October 2016

A message from Esme

  Hello Everyone, Thanks to those of you for taking time to participate in our PHPS community survey. We truly value the information you have provided. By participating in this survey, you have made your voice heard and are informing our future engagement activity. If you are yet to complete the survey, please do so

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Welcome to Term 4

Hello everyone! Wow! Italian day was amazing! We hope your children returned home with not only full tummy’s (so much food!) but also excited stories of adventure and community! The whole school was abuzz all day long as the students engaged in the board game making provocations and learning about Ancient Roman everyday life! Thank

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Learning Focus

Literacy This week in literacy there was a spelling focus which involved the students investigating silent letters.  This is in addition to the individual spelling focus each student has each week. The students have been asked to identify the strategies that will help them improve their spelling. In reading this week the students have been investigating

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Learning Focus

Numeracy In the final week of term 3, we explored prime and composite numbers. We began term 4 last week by looking at triangular and square numbers. Can you see why Kit called his work below a “Face of Squares”? This week we launched into BIDMAS, which is the way we remember our order of

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