Hello wonderful 3/4 community, After a busy and fun term we are now on school break. Wishing our whole 3/4 learning community a safe and happy time and we are looking forward getting back to our learning on April 15th. Best wishes, Matilda, Toni, Robert and Simon
Last week as a teaching team we recognised a need and an opportunity for our children to process and share their understandings about Covid19. Early last week one of our prep students drew and communicated their theory about how the virus functions. As teachers we sat with this piece of important documentation. After thoughtful discussions …
Hi all, Today, all students who were present at school, were given logins to two home learning online programs: StudyLadder Prodigy Maths The login usernames and passwords can be found at the back of their Reading Logs & Journals (Purple book that lives inside their reading folders). If your child was at school today but …
Learning to Work Remotely Today we revised some of our digital technology capabilities. We checked in to ensure we have access and technology that can facilitate learning both at school and remotely. The following questions have been asked of students: Internet & Google Drive… What is your wifi/internet access like at home? Can you access …
Welcome Expo Last Wednesday, we invited the community into Princes Hill Primary School to attend our ‘Welcome’ Expo. Students shared their learning and welcome products with us. The exhibitions and displays included robots that waved, machines that said hello in a variety of languages, puppet tour guides and shows, quizzes, painted gifts, a fashion show, …
In light of the corona virus and the possibility that at some stage, all schools may be closed, we have sent a Home Learning Journal home today with each child. This book is for children to document their learning if home learning takes effect. If your child was absent today journals will be available at …
Visual Art Weeks 7 and 8 This week we brought together Line, pattern, shape and colour into one final work… We also used Keith Haring’s images of Dancing Dogs as our main inspiration for the composition of our work. Students tried to capture the movement in Keith haring’s work by using angled …
. The prep students have been enjoying learning to count to dieci, and beyond! They’ve been singing the canzone dei numeri, saying their age in Italian and many of them are excited to extend their capacity to count to venti (20). This knowledge of numbers aligns with the Mamma Mia Pizzeria project …
We welcomed our new Prep community in January 2020 with excitement and joy. We genuinely believe we have the best job in the world. When we sadly farewelled our 2019 Prep community in December we began to wonder and question how we could best welcome our 2020 community. This ignited a professional interest in researching …
An Italian Restaurant- From Provocations to an Inquiry Project Read More »
Next week the Year 3/4 students will start to plant vegetable seeds – both directly sown into the garden beds that we have weeded and into seed trays and seedling containers. This week we started to make origami seedling containers out of newspaper (on reflection after testing out a few with soil, thicker scrap …