This week, students are continuing to discuss some understanding of the different functions of a group but will focus on supporting their learning with documentation. We will also focus on making connections between the current questions about the groups characteristics and what we are researching through their animal posters. This will especially be done through […]
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Last Friday, as part of our Wellbeing focus, we discussed different strategies we could use to calm ourselves down, when we are feeling strong emotions such as being angry, sad, nervous, worries, frustrated, stressed, embarrassed, and disappointed. In a whole group discussion, students reflected upon and shared their strategies. What great suggestions everyone had! Sit
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Today was the Walkathon at Princes Hill Primary School. A great time was had by all, as students in all year levels walked to help raise money for school resources. There was a fun and social atmosphere, with students walking and chatting with their family, as well as friends in their own and other neighbourhoods.
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Hello!!! Just a small-friendly reminder that tomorrow Princes Hill Primary will be holding their annual Walkathon. The event will be starting from 12:15pm and conclude at 2:30pm where the students will enjoy a well deserved gelato! We ask that you remind your child to bring their sponsor forms to enable their lap tally. If you
Hi everyone, We hope you are enjoying the lovely sunshine today! Please remember we have our Scienceworks excursion on Tuesday (I’m sure the children will help you!). In preparation for this exciting adventure all we ask is that: Children arrive at school on time (**this is very important as the bus must leave on time)
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Earlier in the week, Viv (Saskia’s father) visited the 34 neighbourhoods to support our thinking around the design of meeting places. He presented the thinking, decision making, considerations and potential for evolution behind the design of Federation Square. As Viv guided us through the project, we began to thinking about many aspects of our design
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Can you spare some time first thing tomorrow morning? If so we’d love your assistance during Projects and Provocations where children will be designing, creating and preparing for our launch to ‘Planet School’! Projects and Provocation time will run from approximately 9:15-10:45am. Many thanks, Tomo, Jess and Amy
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This term we’ve been quite busy in STEAM! We’ve been considering the narratives of creatures at PHPS like possums and caterpillars. After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we have discussed needs and activities that living beings might carry out and then developed artistic representations of environments that would be conducive to life. Our goal will
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As part of our exploration of Planet PHPS, we examined maps of the school in STEAM to create a model that could be used with our robots. Students identified places that they knew and talked about activities that they did in those places using both the map and 3D model. After that we used robots to
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This week the students will continue to connect the animal worlds through a scientific perspective whilst configuring how their specific groups operate in particular categories. They are looking deeper into the how they are researchers – or anthropologists – who are now identifying certain characteristics about their chosen animals groups and how they relate to their own associated
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