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You Can’t knock Me Down – Resilient People, Resilient Buildings 

Students have been challenged to design a sustainable, green, classroom of the future.  We have begun by researching sustainability and green buildings, sketching building concepts with sustainable features, investigating architectural drawings (with engineering design in mind), and started creating floor plans for our possible future neighbourhood.  We have been measuring the classrooms and the fittings

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Green Walls, Waterfalls & Plastic Bottles

Our inquiry is re-focussing on sustainability, concentrating on how consumerism, energy use and unequal consumption are impacting on the biosphere. Are we being responsible global citizens in our individual and community actions? What rights and responsibilities do we have, if we are to be effective contributors to a sustainable, fair and enjoyable future? We are

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What Other Possible Explanation Could There Be?

Our amazing students have excelled in their learning this week. As a collective we have worked brilliantly to prepare a short dramatic production for Fridays Assembly.  Rather than share our excellent Shark Tank businesses with the school, our ambitious students wanted to share our classroom mysteries stories in an interesting performance. This performance will highlight

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Get Out of The Water! The Sharks are Coming!

Year 3/4 NH1 https://blogs.phps.vic.edu.au/year-34-n1-2024  Duunnn dunnn… duuuunnnn duun… duuunnnnnnnn dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn dunnnn…..Get out of the Water!  The Sharks are coming…………………   Relax….. the sharks have already visited.  3/ 4 neighbourhood 1 had a fantastic week preparing their business proposals for the arrival of the Shark Tank

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Ecosystems, volcanoes and spiders – our diverse understanding of the natural world

Building on the excitement of the Welcome and Learning Expo, 3/4 Neighbourhood 1 students were keen to continue their inquiries into the natural world, and thinking about how things work across the globe, from our cultural connections, to ecosystems, volcanoes, and about the creatures that inhabit our school, from spiders, other insects and plant and

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