Research for our Indigenous Garden is transforming into designing, inventing, mapping, measuring, proposing, planning, preparing, testing, tinkering, visualising and further research. Work and progress is taking a much more physical form and this has generated a fresh buzz of excitement and anticipation. Within the documentation below, we have also noted that different groups’ work and […]
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Children continue to explore the inquiry research questions – ‘What do we think about the important issues of the future?’ and ‘What can we do about the important issues of the future?’ In response to these questions, their proposals for future change increasingly involve changes to schools. Children are beginning to identify the societal, transformative
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In the year 2 neighbourhood we have started our second semester of 2022 with a bang! On our first Wednesday back we hopped on the tram and headed off to CERES environment park for an excursion that was aligned with our students’ focus and driven by their continual interest about indigenous perspectives on all topic.
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The future continues to provide an invigorating context for inquiry that provokes children’s ethical capabilities through problem-solving and imagination. We have established a rich question for our research project- What can we do about the important issues of the future? This question will continue to guide our inquiry as children expand their thinking, and later
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This morning two of the Digital Leaders, Florian and Leo visited the Year 2 Neighbourhood to share their knowledge of coding. It was an educational experience. The Year 2 Neighbourhood
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Today in a Writing Workshop, each homegroup contributed to a part of a shared recount about our excursion to Woolworths yesterday. On Tuesday 2nd April 2019 the Year 2 Neighbourhood walked to Barkly Square to visit Woolworths. We went in two groups – Group 1 went at the start of the day and Group 2
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Dear parents and carers, To assist with instrumental music practice on a Friday morning, could all instruments be clearly named. Currently there are a few instruments that do not have names on them and this has resulted in some confusion. Thank you, The Year 2 Team
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This week the Year 2 students have been out getting their hands dirty in the garden. After discussing how and why seeds germinate, the students headed out to the vegetable garden and planted some climbing beans. Using a ruler the students made sure the seeds were between 4-5 cm under the ground. They then gave
This week is a busy week for Bazaar requests, please bear with us! While you are doing your grocery shopping this week and over the next few weeks, we would ask you to keep an eye out for donations for our Spinning Wheel hampers as well as food and drink stalls that run solely on
Walk to School has begun! PHPS will join hundreds of other schools from across Victoria to try and make active travel a priority. Throughout October we will be recording students’ modes of travel to and from school with the goal of promoting healthy activities like walking and cycling. There are lots of ways to get
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