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November 2020
HPE Update (Week 3 – 4)
5/6 Neighbourhood – The kids have been enjoying taking part in a range of sports and activities which have been chosen by them. There has been excitement to use the basketball rings again this week! 3/4 Neighborhood – The 3/4s did a terrific job reading their activity plan instructions (planned by their peers), worked in
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In The Thick of Our Learning
Maths Inquiry: The Design Project Over the lockdown period, we shared the ‘adjustments’ we had been making to our homes to accommodate our needs to have space to play and space for work. Many of us had rearranged rooms, added decorative items, and removed unnecessary items to ensure that the space was functional and aesthetically
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Multiple Languages Creating Pathways of Understanding
Over the last few weeks we have continued to explore children’s theories, questions and wonderings in connection to our artist in residence program. We have observed, documented and further provoked this learning, strengthening and illuminating potential pathways for deeper inquiries and projects. The addition of the prep children as the documentors of their Prep Neighbourhood
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Student Sharing
Some wonderful examples of students sharing their interests today. Thank you to Ihsahn for sharing his intriguing book recommendation, “A Whole New World”. Everyone was left wondering, “What if Aladdin had never found the lamp?” We were also lucky enough today to enter the beautiful world of origami courtesy of Isabella and Tayma who clearly
Today’s science links
https://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/Yellow-tailed-Black-Cockatoo https://blog.doublehelix.csiro.au/best-foot-forward-a-quick-quiz/
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Collage and Connection
Visual Art – Collage and Connection ‘Collage is putting bits of pieces of paper together to make a big bit of paper’ Hattie Yr 1 If each little bit of paper is like one of our stories, and bringing each little piece of paper together is like bringing all our stories together. ‘This will make
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A conversation on perspective
This week we continued our exploration of perspectives as we explored provocations from the artists in residence even further. The students in ¾ are connecting strongly to the idea of perspectives being captured through storytelling. Many students have been creating plays, stories and characters that display and celebrate multiple perspectives. We posed the question: What
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Reflecting on the Corona Virus
The Year 2 neighbourhood has been thinking about our experiences during the lockdown. In response to their work with Emily the students have pondered what the corona virus might look like and sound like. Nina: I remember that when I was looking at the newspaper with my mum we came to this page of the
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Bella Italia…un viaggio virtuale
Ciao a tutti…throughout the school we are having a wonderful time exploring the beauty and cultural riches of Bella Italia. We’ve seen Il Colosseo e il Panteon a Roma, le gondole e i canali a Venezia, and this week have been amazed by La Torre Pendente (di Pisa). Students are intrigued by this gravity defying
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