Science Resources and Tissues Dear 5/6 parents, To support our ongoing science investigation into solids, liquids and gases, each student is asked to bring in a plastic 250ml bottle before next Wednesday (17th August). Our stocks of tissues are also running low again so we are requesting boxes of tissues for our neighbourhood. Thank you, […]
House Athletics Day Congratulations to everyone who competed in yesterday’s athletics. It was a fantastic day with plenty of good spirits and sportmanship on display. Results for those students going through to the district competition will be posted in the 5/6 neighbourhood. The 5/6 Team
Mini Olympics Dear parents and carers, On Thursday, 18th August we will be holding a mini Olympics, hosted by Gold House. The opening ceremony will take place at 12.15 in the gym. The winners of the flag design competition will lead out their teams, represented by 2 students per year level. These names have been
Numeracy This week in numeracy we continued with Cat and Mouse. Many of our students have designed fantastic boards of their own, which we will both display in the neighbourhood and send to the junior school to be tested. To finish our exploration of chance and probability, we designed and tested bags! Here is the
Numeracy This week, continuing our focus on probability and chance, we explored “Cat and Mouse” another fantastic Maths 300 lesson. In the game, a mouse goes left or right, depending on whether an even or odd number is rolled. Sometimes the mouse gets the cheese and sometimes the cat gets the mouse. After playing the
PHPS ROCKS NATIONAL BOOK WEEK JSC are organising 3 events as part of Book Week. Whole School Short Story Competition – Closes Friday August 19 The Short Story Competition is kindly sponsored by The Little Bookroom, 759 Nicholson St, Carlton North. They’ve generously donated book vouchers for the winners and runners-up. There are four categories:
THE GREAT BOOK SWAP As part of National Book Week and to help raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation to buy books for remote indigenous communities who don’t have access to books we’re holding a Great Big Book Swap. There are schools involved all across Australia and the target is $100,000 to buy 10,000
Literacy This week in literacy the students continued exploring poetry by thinking of the messages contained within and the poet’s purpose. They revisited My Country by Dorothea Mackeller and were introduced to A Mountain Station by Banjo Paterson. They also furthered their understanding by reading and experimenting with repetition in poems. The 5/6 Team
The Princes Hill Primary School House Athletics carnival is fast approaching! Children in Grades 3 – 6 will be participating in the House Athletics Carnival on Thursday 11th August, 2016 at Coburg Athletics Track (Harold Stevens Park), Outlook Rd, Coburg (Melway Ref:18 A10). Students are divided into age groups to compete and successful competitors
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Boxwars ‘On Wednesday the whole school draped on their togas, ink printed with their own designs, put on their hand-crafted cardboard jewellery and armour made in Italian with Anne-Maree and paraded out in to the BOXWARS auditorium to act as the crowd for the BOXWARS chariot race. Caesar himself was there to start the race dressed in a splendid armour of cardboard. We