Dear Parents/Carers, Next week (Week 8), Princes Hill PS will be showcasing their African Drumming performances! It will be presented over two days on both Tuesday 5th June and/or Wednesday 6th June. The Grade’s 3/4 will be performing in 4 groups – 2 of them will be on Tuesday and 2 for the Wednesday. Your […]
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Last Friday, as part of our Wellbeing focus, we discussed different strategies we could use to calm ourselves down, when we are feeling strong emotions such as being angry, sad, nervous, worries, frustrated, stressed, embarrassed, and disappointed. In a whole group discussion, students reflected upon and shared their strategies. What great suggestions everyone had! Sit
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Hello!!! Just a small-friendly reminder that tomorrow Princes Hill Primary will be holding their annual Walkathon. The event will be starting from 12:15pm and conclude at 2:30pm where the students will enjoy a well deserved gelato! We ask that you remind your child to bring their sponsor forms to enable their lap tally. If you
Earlier in the week, Viv (Saskia’s father) visited the 34 neighbourhoods to support our thinking around the design of meeting places. He presented the thinking, decision making, considerations and potential for evolution behind the design of Federation Square. As Viv guided us through the project, we began to thinking about many aspects of our design
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This week the students will continue to connect the animal worlds through a scientific perspective whilst configuring how their specific groups operate in particular categories. They are looking deeper into the how they are researchers – or anthropologists – who are now identifying certain characteristics about their chosen animals groups and how they relate to their own associated
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Thank you to all of those awesome parents who were able to spare some time last week to come in and help. We are keen to get some more helpers this week! If you can spare an hour or two, we would love to see you. We are also fairly keen to get THREE more
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Our excursion to Colony 1770-1861 at the NGV is next Tuesday. We still need a few more parent helpers to come along with us, so please get in touch if you are available! We will be catching the tram to Federation Square in the morning, and arriving back at school in the afternoon. Please also
The PHPS Walkathon is held every year as a major fundraiser for our school community. It is a fun day that promotes physical and emotional well-being and a sense of community. This year our Walkathon will be held on Monday 28th May between 12.15 and 2.45. Your child will have received information about the walkathon and
Students have really taken to the scientific provocation and are continuing to consider our connection to the animal world and looking at groups. We want to develop the idea that students are researchers and anthropologists (like David Attenborough) who observe, analyse and draw conclusions about what those groups do. NAPLAN This week and next week
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Dear parents/carers, On the 28th May we will begin fabric printing. This is the culmination of our study of the work of Marimekko and the power of artists to express their creative selves beyond the canvas. This fabric design and our fabric print represents the final stage of the process an artist/printmaker goes through to
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