Friends of Maybanke, Pyrmont

13/03/2024

Double Donations Today ONLY!

I wanted to share my upcoming challenge of riding 1186km across The Nullarbor Plain in honour of my friend Lucy (5) and the 86 kids diagnosed with cancer each month.

Today is Double Donation Day, so it’s a great time to contribute or share my journey with others who may be able to help. Follow my progress on and keep an eye out for any media coverage. Please donate through my link below. All donations are tax deductible.

Contributions will directly support CCIA’s research efforts for safer, more targeted treatments for children with cancer.

Double Donations are limited, so donate early if you can.

‘’It is not if, it is when’’ they will find the cure.

Thank you for your support!

http://www.ccia.org.au/fundraisers/charissa

02/02/2021

We’re happy to let you know that we’re continuing face to face classes for Symphony Seeds Early Childhood Music Education for Infants 0-5, Term 1 2021. We’re currently enrolling and looking forward to seeing you there!
With its roots based firmly in early childhood learning, Symphony Seeds aims to provide developmentally appropriate music programs for the whole child. Symphony Seeds Early Childhood Music seeks to inspire and educate children and their families with a happy experience they may take with them for the rest of their lives!.
These are the seeds that will grow to become part of Heartdancers’ Children’s Orchestra.
For more information and enrolment please visit our website https://heartdancers.org.au/symphony-seeds-program/
Music is the language of the heart!!!!

We’re happy to let you know that we’re continuing face to face classes for Symphony Seeds Early Childhood Music Education for Infants 0-5, Term 1 2021. We’re currently enrolling and looking forward to seeing you there!

With its roots based firmly in early childhood learning, Symphony Seeds aims to provide developmentally appropriate music programs for the whole child. Symphony Seeds Early Childhood Music seeks to inspire and educate children and their families with a happy experience they may take with them for the rest of their lives!.

These are the seeds that will grow to become part of Heartdancers’ Children’s Orchestra.

For more information and enrolment please visit our website https://heartdancers.org.au/symphony-seeds-program/

Music is the language of the heart!!!!

07/10/2020

Thankyou 🙏for your enthusiasm with our "Symphony Seeds Music for Children" 🥳we are glad to announce we are fully booked for 3-5 years old classes for this term. Only few seats are available for 0-3 year's old so, Hurry up! to unleash a musical maestro in your children!! 🎻🎻👧👶👦👨👨‍🦱🧑‍🦱🧑For more info and registration ⬇️
https://heartdancers.org.au/symphony-seeds-music-program/🎻🎻

Thankyou 🙏for your enthusiasm with our "Symphony Seeds Music for Children" 🥳we are glad to announce we are fully booked for 3-5 years old classes for this term. Only few seats are available for 0-3 year's old so, Hurry up! to unleash a musical maestro in your children!! 🎻🎻👧👶👦👨👨‍🦱🧑‍🦱🧑For more info and registration ⬇️
https://heartdancers.org.au/symphony-seeds-music-program/ 🎻🎻

28/08/2020

With thanks to The Pyrmont Landcare group, The City of Sydney Council and the wonderful Mary Mortimer, Maybanke Reserve has had a face-lift with new tables, benches and AstroTurf, and creating an accessible path into the reserve from the centre for families with strollers and people in wheelchairs. Some little hands from SDN pre-school were amongst some of the people who planted new trees in the area.

As of today, the bottom courts at The Maybanke Centre will be open from Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm which will enable wheelchair and pram access to the Reserve.

Please all enjoy this new space!

27/03/2020

Amanda and Diana from MustardSeed Playtime play with cars in our first Ultimo & Pyrmont Online Playgroup (UP-OP) video! Filmed at the Uniting Harris Community Centre 27/3/2020

25/03/2020

Free stories for kids of all ages. Audible Stories is a free website where kids of all ages can listen to hundreds of Audible audio titles across six different languages—English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese—for free, so they can keep learning, dreaming and just being kids.

25/03/2020

Audible Stories, owned by Amazon, is a worldwide streaming platform for books aimed at children + young adults in 6 different languages. Hundreds of books are now available FREE worldwide whilst schools are closed due to COVID-19.

Languages : English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.

NOTE : *no account* is required.

All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

Collection of books : https://stories.audible.com/discovery

- Amanda

Free stories for kids of all ages. Audible Stories is a free website where kids of all ages can listen to hundreds of Audible audio titles across six different languages—English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese—for free, so they can keep learning, dreaming and just being kids.

25/03/2020

First attempt to make a video - this one is short but we need to check how the sound, video + subtitles play via Facebook sharing. Please give feedback in the comments!

25/03/2020

First attempt to make a video - this one is short but we need to check how the sound + video plays via Facebook sharing.

24/03/2020

Hi all,

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Maybanke is closed, effective today. No playgroup sessions will run until City of Sydney re-opens for normal activities. Maybanke is now closed to the public and no access is permitted.

I (Amanda) am working to create "online playgroup" programming, along the lines of what Playgroup SA is doing : https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-24/coronavirus-shutdown-sees-virtual-playgroup-membership-skyrocket/12081348?pfmredir=sm

The Facebook group in the above article, Playgroup at Home, is accepting members from outside of South Australia. In the "request to join" question asking if you live in SA, just note that you live in Sydney + why you want to join (activities for your child/ren, support for your young family, etc). Let me know if you have any issues joining, but it has gone smoothly so far.

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To provide some of our usual playgroup storytime + singing activities, we (Amanda + students Anusaya and Sita + the entire Pyrmont Playtime and MustardSeed Playtime teams) have been working hard to find solutions that can accommodate as many families as possible. We understand that privacy and security is of great concern, and intend to provide the content in a range of formats to allow families to choose the method/s that suit them best.

Please read the comments below to see the options we are currently considering/actively working on.

All feedback, suggestions, constructive criticism, questions, and concerns are welcome. Contact Amanda privately via phone 0448048547 (call or SMS is fine), email at [email protected] , private Facebook message, or in comments/posts here.

Please take care of yourselves and your loved ones.

❤️
Amanda on behalf of the Pyrmont Playtime and MustardSeed Playtime teams

An online playgroup has attracted thousands of members in less than a week as parents do their best to maintain a sense of routine for children during the coronavirus crisis.

24/01/2020

Hi everyone,

The last 3 weeks have been terrifically successful - bees, wasps, mozzies, rain and a bump on Amanda’s head notwithstanding. Up to 30-40 children have enjoyed the activities most days, including messy play, ball pit, junior trampolines, soft-fall climbing, painting, beading, basketball and general ball skills, board games and books.

A special thanks to those who helped get Maybanke ready for the school holiday program, particularly on the horribly hot Saturday. The shed was cleaned out and organized, vast numbers of leaves raked up and taken away, the kitchen scrubbed, cupboards organized, board games checked, outdoor furniture cleaned, huge quantities of stuff transported from the Harris Centre and PCC.

Having moved all the equipment to Maybanke from the Harris Centre and PCC, we now have to move most of it back again. (We hope that the Pyrmont playgroup will continue at Maybanke for the time being, so some equipment can stay there.)

We are planning 2 moves:

- Saturday from 12 noon – packing the Pyrmont Cares truck to return stuff to the Harris Centre; then packing PCC equipment into the truck in readiness for delivery to PCC on Tuesday morning, as it won’t be open until then.

- Wednesday 8.30am – unloading equipment from the truck to PCC.

We need volunteers for both these times – at least 6 people at each end to load and unload the truck today, and then people to unload the truck at PCC on Wednesday. Others are needed to carry the equipment down to the truck.

All help is appreciated - children are welcome, of course!