The students in years 3-6 have greatly enjoyed playing the online Kahoot quiz to assess their learning about families and related vocabulary. Kahoot allows them to find out what they know, and to identify their point of need. “Ghost mode” gives them the opportunity to improve on their previous score! Kahoot allows students the opportunity to work […]
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As part of our teaching approach at PHPS we use relevant and authentic texts and contexts to teach the English language and conventions use students’ oral language competencies as the starting point for teaching reading and writing engage students in speaking and listening tasks in English to consolidate and expand students understanding of the social
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This afternoon the Preps watched a program called Little J and Big Cuz. It is the first ever Australian kids animation series about Indigenous Australians and their culture. We were lucky to have been recommended the program by Lewis’s mum Anna. Duncan (Lewis’s dad) worked on the accompanying digital learning resources – web based games and
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Reading is the quest for meaning. The illustrations are very important. Before reading, examine the cover, the illustrations and the title. Discuss with your child what they think the book will be about. Look through the illustrations and attempt to predict the text. Parents can scan the text and direct discussion accordingly using the language
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We have put a new sign up sheet for PMP this Friday (a little more notice than last week!) Pop your name down if you are interested – we would love to have you join in the fun! It is the last one for term 2. Many thanks!
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Monday Inquiry / Big book – shared reading and letter study Recount of weekend / Reading response / Counting books Tuesday Inquiry workshops / Guided reading & Literacy games Specialist – Italian (Yellow and Red), Physical Education (Blue and Red), Art (Blue and Yellow) Neighbourhood inquiry discussion Wednesday (Chess club today) Inquiry/ Shared reading – Big book
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Preppy parents… Planning is underway for the craft stall at this year’s Bazaar and we need your help. If you can use scissors and a glue stick… you’re in! Rustle up some friends and join us for a night of paper craft at 7.30pm on Tuesday 27th June in the school gym We’ll be making
Dear Parents, We are the Tech Girl Movement Team and we are working on an app to encourage children to choose healthy options in their lunch boxes and to help you with recipes for healthy lunch box foods. To make sure we have as much information about the user as possible we would like to
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Thank you to all parents who have returned their child’s school nurse form. If you do not wish for your child to visit the school nurse next term, it is still a requirement that the form is returned. This will confirm to our visiting nurse that your child will not be attending. If you haven’t done
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