Tai began the second session by asking the children to revisit the four scenes that they drew last week. The children were asked to choose two sketches that they would like to take to a completion stage. Children were asked to choose one image for this session. Tai then demonstrated how to apply washes. The […]
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As a neighbourhood, we often read the questions and responses on the Curious Kids science website. Today, the question on their website was written and sent in by Claudia, one of our very own students!! It was very exciting to read Claudia’s question “Why do we cry?”, and learn more about crying through the scientists’
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Last Friday, the year 5/6 students embraced their inner child and went all out for Book Week! The parade was a huge hit and students were able to showcase their creativity with their costumes. With the busy-ness of life, students were provided opportunities in projects and provocations to create a costume – so everyone was
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Book week 2019 is off to a super start! This week the theme is ‘Reading is my super power’ and on Friday August 16th students and teachers dressed up and got into character to celebrate their favorite books. This week (week 6) we have a whole range of invitations celebrating all things literature. We are
The Year 1’s are excited about an upcoming excursion late in the term. On Tuesday 10th September, all of the Year 1 students will be bussing to participate in an excursion to the Melbourne Museum where students will be immersed in real life contexts to be able to communicate important messages for our environment and
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The Annual PHPS Book Week Parade afforded the prep team the opportunity to rethink our Performance Space. Inspired by the book A River written and illustrated by Marc Martin we set about transforming the space into a page from the book. We did this with the intention of creating a magical inspiring space that would
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Dear Parents and Carers, Today the Year 2 students received an expression of interest form about the upcoming intensive swimming program that will be running next term at Carlton Baths from 21/10/19 to 1/11/19. Responses are due by the end of Week 7 so that exact numbers can be collated. The Year 2 Team
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Tai Snaith Tai Snaith is an Australian artist and writer with a broad and generous practice ranging from painting and ceramics to curating, conducting conversations and broadcasting. Artist in Residence, Tai Snaith, worked in Visual Art with the year 2 students. Tai collaborated with the year 2 Inquiry into ‘Why write?’ The students wrote stories
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Literature has always been a superpower of life-long learners and this year’s Book Week theme, Reading is my Secret Power was another chance to celebrate the role of literature in our lives. It was a pleasure to see the 5/6s embrace the challenge of dressing-up during their provocations and join in the spirit of the
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Today the students at Princes Hill Primary School celebrated the launch of Book Week with our annual parade in the gym. It was fantastic to see so many amazing costumes from all the year levels! The Year Twos continued book week festivities back in their neighbourhood with our first ever ‘Book Week’ trivia quiz –
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