Primary School
How to Create a Beautiful Winter Festival
Thursday 19th June
I hope everyone is enjoying the crisp change of seasons. There are now just two more sleeps until our community Winter Festival for Primary and High School families!
The Theme of Festival this year is ‘Connection to Place’.
The moods we are aiming to create together:
- Quiet community in the classrooms,
- Reverence on the walk
- Celebration once fire is lit.
What you need to know-
- Arrive on time and be well-prepared. Entry: via Front Gate Only.
- Gates open at 5:30pm. Please find parking at Adventure World and allow plenty of time to walk to the classrooms for 6:00pm start sharp.
- Switch off mobile phones, no flash photography. A school photographer will be taking lots of wonderful photos on the night.
- Please feel free to bring your own lantern from home.
- Hold a reverent mood for yourself and your child/ren. Please don't socialise on the lantern walk when walking behind your child's class. Save that for when the fire is lit.
- Stay in designated ‘Festival areas‘ i.e. the classrooms, the walk route, the bonfire area.
- For HS parents, there will be singing in Jarah Miah, a Winter Meditation in Seekers Place and quiet guitar music on the High School art room deck.
- Take your Primary school-aged child home once ‘Goodnight, Stars are Bright‘ has been sung at the fire circle.
A map of the lantern walk route is below. Please let Kevin know if you require seating at the fire circle. (kmazzer@pws.wa.edu.au)
Also included is a copy of the Fire Blessing which will be spoken before the fire is lit.
Enjoy the photos of Walliabup mornings and the song lyrics by Gosia and Class 6.
THE FIRE BLESSING
Classes 1 and 2: May the fire be in our thoughts -
Making them true, good and just.
Class 3: May the fire be in our eyes;
May it open our eyes to share what is good in life.
Class 4: May the fire be on our lips -
So that we may speak the truth in kindness;
That we may serve and encourage others.
Class 5: May the fire be in our ears -
We pray that we may hear with a deep, deep listening
So that we may hear the flow of water, and of all creation.
Class 6: May the fire be in our arms and hands -
So that we may be of service and build up love.
Class 7: May the fire protect us from all violence.
May the fire be in our whole being -
In our legs and in our feet.
All classes: May the fire enable us to walk the earth
With reverence and care
So that we may walk in the ways of goodness and truth.
A gift from Burnum Burnum
Still Wanted
Good quality greenery (not prickly) and flowers. These are needed either the day before, or the morning of, the festival.
They can be delivered to the school or arranged to be picked up. Please text Anita on 0423 523 613 or Adrian on 0467 713 405
Please also contact Anita if you would like to decorate the spiral the morning of the festival. Or Adrian if you’d like to assist with laying out the jars on the day of the festival.
Looking forward to creating a wonderful Winter Festival together!
Bibra Lake Winter Moods
Kevin Mazzer
Head of Primary School
Class 5 & 6 Eurythmy
From Class 5 and 6 Eurythmy assembly presentations (dress rehearsal photos):
Class 5
Class 6
Djeran
(Seasonal Song by Gosia Winter with lyrics added by Class 6)
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1. As the air is cooler, |
4. Landscape clouds span plains of blue, Teardrop leaves wake up with dew. After the long summer drought, Some new leaves do come to sprout. |
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2. Bibra Lake’s a grassland, |
5. People near the lookout stand, Not on water nor on land, Watching birds as they fly by, Then land upon reflected sky. |
| 3. Toadstools circle on grass, Thick with dew when nights pass, Vests now keep our bodies warm, Rain may come, but not yet storm. |
6. Turtle bays, no eggs now lain, But soon they will come again. A soft breeze floats through calm trees, Praying rain will come back, please! |
Rain…
Rain…
Rain…