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As the Year 1 neighbourhood moves through our inquiry cycle, from connecting our ideas, to expanding our knowledge, we come to the next stage: applying what we know. What started as a small idea to reinvigorate our courtyard space has taken a journey through workshops, research, special guest speakers and a conceptual playworld – all […]

National Science Week Demonstrations: Science is all around us and the Preps are always keen to understand more about the world, so we’ve spent some extra time this past week discussing and observing science in action. To get started, we unpacked what ‘science’ means to them. This year’s theme was ‘Species Survival – More Than

In the apply phase of our inquiry, students are continuing to work towards creating our imaginary world. Each line of inquiry group is responsible for different elements of the world including plants, animals, labs, libraries, play things and play spaces. The natural world of our imaginary world will include interesting plants and mythical creatures, and

This fortnight the Year 1 neighbourhood has explored a diverse range of principles and concepts in our inquiry. Conducting research on bush tucker, students refined their search to one select plant and enhanced their understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and perspectives. Students have compiled their findings using laptops, and will begin sharing

The Olympic excitement has spread to the prep neighbourhood this fortnight and many children are eager to share their knowledge of what they have seen overnight or a favourite sport they have watched. We used this excitement during provocations, and had printouts of countries from around the world that are attending the Olympics, along with

We have enjoyed a wonderful start to the term in the prep neighbourhood! We kicked things off by celebrating NAIDOC week and the children enjoyed a variety of provocations that celebrated the incredible culture and traditions of our first nations peoples. The studio was buzzing with bush tucker creations – we had children showing each

There has been so much going on the 56NH these past two weeks with inter-school sport, Senior Assembly preparation, an excursion and an incursion!   The whole neighbour visited ‘The Lume’ in the CBD as part of the Italian program and our inquiry into Leadership and Legacy. “I liked the inventions. You could touch them and

Our amazing students have excelled in their learning this week. As a collective we have worked brilliantly to prepare a short dramatic production for Fridays Assembly.  Rather than share our excellent Shark Tank businesses with the school, our ambitious students wanted to share our classroom mysteries stories in an interesting performance. This performance will highlight

We have had a fun filled fortnight, with so much happening in the prep neighbourhood!  We received another voice message from our friend Grey Beard, asking the children the following: “How much loot will fit in your boat, will it sink or will it float?”  Before testing the boats, we had a go at experimenting

Now in the apply phase of our collective inquiry, the 56 neighbourhood have been getting ready to share some of our knowledge gathering when we have Senior school assembly at the end of week 10.  We have split into three inquiry workshop groups to highlight Sustainability, Citizenship and Legacy. Within our groups we have been