Learning Focus: Mathematics This week, as we get ready to head to Valley Homestead next week, our students designed surveys that will enable them to create graphical depictions of camp. Some of the survey questions are designed to compare people’s expectations and predictions with their actual camp experience. There is a lot of maths involved […]
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Learning Focus Week 8 In just one week we will be heading to Valley Homestead for our 5/6 camp. In the meantime, there is a lot of wonderful learning taking place in the Neighbourhood. Here are some of the highlights: Inquiry/ English Information Text Presentations Now that our students have written information texts on the
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This term we’ve been quite busy in STEAM! We’ve been considering the narratives of creatures at PHPS like possums and caterpillars. After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we have discussed needs and activities that living beings might carry out and then developed artistic representations of environments that would be conducive to life. Our goal will
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As part of our exploration of Planet PHPS, we examined maps of the school in STEAM to create a model that could be used with our robots. Students identified places that they knew and talked about activities that they did in those places using both the map and 3D model. After that we used robots to
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Presenting Volume 1 of Jam Jarr We have some amazingly creative students in the 5/6 Neighbourhood. We are very proud to share Volume 1 of Jam Jarr, designed, edited and written by Eva. Volume 2 is already in planning, and will contain an editorial where Eva explains why it is important to be aware of
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Learning focus: Inquiry, maths workshop and juicy maths We have made an excellent start to term 2. There is so much wonderful learning happening in the 5/6 Neighbourhood. Here are just a few of the highlights; Inquiry This week we explored what makes something an issue. We had some animated discussions as we sought to
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Working in Circles in the 5/6 Neighbourhood This term, the whole 5/6 Neighbourhood is exploring working in circles as the main component of our social and emotional wellbeing program. Working in circles offers a myriad of wonderful benefits such as building community, promoting positive interactions, promoting a safe, respectful, collaborative learning environment and much more.
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Juicy Maths For the third year, Princes Hill Primary will be entering the Australian Mathematics Trust Enrichment Challenge. At PHPS, we call it juicy maths. The challenge proper starts in term 2 but we’ve been getting warmed up with some practice problems. Today, we had an end-of-term juicy maths game show, where the kids chose
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