Toga making
In the lead up to the Boxwars extravaganza the Preps’ got together with the 3/4’s to create their very own Toga’s. They’re all very excited to be apart of what looks to be a fun filled day.
July 2016
Olympic Torch
Today, the Preps’ were fortunate enough to witness an authentic Olympic torch. What an experience, thanks Cleo!!
Action Required: SWIMMING AND TISSUES!
Hello fantastic community! Firstly today a swimming notice was sent home with which you can express your interest in your child attending or not. This notice is an expression of interest which will determine the number of enrollments, thus the cost for each student. All the information is on the notice, please search bags and
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Future Learning: Term 3 Week 2
Inquiry This week throughout provocations time the students will continue to explore cause and effect concepts through a range of forms of expression. Visual storytelling and sequencing providing creative use of visual art mediums in the STEAM Lab, tinkering with technology using ‘Tinkerbox’, Coding Bitsbox applications, exploring Rube Goldberg machines, creating dramatic plays and creating
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ACTION REQUIRED: Swimming expression of interest form
A notice was sent home this afternoon regarding swimming. Please return to your child’s home group teacher at your earliest convenience. Many thanks, The Prep team
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Editing Checklist
Students were introduced to a new editing checklist on Friday, which they will be encouraged to use when completing written work in the learning commons. Small groups were taken into our target room and students were involved in discussing how editing can be a useful tool when completing tasks. The editing checklist has
Today we have NO PLANS
Last week we jumped straight into our learning with a new shared reading book. Each morning, we come together in the workshop space and share a text a chosen text. Here is an explanation of shared reading taken from the teaching resource ‘First Steps’…. Shared Reading is a supportive, interactive reading procedure where all students can
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Welcome back to Term 3!
Even though it has been a short week, the children have settled back in really well and have continued their explorations of ’cause and effect’ as an integral component of systems! The big change this week has been opening up the learning spaces within the neighbourhood so the children are able to take responsibility for
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Learning Focus
Numeracy In the first, short week of Term 3, the students have been introduced to the game of ‘Addo,’ which is a game that is useful for becoming fluent with addition fact knowledge but also provides a great investigation into probability. The students have developed some cunning strategies and would no doubt like to challenge their families
Learning Focus
Literacy This week in Literacy the students explored how data charts and guiding questions can be used to support their research and their independent writing. They also further developed their use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning and how words can have different meanings in different contexts. Well done everyone on a great