Hello and thank you all for such a success filled start to our term. We are all on a steep learning curve. We can’t thank all the families enough for their positivity and genuine sense of community around our flexible learning situation. As prep teachers’ we wanted to capitalise on our successful start to the […]
We are thrilled to report that although there were some nerves during the first few days in the prep neighbourhood these quickly dissipated and were replaced with smiles and laughter! Keep reading to learn about some of the happenings of the first few days of school…….. We learned about and experienced some of the prep
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Hi everyone, welcome to week 6! Below is a general schedule of our intended happenings this week. Please note that Tomo will be out of the neighbourhood today and tomorrow (Monday and Tuesday) due to a conference. We are looking forward to a great week of learning and creativity! Monday Projects and Provocations Rocket Workshop
You may have noticed a collection of library books on the top shelf of your child’s locker this week. These are books the children have selected as ‘Good Fit Books’ to use during our independent reading sessions in the neighbourhood (to be kept at school). Prior to borrowing these books we talked about the importance
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Hi everyone, We hope you enjoyed the weekend! Below is a general schedule for this week in the prep neighbourhood……. Monday Morning Maths Projects and Provocations (continuing with our focus on exploring) Shared Reading (Big Book) Workshop: ‘What’s behind the door?’- exploring our school Workshop: Good Fit Books STEAM with Steve Tuesday Morning Maths Projects
Welcome to week 7! We hope everyone had a lovely and restful long weekend. Our apologies for the delay in posting the schedule for this week (we realise the week is almost over!). Tuesday Morning Maths Shared Reading (Big Book) Workshop: Writing Workshop: Wellbeing Workshop: Teamwork Specialists 0AP Italian 0TH Visual Art 0JW Physical Education
Check out some of the preps working on independent reading! Yesterday we introduced the concept of independent reading or what we’re calling Read to Self. We began by talking about the 3 different ways we can read a book including reading the pictures, reading the words and retelling the story. As a group we then
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Welcome to week 6! We are very much looking forward to our first full week together and lots of exciting learning opportunities. Our schedule is as follows…… Monday Morning Maths Inquiry Discussion + provocations Introduction to ‘Read to Self’ (independent reading) Workshop Independent Writing Workshop STEAM with Steve Shared Reading Tuesday Morning Maths Projects &
Just a reminder that assessment interviews will be happening tomorrow (Wednesday 28th Feb). Please ensure your child is at their home room (in the prep neighbourhood) at their scheduled time. Below is a link if you need to check the schedule. We look forward to seeing you! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eKrC7043BWSZWR5ADA7M9-v71ffJnCn3VeLwkmVOqDY/edit
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As part of our explorations of ‘planet school’ the prep children and teachers have been out and about closely examining the many different buildings and spaces that make up our school environment. We wanted to find a way to document what we saw and decided that drawing would be a great place to start. Each
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