Over the past fortnight, students in Year’s 3-6 have continued participating in a number of Athletics events at school. After the successful Athletics Carnival in Coburg, we still had a number of events left to complete; Hurdles, High Jump and other running events just to name a few. Even though majority of these events were […]

Maths In maths, students are learning about time. Goals for students are to tell time to the minute on analogue clocks, to investigate the relationship between units of time, to convert between units of time and to use am and pm notation and solve simple time problems. This video gives a good overview of some

Weekly Program Activities Monday 8th August – 12th August 2022 Monday 8th August 2022 Goalkicking and Handball competition Art: Pastel ArtScience: Grow your own rock crystals experiment Grade 4/5/6 Club Tuesday 9th August 2022 Hunter around the school Art: Japanese Carp Windsock Kites Film Making: Final Preparation week Wednesday 10th August 2022 Drawing Club Week

Children continue to explore the inquiry research questions – ‘What do we think about the important issues of the future?’ and ‘What can we do about the important issues of the future?’ In response to these questions, their proposals for future change increasingly involve changes to schools. Children are beginning to identify the societal, transformative

For families who have students at home in isolation, here are some tasks which relate to what we are currently focusing on in the neighbourhood, for students who are feeling well: We are working on writing biographies – the students have been asked to research a famous Indigenous Australian and to write a biography about them.

On Wednesday we did a cooking session where made lovely Jam Drops. These proved to be very popular and a number of families requested if we could post the recipe on the blog. Below is the recipe we used: Jam drops 20m prep 15m cook makes 30 7 Ingredients 3 Method Steps 125g salted butter, softened 100g (1/2 cup) caster

Staff vs Students Skittles match We were able to welcome the new staff by conducting a Staff vs Students skittles match. Challenges were laid down and met by all but overall fun was the best result. More competitions will be had in the coming weeks. Curriculum Day We had a curriculum day on Monday 25th.

In the year 2 neighbourhood we have started our second semester of 2022 with a bang! On our first Wednesday back we hopped on the tram and headed off to CERES environment park for an excursion that was aligned with our students’ focus and driven by their continual interest about indigenous perspectives on all topic.

This year, our inquiry is helping us better understand ideas of wellbeing, community and inclusion. Learning about the power of ‘yet’ connects to our inquiry because if our community embraces the power of ‘yet’, we can work together to have a growth mindset. If we are trying to do something that we can’t do yet,

For those of you interested in rewatching the Prep’s contribution to the school’s Term Two Assembly, a link has been created for you here. In it, you’ll find a small selection of videos related to our exploration of collaboration through various construction projects and a dinosaurs mural.