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Over the last few weeks we have continued to explore children’s theories, questions and wonderings in connection to our artist in residence program. We have observed, documented and further provoked this learning, strengthening and illuminating potential pathways for deeper inquiries and projects. The addition of the prep children as the documentors of their Prep Neighbourhood […]

Last week, interesting theories, questions and wonderings with authentic potential were uncovered in our neighbourhood in connection to provocations connected to the artist in residence program. These artists have been specially chosen from our local community as part of our whole school wellbeing project and include a photographer, musician and dancer. We were able to

As transition back to on-site learning has begun again this week, we are focussed on the wellbeing of our students and the assessment of their learning needs for the rest of 2020.   In the prep neighbourhood we have concentrated on observation and documentation of the children’s moments of re -connecting with their environments, friends and

Over the last few weeks we have watched with genuine excitement and joy as the children have ventured into the online classroom blogs. Our first response as educators was one of celebration for the connections our children were able to re-ignite through this platform. A simple ‘hello’ carried with it the possibility of forming or

Over the last 6 weeks we have settled back into our new digital environment and system for learning. During this time we have focused on transferring our prep neighbourhood philosophy and values into this space. After listening carefully and documenting the children’s thoughts and learning we have come to realise the strength of their need to

Reflecting on a complex and challenging semester has provided us with an opportunity to rediscover our strongly held value of seeing children as capable and curious co-creators of theories and knowledge. Working from this image of the child we ventured into the unknown with open minds and hearts. This is our story of remote learning. 

Since returning to remote learning we have begun to inquire into the meaning of goals and their relationship to learning. Initially the preps were invited to share their current understanding of what a goal is, here are some of their thoughts.   A goal is something that you need to practice. Chloe A goal is

As we write this blog, we are a few days into our second round of remote learning. As much as we were looking forward to welcoming our preps back into our neighbourhood for term 3 we recognise the importance of our collective resilience and unity in making the most of the situation. As teachers we

As we have settled back into the neighbourhood and our new daily rhythm we have begun in earnest to look for opportunities to further provoke the children’s thinking and engagement with systems. As the educators we are providing experiences within our daily provocation sessions to observe and further document the children’s interactions with systems. We

We have approached our return to school as a time to re-connect to the Prep Neighbourhood, to draw inspiration from the home learning environment and be inspired by the many family experiences with learning.  The children have been afforded experiences and time to reconnect with their friends and their learning environments. Many children found comfort