The children have settled back into school beautifully. Every day they demonstrate what strong and capable children they are, following our daily routines with ease and confidence. It is a joy to have them back! We continue our inquiry into what it means to “collaborate”. To grow the children’s understanding of “collaboration” and make connections …
The children continue to be exposed to regular practice in fine motor skills and in letter formation to ensure the development of good handwriting habits. Developing their fine motor skills is key to children becoming fluent, legible and competent practitioners of Victorian Modern Cursive handwriting style. There are a number of factors that we discuss …
This week in the Prep Neighborhood we are continuing to learn all the new routines there are at school. We are also focussing on collaboration, sustained effort and giving new things a go. In reading we are focussing on sharing stories as a group and drawing a response to the story. We are even having …
This week, a special delivery arrived in our Prep Neighbourhood. This delivery highlighted the energy around our prep projects. These projects are student-driven responses to our year’s inquiries into ‘creativity’. Each of the projects are now gaining momentum and will be a wonderful way to reflect and celebrate our year’s learning together. Our projects will …
Our collective efforts to stay connected through lockdown and remote learning have been paid forward over the last 2 weeks. Children appeared grounded in their social connections, providing an air of confidence as they smoothly and joyfully rekindled friendships and settled into neighbourhood routines. We, as educators, could feel the sense of community and belonging …
Complexity or Simplicity in Creativity Over the term break, whilst looking through the Prep Creativity documentation, a recorded conversation and a piece of artwork, created from an online provocation, continually drew our attention.These insights into children’s thinking ignited ideas of exploring creativity through complexity and simplicity. Albie- I think creativity is when, like, you make …
It didn’t come from instructions, it came from my imagination. Matilda Read More »
As the Preps work individually on provocations, remote learning can feel isolating and as though we are learning in a bubble. We, as educators, have been provoking students to explore concepts that ultimately support students’ collective understandings and projects. Collectively, Preps identified that creativity needs to be defined in multiple ways. We recognise that we …
Nature and our courtyard garden have been a consistent point of reference and connection throughout our research and discoveries into our collective understanding of creativity. We have constantly sought opportunities for deepening this connection whenever and wherever possible. I see creativity when we are looking in the garden. Arlo I see creativity when I look …
As our collective inquiries into ‘creativity’ continued to find interesting project pathways in our Neighbourhood, remote learning was upon us, ‘creating’ its own interesting opportunities to further explore these pathways in different environments. These pathways include using our courtyard garden to inspire and create, the continuing discoveries about creative storytelling in both the Learning Commons and …
Term 2 has begun in earnest in the Prep Neighbourhood. We have been very keen to capitalise on the excitement generated by understanding what it means to become a writer and the important place writing has in our world. We set provocations to encourage children to recognise the multiple ways we communicate as communities, including …
Becoming documentors and observers of children’s instinctive processes of creating. Read More »