A reminder to all parents/carers that the Reader’s Notebooks are to be handed to the Homegroup teachers every Thursday morning. It is an expectation that all students are expected to read or to be read to each night at home. All children were given a Reader’s Notebook and a Reading Log at the start of […]
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Prep group photos was postponed today as Jess was away. It will take place tomorrow morning. Thank you very much to parents who brought back the photography order envelopes and we encourage parents to bring them in asap if they haven’t yet.
Thank you to the parents and carers who made it to the info evening last Wednesday. During the event, we a presentation from our principal, Esme and our assistant principals Keith and Tim, regarding our vision of the school for the coming year. The leading teachers, Laura, Mel, Hannah, Paula and Tomo introduced their school
The cross country is fast approaching – Thursday the 22nd of March. The is an expectation of participation from all students from year 3 – 6. Here are some ways that you can support your child in the lead up to the event. If you can, head down to Princes Park for a run.
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Our studio was transformed this week into a past crafts maker space. The students participated in a workshop that posed the question “It’s 1850 and you want a new doona cover for your bed…..what do you do?”. The students were reminded that ‘Kmart’ didn’t exist! They concluded they would have to buy the fabric and
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Prep students regularly practice ‘mindfulness’ after our lunch break. This supports the students to calm their bodies and their minds after running around on the playground and be ready for the learning in the afternoon. We often use guided mindful meditation such as Smiling Minds or Cosmic Kids Yoga. We sometimes use mindful drawing or
On Monday 26th March, in the last week of Term 1, the Year 2 students will be turning back time and stepping into the past – at Princes Hill Primary School! Following on from our excursion to Sovereign Hill the week before, we plan to spend the day as if we were in the 1850’s
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Check out some of the preps working on independent reading! Yesterday we introduced the concept of independent reading or what we’re calling Read to Self. We began by talking about the 3 different ways we can read a book including reading the pictures, reading the words and retelling the story. As a group we then
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It’s less than two weeks until our first excursion of the year, and we’re all getting quite excited! We know that our visit to Ballarat will focus on a time in Australia’s past in the 1850’s, and we have started to brainstorm what we already know about this time in history and what questions we
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This week students have worked very hard to complete their self-portraits, inspired by the technical and aesthetic skill exhibited by Yayoi Kusama in her work. We explored the patterns created by her use of the dot motif. Students used filters as brushes and thick poster paint to explore the dot mark making. Students explored