The visual arts program is exploring installation art, beginning with an underlying focus on place-noticing and experimental & observational drawing. Students have been invited to slow down, notice and pay attention to their relations with place and multi-species. We are grateful to be learning from local Aboriginal knowledges, and place-noticing project; Out & About with […]
Hello to everyone😃. Every corner of our Music Program has continued as an absolute delight these past two weeks. Thank you to the JSC and the 56 Neighbourhood for leading our first assembly for the year, and to our Senior Choir for leading our community singing. Our IM lessons have started smoothly, and across the
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PHPS Bazaar 2023: what an outstanding day! A massive thank you to everyone for creating a day for our kids where their ‘Bazaar dreams’ came true. All day, the excitement and joy was beaming from their faces, and it was terrific to see so many students helping out and working alongside their parents/carers. The main
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We’ve enjoyed the magic of music this week to get our bodies moving in musical chairs. It’s been a great resilience building exercise for all too! 56 students have done fitness drills and played tchoukball to practice for their tournament next week. 45 students got the rippa rugby belts on for the first time and
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Hello to everyone! We have galloped into November and it feels like a Spring Music Carnival in our neck of the woods (move over horses). In the past couple of weeks we have enjoyed the Specialist’s Assembly, The IM Assembly and End of Year Concert, and umpteen Neighbourhood Variety Show performances across the school as
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Hi everyone! Well, if the above quote makes you think of music, as you drool, you are well on the way to unravelling the mysteries of the treble stave: BRAVO! In the past couple of weeks Yr12 Ngh1 has been striding into basic music theory as a way of getting a head start, or a
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Welcome back for Term 4, and goodness, how did we get here so quickly? Every term is packed with stimulating events, but Term 4 has extra tinsel on top as we ‘clock off’ the weeks towards the end of year holidays. This term offers some wonderful opportunities for our musicians to shine and these include
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That unfamiliar ball is called a ‘rugby union’ ball. The students in Year 4/5 are learning skills and developing their understanding for their PE unit of Rippa Rugby. Rippa Rugby is a non-contact version of rugby union, and the students had their first go at handling the ball, carrying it, moving with it, and passing
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The junior school tabloid sports were such a huge success! The participation of the students was incredible; they demonstrated perseverance, determination, teamwork, sportsmanship, house spirit, and showed that they really are strong and capable children. The events were chicken slinging, captain’s coming, caterpillar team challenge, egg and spoon races, sack races, team island relays, extreme
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With their introduction to making paper sculptures playful students have been tuning into the structural and physical properties of paper, including its airiness, waywardness, and at times…. need for flight! Students are developing understanding that when we make art in 3 dimensions it is often called Sculpture and that an effective sculpture works from all