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This week, the Year Twos are starting to learn about poetry. Today students learned how poetry is a way of arranging and manipulating words to create unique views of the world, and that a writer combines words in order to share thoughts of feelings about a subject. Students have the opportunity during Projects and Provocations […]

This week, we started to think about ideas for narratives based around our inquiry focus of ‘what would a city of the future look like?’. Inspired by science fiction, we first looked at images of imagined futuristic cities as prompts and brainstormed what problems and solutions we could write about in the plot of our

Cricket opportunity for girls (Year 2 to 5) Youlden Parkville Club   Girls who are interested in playing cricket are invited to take part in a free program at Youlden Parkville Cricket Club.  The club have a well organised junior program – designed to foster the skills and talents of all players and maximise participation.

To support our inquiry into sustainable future, we were lucky enough to have Kirsty from Yarra Council visit the neighbourhood on Wednesday morning to run a series of workshops investigating how, why, and what we recycle. It was a fantastic opportunity for students to share their understandings about sustainability and why it is important, and

Tomorrow is Grand Final dress-up day! Please come dressed in your team’s colours and bring a gold coin donation to give to your home group teacher. We’re raising money to improve the school grounds and play areas.

Today the Sustainability Inquiry Group had their excursion to the University of Melbourne to visit the School of Design. Our tour guide, Annie, generously walked our group to see different areas of the building, and talked to us about the different sustainable features that have been included in it’s design and construction. We started out

  Next week, our three global goals groups will be going on three different excursions, that will help them to deepen their understanding about the group’s focus areas. The Quality of Life group will be visiting Woolworth’s at Barkley Square, where they will take part in a Fresh Food Kids Discovery Tour about food habits,

Today as a whole group, we took a rubbish and recycling quiz. Our score as a neighbourhood showed that we have only just begun our journey in developing our understanding and knowledge of recycling and how it works in Australia, and see it as a starting point to help us become more aware of the possible

This afternoon was our Year 2 Assembly for the term. As a whole group, students created three performances to capture what we have been learning as part of out Inquiry focus this term. In short, the best word to describe the Year 2 assembly contribution would probably be sensational!! We explored the history of the bandaid,