Our PHPS Trivia Night! Saturday 12th of August!
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July 2017
Swimming caps
Just a reminder to remember to purchase a swimming cap if your child does not already have one. It is a requirement for all students to wear a cap during these sessions. Many thanks
Go Wombats!
This morning some of the girls in the year 2 neighbourhood played their first netball game at the State Netball and Hockey Centre! Jen was lucky enough to go along and watch the girls (her daughter was playing in the next game), and witnessed an amazing effort put forth by all of the team.
Procedural Texts
This term, the Year 2’s have started to look at procedural texts. So far, we’ve started with investigating cookbooks and recipes, and came up with some statements as a class to describe the organization, structure and features of these texts. This week, we looked at another type of procedural text – instructions on how to
Term 3 Excursions
This term, the Year 2 Neighbourhood will be going on two excursions! In Week 4, on Thursday 10th August, we will visit the Melbourne Museum. We will deepen our learning from last term surrounding how we make connections to places, indigenous artwork and dreamtime stories by investigating the culture and traditions of Victoria’s Aboriginal people.
Intensive Swimming Program 2017
The Intensive Swimming Program for 2017 starts on Monday 7th August. Two forms have been sent home with students today (a blue form with payment details, and a white form indicating the times and dates of the swimming sessions). The Year 2’s will have their swimming on a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday over two weeks,
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PHPS students at Digicon Day 1
Yesterday, Mia, Ava, Sophie, Kitty, Mirsu, Laurie, Balam and Aidan went to the first day of DigiCon. DigiCon is two-day conference and exhibition about interactive digital technology. We got there by tram. When we arrived, we ate morning tea and then started looking at the technology. We all really enjoyed the interactive bits of it, such
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Origami & NASA
Vicki Tu has been a welcome visitor to neighbourhood 1 for the last two Tuesdays. She has been exploring the art of origami with students who have found the experiences thought provoking and relaxing. Through the art form students are prompted to think mathematically and geometrically about design, while building perseverance and patience. Vicki will visit
We grew seedlings!
The Preps planted a variety of seeds during the last week of Term 2. On Wednesday, the children analysed the growth of each type of plant and we measured the size of the shoots. The children had some great ideas about why plants grow: “Energy from the ground goes into the roots. Water goes into the plants and makes
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