This week we celebrate the learning undertaken in our neighbourhood for our whole school Welcome Project. It is a wonderful celebration of building a community of creative, engaged and collaborative learners. We have worked hard over the last few weeks to build routines, establish norms and expectations, as well as document and show rights and …
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As a way for us to get to know the children more and support them to settle into school and feel a valued part of the prep neighbourhood, we have been running a series of workshops and provocations to build the children’s capacity to engage with others. Children responded to the thinking routine Compass Points, …
This past week we have been deeply exploring who we are. We noticed that we are actually a lot of different things! We wondered if perhaps we were different on the inside, or perhaps different in different places or with different people. To more deeply explore this we had a number of projects and workshops. …
Welcome parents and carers to the 4/5 Neighbourhood and our first blog post of 2023. Over the past two weeks the 4/5 neighbourhood has begun responding to the Welcome Project. As a neighbourhood we have been thinking deeply about what welcome looks like in our community and how we feel safe and included. We started …
Welcome to PHPS Blogs. Welcome back everyone! We trust that you all had an enjoyable holiday. Once again, we look forward to working alongside each other, building a culture of excellence where children laugh, play and learn together. We have seen lots of smiling faces – which is always great to see!! The children have …
Fantastico, Magnifico, Eccellente to all the students who have performed in the past couple of weeks. The last weeks of Term 4 feel like one joyous performance celebration after another. We have enjoyed the Bazaar Talent Quest Assembly, the End of Year Instrumental Music Concert and the last IM Assembly for the year. Whether the …
This semester there have been many moments when we felt gratitude to other people in our community. When we express our gratitude it improves our wellbeing and the wellbeing of those around us. After taking some time to reflect and ponder, these are a few heartwarming examples: Ivy: Ayshe and I are making a surprise …
Building onto our focus on community and collaboration, the Prep Neighbourhood have been super busy learning all about how living and non-living things are connected. We have explored how plants and animals are dependent on each other for survival. To make this a more tangible experience, we have introduced tadpoles into the classrooms. We have been …
In addition to our collective Indigenous Garden, Year 2 children have progressed with another 2 projects throughout term 4. The Future of Education (FoE) project has led children to collaboratively plan their own workshops to be delivered later in the term. The Mars Rover project involves children designing a vehicle equipped for the challenges of …