Last Friday was an incredibly exciting day for the prep neighbourhood community as we officially opened our reconstructed courtyard space. This project was a culmination of our year long inquiry into construction in its many forms. Throughout the year the teachers noticed three main areas of construction including kindness, place and stories. In dialogue with […]
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Thank you to all of the fantastic parents who came along on today’s excursion. Here are some photos of the morning and our State Library Excursion reflections… I loved to see the Cricket Ashes (Lewis) I liked the reading corner downstairs. There were lots of new books (Sophie) I liked the mini sculpture of the
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The Prep Neighbourhood was buzzing with excitement last Wednesday morning as the children arrived ready for our annual Grandparents’ Morning Tea. Our time together began with a performance of two songs co-constructed with our music teacher, Deb. The next part of our morning was spent engaging in provocations with our Grandparents and special friends, along
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Yesterday Tai Snaith visited the Year 2 Neighbourhood so that we could thank her for her help with the illustrations and give her a copy of our published book. A few students volunteered to write and and present parts of a thank you speech (thank you Tristan, Scarlett, Franzi, Lyla and Wren) and Harry even
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The focus of our inquiry has been to understand our world. With all the climate change devastation, it’s equally important that we have insights into how we can continue to contribute to positive change, and see examples of this. All living things depend on their (built and natural) environments for their survival and wellbeing. The
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Hello! Just a reminder that tomorrow is our last library session and the last day to bring any library books back! We would be very grateful if you could double check at home in case you have any books that need to be returned. Thank you! The Year One Team
The Year 2s have transition this afternoon in the last session. Just a quick head’s up that the students will be taking their bags with them to their new 3/4 Neighbourhood and can be picked up from there rather than the Year 2 Neighbourhood.
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Dear parents and carers, This afternoon we picked random names (students from our Neighbourhood) out of a bowl and wrote them down in our Inquiry books. Why did we do this, I hear you ask? The one person that we picked will be the focus of this years’ inaugural Secret Santa. Secret Santa will be
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On Friday, students in the Transport Inquiry group were given the opportunity to use Nudel Kart as a provocation for their inquiry. Students participated in an incursion with the Nüdel Kart, facilitated by Play Specialist Cat Sewell. Nüdel Kart is a deconstructable, mobile play kart that can be reconfigured in endless ways to encourage self-directed learning.
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