A Journey Through the Alphabet at Lorien Novalis School in Dural

HOLISTIC LEARNING AT LORIEN NOVALIS SCHOOL is the foundation to imagination, creativity and academia, and is based on the developmental stages of the child. Hands-on and making it ‘real’ are the fundamentals of Steiner education for the early learner. Literacy, encompassing all its components – listening, speaking, writing and reading – is a keynote. In […]

Magic in the Making!

Galston High School students have been hard at work rehearsing for the upcoming musical, The Wizard of Oz, with tickets now on sale! With an all-singing, all-dancing cast, the students are putting the final polish on their parts. A set that that transforms the school hall into the land of Oz is receiving its final […]

HILLS GRAMMARS NEWS

Another Festival of Fun at Hills Grammar Hills Grammar didn’t miss a beat with their latest festival that celebrated fun, wellbeing and community. The School enjoyed a number of events, all aimed at providing methods to aide in physical and mental health. They opened the event to the greater community with a campus tour with […]

Warrah, Living Learning Growing – 50 Years 1969-2019

We are still enjoying looking back over the past 50 years of our history here at Warrah Society. Pictured above is one of our Farm cows from 1979! Cows with horns like this are a common site on biodynamic properties like Warrah Farm at Harris Road in Dural. Everyone probably knows that cows play an […]

STILL CREEK LANDCARE – CORRIDORS SUPPORTING DIVERSITY: PLANTS, WILDLIFE AND PEOPLE.

We’ve heard the alarms sounding about the loss of biodiversity, accelerating our plant and animal species toward extinction. We also hear of plants and animals making comebacks, like the evidence of Koalas returning to Maroota and Marramarra. We have hope and we have strategies to boost and support the Biodiversity we have left. Native Plant […]

THE BENEFITS AND FEATURES OF LEAF STOPPER

The Leafscreener system has been installed on houses around the world since its invention in 1989. It’s inventor, Michael Sichel, won the Australian Design Award for his product in 1991. Leafscreener changed the concept of gutter protection forever. Unlike other forms of gutter protection that were pushed into the gutters, forming a barrier and causing […]

Galston Garden Club

GARDEN CLUB MEMBERS were out and about again, this time they rugged up and headed down to the Bowral Plant Fair and Open Gardens in the southern Highlands in May. The Bowral Plant Fair is always such a temptation with so many of the growers there with a wide variety of plants for sale. Then […]

BROMELIAD SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA – LAN BARNETT

The Importance of Community Gardens in Retirement Village The Bromeliad Society of Australia will hold their next meeting at Federation Pavilion, Castle Hill Showground on Saturday, 13 July with plant sales commencing at 11am followed by the meeting at 12noon. Access is via the Showground entrance off Showground Road into Doran Drive, Castle Hill, with […]

Walks and Talks at Ku-Ring-gai – Wildflower Garden

The third term of the Monday Walks and Talks Programme at the Ku-Ring-Gai Wildflower Garden, 420 Mona Vale Road, St Ives commences on July 1st for the topic of Gum Trees – Eucalypts, Angophoras, Corymbias, July 22nd for Grevilleas, Hakeas and on July 29th for the Monocotyledons. Visitors welcome, booking not necessary. Cost $5 covers […]

Speaker Marilyn Wood

Please join us at the Chapel on Saturday, July 27th where we are delighted to welcome Marilyn Wood our esteemed local historian living in Greengrove. Marilyn has been interested in researching the pioneers in this district, the many families now living in the Mangrove Mountain and Spencer areas whose origins were from Greengrove, and the […]