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Buddies

Today was the second and final day of year 4 prep transition day. Last week the children were jumping out of their skins to meet their buddies. The year 4 students displayed responsibility and care when interacting with their buddies. Today the students created cards for the new preps that will be sent next year

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Planning a Garden

As part of our studies in maths, students have been working together to complete projects which involve considering and responding to a range of questions relating to planning a garden. We started with measuring and drawing a scaled diagram of the school garden beds, and calculating area and perimeter. The projects then involved researching food

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Lockdown museum

Last term students were highly engaged producing videos about their time in lockdown. We wanted to extend the students’ thinking by putting the lens on the students themselves and documenting a historic period in time. The historical significance of lockdown put the children front and center in this experience.  Melbourne museum have also been document students

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Welcome Sherwin

We would like to welcome Sherwin De Souza to our Year 4 neighbourhood. Sherwin has come from Port Melbourne Primary School where he taught French. His interests include being active in nature, playing guitar, meditation, yoga, and skateboarding. Sherwin is enjoying getting to know the students in the Year 4 neighbourhood, and he is very excited to

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Inquiry

This term we have made connections to museums through the experiences and the opportunities the children have had at Sovereign Hill. We have continued to research, discuss and build our collective understanding through dialogic pedagogies. The children have deepened their connection through reversing the lens of the museum from the past to the present and

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Year 4 Camp

As part of our inquiry into museums, we have been exploring natural and personal artifacts. We understand that there are different types of museums and our camp to Sovereign Hill highlighted what we can learn from a living museum. This week the students of Year 4 attended a two night, three day camp in Ballarat

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Museums

Museums use artifacts to tell stories about people from the present and the past. Students have continued to investigate artifacts and objects that tell stories from the students past and present.  We asked students to show us a series of artifacts that tell the story about themselves.  What artifacts would you display to tell the

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