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Dear parents and carers,   On Tuesday evening, we had the launch for our exquisite book ‘Long Tales, Short Tales, Tiger Tails and Ponytails!’ During the days leading up to it, all the students set up the Year 2 Neighbourhood by making signs and posters to welcome visitors inside and to help people know what […]

Our  inaugural Princes Hill Primary School Expo Evening is this Tuesday 26th November 2019. It starts at 5:30pm and finishes at 7:00pm. Come to the Year 2 Neighbourhood for the very special Book Launch of our wonderful published book ‘Long Tales, Short Tales, Tiger Tails and Ponytails: Collected Stories of the Year 2 Neighbourhood‘. It

Dear parents, carers, friends from other schools, cousins, retired teachers and grandparents, Keep your energy until Tuesday the 26th of November (which is in exactly 1 week) because the Year Twos are having a book launch that will be filled with our brilliant published books. While you’re there you should flip through the book because

Dear lovely parents and carers,   This week we have been working on different ways we can persuade people to come to our book launch.  We had three workshops where we brainstormed lists of people we want to invite (our audience) and types of persuasive texts:   Our audience Types of persuasive text Cousins Parents

Dear lovely parents and carers, This week the Year 2 Neighbourhood sent the book to the printers in a digital format! While we wait for the published copies to arrive, we worked on describing our illustrations that will appear next to our narratives in the book.  These descriptions will be helpful for people who visit

Dear lovely parents and carers,   This has been another successful week.  We have almost finished laying out our collection of narratives.  The program we are using to do our layout is called Adobe InDesign. It allows us to view the text and the pictures as they will appear in the book. Seeing the layout

Day for Daniel will be held on Friday 25th October 2019. The day is ‘about educating children and adults about keeping kids safe through child safety and protection initiatives.  It aims to help empower our children to Recognise, React and Report if they feel something is not right’. More information is on the PHPS Wellbeing

The intensive swimming program beings next Monday. We will be doing the sessions Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the next two weeks.   Here are a few things to keep in mind for the sessions. Students are to wear their swimming costume to school. This helps to maximise time in the water as we can get

This term, the Year 2 Neighbourhood will be going on two excursions! In Week 8, on Wednesday 27th November, we will visiting Royal Park to participate in an environmental education program run by the City of Melbourne.  The program is being held at the Australian Native Garden at Royal Park, and over a whole day the

Dear Parents and Carers, Tomorrow is our excursion to the Arts Centre to see a guided rehearsal of the MSO (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra). There are a few important things that we need to remember for the day. Please do not bring a lunch order. Please pack a snack/sandwich that is separate to your lunchbox (in