After a wonderful term of African drumming workshops with Kofi Kunkpe the children are ready to present their learning to the community. The Drumming Performances will occur on Wednesday 8 June and Thursday 9 June. In order to present the range of learning that has occurred across the year levels there will be representation from Prep […]
Drumming Performances!! Read More »
We’ve had a request from the lovely Deb and the cool Kofi to help create some costumes for our African drumming performance. It’s some super simple sewing- just hemming some pieces of material. If you are able to help us out, please contact Jen at bradby.jen.j@edumail.vic.gov.au asap Thanks all!
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This week, PHPS are turning into makers! We have got lots of fantastic things planned in the neighbourhood during the week, in celebration of Education Week. We will be looking at how technology has changed the way we communicate and how we can use technology in our neighbourhood. This will all culminate in our Maker
Our investigation into systems have now branched out towards looking at the ‘system of communication’. How do we communicate and what do we use to communicate? We have been investigating the three main ways we communicate – verbal, non verbal and written. We are going to be setting up our own ‘communication museum’ within the neighbourhood.
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Do you think that you have an expertise in a particular area? Would you like to come and share it with the grade one neighbourhood? If so, we’d love to have you come and work with us! We are currently looking for volunteers who may have an engineering/building background, people who love to read
It came to our attention that parents felt overwhelmed at the amount of communication provided about their child/rens learning AND that our use of the space was outgrowing the original intent of the Communication Blog. As a result we will be limiting posts here to 2-3 a week and ensure that they represent a collaborative
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Dear Parents/Carers, Professor Dianne Siemon will be presenting to parents about the teaching of mathematics from 6:00 to 7:00pm in the gymnasium Tuesday 26th April. We did not receive very many requests for childcare services so we will not be providing this service. Please respect that this is an adult only presentation. Dianne will present
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Dear 5/6 parents and students, Some reminders for this week: Parent Information evening is happening this Wednesday with a welcome at 6pm in the gym. Family Life Notes (blue) were handed out on Friday. Please return this this week. African Drumming notes (yellow) were handed out last week. Please return this week. Pyjama Day is
Pyjama Day: Tuesday 22nd March Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday appeal: hosted by BLUE HOUSE Wear your pyjamas and bring a teddy Bring a gold coin to participate in the Guess the teacher game. Prizes will be awarded to the home group at each year level with the highest number of correct guesses!
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We’ve been getting quite a few questions about home reading. Anne O’Sullivan, our Literacy guru has prepared this information to help you get the most from your reading with your child at home. Students should all now have a plastic wallet with book to log their book and respond as needed/desired. This will be checked during guided