Term 3 Artist in Residence, Soren Dahlgaard Soren Dahlgaard is a Melbourne based Danish artist who works with playful participation, creative collaboration and engagement in art, where process and humour are important factors. Next term, he will be working in the Visual Art program, across the whole school, on a new project based on the genre of […]
Soren Dahlgaard is a Melbourne based Danish artist who works with playful participation, creative collaboration and engagement in art, where process and humour are important factors. Next term, he will be working in the Visual Art program, across the whole school, on a new project based on the genre of still life. Soren is currently
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The 34 neighbourhood will be hosting the assembly on Friday 17th June. We will be discussing our learning over the past term. We hope you can be there!
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Over the last two days, the grade one neighbourhood have been discussing how they, the students, play outside and how as a community, we can work together to make everyones day at PHPS successful. We started Tuesdays workshop with the question ‘How do we think everyone should act in the playground’? Just like we have neighbourhood expectations, we
Valley Homestead Camp We arrived safely yesterday and spent the afternoon doing some outdoor lateral thinking challenges. Today all the students participated in bush survival and learnt how build a fire and boil a billy of water. They then used these skills and cooked their own lunch over a camp fire. We enjoyed the first
Last week we had the amazing African Drumming performances! The whole school performed brilliantly and both performances were very energetic and powerful! Well done to all the students and staff for their commitment and hard work and a massive thank you to Kofi for his passionate approach to teaching us about his culture! Last week
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MONDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY TUESDAY Projects and Provocations Guided Reading / Shared reading & letter study Specialist classes: Blue Group: Visual Art and Italian Green Group: Phys Ed and Visual Art Red Group: Italian and Phys Ed. WEDNESDAY Projects and provocations Guided Reading / Shared reading & letter study / Modelled writing Mathematics Projects THURSDAY (Reader’s Notebooks
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Next term we will be exploring Still Life and will be requiring props for the Still life work. We will be collecting vases, vessels, flowers and fruits (plastic, fabric etc.) and any other containers such as jugs, cups and mugs. Due to the nature of this exploration, any materials donated will be unable to be returned.
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Science on Fridays – Solids, Liquids & Gasses On Friday we had our third science lesson exploring the properties of solids, liquids and gasses. Our focus this session was the viscosity of liquids, which the students measured by performing a simple, but effective experiment. Predictions were made and compared with results. This prompted some interesting