Dear Parents / caregivers, An invitation to our upcoming documentation evening has been sent home with your child/ren. Below is an image of the invitation. An RSVP has been placed with the invitation and we request that it be returned to school by 26th August. We look forward to sharing the neighbourhood’s learning.
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As educators we believe in an approach to literacy that provides a balance of explicit instruction combined with opportunities for curiosity and meaningful experiences in many forms. A strong focus so far this year has been on supporting children to develop a positive mindset toward developing key literacy skills including reading and writing. Through the
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Kids are taking over The Little Bookroom to celebrate Love Your Bookshop Day! We’re very proud of our Book Clubbers: together, we’ve built a welcoming, kind and very keen community around reading. We’re delighted they are volunteering to work with us as apprentice booksellers: because is there any better way to find your next book
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Students have been developing an understanding that stories contain important messages. We are continuing to develop students understanding of stories and how stories can communicate important messages about the environment for our future. The children have been responding in a range of ways investigating the stories of the rainforest, ocean and the desert. They have
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Today the whole school was lucky enough to watch a wonderful performance of The Barber of Seville. Here are the impressions of the Year 2 neighbourhood: The opera was amazing. My favourite part was when Aunty Berta polished the “statues”. (Bessie) I thought the opera was funny! (Charlie) The singing was incredible, as was the
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Each week this term students in the 3/4 neighborhood have been exploring building through a weekly STEM challenge. STEM incorporates science, technology, engineering and mathematics and allows students to explore these ideas through problem solving and working together. This week the challenge was to build a tower with only paper that would hold as many
For the past week the Year 2 neighbourhood has been exploring the science of rockets. This interest in “rocket science” was fueled by the watching of a live stream of a SpaceX rocket launch, where 24 satellites were released into orbit at an altitude of approximately 400 kilometers, at a speed of 25 thousand kilometers
Below are a few key things happening for week 3 and week 4! Project groups: our project groups are creating change around the school. This week the groups are working hard to prepare their proposals which will be presented to the neighborhoods next week. Non-Fiction Texts: the texts that give us information and grow our
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Not all of us are inspired by classics and offering Shakespeare to a young audience can be a hard sell; however, judging from the attentive audience of Just Romeo and Juliet, our artists in residence nailed it! Not only did The Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company manage to capture us with their energetic performance, but they
In the Year 2 neighbourhood we have been investigating rocket science. Two websites we have been using to learn about rocket science are NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory live stream and the SpaceX launches. This is leading up to this year’s Science Week which is focused on space, rockets and the universe. NASA live stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaNiYPglK58