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National Walk Safely to School Day on Friday 19th of May 2017   This is an annual event when all Primary School children will be encouraged to walk and commute safely to school. It is a Community Event seeking to promote Road Safety, Health, Public Transport and the Environment.    We encourage you to take this […]

Here are the results from our fun filled science experiment! We learnt that: “When drops of liquid dish soap are added to milk with drops of food colouring on the surface, the soap will reduce the surface tension of the milk and react with the fat. This interaction will cause the particles in the milk

Last week, approaching the end of another month, the Preps took part in an exploration into the months and seasons of the year. We began the session by listening to the seasons song. We looked at how each season is different and discussed the characteristics of each. The months of the year were placed around

On Tuesday afternoon, the Preps viewed the first of a series of virtual learning sessions run by Jason Kelly, Koori Education Schools Officer. The Preps joined the Year 2’s in their neighbourhood, and listened to Jason speak (in real time) about his Aboriginal heritage and connection to his country. It was interesting to learn how stories are

Our fellow prep student, Alessia, is in hospital at the moment, so the preps decided to write messages to cheer her up. We thought about some good sentences that might make her feel better, and the students had a go at writing some key words. It was a wonderful example of authentic purpose for writing.

This term, the prep students are learning basics of computer programming through the Hour of Code each week. We begin by learning code through visual programming language (VPL) on code.org. This will provide both the basic skills involved in manipulating computers and learn basic syntax of programming language such as “loops” and “conditions”. Hour of Code is divided

We will be taking the prep students to the Mother’s and Carer’s Day Stall organised by the school this year. If your child would like to purchase a small gift for this day, we recommend that they bring a small amount of money in an envelope clearly labelled with their name and the amount. We

On Monday, the Preps took part in a shared reading experience of The Hungry Giant’s Lunch. It is a story that involves a character they have been introduced to in a previous Big Book (‘The Hungry Giant’). In this story, the giant is not as scary and does not order the town folk around, threatening

In science, the Preps watched a video “Colour Changing Milk” Following the video, we discussed how to create a procedural text to document the experiment. First, we began with the Title: How to make Rainbow Milk then, we listed the items milk, food dye, soap, cotton buds, plate. Lastly, we included the steps: 1) Put in the milk 

We did the Hokey Pokey together!