Year 6 Camp Reflection
After the Year 6 Canberra Camp, students were encouraged to reflect on their experience. Here’s a piece written by Anton. Camp Reflection By Anton
September 2019
Dialogical Pedagogy
“Dialogic pedagogy is a term used by a growing number of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to describe learning processes in which teacher and pupils critically interrogate the topic of study, express and listen to multiple voices and points of view, and create respectful and equitable classroom relations.” dialogicpedagogy.com While we are not new to the …
Viva Italia!
Throughout this term students across the school have engaged in an exploration (albeit virtual!) of Italia. We’ve discovered that it has a very unique shape, that its major cities are very varied, and that there’s more to pizza than the ubiquitous round shape! In Roma you can buy pizza al …
Tree Planting
On Monday afternoon the project group exploring our school’s natural outdoor environment spent some time planting new tree’s. They had a wonderful time reflecting on the types of tree’s they were planing, the importance of them and the way to care for the new tree’s as they grow.
Term 3 In the Prep Neighbourhood
We have been learning how to make books. Some of us didn’t know how to write and now we know how to write books. It’s helped us learn to write. Flynn This term our inquiry into construction deepened with the creation of three separate pathways. The teachers observed and documented the children’s interests and directions …
Using our many languages to express our mathematical thinking
Over the last couple of weeks, the students of 3/4 have been invited to create a teaching resource for another student on the correct use of mathematical language. We began our investigation into the many words we use when using multiplication and division. Students discussed the key words and then selected a word to investigate. …
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End of Term Assembly & Year 1 Neighbourhood Celebration!
Hi everyone! Next week (Wk. 10) the school will be holding an assembly to help celebrate the achievements and events of term 3. The assembly will begin at 9:05am in the school gym and welcome everyone to come along. It should only last for around 30 minutes or so. THEN! After the assembly, the year …
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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES USER AGREEMENT
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES USER AGREEMENT Dear parents, The Year 2 students have each set up their own Google account and have also joined the Year 2 Neighbourhood Google Classroom. Today each student received an ICT user agreement. They have been asked to take the document home, read over it with their parents, sign the agreement and …
Melbourne Museum Excursion!
On Tuesday, the whole year 1 neighbourhood ventured out to the Melbourne Museum! The students fully immersed themselves in the real life contexts which included exhibitions of ‘Bugs Alive,’ ‘Marine Life’ and ‘Dinosaur Walks.’ In line with our current inquiry focus of communicating important messages for our environment and the our future, students further identified …
Week 8 Term 3 Learning Reflection
This morning in the bright spring sunshine the Year 2 neighbourhood traveled on the tram (this involved a short walk because the tram stop is not directly outside our school – Archie M) to get to Hamer Hall. Our reason for visiting Hamer Hall was to learn from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and conductor Nicholas …