Do you think that you have an expertise in a particular area? Would you like to come and share it with the grade one neighbourhood? If so, we’d love to have you come and work with us! We are currently looking for volunteers who may have an engineering/building background, people who love to read […]
Last week, the Preps each participated in a modelled and interactive writing experience to create an Autumn book for the Neighbourhood. Each home group searched for different coloured leaves outside and they were photographed with all the different coloured leaves found. We then created a simple, repetitive text to go with our photos. Each book has a
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Week three with Kofi and we’re slowly getting better at the ‘bitter plum, butterfly pancake’ drumbeat. It was great to have Deb along for the ride. We might be slightly biased, but we think they’re sounding pretty good. Kofi was particularly impressed with the singing of Tue Tue. Here it is again for practising at home…
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At PHPS, we are celebrating Earth Day on Friday the 29th of April. Earth Day is about sustainability and getting outside and enjoying the fresh air and the environment. From 12 till 1 PM there will be an hour of no power for the neighbourhoods (no lights, no technology)! We will be going
Developing our big understanding of systems has led us to look at so many interesting and useful concepts in our world. One of our big ideas is that systems help us make sense of the world. And that each system has it’s own purpose, but ultimately the same end goal – to make something work.
Check out this exciting website for mathematics home learning: http://nzmaths.co.nz/maths-our-house This website provides some ideas for how you can raise awareness and share mathematics using everyday experiences and resources found around your home. It includes ideas for supporting your child’s learning in all areas of mathematics: geometry, measurement, statistics, algebra and number.
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The 2016 Challenge is now open! Interested students have already received consent forms to include their names in the online honour roll; however, it’s not too late to sign up! The Premiers’ Reading Challenge encourages children in 3/4 to read 15 books (between March and 9th September) and record their efforts online. It’s a great way
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MONDAY Workshops to support engagement in provocations Projects and provocations Happiness Presentations TUESDAY Projects and Provocations Specialist classes: Blue Group: Visual Art and Italian Green Group: Phys Ed and Visual Art Red Group: Italian and Phys Ed. Buddy time – The buddies will be supporting the bug research groups. Each grade 5 student has researched a particular
We have all made a great start to Term 2 and have been extremely productive and engaged in exploring various geometry and statistics mathematical learning. All students used many different forms of expression to investigate the properties of 2D shapes and 3D solids. We began to wonder where
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The first week back was a long one for all of us, climatising to being back in the school setting. More than three quarters of the students admitted to being glad to be back excited by learning and the socialising opportunities reinforcing that it’s nice to be a part of a community a few shared