As children grow through their primary education, they become familiar with the annual adventure camp. The camp that allows our children to develop independence, take risks and develop new friendships. While our Year 6 camp to Canberra aimed to accomplish these objectives, the trip focused primarily on connecting learning and knowledge available in places such […]
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The Year 1’s are excited about an upcoming excursion late in the term. On Tuesday 10th September, all of the Year 1 students will be bussing to participate in an excursion to the Melbourne Museum where students will be immersed in real life contexts to be able to communicate important messages for our environment and
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This week, students have continued looking deeper into their own environmental projects within the desert, ocean and rainforest learning spaces. An environmental conversation has come about in each of the learning areas outlining how each nature is affected by human impact or mother nature. Some of these examples include the cutting down of trees in
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This week, the children have been responding to our inquiry provocations into stories. Each space set up to create a specific nature environment. To spark the children’s imaginations we asked them to respond by drawing the story of the desert, the story of the sea and the story of the rainforest. To deepen our investigation
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Today, we re-launched our inquiry into stories and story-telling by setting up each of the learning spaces to create a specific NATURE ENVIRONMENT! In the Art Space, we created a DESERT! In the Learning Commons, we created the OCEAN! And in the Performance Space, we created the RAINFOREST and UNDERGROUND! We filled the spaces full
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Hello all and welcome back the second half of Year 1! We hope you all had a lovely break and glad school’s back for yet another busy term. Already, the students have been busy reading, writing, jumping into adding and subtracting numbers as well as a little bit of role playing about their holidays. One
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I am Eleven workshops As we begin our new inquiry into Identity and the ways we define ourselves, we have viewed the Australian documentary, I am Eleven. This film interviews a range of 11-year-olds around the world with the purpose of comparing their values, beliefs, ideas, and experiences during this unique period of growth that
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Year 5/6 have been introduced to a range of poetry during Term 2. Over the past three weeks, we have deconstructed both Blackout Poetry and Reverse (or Backward) Poetry and attempted to construct our own poems using these structures either in pairs or individually. Poetry is a great form of self expression and we have
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As a culmination of the inquiry, Year 5/6 students confidently presented their Action Plans this week. It has been their challenge to create a plan that would enact change that would benefit local community members. We observed that many of the students were inspired to create plans that would encourage values of respect, kindness, inclusiveness, and
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As we move closer into our final week of the term, students participated in two workshops during the week. Tuesday’s incursion ‘Polyglot Puppetry’ (previous blog post) and the second workshop of ‘Dancing in the Barber Shop’ on Monday involved opera singing with ex-Princes Hill student, Oliver Mann. It was a fantastic experience for students to
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