Nature and our courtyard garden have been a consistent point of reference and connection throughout our research and discoveries into our collective understanding of creativity. We have constantly sought opportunities for deepening this connection whenever and wherever possible. I see creativity when we are looking in the garden. Arlo I see creativity when I look […]
Yesterday the preps ventured out of school and made their way by tram to the Melbourne Museum for a day full of curiosity and exploration. Equipped with their personal documentation memo pads each child recorded their observations and wonderings and many were brave and had a go at writing. Children interacted with many fascinating artefacts
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On Wednesday the 14th of August The Kindness group went on an excursion. We went to Rathdowne Village because we wanted to spread kindness in our community. We gave posters to people who work in the shops. The posters were to spread the kindness. When we were spreading kindness people were kind back to us.
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Year 5/6 have been introduced to a range of poetry during Term 2. Over the past three weeks, we have deconstructed both Blackout Poetry and Reverse (or Backward) Poetry and attempted to construct our own poems using these structures either in pairs or individually. Poetry is a great form of self expression and we have
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As a culmination of the inquiry, Year 5/6 students confidently presented their Action Plans this week. It has been their challenge to create a plan that would enact change that would benefit local community members. We observed that many of the students were inspired to create plans that would encourage values of respect, kindness, inclusiveness, and
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The buddy program at Princes Hill PS is an essential part of our learning. We encourage positive relationships between the buddies, allowing older child to support younger children to navigate the school routines and expectations during play time and help make connections with other prep children. Although we have now completed our 2 weeks of
Today the preps ventured out of the neighbourhood with the purpose of finding natural objects from the school yard to create their own patterns. We discovered that our school has a bountiful collection of sticks, stones, leaves and gumnuts perfect for pattern making! We had conversations about the difference between creating a picture and a
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Today our Past, Present and Future Schools project group presented their Mars Schools prospectuses to our school community. We all really enjoyed presenting our knowledge to the community, which is and has been our inquiry guiding question this term so far. Thank you to everyone who came to visit our expo, special thanks to the
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Us at our best! In this photo gallery, we have captured students engaging in our learning provocations for our first week back. 3/4 Neighbourhood 2: Our overall reflection of our first week back! In projects Tom and I started a domino task, we got to 99 dominoes but it got knocked down. We had to
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Monday Prep celebration Viewing time / card marking / free drawing Tuesday Parent teacher student led conferences / Guided reading & Literacy games / Recount writing – Prep celebration Specialist – Italian (Yellow and Red), Physical Education (Blue and Red), Art (Blue and Yellow) Wednesday (Reading folder comes to school today) Numeracy – counting books / Wellbeing
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