It’s less than two weeks until our first excursion of the year, and we’re all getting quite excited! We know that our visit to Ballarat will focus on a time in Australia’s past in the 1850’s, and we have started to brainstorm what we already know about this time in history and what questions we […]
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English This week, students will be introduced to narratives as a fictional text type, which we are looking forward to exploring in detail over the next few terms. Our focus this week will be on examining the structure of a familiar fairy tale, to gain a deeper understanding of how the characters, setting, and plot
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This term, the Year 2 Neighbourhood will be going on an excursion to Sovereign Hill! In Week 8, on Monday 19th March, we will journey to Ballarat for the day and travel back in time to experience what life was like in Victoria’s settlement towns of the 1850s, and gain a deeper understanding of the
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In Week 3, students will be introduced to our Big Idea of ‘exploring the past helps us to see our future in new ways’, with an initial focus on how things that have happened in the past have impacted on the world today. We are excited to start our inquiry by exploring a number of
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At the end of Week 1, students were introduced to a provocation that will be set up in the neighbourhood in Week 2 – a Mystery Treasure Table! We have asked students to think about a ‘treasure’ that represents who they are – a small trinket that they can bring into the neighbourhood from home
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Not long now til the end of the school year for 2017! On Friday, the Year 2 Neighbourhood will be having a shared picnic lunch in the mini oval to celebrate all of our achievements over the past year. We have asked students to please bring a plate to share with their homegroup, rather than
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If you would like a digital copy of the Year Two Neighbourhood Cookbook , please bring a USB in this week so that we can copy it for you. Then you’ll be able to read, look at, and share all of our recipes on a computer or iPad, and you may also print and bind
Tomorrow is Wacky Wednesday at Princes Hill Primary School, an initiative designed by our student leaders to raise funds for State School’s Relief. We are asking children to bring a gold coin donation to take part in one or more of the following events: Pop up cinema (in the neighbourhoods) Snatch ‘n’ match (hunt for
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This term, students have been creating their own superhero characters to explore our school’s value of ‘Strong and Capable Children’. Over the last few weeks, students worked with their buddies and independently to brainstorm their own strengths and interests, and looked at the different characteristics of animals as ways of developing their own personal superhero
It turns out that there is no assembly this Friday due to Bazaar preparation, which means that the trial-run of our cookbook stall will be from 3:15-3:30pm outside the Year 2 Neighbourhood this Friday afternoon. At the Bazaar on Sunday it’s been confirmed that our stall will also be outside the Year 2 Neighbourhood, near
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