July 2016

What’s Happening

PHPS ROCKS NATIONAL BOOK WEEK  JSC are organising 3 events as part of Book Week.  Whole School Short Story Competition – Closes Friday August 19  The Short Story Competition is kindly sponsored by The Little Bookroom, 759 Nicholson St, Carlton North.  They’ve generously donated book vouchers for the winners and runners-up.  There are four categories: […]

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What’s Happening

THE GREAT BOOK SWAP As part of National Book Week and to help raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation to buy books for remote indigenous communities who don’t have access to books we’re holding a Great Big Book Swap. There are schools involved all across Australia and the target is $100,000 to buy 10,000

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Learning Focus

Literacy  This week in literacy the students continued exploring poetry by thinking of the messages contained within and the poet’s purpose.  They revisited My Country by Dorothea Mackeller and were introduced to A Mountain Station by Banjo Paterson.  They also furthered their understanding by reading and experimenting with repetition in poems. The 5/6 Team

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2016 Bazaar

** 2016 BAZAAR – HELPERS NEEDED ** Yes, it’s that time already… the 2016 Bazaar is just a few months away and preparations are already well & truly underway. The Silent Auction is a very popular stall which raises a heap of money, but is currently without anyone to run it.   We currently need

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BOXWARS

Yesterday we were involved in the filming of the children’s TV show pilot ‘Boxwars’. Cat group wrote a short shared recount of the event. On Wednesday the 27th of July, after lunch at 12.00, the Preps excitedly put on their togas. We all went to the friendship tree to meet our Buddies. We lined up together

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PMP

The Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) will be running every Friday during Term 3 and 4 between 10.00 and 11.00. The children will participate in different activities at stations around the gym; each one will focus on developing a particular motor skill. We are looking for parent help to run to assist with running each station (there is explanation of how to run

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Boxwars ‘On Wednesday the whole school draped on their togas, ink printed with their own designs, put on their hand-crafted cardboard jewellery and armour made in Italian with Anne-Maree and paraded out in to the BOXWARS auditorium to act as the crowd for the BOXWARS chariot race.  Caesar himself was there to start the race dressed in a splendid armour of cardboard. We

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