We will be taking the prep students to the Mother’s and Carer’s Day Stall organised by the school this year. If your child would like to purchase a small gift for this day, we recommend that they bring a small amount of money in an envelope clearly labelled with their name and the amount. We […]
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On Monday, the Preps took part in a shared reading experience of The Hungry Giant’s Lunch. It is a story that involves a character they have been introduced to in a previous Big Book (‘The Hungry Giant’). In this story, the giant is not as scary and does not order the town folk around, threatening
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This Wednesday was the first of several golf sessions to be held for interested year 4s at PHPS. Though we were using soft rubber balls, the clubs and the fun were real! Throughout the four-week course, the students will have the benefit of PGA golf coach Sienna Lambert from Riverside Golf and Tennis Centre to
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In science, the Preps watched a video “Colour Changing Milk” Following the video, we discussed how to create a procedural text to document the experiment. First, we began with the Title: How to make Rainbow Milk then, we listed the items milk, food dye, soap, cotton buds, plate. Lastly, we included the steps: 1) Put in the milk
We did the Hokey Pokey together!
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Today we had our first Drawing Club ran by Miela. It was a great start with 25 students from Years 1-5. You had a free choice of what to draw, most people drew fruit and beautiful patterns. Drawing helps build up our fine motor skills and our ability to visualise or observe. Hopefully next week we
Here are our amazing presenters and performers from Preps Got Talent welcoming us back to Term 2! WEEK 1 Presenters: AJ and Olivia Performer: Mael Talent: Break dancing Performer: Sebastien Talent: Magic trick Performer: Iona Talent: Harmonica WEEK 2 Presenters: Archie, Annabella and Kaan Performers: Maggie & Lyla Talent: Gymnastics Performers: Olivia & Franzi Talent:
Monday Inquiry workshops / Shared reading – Big book – Letter study Writing (Weekend recount), Numeracy, Reading (Number words) Library – Yoga – Drawing Tuesday Inquiry workshops / Shared reading – Big book – Reading strategies (making predictions) Specialist – Italian (Yellow and Red), Physical Education (Blue and Red), Art (Blue and Yellow) Library – Yoga
A message from the Premier “I wish every child and student undertaking the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge in 2017 a fun, enjoyable and fulfilling experience. I look forward to hearing about their discoveries, adventures and achievements.” – The Hon Daniel Andrews MP, Premier of Victoria To complete the challenge: Prep, Year 1 and Year 2
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The PHPS choir is up and running! Please see Deb for details, here are the lyrics to our song: There Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens. Alex Cramer and Joan Whitney 1947. Sung by Louis Jordan Verse 1 One night farmer Brown was taken’ the air Locked up the barnyard with the greatest of care