Today the Digital Leaders and Juicy Maths groups were lucky enough to participate in a webinar with Conrad Wolfram. He is currently visiting Melbourne and we were able to connect with him and hear about his ideas for how we should be thinking about Maths and computers. Conrad Wolfram is a famous physicist, mathematician and […]
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The Year Twos were eager to find out their new buddies for the first week of Term 3, and have been finding out things about each other, and what they have in common, through different drawing activities. This afternoon, after starting to look at cook books and recipes in a workshop earlier in the day,
Monday Projects and Provocations / Big Book Holiday Recount / Numeracy (addition strategies) / Story Sequence Tuesday Projects and Provocations / Big Book Specialist – Italian (Yellow and Red), Physical Education (Blue and Red), Art (Blue and Yellow) Neighbourhood inquiry discussion Wednesday (Chess club today) Research Workshop / Inquiry workshop Projects and Provocations Thursday (Reading folder comes to
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The Preps began their first day of term 3 with such excitement and enthusiasm. It was lovely to hear them chatting together about what they got up to. This morning, the preps had Projects and Provocation time. The children chose the space that they wanted to work in and participated in learning experiences that were all
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Today the students reflected on the neighbourhood buddy program. Students were placed into their buddy groups and were each given a question to answer about the buddy program. After spending some time brainstorming ideas, they then came back onto the meeting room floor and shared their group’s responses to their allocated question. These were then documented on the reflection board.
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Welcome back to Term 3! We have a lot of exciting things ahead this term. Camp Forms First up, Camp is now only 6 weeks away! So we need all outstanding camp permission forms and completed medical forms so we can finalise the details for Angelsea. Neighbourhood 1 Earn and Learn: Job Applications open on Monday!
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On the second last Friday of term, the year 2 children presented their camping production at assembly. The children have been working on the production for some time with Deb and Tim as part of their music program. The children have been thinking about special places as part of their inquiry and the stories that connect us to places. Going
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For weeks leading up to our assembly, our wonderful music teacher Deb and gorgeous parent helper Gabi, assisted the students in making artwork for their production. The very involved process included choosing appropriate images for the students to draw – which ended up with the idea of ‘ the crazier the better’, tracing over them,
This term we have been investigating various countries and our connection to them. We have begun to understand what makes something a country such as human and natural features including landmarks, geography, language, currency, clothing and food. Our big idea is ‘We make connections to places through family, stories, experiences and artefacts’. Next term
The students reflected on our inquiry into the concept of place. We brainstormed and documented what we had learnt from our projects and the workshops the children participated in. The children were then asked to come up with some overarching statements that reflected their developing understandings. The question that was put to them was: From all
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