The year one neighbourhood have been excitedly preparing for our Boxwars day by learning and exploring different facets of Ancient Roman life and culture. Some interesting facts that the students came across was about the food that was eaten at their meal times. Ancient Romans had a very small breakfast – consisting mostly of salted […]
2000 Year Old Bread! Read More »
Even though it has been a short week, the children have settled back in really well and have continued their explorations of ’cause and effect’ as an integral component of systems! The big change this week has been opening up the learning spaces within the neighbourhood so the children are able to take responsibility for
Welcome back to Term 3! Read More »
This term, the school is hosting and participating in the filming of a pilot TV program called ‘Boxwars,’ on Wednesday 27 July or Thursday 28 July if weather is poor on the Wednesday. Boxwars, in partnership with Bruce Kane Media (B.J.S.E P/L) are making a Pilot for a Kids TV series with the support of
WEDNESDAY Specialist – Physical Education (Green) Modelled and independent writing, Wellbeing, Mathematics Olympics mini inquiry THURSDAY (Reader folders come to school today) Modelled and independent writing, Big Book focusing on reading strategies, Letter/word study Guided reading, Holiday story sequencing, Mathematics Olympics mini inquiry FRIDAY Specialist classes – Art/Italian (Red), Physical Education/Visual Art (Blue), Italian (Green) Modelled and
Soren Dahlgaard is a Melbourne based Danish artist who works with playful participation, creative collaboration and engagement in art, where process and humour are important factors. Next term, he will be working in the Visual Art program, across the whole school, on a new project based on the genre of still life. Soren is currently
Visual Art News: Term 3 Artist in Residence, Soren Dahlgaard Read More »
Last week we had the amazing African Drumming performances! The whole school performed brilliantly and both performances were very energetic and powerful! Well done to all the students and staff for their commitment and hard work and a massive thank you to Kofi for his passionate approach to teaching us about his culture! Last week
Week 9 Happenings! Read More »
This week in the Inquiry, in order to explore Cause and Effect, we have been exploring Rube Goldberg machines to enhance learning. The students enjoyed working together to design their own, investigating hands on and observable cause and effect in an authentic way. In workshops this week students have extended this concept by creating inquiry
This week in the Inquiry we have began looking at cause and effect to reflect the separate parts of systems and the inter-dependence therein. The idea that one something occurring effects another something happening echoes the idea that smaller parts of systems work together for a greater purpose. This week in Numeracy we have been
Last week (week 6) we created a maker week at school to celebrate Education Week 2016. We embedded the design, creating and making aspect of Maker week into our inquiry projects and the students really enjoyed the physical explorations of their learning! We opened the neighbourhood on Friday afternoon and many many parents came to
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Something that our neighbourhood really loves to do is make books! Below is one that we made a few weeks ago, that looked at our Systems Inquiry. Read it online or download the pdf to print. We will start to put the collection of the books we make – and put them in the ‘Classroom Books’