Our neighbourhood cookbook is due back from the printers this Wednesday! We will be spending some time on Thursday and Friday preparing signage for our Bazaar stall, as well as packaging up the orders for everyone who pre-ordered copies. We are hoping to have a trial run of our Bazaar stall set up in the […]
Australian Mathematics Trust (AMT) Enrichment Challenge Results Throughout terms 2 and 3, 28 students from years 3-6 participated in the AMT Enrichment Challenge. At PHPS we call it juicy maths. Throughout the term, students collaborated on practice problems. They then submitted their own solutions to the Challenge problems each fortnight. As the name says, the
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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
Last week we had the Learning Expo for Indigenous Peoples. Here are some reflections from the students: We were learning about the history of the Wurundjeri peoples and how they were the first occupants of the Victorian area. We wanted to acknowledge the culture and laws that were in existence before colonisation and how the
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Thank you to everyone who was able to visit our Sustainability Expo. The children appreciated the opportunity to share their ideas and thinking about sustainability and Mars with an audience. Some of the feedback we received on the day: “I really liked how they designed their food and water supplies!” “Really good research and planning.
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Throughout term four, we have been consolidating our learning around sustainability on Mars by thinking about how we can share our knowledge with the community. The Sustainability Project Group has prepared presentations to explain our designs for sustainable colonisation of Mars and we will be sharing our ideas in a short expo to the neighbourhoods
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5/6 Assembly Presentation Congratulations to the following students for their fantastic sharing at Friday’s assembly. They all displayed what is meant by strong and capable students. Greta, Alexis, Juliette and Jasmine – Makey Makey Thomas, Marcus, Ruben and Felix – Makey Makey Ruby and Sunday – Writing Hannah and Jade – Cinema Maths Project Daniel,
Preparations are continuing for this year’s Bazaar. Yesterday, containers to collect donations for the Spinning Wheel Hampers were dropped on in the neighbourhood and have been placed by the front doors. Each homegroup has a theme for a hamper -please donate according to the Hamper themes: 2JB – SWEET THINGS Sweets, chocolate, tea, coffee, drinking
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