Wow! What a massive week. The grade one neighbourhood students pulled out all the stops and investigated, created and made some amazing things. We wanted to share some quick photos with you tonight and then will give you a full run down of the week soon.
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We’ve had a request from the lovely Deb and the cool Kofi to help create some costumes for our African drumming performance. It’s some super simple sewing- just hemming some pieces of material. If you are able to help us out, please contact Jen at bradby.jen.j@edumail.vic.gov.au asap Thanks all!
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We are hoping to construct our balloon rockets tomorrow in the neighbourhood, which means we need bottle tops or small wheels for the students to use. If you have anything at home that even remotely resembles a wheel, can you please send it in with your child tomorrow. Here’s a basic idea of what we
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We were lucky enough to have some wonderful parents in today to help us prepare for our ‘Maker Faire’ on Friday. A huge thanks to Caroline (Angus’ Mum) and Lucy and Eddie (Kitty’s Mum and Dad). We don’t want to give too much away – but here is a liitle snippet of what we worked
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The loveable Mr M.Bot has been working hard over night to produce us this……… Yes, you are correct, that is the Millennium Falcon! The excitement over the 3D printer yesterday was amazing. The students were engaged in ongoing conversations about how it works and the applications for it. We also touched on the idea of ‘Print’
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This week, PHPS are turning into makers! We have got lots of fantastic things planned in the neighbourhood during the week, in celebration of Education Week. We will be looking at how technology has changed the way we communicate and how we can use technology in our neighbourhood. This will all culminate in our Maker
This week, the grade one neighbourhood has really started to deepen our understanding of communication systems – in particular written forms of communication. We decided to go old school, and write actual paper letters! The students read the classic book The Jolly Postman to get some inspiration. The students then all got given a person in
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Our investigation into systems have now branched out towards looking at the ‘system of communication’. How do we communicate and what do we use to communicate? We have been investigating the three main ways we communicate – verbal, non verbal and written. We are going to be setting up our own ‘communication museum’ within the neighbourhood.
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Do you think that you have an expertise in a particular area? Would you like to come and share it with the grade one neighbourhood? If so, we’d love to have you come and work with us! We are currently looking for volunteers who may have an engineering/building background, people who love to read
At PHPS, we are celebrating Earth Day on Friday the 29th of April. Earth Day is about sustainability and getting outside and enjoying the fresh air and the environment. From 12 till 1 PM there will be an hour of no power for the neighbourhoods (no lights, no technology)! We will be going