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Our school is a growing independent school that has been established and is run by a group of committed parents and teachers. Parents are involved in the running and management of the school. The Alice Springs Steiner School is based on a community, sharing ethos with an ideal expectation of a minimum of 10 hours per term voluntary work from each member.

Parents put a lot of effort into fundraising activities, organise the school fair which is an important event in the calendar of the Alice Springs Community and the annual open day and school tours. Other activities include cleaning, class assistance, working bees, publicity, gardening, maintenance, council or committee work.

As a new school that has just moved to its new home, there are plenty of tasks. In recent working bees we have erected shade structures above the sandpits, erected verandas, and relocated the equipment shed. We planted a native garden, protected the trees from the moving cars at the car park, erected the fence, set up the irrigation system. The list goes on and on.

The working bees are great social events. Usually parents come for several hours to use their muscles, and enjoy a hot/cold drink and cakes. The results are remarkable and the improvements to the aesthetic nature of buildings and natural environment are a testimony to the value of working bees to the school.

Voluntary work for the school has also provided many an opportunity for people to make newer or deeper friendships within the school community and for the children to enjoy their parent’s involvement with the place they spend such a significant part of their days.

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