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Last year Princes Hill Primary were fortunate enough to have the CASEA (CAMHS and Schools Early Action ) Team from the Royal Children’s Hospital run a school based program with eight students from Grade one and two, and their families. The Wellbeing Coordinator and a Grade two teacher were also involved in the running of […]

Dear parents and carers, Welcome to our second blog post for term 2. These are some of the things we have been doing in the Year 2 neighbourhood over the past week. We have introduced Move it May to every neighbourhood at PHPS. Wait! You might not know what Move it May is, let us

Today during lunch eating time, Meredith shared a website she found last night. It caught her eye because she knows there are some keen anglers in the Year 2 Neighbourhood who often talk about how much they like fishing, and she thought it might be something other students could be interested in too. A few

Breaking news!!! This term the Year 2 Neighbourhood will be visiting the Arts Centre on St Kilda Road to attend an opera performance on Friday 14th June 2019 in Week 8. As part of our focus on the narrative genre this term, we will attend a relaxed performance of ‘Alice Through the Opera Glass’, a

This week, students in the Year 2 Neighbourhood were introduced to the famous ‘Year 2 Buddy Project’.  After great success with the Year Twos from last year and the year before, we’re looking forward to building on this initiative to help strengthen relationships within the neighbourhood, with a focus on wellbeing. Every two weeks, students

Maddy has invited all of the students at Princes Hill Primary School to join her (and other staff members!) in participating in Active April! This is a fantastic opportunity to get active. The experience will provide a real life context to many numeracy learning opportunities, and is sure to spark family discussions about maths in everyday

This Friday the Year 2s will be watching ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (‘G’ rated Disney version), after being inspired by our talk at ACMI about fairytales.  We hope to re-familiarise ourselves with this timeless classic with some new understandings that we took away with us frrom our excursion. It is a chance for students to

Dear Parents and Carers, This week has been a busy week – we are getting close to the end of Term 1! We have been creating a few pieces of work for our portfolios, and we have been putting in lots of effort (so we are all a little bit tired!). One of these pieces

Dear Parents and Carers, This week was a great week because we went to ACMI, so we have a lot of things to tell you.  At the start of the day on Tuesday we had a few extra people in our neighbourhood – our parent volunteers for the day (Brona, Emily, Mina, Kelvin, Kelly, Duncan,

Dear Parents and Carers,   Week 6 has been a short week but a productive one. Some of the learning that we got up to this week included:   Kaan – I noticed that some letters are silent in words, for example the ‘o’ is silent in ‘people’, and the ‘k’ in ‘know’. Ahilan –