On Thursday 4th May, the weather gods were in our favour for 60 students to head to Princes Park for the annual district cross country. They were eager and excited, with a mixture of nerves thrown in too. All students ran to the best of their ability and did a wonderful job of representing our […]
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Design This term the ⅘ neighbourhood have jumped straight back into our design inquiry. Students are investigating a range of design avenues from fashion to coding. We have conducted workshops which have looked into the design process and how design can be used to solve problems and create better outcomes. One such workshop focused on
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Welcome back to Term 2! Neighbourhood 1 has hit the ground running with lots of exciting projects underway, many carrying on from last term. Students have returned to school with energy and enthusiasm to engage deeply in our inquiry and workshops. All homegroups have settled into their new learning spaces quite nicely and teachers are
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To connect to our families and history and build a collective understanding of who we are as a community, the children have been sharing artifacts from their family. This led to a discussion with the children around the importance these objects have to us – both as individuals and families. Ronan’s Family Chair: “I think
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The dress-up box has continued to be wildly popular, with the outfits we choose and the poses we strike expressing our creativity, uniqueness, and personality. As visual artists we are discovering that the lines we draw, just like our classmates in costume, have personalities – some outgoing, dynamic, and a whirlwind of energy, some gentle,
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At Princes Hill Primary School, our focus is to create a positive community that enhances a sense of connection and belonging in students, this is achieved by our strong focus on wellbeing and inclusion. Through universal strategies, students are supported to develop: Some examples of current evidence-based approaches and programs visible within our school include:
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Hello everyone! How the last two weeks have galloped by, and all of a sudden, the Autumn school holidays will be upon us. Music has been spinning out across the school with multiple threads, and I’m really looking forward to all the students, who have been singing away rehearsing in Home Groups, coming together to
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Dear Families, Neighbourhood 1 has participated in many exciting experiences over the last two weeks! In celebration of Harmony Week, student have had the opportunity to explore and express what ‘harmony’ means to them during Provocations. These thoughts will be shared with the whole school during the Harmony Week assembly on Friday. Ride to School
So, if swan choreography isn’t quite your thing, dance like a chicken! Thanks to some students from Yr 4/5 who conceded to ‘do the swan thing’ if they could ‘do the Chicken Dance’, 😄, the whole school now knows the correct moves for the Chicken Dance, and the safe and correct way to dance an
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As we continue our exploration into the question “Who Am I?”, children responded in provocations in a range of ways. We noticed that a lot of children responded by drawing and writing about their families. So we came together as a neighbourhood and asked the children “What is a Family?” Someone who lives together with a