regular sessions, our My Place Clinic and Leap Ahead School Readiness will recommence in Term 3 from Monday 22nd July.

Please note: the office will remain open over the school holiday period for holiday courses, assessments and enquiries.

We hope everyone has a safe and relaxing break!

Check out our latest newsletter! Visit https://thehillslc.com.au/news/

The kids are working hard on their fine motor skills in the Handwriting Class today!

Thank you to our wonderful supporters who helped us achieve our goal of $1000 for the Cancer Council's Biggest Morning Tea. Our final tally was $1073.80!!!

$1000 pays for an analysis of two gene samples for a research project.

Our School Holiday Programs are booking up fast and there are only five more days to secure your child's place. Get in quick to book a spot in one or more of our spectacular winter holiday courses! Enrolments close this Friday 28th June.

Today our 13-17 year Life and Social Skills group made made Yellow Rice with chicken! And the verdict was a 10/10 for deliciousness 😋🤤

Winners are Grinners 🥳🍬.

Congratulations to Natasha, who was only 2 off the number of lollies in the jar for the guessing competition, to Bronte who won the raffle and Kiara who came 2nd 🥰

We are exhibiting today at the Western Sydney Employment, Life Skills and Leisure Expo

Check out our awesome school holiday programs! Call or email now to secure your spot.

We are open for business… come on down to buy some absolutely delicious goods at our Biggest Morning Tea to raise funds for the Cancer Council!!

Tomorrow we are hosting the Biggest Morning Tea to raise valuable funds for cancer research. If you cant make it to purchase some fabulous goodies (cakes, cookies, candles, mug rugs, sweets and cups of tea) then please click on the link below and donate to our fabulous cause:

https://www.biggestmorningtea.com.au/fundraisers/TheHillsLearningCentre?utm_source=edm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=national_abmt_fy24&utm_content=sup_beh8_text_link

Our My Place participants having fun exercising and learning this week! Club Active and

Check out our all-new full-day school holiday program for July! For more information visit https://thehillslc.com.au/news/july-school-holidays/

We have our “Guessing Competition” set up in the foyer😃. Do you think you know how many lollies 🍬 are in the Jar 🤔. If you think you know, then have a guess, cost is a gold coin donation… all proceeds go towards our Biggest Morning Tea tally - raising much needed funds for cancer research!

Our Leap Ahead Preschoolers are learning about community helpers. Last week Dr Amritha, brought in her mannequin and instruments to show the children how to participate in good dental hygiene. Thank you so much Dr Amritha for your fabulous presentation 🦷.

National Reconciliation Week—held every year from 27 May to 3 June—is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
27 May marks the anniversary of the 1967 referendum when Australians voted to remove clauses in the Australian Constitution that discriminated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 3 June marks the historic 1992 Mabo decision in which the High Court of Australia recognised native title—the recognition that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights over their lands did survive British colonisation.
The day before National Reconciliation Week, 26 May, is National Sorry Day, which was first held in Sydney in 1998.

Credit : https://www.reconciliation.org.au/

This year, we are hosting an Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea to help Cancer Council raise vital funds for people impacted by cancer.

We have set a fundraising goal of $1000 and we are on the way to hitting it, but we could really use your help!

The thing is, your donation will make a real difference.

It’ll help fund world-class cancer research, which has already increased cancer survival rates from 49% in the 1980s to 69% today.

It’ll fund prevention initiatives like the HPV vaccine and the new cervical screening program, which have put Australia on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem. How incredible is that?!

Plus, your donation will also importantly help fund support services for the 150,000 Australians who are diagnosed with cancer every year. With support services in higher demand than ever, your help now is particularly vital.

We will be hosting a morning tea/cake stall on Thursday 13th June and selling things from the office all of week 7 (more details to come).

So will you help us reach our goal? We’ve set up a fundraising page so it’s easy to donate online:

https://www.biggestmorningtea.com.au/fundraisers/TheHillsLearningCentre

Together we can help Australia take big steps towards a cancer free future, so thank you again!

Today our Leap Ahead Preschool students participated in National Simultaneous Storytime, they read Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker, along with thousands of other young people at 12 noon. The day was spent learning about Bowerbirds, doing arts and crafts and they finished off by icing and eating some yummy cupcakes with blue icing 🧁

Yesterday our teacher Josh kicked off a chess class, our students had a great time learning the strategies of the game.

Tomorrow "The Hills learning Centre" will be participating in National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) - held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Now in its 24th successful year, it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's book that explores age-appropriate themes, and addresses key learning areas of the National Curriculum for Foundation to Year 6. This year the beautiful "Bowerbird Blues" by Aura Parker is the chosen book.
If you would like to participate from home please click on the link below - the link will take you to Green Square Library, where over 2 million kids will virtually read ‘Bowerbird Blues’ together with Aura Parker.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1185932415735890/

Today is World Bee Day 🐝

Today we celebrate bees and the vital role they play in global food systems - preserving ecosystem health. World Bee Day also seeks to inform and educate people about the harmful effects of pesticides, climate change and habitat loss on bees and what we can do to reverse this.

A night to celebrate our 10th year together 🥰 The Sydney Hills Local Business Awards! Thank you to all our families, supporters and friends for nominating the centre and allowing us the celebrate tonight 🩷

Mental Health Awareness Week (or World Mental Health Week 2024) is celebrated worldwide from the 13th to the 19th of May. Each year, the event aims to raise awareness and bring support to all communities across the globe. Every May, for the last 23 years, communities across world are brought together to improve public understanding of mental health and share advice on some of the things that can help prevent poor mental health. In 2024, the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is "Movement: Moving more for mental health".

Did you know the the My Place Program, has its own website? Please click on the link below to read all about it :)
https://www.myplacelifeskills.com.au/