The Year 1 students will all be involved with a fantastic Puppetry incursion coming up in Week 9 – Tuesday June 18th. The workshop program will provide a structured opportunity for all students to discover their imaginative potential in line with our current inquiry of stories and storytelling. The students will be able to develop […]
Upcoming Polyglot Puppet Workshop/Incursion! Read More »
A celebration of learning! On Thursday 27th June, the school will be holding student-led conferences as a part of the assessment and reporting process. This is an opportunity for your child to celebrate learning by showcasing some significant pieces of learning they have produced this semester. Student-Led Conferences take the form of a conversation between
Student-Led Conferences – Thursday 27th June! Read More »
This week, the students continued where they left off from last week’s valuable discussion of what messages or lessons stories hold. After coming up with four categories to place these messages/lessons into: Environmental, Feelings and Emotions (Wellbeing), Good & Evil, Cultures, students wrote down a list of messages they would like to teach/send to the rest of the world.
Learning Focus – Week 7! Read More »
Hello all! This week we revisited the students’ responses to their immersing of story books from last week. They had written what the message was and identified the importance of why we tell stories. In order to look further into the students understanding, we all agreed that there are different categories of messages within each
Learning Focus – Week 6! Read More »
Thank you to all the families who responded so well to the ‘Overdue items’ reminders which were sent home from the Library in Term 1 2019, large numbers of books were returned – some from as long ago as 2016. We currently have approximately 90 students with one or more library books which are still
Outstanding Library Books! Read More »
During our first session this week, the students walked into their neighbourhood areas to find several books, pictures, background sounds and videos that all correlated with stories. The students were invited to read, watch and listen to the many different forms of stories and to discuss what they find. We provided this opportunity for students
Learning Focus – Week 5! Read More »
Firstly, thank you to those volunteers who came out on an overcast day for the Walkathon! It was a big success as the students had a great time walking and already we’ve had some extremely generous payments raised for the school – so THANK YOU all very much! And what a wonderful sight last week’s
Learning Focus – Week 4! Read More »
Hi all, Early Childhood Australia (ECA) and Reggio Emilia Australian Information Exchange (REAIE) are co-developing a set of online learning modules to provide Reggio Emilia training to early childhood educators in Australia. These modules will include a series of videos and photos showcasing examples of best practice on the module topics, and your service has
ECA/REAIE Film Permission Notes! Read More »
Hi all, This is just a small message to let everyone know that since the beginning of term, a few students have returned with nits and/or eggs. Therefore, we would like to remind everyone to check your child’s hair over the next coming days and to consider the steps if your child has nits or
Today, the story-writing project group experienced a wonderful incursion – 100 story building! The company, based in Footscray, came to PHPS and provided the project group with some fantastic ideas about creativity, character development, setting exploring as well as providing strategies of where to gather ideas from! The fantastic Laura came to our neighbourhood with
Story-Writing Project Group Incursion! Read More »