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Term 4 Week 1 – Inquiry Project Update

Students in the 1/2 Neighbourhood 2 started Term 4 working in their three Inquiry groups – Team Toys Productions, Pickle Family Productions and Paw Armadillos Productions. All students have been very engaged in developing characters, settings, and story lines – taking ownership over the project and collaborating successfully within their groups. Week 1 and Week …

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Term 3 Week 6 – Developing Our Production Companies

Over the last few weeks, we have continued to build our understanding of stories and how stories are created. Our big ideas that we are investigating are ‘Films are developed with a big idea first’ and ‘Films have a message and purpose’. Through provocations and in workshops, students worked to identify the main themes that …

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Term 2 Week 8 – ‘Tell Your Story!’ a workshop by the Footscray Community Arts Centre

We started our excursion by learning about the history of the Footscray Community Arts Centre, the buildings and site along the Maribyrnong river. “We learned about the history of the buildings and the stories of what once happened there. It was made of blue stone and it was a piggery.” Eren. We discovered some of …

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Term 2 – Week 6. The Ongoing Story of Reconciliation

What reconciliation means is remembering what has happened to Aboriginal People and working to say sorry and come together. Alba Throughout week 5 and week 6, the children in 1/2N2 have been exploring our inquiry through the lens of reconciliatio. Through provocations, we have explored stories told by local indigenous people, dreamtime stories and the …

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Story Telling in the Real World – Term 1 Week 10

The last two weeks have been all about experiencing stories in the world outside of the PHPS fence as the students from neighbourhood two experienced two excursions and two wonderful guest speakers. Our visit to ACMI saw the students participate in a Light and Shadow puppet workshop where the students drew inspiration from shadow puppets …

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Sharing our learning through the Welcome Project – Term 1 Week 6

This week we celebrate the learning undertaken in our neighbourhood for our whole school Welcome Project. It is a wonderful celebration of building a community of creative, engaged and collaborative learners. We have worked hard over the last few weeks to build routines, establish norms and expectations, as well as document and show rights and …

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