With the Preps well and truly settling in, we thought what better way to get to know one another than to create a “Me Bag”. First, we began by exploring some possible designs in order to decide on a look that best defined each and every unique prepee. Then, the preps’ began creating their […]
As part of our inquiry, the Preps have been exploring the different spaces within the neighbourhood. This week, we made a take-home booklet featuring all the different things the Preps’ created in the Art Studio. The book is a great opportunity to explore reading with your child. Some tips when reading include: Discuss the book prior
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We thought it might be nice for the students and parents to have a look at the Year 2 teachers My Place presentations!
Jen, Meredith and Tim’s My Place Projects! Read More »
This week, students have been asked to start to think about a place that they consider to be special, and explain why this particular place is special to them. For example, this might be their bedroom, a play area, a holiday location, their favorite park, or a location that they like to visit within their
Every Friday Mornings in the Prep Neighbourhood, we will be presenting “Prep’s Got Talent!”. This is an opportunity for prep students to showcase their special talent to the neighbourhood. This morning, we had a whole neighbourhood discussion about our talents. After that, it was the prep teachers’ turn to present their talents. Tomo did his juggling, Maddy
Last week students started to receive various components of their book packs. We decided that to enable students to understand the bookwork expectations, we would slowly distribute the books. Each book was handed out during a focussed session on HOW work is to be completed in these books ie – date at the top, Workshop
Monday Inquiry / Wellbeing / Reading Provocations Yoga / Games / Meditation Tuesday Provocations / Reading – Big book Specialist – Italian (Yellow and Red), Physical Education (Blue and Red), Art (Blue and Yellow) Buddy time Wednesday (Student free day) Scheduled online interviews (one on one) Thursday (Reading folder comes to school today) Library / Music
We request that students’ bring in their reader folder every Thursday. There will be a tub for each home group at the door of the neighbourhood spaces. On Thursdays, children have an opportunity to return their book, borrow a new one and share Reader’s Notebook entries with the teacher. We are looking for some wonderful parent helpers to assist
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Hello lovely families! Tomorrow is Wednesday, and Wednesday morning is now Year 1’s library time. We will be setting the students up with their Year 1 book bags, a book for responding in and they will be bringing home their initial reading books for the term. At this stage the books will not have their
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The Teddy Bears’ picnic is a tradition at Princes Hill Primary School. Every year, the preps venture out of the school together for the first time as a neighbourhood and enjoy a picnic at the Railway Park. Family and friends of the Prep Neighbourhood (along with teddy bears or special toys) are invited to join us.
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