Maths Project – Budgets The students in the 5/6 neighbourhood are currently creating their own budget. The students are free to choose what the budget is for. Some examples would be a holiday, opening a cafe, a family budget or a budget for your pocket money. Within their budgets the students will be evidencing how […]
This week we begin to dive deeper into our inquiry where we explore how power manifests itself and the negative and positive impacts of this. Last week we had a number of children starting conversations about the power we have as students at Princes Hill Primary School compared to other schools around the world. This
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Welcome to term 2! We hope everyone has had a very relaxing and enjoyable school holidays and we cannot wait to hear all the lovely stories of what the children have gotten up to! Learning focus This week, further to exploring our place in the world, we are beginning to look at change. We will
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Morning everyone! This week in Literacy we will focusing on procedural texts and developing instructions to make a volcano! The children have already made some predictions about what they think will happen when Bi-Carb Soda and Vinegar are combined! recently in Numeracy we began measuring our heights using informal units of measurement (pencils, chopsticks and
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Hopefully everyone is refreshed after a long weekend as we have an action packed week of learning. In English, we will delve deeper into poetry, analysing the different devices poets use such as metaphors. Students will be writing their own descriptive poems about objects, trying to bring them to life through the use of words
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As we move forward with our Year 1 Inquiry “Our Place in the World”, we are continuing to investigate the scientific concepts around light, sound and bugs. The children have been exploring light and will build on their ideas and learning by experimenting with colours on a projected light-box; bugs have been a huge source
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As the Year 1 inquiry “My Place in the World” unfolds, we are currently investigating the world through scientific concepts that the children have shown an interest in. These are light, sound, and bugs! The children have already started sharing their ideas about these areas and this week we are exploring different thoughts and ideas
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Grade 5 Buddy Program Assembly Presentation This week’s assembly showcased the wonderful and collaborative work of the Year 5 and Prep Buddy Program. In response to the 2016 Science Week theme, ‘Drones, Droids and Robots,’ the Year 5 students planned a series of workshops to explore robots.Working in collaboration with their teachers, the year five
Literacy This week in literacy there was a spelling focus which involved the students investigating silent letters. This is in addition to the individual spelling focus each student has each week. The students have been asked to identify the strategies that will help them improve their spelling. In reading this week the students have been investigating
Literacy This week in literacy the focus has been letter writing. The students discussed the purpose of letters and explored the features. They then considered how voice can be included to make a letter more effective. This will support the taking action stage of the inquiry process. The 5/6 Team