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The Term 3 Prep assembly will be on Friday of Week 10 (16th of September)  

This week, during Hour of Code, the students ACTUALLY had a go on the computer! The focus this week was on ‘pair programming’ where the students paired up to solve problems together. Through the puzzles, they learned to drag and drop blocks and the fundamentals of block programming which will help students using Snap! and Scratch.

Numeracy This week, continuing our focus on probability and chance, we explored “Cat and Mouse” another fantastic Maths 300 lesson. In the game, a mouse goes left or right, depending on whether an even or odd number is rolled. Sometimes the mouse gets the cheese and sometimes the cat gets the mouse. After playing the

    The JSC are organising 3 events as part of Book Week. Whole School Short Story Competition – Closes Friday August 19 The Short Story Competition is kindly sponsored by The Little Bookroom, 759 Nicholson St, Carlton North. They’ve generously donated book vouchers for the winners and runners-up.   There are four categories: Prep, Years

  As part of National Book Week and to help raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation to buy books for remote indigenous communities who don’t have access to books we’re holding a Great Big Book Swap. There are schools involved all across Australia and the target is $100,000 to buy 10,000 books. If every

PHPS ROCKS NATIONAL BOOK WEEK  JSC (Junior School Council) are organising 3 events as part of Book Week. Whole School Short Story Competition – Closes Friday August 19  The Short Story Competition is kindly sponsored by The Little Bookroom, 759 Nicholson St, Carlton North. They’ve generously donated book vouchers for the winners and runners-up. There

Last week and this week, the students in prep have been exploring measurement. They have been focusing in particular on comparative language such as ‘near’ and ‘nearer’, ‘long’ and ‘longer’ etc. They have been composing sentences such as “My worm is shorter than Tomo’s”. This week, they created their own city and used their creation

THE GREAT BOOK SWAP As part of National Book Week and to help raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation to buy books for remote indigenous communities who don’t have access to books we’re holding a Great Big Book Swap. There are schools involved all across Australia and the target is $100,000 to buy 10,000

Literacy  This week in literacy the students continued exploring poetry by thinking of the messages contained within and the poet’s purpose.  They revisited My Country by Dorothea Mackeller and were introduced to A Mountain Station by Banjo Paterson.  They also furthered their understanding by reading and experimenting with repetition in poems. The 5/6 Team

The Princes Hill Primary School House Athletics carnival is fast approaching!   Children in Grades 3 – 6 will be participating in the House Athletics Carnival on Thursday 11th August, 2016 at Coburg Athletics Track (Harold Stevens Park), Outlook Rd, Coburg (Melway Ref:18 A10).   Students are divided into age groups to compete and successful competitors