As part of our sense of belonging and community inquiry, students have had the opportunity to opt into their second elective choice for Term 3. The buzz is palpable and excitement levels are high, as students collaborate and engage across their chosen electives. Media Arts Students are exploring persuasive techniques used in logo design. …
Gardening, drama, media arts, and science… delving into electives! Read More »
Weekly Program Activities Monday 22nd August – 26th August 2022 Book Week (20th August- 26th August: Dreaming with the Eyes open) Monday 22nd August 2022 Shields and Skittles in the gym Cooking: Rice Paper Rolls Art: Dreaming with Eyes Open Glasses Grade 4/5/6 club Tuesday 23rd August 2022 Music Games in the Gym Cooking: Mini …
… this Friday is our third Instrumental Music Assembly. It’s been a magical couple of weeks of imagination, sound, new ideas and singing. We have been finding out about the steel drum and the steel tongue drum, and expanding our palette of percussion and bell sounds to express our wonder about the galaxy. The School …
Over the past fortnight, students in Year’s 3-6 have continued participating in a number of Athletics events at school. After the successful Athletics Carnival in Coburg, we still had a number of events left to complete; Hurdles, High Jump and other running events just to name a few. Even though majority of these events were …
This term we have been exploring the features of libraries! This week we included mapping and through a workshop explored how maps can show us places by using shapes and directions. The children created maps of our library, documenting the important features and thinking about the shapes that the key parts of the library take …
Maths In maths, students are learning about time. Goals for students are to tell time to the minute on analogue clocks, to investigate the relationship between units of time, to convert between units of time and to use am and pm notation and solve simple time problems. This video gives a good overview of some …
Weekly Program Activities Monday 8th August – 12th August 2022 Monday 8th August 2022 Goalkicking and Handball competition Art: Pastel ArtScience: Grow your own rock crystals experiment Grade 4/5/6 Club Tuesday 9th August 2022 Hunter around the school Art: Japanese Carp Windsock Kites Film Making: Final Preparation week Wednesday 10th August 2022 Drawing Club Week …
Children continue to explore the inquiry research questions – ‘What do we think about the important issues of the future?’ and ‘What can we do about the important issues of the future?’ In response to these questions, their proposals for future change increasingly involve changes to schools. Children are beginning to identify the societal, transformative …
When Miles from Prep first heard the sound of the Federation Handbells, he said that they sounded like ’stars singing in the sky’. This wonderous observation, along with the idea that we are all made of star dust as the Preps have been remarking all week, are just two of many magical moments that have …
Students have started to explore the concept of wellbeing as part of our inquiry. We began by asking what students think the word wellbeing means. Responses included “health”, “mental health”, “how you feel” and “how you treat others”. Students listed some of the ways they know how to look after their wellbeing including meditation, yoga, …