Dear Parents and Carers, Just over 3 weeks to go until the Bazaar! The Spinning Wheel hampers for the Bazaar are now in your child’s neighbourhood. Please donate according to the hamper theme for your child’s home group (see below). We look forward to another year of generous, good quality, non-perishable donations! ALSO, beginning this […]
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It is Week 3 next week .. here’s what’s coming up! In Numeracy we are continuing with equivalent fractions. We have been sharing ‘cookies’ among different amounts of people and learning how to record the fractions that come from it. “When we share 24 cookies with 3 people they each get 8 cookies each” 1/3
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Thanks to those of you for taking time to participate in our PHPS community survey. We truly value the information you have provided. By participating in this survey, you have made your voice heard and are informing our future engagement activity. If you are yet to complete the survey, please do so soon – time
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Hello everyone! Wow! Italian day was amazing! We hope your children returned home with not only full tummy’s (so much food!) but also excited stories of adventure and community! The whole school was abuzz all day long as the students engaged in the board game making provocations and learning about Ancient Roman everyday life! Thank
Hey everyone .. The Bazaar is just around the corner! The preparations for the annual Talent Quest are beginning and here is a poster with the details! talent%2520quest%2520poster Thanks
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Dear parents and carers, On Thursday the 13th October all students will be involved in an Ancient Roman games day. In multi age house groups, students will investigate the culture and lifestyle of Ancient Romans and in particular discover how the children of that time played and amused themselves. The students will create board games with an Ancient
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This week in literacy while focusing on organisation of texts, the children came up with some creative, humorous, and inspiring bold beginnings. We began by investigating a range of engaging story books that hooked the reader in from the first line – to inspire us! Here are a couple of our examples that are already
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As a part of our inquiry in Systems, we have stumbled upon change over time as a response to cause and effect. One of the current provocations revolves around the children developing interview questions to ask parents, grandparents and people in the community about how their lives have changed. We thought it would be lovely
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We are very excited about our museum visit on Monday. All children will make their way by bus to the Museum at 9.30am where we are looking forward to being researchers for the day and exploring what change is and how it happens. Children need to bring a bag with lunch, water and a snack.
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Hello everyone, We are getting very excited for the excursion to the Melbourne Museum on Monday! We have some parent volunteers to come and help out with supervision on the day for whom we are truly grateful. However we are still in need of two to three more helpers for the day! If you
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