Daisy and Nicole were selected to represent the school at the Children’a Parliament this week. Here is a little of what they got up to. On the 15th of August 2017, we went to the parliament house we spent the day in the city. We arrived at 9:00am and sat down in the representative house […]
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Today students were given the printed and finalised camp booklet. They had a chance to look at their schedules and groups to prepare for next week. We have decided for efficiency sake, that we’d keep the booklets at school. As mentioned in our previous post, in order to make the most of the opportunity for growth,
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This year, we have seen the introduction of our new school values – Our Story. Last term we looked extensively at the ‘One Community’ value – and understanding what it means to be a part of the year 2 community. This term, we are focussing our attention on ‘Strong and Capable Children’. We posed a
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Last week, the students of the year 2 neighbourhood made the short trip down to the Melbourne Museum. The focus of our excursion was to visit the First People’s exhibit – Bunjilaka – on the ground floor and the students went in with the big questions “What is Culture” and “What special things go into
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All camp planning has been finalised, everything booked and now we are starting our count down! Tomorrow all Year 3/4 students will be receiving their camp booklets. Students can take home their camp booklets to read and share with family and friends. We would like students to complete the camp pre-evaluation checklist and make their
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Today, children’s author and illustrator Elise Hurst came in to run a story telling workshop for a small group of interested children. Elise, who is also a parent of Archie and Sammy, supported children in designing a character for their story. From there she helped them come up with their characteristics that helped drive their
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While excitement is building within the 5/6 neighbourhood as we look forward to our Canberra camp next week, we are also making final preparations for our film making venture. These include the development of our four themes and the further exploration of the filmmaking process, including what is involved when making a documentary. Thank you
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Our Teeball team are now Division Champions and will play in the Regional championships on thursday the 17th of August. This clashes with our School Aths day so the children have had to make a tough choice about which to compete in. Because of the clash we need to thank some parents who will accompany
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Monday Swimming (Group 4: 12.10 – 2.15 / Group 5: 1.05 – 3.15) Projects and Provocations / Big Book Recount writing / Literacy and numeracy games Yoga Tuesday Projects and Provocations / Big Book Animation / Wellbeing story writing / Inquiry SPECIALIST CLASSES Wednesday (Chess club today) Swimming (Group 4: 12.10 – 2.15 / Group 5:
Our wellbeing session in Week 4 was focused on safety at school. We looked at the feeling of ‘frustration’. The Preps identified some situations at school that can cause frustration or anger. Sometimes children make choices that are not safe when they are experience this emotion. People sometimes can hurt others with their body and
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