Today was the second and final day of year 4 prep transition day. Last week the children were jumping out of their skins to meet their buddies. The year 4 students displayed responsibility and care when interacting with their buddies. Today the students created cards for the new preps that will be sent next year […]
“It connects to what we have been doing so it was about having adventures and learning more about the world.” -Elspeth At the beginning of the year, our neighbourhood explored the idea of leaving a note behind to share everything we know and have learned. As we approached the end of 2021 we could have
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We all waited such a long time for the restrictions to ease in returning to school. But an even longer time, in fact, in celebrating both our senior school’s athletics events as well as the junior school’s Mini Olympics. In our final week for the year (Week 11), the senior school will wrap the year
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As we near the end of the school year, we are enjoying reflecting on our learning, through playing language games, teaming up to test our knowledge with a variety of fun Kahoots, interacting in our Italian circles, sharing some memories and learnings, viewing Muzzy (il grande Muzzy!), creating pictures together that sum up the term’s
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Weekly Program Activities Monday 12th December – Friday 17th December 2021 Monday 13th December 2021 Music Games and Crazy Dress Ups Cricket on the Oval: OSHC Ashes Slime Making Tuesday 14th December 2021 Mega Games on the oval Cooking: Chocolate Brownies Art: Xmas Photo Frames Wednesday 15th December 2021 Final Submissions for Xmas/Holiday Drawing
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This week, we used paint to apply colour to our collaborative pieces. Many students felt colour was an amazing way to investigate emotions, especially when they had more than one emotion drifting in and out of their minds simultaneously. They used colours to define these emotions. Their banners were a symbolic expression of their collective
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We continue our inquiries into the natural world and the built environment – with our focus on connection. Both inquiries have evolved over time. Our natural world inquiry began with connections the children had with the natural world and has taken this interest from the everyday to the scientific – where children have expressed an interest
Weekly Program Activities Monday 29th November – Friday 3rd December 2021 Monday 29th November 2021 Music Games with DJ Mad Scientist Mega Games on the Oval Xmas Crafts- Santa and Reindeer Puppets Tuesday 30th November 2021 Water Play Day… Bring along a set of bathers, towel and a change of clothes for an afternoon of
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We have had a wonderful couple of weeks with the rhythm of the drums pumping a vitality and joy around the school. These workshops have absolutely driven our COVID cares away, and we feel strong, positive and connected. Our Drumming and Dance workshops came to and end with a sensational expression of celebration as we
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As part of our studies in maths, students have been working together to complete projects which involve considering and responding to a range of questions relating to planning a garden. We started with measuring and drawing a scaled diagram of the school garden beds, and calculating area and perimeter. The projects then involved researching food