Congratulations to everyone who participated in the ANZAC assembly on Friday. It was wonderful to share all of your learning about the ANZAC heroes. It was also fantastic to see not only the students themselves run the assembly, but uphold a high-respectable occasion and help remind the rest of the school community during the last […]
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We started this morning reflecting on the wonderful farewell the children prepared for Geoff’s Farewell Assembly on Friday. It was a huge success in sharing the wonderful teacher Geoff was and it was wonderful to see the whole community come out to say good bye to Geoff. During our provocations time this week we are
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This week we have a special visitor- David Morris, Aerial Skier, who has just returned from the Winter Olympics. We watched some of David’s responses to his performance during the Winter Olympics and were impressed with his personal values. We will have an opportunity to ask him questions about his trip and learn more about
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Hannah has started the Visual Art blog for 2018 and introduces Yayoi Kusama’s work. Please visit the Visual Art Blog to find our more and see children art work. Click here to access the blog. This term the children will explore the relationship between colour and emotion and use our developing understandings of Yayoi Kusama’s work
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Roll up! Roll up! Come one, come all, to see the most spectacular show on Earth! Parents, school community and other neighbourhoods are invited to visit our high quality Games Emporium between 9:30am and 3pm (breaking 11am-12 for lunch and 2-2:30pm for recess). You never know, you might be able to put an order to
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At the start of term, the 3/4 neighbourhood had been focused on the research stage of our inquiry by playing and reviewing well-known board and card games. Students were curious to identify the various objectives, themes, and dynamics, while also thinking more personally about what makes a game fun to play. Some of the key
Over the next few weeks will be thinking deeply about design and promotion of the games we are building in the neighbourhoods. We are planning to build a rubric that will guide this process. Do you have expertise in design, marketing, promotion, advertising, graphic design or any related field. Are you willing able to support
Across the beginning of term 4 we have been bringing our learning together and asking, “How can we present out knowledge to the community?”. The Indigenous Perspectives Project Group are ready to do just that and cordially invite you to our learning expo. Our expo will occur in two parts- performance and museum.
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Today our Past, Present and Future Schools project group presented their Mars Schools prospectuses to our school community. We all really enjoyed presenting our knowledge to the community, which is and has been our inquiry guiding question this term so far. Thank you to everyone who came to visit our expo, special thanks to the
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Us at our best! In this photo gallery, we have captured students engaging in our learning provocations for our first week back. 3/4 Neighbourhood 2: Our overall reflection of our first week back! In projects Tom and I started a domino task, we got to 99 dominoes but it got knocked down. We had to
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