Our last full day in Canberra was once again packed with places to see and some well dressed students who were prepared for the dress code of Parliament House! We started at the AIS this morning with a tour delivered by an athlete from the Instutute. We saw the gymnastics centre, volleyball, some of the […]
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We’ve had another wonderful day in Canberra packed to the brim with activities. We started with a visit to the museum where we explored the Australian garden, exhibits about Australia and the first peoples. One bus headed off to the Mint while the other visited the Capital Museum to learn all about how the city
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This term students will be exploring the concept of culture. What is culture and what does it mean to be part of a culture? As a way into the inquiry, students were asked to consider the communities they are part of outside of school. These varied from sporting, to dancing, to horse riding clubs. They
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Last week, the Preps took part in a reading workshop where we explored how animals feature in stories in different ways. There are stories featuring animals in the same way that we see them our world. There are stories with imaginative animals that take on characteristics of people. Each group voted on an animal to
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Monday Workshops: Writing & Collage / Measurement / Recount writing Projects and Provocations / Big Book Active Hour Tuesday Projects and Provocations / Big Book Workshops: Coding – Scratch Junior / Reading Response / Writing and Collage JSSD Activities Wednesday (Chess club today) Specialist (Prep L: Italian/Vis Art, Prep T: Physical Ed/Italian, Prep M: Vis Art/Physical
PHPS Book Week News: Escape to Everywhere! Hi everyone, we are the Blue House captains. This year we are hosting Book Week. Book Week will be from the 28th of August to the 1st of September. The theme for this year is: Escape to Everywhere! On Wednesday 30th of August we will be having our
That’s right, camp is just around the corner! Everyone is very excited about our trip to Canberra and can’t wait for the time to arrive and most of the camp planning has been finalised. Today all Year 5/6 students found out who was in their cabins and activity groups and yesterday you would have received
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The students have been engaging in some animation workshops this term. We have learned that there are some important rules to follow when making animation. These include: Keep the camera still (and if working on a mat, keep the mat still too!) Move things we are animating a bit at a time Make sure our
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This week we saw our Earn and Learn provocation encouraging students to display the PHPS value of “Expanding Possibilities”. Neighbourhood Teacher P. A. Students have been working on reporting the research they have been doing over the last two terms into a informative text. Narrowing down all research to define a manageable report has been
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Today, children’s author and illustrator Elise Hurst came in to run a story telling workshop for a small group of interested children. Elise, who is also a parent of Archie and Sammy, supported children in designing a character for their story. From there she helped them come up with their characteristics that helped drive their
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