Every Thursday the students get together to take part in a wellbeing workshop, this week we focused on mindful listening. Students were asked to sit quietly for 1 minute and listen to any sounds that went on around us. The focus was to engage students in whole body mindfulness, which can help us notice what is happening […]
Chess Club Two weeks ago we started a Friday lunchtime 5/6 Neighbourhood chess club. We are now in the middle of a competitive yet very friendly round robin. Here is a photo of the students relaxing with a game of transfer chess after today’s round robin matches. The 5/6 Team
We have updated the Home Learning link with some online numeracy activities for students to continue their learning at home. These online games are free to play. Thanks!
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We require small plastic bottles for the project and provocation in the prep neighbourhood. We will be using these to create butterfly feeders so that we can invite more butterflies in our courtyard. Please bring any spare small plastic bottles you may have around the house. It would be very helpful if you could remove the labels
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We are currently exploring the big idea of identity through perspective. Our inquiry questions are: How can I explain my perspective to others? How can I understand what someone else’s perspective is? Provocations that we are setting up in the neighbourhood and our daily experiences with literacy and numeracy will provide opportunities for students to
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WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING KOFI KUNKPE Traditional Master Drummer In Term 2 students will have the opportunity to participate in a series of 7 sessions with Kofi Kunkpe, experiencing traditional drumming, dancing, songs and culture from Ghana and other West African countries. This experience will commence with a performance by Kofi and other West African artists, and a cultural presentation to help
Numeracy In numeracy this week, we continued our exploration of analogue, 12 hour and 24 hour time as well as tackling some problems based on elapsed time. Students worked in groups as they developed strategies to work out when a series of events started, how long the series of events took, or when the series of events
Literacy In Literacy this week the students built their understanding of sugar in drinks and the related health effects. When reading the information texts they applied the strategy of scanning to detect key information. In spelling the students used feedback from their Literacy books to begin updating their personal spelling lists and looking for common
The Preps have been reading ‘The jigaree’. I can see a jigaree. It is jumping after me. Jumping here. Jumping there. Jigarees jump everywhere! In today’s reading workshop we identified all the ‘doing words’ in the book. (Jumping, dancing, swimming, skating, climbing) We then created our own story, using their own ideas. It is called:
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