As we have settled back into the neighbourhood and our new daily rhythm we have begun in earnest to look for opportunities to further provoke the children’s thinking and engagement with systems. As the educators we are providing experiences within our daily provocation sessions to observe and further document the children’s interactions with systems. We […]
Prep- 2 As artists, we use our art to express our way of seeing the world around us. We opened our windows to the outside world when the restrictions eased and it was refreshing to view the outside world again, with a new perspective. Students responded to the idea of expressing their new outlook on
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Dear parents and carers, It has been a diverse, productive and very enjoyable week in the Year 2 neighbourhood. This week we have been investigating what a character trait is. Some examples of character traits are (Ihsahn): – Jack (Hey Jack): he is very worried (Alex) – Uncle Vernon (Harry Potter) is very mean (Vivienne)
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Dear parents and carers, Our Friday performances were back in full swing today. A big congratulations to our two capable hosts Evie H and Felix B for keeping things moving. Our performances this week were: Edie’s beautiful piano, Jack’s K cracking jokes, Gabriel’s sublime guitar, Ihsahn’s ripping rap, Nina and Aimi’s mesmerising dance, Jack B’s
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Dear parents and carers, This week we have been doing a lot of things based on our inquiry ‘The Self’ as in portraits. People have been painting lots of portraits of themselves or their friends in the Art Studio. These people are part of our community (Gigi). We have been writing letters saying thank you
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We have approached our return to school as a time to re-connect to the Prep Neighbourhood, to draw inspiration from the home learning environment and be inspired by the many family experiences with learning. The children have been afforded experiences and time to reconnect with their friends and their learning environments. Many children found comfort
The students have continued to settle in well at school, adapting to our new routines to keep us safe and well. We took the time to reflect about their home learning, asking them to share their feelings about their experiences. The big take-out for us was that the students are very happy to be back
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As we reach the end of our Remote Learning experience, members of the year 3/4 neighbourhoods have spent time this week reflecting and documenting this unique journey. This time has shaped us all as people and as learners and has prompted our thinking around the question: How have we changed? One way we have shared
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Ciao a tutti!…..what a delight to welcome back the prep, year 1 and 2 students to face to face Italian learning! We’ve been enjoying getting back into our routines of cerchio e come stai? (checking in on our feelings in Italian), dancing, viewing, exploring and responding to new Italian vocabulary. We discovered that Simone the
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